Certainly does! Well done!
SW meetings are really good - you get weighed then you have Image Therapy whereby the SW consultant goes around each person annoucing their weight losses and asking what done that week, getting ideas from group if someone finding particular things / times difficult - ie what do people take for lunch to work on red days blah blah. And the awards and slimmer of the week is annouced.
I used to kid myself that I could do it alone, but I can't - I need the focus as don't have enough willpower alone.
Sounds really cheesy and American "yee har" group huggy - but its not I promise
It's a shame you don't have a group near you, but they do have postal membership I hear? And get the magazines which are bi-monthly - they are good.
Good luck - but it sounds like you are doing fab anyway!
I am back food optimising
I have no idea how many syns my mandarin dessert from M&S was but I have been counting my syns for a whole day after about a month of not doing so. 
keep it up you've come so far 
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