The Jewish Chronicle

Steady on, I’ve found a diet that really works

Stephen Pollard is trying to shift the lockdown pounds, but now Pesach looms

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I’LL DROP the small talk and cut to the chase. I started on Weight Watchers on 28 December, three and a bit months ago. I’ve lost one stone and 12 pounds – that’s 26 pounds in 15 weeks. It’s not spectacula­r, but I am done with those diets where the weight pours off, everything is thrilling, and then over the course of the next few months it all comes back again, because no one can live on the regime.

It’s taken me to my late 50s, but I’ve realised that spectacula­r few days I could hardly eat at all. is bad. What I need is steady and I thought that was at least one sustainabl­e weight loss. So I am good thing to come out of it. properly pleased with my progress I couldn’t have been more so far, because it’s obvious wrong; as I started to get over even to a dieting dunderhead it, all I wanted to eat was heavy like me that the Weight Watchers carbs and sweet things (which I regime is easily sustainabl­e. really don’t normally want). PRECIOUS

STONAnEySw­ay,

In fact, what’s been so brilliant I took PAINTINGS/ARTWORK the hit but lost is that I’ve had some real setbacks, the extra weight when I resumed and they haven’t kyboshed any- JWEeWigEhL­tLWEaRtYch­ers. ThPeOgRreC­aEt LAIN thing. When I caught Covid, for a thing is you don’t need to be a hermit to do it — so long as you plan properly, you can go out to eat and even indulge if you want to. Believe me, I have.

Now comes the matzah challenge. The WW app tells me “One serving” is two points. But I bet involved in deciding

is. For me, you eat one matzah and then it’s nearimposs­ible to stop.

Wish me luck.

 ?? ?? Matzah, a challenge to those trying to lose weight
Matzah, a challenge to those trying to lose weight

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