Slimming world supporting weight loss injections. Aibu?

It had an awful renaissance circa 2017 when Instagram exploded too. All these SW Instagram accounts pretending scran bran cakes were delicious and getting upset that porky light sausages were more ‘syns’ (😳) than they had been led to believe.

Most of them all deleted their accounts when the weight went back on.

The jabs have come up in discussion a few times in my group. As far as I know no one in my group is taking them and our consultant has talked about the side effects and pointed out that many people put the weight back on after stopping the jabs. On the other hand the SW plan helps with changing eating habits, which those who are on the jabs may need support with once they get to target.

Oh yes corned beef! My mum was a leader in probably the late eighties and used to take me with her to help. Which is one of the many reasons I’m bonkers about my weight. I remember red and green days and the women who were back for the xth time losing the same weight they’d lost before. My mum was (and is) into exercise though and I remember her doing an exercise segment and promoting that. She’d been overweight after she had me and as a teenager and had a blown up photo of her at the biggest at the front of the class in her 70’s frock.

I was a member back in the 90s when it was red days and green days and I can promise you the central message was eat as much as you want.

Red days were high protein and low carb, green days were high carb and low protein.

So you could have a washing up bowl of pasta but god forbid you had more than a prawn or two.

Or dice up a whole tin of corned beef as a snack on a red day.

Eat a chicken breast! Have 2, have 3! DON’T EVEN LOOK AT THAT POTATO.

One of our local butchers made sin-free sausages long before the porky lights land-grab (and yes, SW spelt it like that before they came up with the retrofit bollocks about it being ‘synchronicity’, they were actually labelling food as sinful). Have 6 if you want. No mash though, tsk tsk.

And that’s before we even get to the frozen muller lights, back when they were free.

Or the Scan Bran.

It really was as mad as that! And the main message really was ‘eat as much as you want, eat till you’re stuffed, as long as you follow the red or green rules.’ Coupled with some merry little asides about ‘you aren’t eating enough/starvation mode’ as any of us were ever going to be in starvation mode with the fat reserves we had…

It makes no sense now, but it didn’t then either!

There are some very odd comments on this thread!

“I feel that this is quite misleading and unfair to participants not doing injections”

Unfair? It’s not a competition! How does it hurt me of someone else at my group loses more?

I also agree with YoungWhipperSnapper the SW diet is absolutely not low fat/high carb, it’s hard to know where you would get that impression.

“Slimmer of the week” is a recognition of consistency, not of who has lost the most in any one week. That’s why you can only achieve it if you have been in class the week before and lost weight. It’s not really a “competition” no one is striving to win it! It’s just a nice way to celebrate someone who has stayed on track. Same with “Slimmer of the month” it’s not about most lost.

As for SW leading to disordered eating ! Everyone in the class has disordered eating, that’s how they gained weight in the first place.

SW recommends filling your plate at least a third full of vegetables with the rest made up of protein and a smallish amount of carbs.

They recommend cooking from scratch, drinking enough water, increasing your in take of fruit of vegetables, making sure you get enough protein and sensible amounts of healthy fats and calcium. The plan is perfectly healthy and balanced.

The reason people cycle back through SW and WW is not that there is anything inherently wrong with the plans, it’s that people with disordered eating often fall back into disordered eating and then have to start again.

There is no fail safe lose it once and you are done for ever way to lose weight.

The jabs have come up in discussion a few times in my group. As far as I know no one in my group is taking them and our consultant has talked about the side effects and pointed out that many people put the weight back on after stopping the jabs. On the other hand the SW plan helps with changing eating habits, which those who are on the jabs may need support with once they get to target.

I was a member back in the 90s when it was red days and green days and I can promise you the central message was eat as much as you want.

Red days were high protein and low carb, green days were high carb and low protein.

So you could have a washing up bowl of pasta but god forbid you had more than a prawn or two.

Or dice up a whole tin of corned beef as a snack on a red day.

Eat a chicken breast! Have 2, have 3! DON’T EVEN LOOK AT THAT POTATO.

One of our local butchers made sin-free sausages long before the porky lights land-grab (and yes, SW spelt it like that before they came up with the retrofit bollocks about it being ‘synchronicity’, they were actually labelling food as sinful). Have 6 if you want. No mash though, tsk tsk.

And that’s before we even get to the frozen muller lights, back when they were free.

Or the Scan Bran.

It really was as mad as that! And the main message really was ‘eat as much as you want, eat till you’re stuffed, as long as you follow the red or green rules.’ Coupled with some merry little asides about ‘you aren’t eating enough/starvation mode’ as any of us were ever going to be in starvation mode with the fat reserves we had…

It makes no sense now, but it didn’t then either!

I was a member back in the 90s when it was red days and green days and I can promise you the central message was eat as much as you want.

Red days were high protein and low carb, green days were high carb and low protein.

So you could have a washing up bowl of pasta but god forbid you had more than a prawn or two.

Or dice up a whole tin of corned beef as a snack on a red day.

Eat a chicken breast! Have 2, have 3! DON’T EVEN LOOK AT THAT POTATO.

One of our local butchers made sin-free sausages long before the porky lights land-grab (and yes, SW spelt it like that before they came up with the retrofit bollocks about it being ‘synchronicity’, they were actually labelling food as sinful). Have 6 if you want. No mash though, tsk tsk.

And that’s before we even get to the frozen muller lights, back when they were free.

Or the Scan Bran.

It really was as mad as that! And the main message really was ‘eat as much as you want, eat till you’re stuffed, as long as you follow the red or green rules.’ Coupled with some merry little asides about ‘you aren’t eating enough/starvation mode’ as any of us were ever going to be in starvation mode with the fat reserves we had…

It makes no sense now, but it didn’t then either!

I think it used to be many years ago but now it’s around a third of your plate advised at most.

It’s changed a lot over the 23 years that I’ve been a target member. It’s just normal healthy eating these days.

I’ve often wondered what the statistics are for regaining weight. I’m amongst an increasing number of target members in my SW group.
Could you tell me the source of your statement as it’s something that interests me: is it independent research?

Which is hilarious really because most people who do slimming world also put the weight back on

Which is hilarious really because most people who do slimming world also put the weight back on

The jabs have come up in discussion a few times in my group. As far as I know no one in my group is taking them and our consultant has talked about the side effects and pointed out that many people put the weight back on after stopping the jabs. On the other hand the SW plan helps with changing eating habits, which those who are on the jabs may need support with once they get to target.

There are some very odd comments on this thread!

“I feel that this is quite misleading and unfair to participants not doing injections”

Unfair? It’s not a competition! How does it hurt me of someone else at my group loses more?

I also agree with YoungWhipperSnapper the SW diet is absolutely not low fat/high carb, it’s hard to know where you would get that impression.

“Slimmer of the week” is a recognition of consistency, not of who has lost the most in any one week. That’s why you can only achieve it if you have been in class the week before and lost weight. It’s not really a “competition” no one is striving to win it! It’s just a nice way to celebrate someone who has stayed on track. Same with “Slimmer of the month” it’s not about most lost.

As for SW leading to disordered eating ! Everyone in the class has disordered eating, that’s how they gained weight in the first place.

SW recommends filling your plate at least a third full of vegetables with the rest made up of protein and a smallish amount of carbs.

They recommend cooking from scratch, drinking enough water, increasing your in take of fruit of vegetables, making sure you get enough protein and sensible amounts of healthy fats and calcium. The plan is perfectly healthy and balanced.

The reason people cycle back through SW and WW is not that there is anything inherently wrong with the plans, it’s that people with disordered eating often fall back into disordered eating and then have to start again.

There is no fail safe lose it once and you are done for ever way to lose weight.

I know what you mean about Body Magic but I do the weighing at my group and can't tell you how many people come along who are intimidated by the mention of exercise so perhaps there's method in their cringeyness.

I think it used to be many years ago but now it’s around a third of your plate advised at most.

It’s changed a lot over the 23 years that I’ve been a target member. It’s just normal healthy eating these days.