in thinking that a slimming group leader who is supposedly following the programme but appears to be gaining weight

[minifingerz]

... undermines the confidence of the group regardless of how good a leader she may be in other ways?

Our slimming group leader has put on several stone over the past few years. She wasn't slim to start with and is now probably obese. She still talks enthusiastically about how she follows the plan and all the tips and strategies she uses to eat more healthily. But she's still getting bigger....

I would have thought it was a policy for group leaders to be losing or maintaining if they profess to be following the programme, otherwise it's damages to confidence of members that the programme is effective and sustainable.

Or am I being unfair? She's very good in every other way.

[G1veMeStrength]

Mini Fingers I think that could take off.

Lets face it facebook is full of people paying shit loads to go to Boot Camp and do press ups in the rain at 6am, or paying shit loads to go to a Wolf Run and run through mud because its apparently so awesome. I can see you easily getting them to shell out for FAT TWATS or something along those lines.

[flyrobynfly43]

"In one 'slimming club', the person who had lost the least weight had to wear a pigs head."

Ole Dave would be jealous.

What with all the weird wanking over muller lites and pigs head stuff going on, it sounds right up his street

[notquitehuman]

I'd probably go to a tough love slimming club. I tend to be more motivated if people are slightly mean!

I just remembered the dumbest SW 'recipe' ever. Smash instant mash potatoes were a free food, and for a while people were shaping them into pizza bases. Gross. Luckily my leader did clamp down on that one.

[flyrobynfly43]

I'd probably go to a tough love slimming club. I tend to be more motivated if people are slightly mean!

That wouldn't work with me. I would more than likely go home and scoff everything in sight.