Slimming World to reduce ‘endo belly?’ 🫄🏼

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I’ve got a permanently bloated endo belly and I have a good few months to go until my surgery to remove it.

I’ve been reading that reducing sugar can help with reducing inflammation. And that seems to chime with the SW approach.

I like having a plan/app to follow so was wondering if anyone has successfully used Slimming World to reduce endo belly before?

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It's certainly helped my bloat as I've lost 2 stone since November. Someone will be a long in a minute to go on about not being able to eat avacados but it encourages a healthy diet. I've never felt so well on a 'diet.'

Not done slimming world because I don't agree with a lot of the dietary suggestions, but low carb & keto helped me lose 3.5st in less than a year. I have endometriosis and PCOS, so bloat quite badly. The carbs and the sugar were usually the culprit for me

I do SW and have IBs with really bad bloating and it's deffo helped

I do slimming world and rate it highly. It is low sugar and low fat.

I think if I were only targeting sugar I'd do keto.

Slimming world allows sweeteners, which may cause the same issue as sugar.

If followed correctly, SW is fine. You eat a healthy,low fat diet with loads of veggies, lean meat and some carbs. (Essentially an EatWell Plate...)

People get misinformation (often from consultants!) And fundamentally don't understand the plan.

Eg
"you can't eat avocado" (yes you can...in moderation)
"Hahahaha you have to syn mashed bananas" (yes, because they're often used for smoothies, alongside other pureed fruit,which is sneaky high calorie)
"It's all muller light and hi-fi bars" - literally down to your own preference if you want to eat that crap food. You can have chocolate instead of the weird hi-fi bars if you plan it.
"LOL you can eat 3kg of pasta!!!" - only if you're eating to your appetite and eating it with veggies alongside instead of just pasta.

But if you eat good food, to your appetite and limit the crap, as directed. It works without having to calorie count

I have endometriosis. I thought the bloating must mean I have IBS, in addition. Though will dieting help with the bloat as I have a size 6-8 waist, and am very fit and active, and still often bloat, though it tends to be in the evening. It always dissipates.

Obviously weight loss and exercise (especially exercise!) will help with your endometriosis so much, as it did with me (I lost approx a stone three years ago via healthy eating and exercise). Can't stress exercise being beneficial enough.

I'm only around 8.5 stone (and 5ft 5) so don't really want to lose much weight. I have endometriosis and the same thing with the, mostly evening, bloat. It's really annoying as generally also have size 6-8 waist and the bloat looks like early pregnancy.

Did reducing sugar help? I already exercise but wondering if more core exercises might help.