Anyone kindly fancy telling me there experience of sliming world ?

[LovelyYellowLabrador]

Thinking of signing up

Hi OP. I did Slimming World for a bit after I had my son. It can be great as long as you don't get too carried away with all the snack bars they sell and trying to make puddings out of shredded wheat and stuff!

In saying that, if you stick to your "syns" (I hate that word; it's not at all healthy to think of any food as a sin, even if you spell it differently) and record your food intake accurately, you should find it works for you.

Some folks like to stay for the group chat; I never did really. I just liked the accountability of being weighed by someone else.

Thanks glitter did it work for you and were you able to keep it off ? Most people I know. That have done it
Haven’t been able to keep it off
But I gained weight over lockdown, like a lot of people and I can’t get rid of it all

Just heard of a woman losing 10 stone on it, people do say it doesn’t work but I’ve known loads of people to have success on it, haven’t tried it myself as don’t think it would be for me (like eating as much pasta and potatoes as you want! I would never feel full 😑)

It was crap for me. The meetings were so fake, patronising and just bullshit - oh you gained 1/8th of a pound tsk tsk Schlerp have you been sneaking to the fridge through the night? It was a room full of women of varying sizes, some had no need to lose at all and others had clearly been trying and paying a fiver a week for years with little effect.

It’s all a scam. Yes people do success but their meals are revolting - quinoa cookies no thank you

I followed intuitive eating practices last year during lock down and lost three stone. No meetings, no patronising head tilts and no round of applause for farting 1/8th of a lb out before weigh in.

It works (and the weight stays off) if you stick to it.
No diet/eating plan keeps the weight off if you go back to eating junk once you hit target.

I lost 2 stone on SW a few years ago. Then fell into old habits and put it back on. Which doesn't mean sw doesn't work. It means I ate too much crap.

I lost 4 stone on it a few years ago, if you ignore their branded foods (what are those bloody bars called?) it’s a low-fat low sugar diet that encourages you to fill up on veg.

I put a lot back on in lockdown because i comfort eat and prefer chocolate to veg.

I am thinking shall I join this or maybe order joes wicks cook books or pinch of nom
And maybe try n follow some sw recipes online

@LovelyYellowLabrador

I am thinking shall I join this or maybe order joes wicks cook books or pinch of nom And maybe try n follow some sw recipes online

The thing is... unless your meals are currently really high calorie now, just changing some recipes out isn’t likely to get you a weight loss.

I like slimming world, the stats on longterm weight loss are the same as any other method of losing weight, because there isn’t one perfect way of losing weight for everyone.

There is the best way to suit you though and that’ll be the one that’s most sustainable for you.

I prefer slimming world because quite frankly the thought of weighing and measuring everything I eat forever fills me with dread and there’s no way I’d eat some oranges over chocolate of the same calories left to my own devices.

It encourages me to eat real food and, I find it the best thing for cooking - because if I’m cooking with stuff lean protein, veg, pasta or rice... I’m not having to do a load of maths to work out what my portion is, I can cook it and then go by how hungry I am.

I lost 3 stone on it but it gave me an even unhealthier attitude towards food and eating than I ever had before.

Tab thanks, do you still follow it now?
I guess it gets easier once you get your head round it all plus you memories your fav thjngs rather than having to goggle all the time

El oh no, sorry to hear that
Do you think it was because of some of the terminology like syns etc or the groups or what ?

Ah don’t do it OP. Most people put the weight back on because entire food groups have been restricted and demonised and it’s very human to eventually rebel. It took me bloody years to stop mentally converting food into sodding syns.

Because there’s so much focus on syns, calculations, lists of food, groups of food etc. You spend a lot of time thinking about what you will have, won’t have, can’t have. Also most people who know they have a certain allowance of anything will eat all of it even if they’re not actually that hungry for it.

I found that variety, moderation, fortnightly splurges and being in a calorie deficit worked for me. Every diet is of course a different way of achieving a calorie deficit but each diet is very restrictive in its own way.

Have a Google for calorie deficit, BMR and TDR. It’s free and there’s no public weigh in.

Graeme Tomlinson aka the fitness chef on Instagram is fantastic and very knowledgeable regarding what a scam diets are.

There was a lot of crazy things like working out how to fake heinz tomato soup using pickle onions - a tin is just over 200 calories. Eat the tin!

It taught me to binge after weigh day and eat salad the day before it.

It taught me to focus on those syns which made me want to eat snacks when I didn't particularly want them

Thank you I’ve never heard of TDR
Or Graeme Tomlinson so shall investigate
Thanks for taking the time to advise me
Is bmr basal metabolic rate ? How do I find this out ?

Ok but lots of recipes/recommended foods contain artificial sweetener which is not good for you

I need to lose some weight after WFH and now Covid, but I'm looking at healthy recipes and plan to buy more healthy foods. I don't like the sound of getting used to calories counting.

El I see what your saying
So more of a just watching overall calorie intake

How do you mean about the snacks tho
Was it because you had say 5 syns left that day so you wanted to use them up or something ?

Exactly that. I became obsessed with not using any syns in meals which was quite restrictive - just so I could eat 20 syns worth of crapS

Don’t pay to join up, a lot of boroughs do a free 12 week sign up if your bmi is over 25 (check online)
I joined back up today, I lost 4 stone before covid then put 3 back on because I spent most of 2020/2021 on my sofa surrounded by chocolate.

Ruby how do you get that direct with sw ?
I did Google that earlier and I thought you had to have bmi over 28

I have heard hoof things about SW but I know my issue is I eat too many sweet snacks like chocolate so I am going to focus on cutting down in those

I don't need a diet plan to do that

I am yet to meet one person who hasn't had to do it three times at least! It's a con. Yes it works but it's totally unsustainable and people seem to pile much more on than usual as soon as they stop doing it. I also hate the words "syn" as if you're committing a crime. SW is a business at the end of the day and they make a lot of money. Count calories, treat yourself in moderation and buy a bike and some decent walking shoes. I've lost 2 stone this way. It's that simple 👍

It works best if you are happy to cook normal meals from scratch from normal unprocessed ingredients, meat fish, eggs, pulses, fruit, veg and limit dairy, bread and all the obvious junk like chocolate, crisps and alcohol. Or you can have oil, avocado, nuts and white bread instead. Apart from the higher fat and sugar things, you don't have to count or measure and you just need to make sure you follow the 'third of vegetables or fruit' rule for how much you eat.

It's less good if you want to eat ready made food like ready meals, sandwiches, eating out etc as they're either high syn or hard to syn as you don't know what's in it or how much there is.

Then you'd be better calorie counting but then you risk going hungry, having to count everything you eat which is extremely tedious unless you eat a very packaged and/or repetitive diet and you still don't know how many calories are in food from independent restaurants and takeaways.

Absolutely toxic and ruined my relationship with food.

I did it after the birth of my children. I'll say I kept the weight off because it was a second pregnancy that made me put weight on. I lost 3 - 4 stone.

Since reaching goal I've fluctuated around 5lbs of goal weight (usually at Xmas)

It works and if you track your food and swap your eating habits for more home cooked food it stays off. It doesn't work if you swap for convince free food and then return to previous eating habits.