Please could someone advise Re: Slimming world

[Fimbles5]

Probably already been said somewhere on here, but having looked back cannot find anywhere that explains how slimming world works. Have been doing WW for ages, and need a change, but not sure if SW is for me. The website does not provide an explanation as to how it works, and I don't want to pay joining fee until I'm sure its a diet which will work for me (and my habits!). Please could someone provide a brief explanation before I attend meeting on Thurs. Thankyou.

[Surfermum]

It's not a diet, it's a healthy eating plan. You can choose green days or original days. On either of those you have a list of "free" food that you can eat as much as you like of.

You then get 2 lists of "healthy extras", A's and B's. You have to have 2 A's and 1 or 2 B's (or might be the other way round). They are things like milk, cheese, fibre, to make sure you're getting the right nutrients.

Then anything else has a "syn" value. You can have between 10-15 syns per day.

It honestly works. I'm now a target member having lost 2st 3lb. I did mainly original days. A typical day for me would be:

Breakfast: Banana, cup of tea (I never eat breakfast - but you could have weetabix from healthy extra options).

Morning snacking: Things like grapes, apple, banana, strawberries (if hungry)

Lunch: Chicken tikka, cherry tomatoes, pepper, cous cous, raw carrot. Or jacket potato and cottage cheese.

Afternoon snack: Hi-Fi bar (A slimming world choc bar that's a healthy extra - they do one that is like eating a Terry's chocolate orange).

Evening Meal: Steak, tiger prawns, jacket potato, peas, coleslaw. Maybe Muller light for pud.

I'd still have butter on my spud and still have sugar in my drinks from my syn allowance, and there was scope for the odd biscuit at toddler group, or glass of wine.

On original days you can have a little bit of pasta with a huge pile of spag bol sauce, or a little bit of rice with a huge pile of chilli. On green days it would be as much rice or pasta as you want with a little bit of chilli or spag bol.

I didn't stick to it completely all the time. My philosophy was that if I went out I would have what I wanted and then get back with the plan the next day. It took me a year, but for me doing it that way meant I stuck with it. Going to group really helped too, I'd never have had the motivation to stick to it if I didn't go every week to get weighed and stay afterwards.

HTH

[Fimbles5]

Well done you!! (surfermum) and thankyou. I was all motivated to start and then a Mum in the playground this morning told me it was horrific. It is obviously not true then that you cannot eat potatoes with your meat, or bolognese etc, with pasta. I was imagining my meals as a red day (plate of meat only) - green day (veg only) and couldn't imagine eating like that.

[Monkeybar]

Hi Fimbles. I have done all the diets going (WW, rosemary conley, ATkins etc). SW was definitely best for me and I'm back on it now. Basically, if you like lots of choice, WW is better. If you tend to eat similar things daily and you like quantity, SW is better. I'm not sure exactly HOW it works, just that it does! You decide whether you want to have a Green day of eating mainly carbs (potato, rice, pasta etc), which are unlimited, but if you want some cheese or meat it needs to be weighed and there is a limit. Or you choose a Red day, which is unlimited meat, but carbs need to be weighed and counted. ALL fruit and most veg is free on either type of day (which IMO is better than WW). In addition, you get 'syns' to use for treats each day (which are a bit like WW points)
Watch out for the Image Therapy at the meetings, though - I found it incredibly cheesy - each person gets a round of applause for being there, whether they've lost, gained, stayed the same etc. That said, I've recommended SW to lots of people, because of you stick to it, it works and works well.

Hope that helps and GOOD LUCK!!

[Monkeybar]

Surfermum put it much better than me!

[Surfermum]

Yes, I thought "oh crikey, I want to giggle" at my first group, but actually it was really helpful as I got loads of tips from others, and just found it really supportive.

You can honestly eat loads - but it's all really health stuff. I felt so much better for ditching the processed stuff.

[Fimbles5]

Thanks everyone - Will request permission to join the slimming world thread. Will attend meeting on Thursday and report my losses (hopefully) and or gains there. Here we go!!!