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JesusTapdancingChrist · 2017-09-07T14:03:45+00:00

Sat outside school googling for healthy recipes and came across [[http://www.slimmingeats.com/blog/sausage-and-lentil-casserole this recipe]] for a sausage and lentil casserole made with coca fucking cola [shock] [envy] (not envy face). Also saw a chicken korma recipe last week that used a Mullerlight [confused] and then there's their Fanta chicken [hmm]. What's with SW encouraging people to chuck cans of chemical filled fizzy drinks/artificially sweetened desserts into dinner recipes? I just can't imagine anyone in possession of their faculties and the internet choosing to cook such bizarre sounding dishes. Am I wrong and am missing out on some real treats?!

Trills · 07/09/2017 19:53

All diets or eating plans fall somewhere on a spectrum between so restrictive you won't stick to it and possible to game so you eat crap while still following the rules.

But everyone knows it's not a magic spell. They know that if they eat badly they will not gain weight, and if you intend to technically follow the rules but bend and twist them so you can eat badly, you may as well just go and eat badly in a more normal fashion.

Riversleep · 07/09/2017 19:59

I got referred to SW after one of those over 40's health checks. I was a bit sceptical and I would never have gone if I hadn't got the 12 weeks free. I feel like I should go for the 12 weeks because the NHS is paying $50 for me to do it! However, along with all the crap mullerlights and the dodgy advice on fats, you can do a fairly decent healthy eating plan. . If you want to, you could make it a decent mediterranean type diet. I use my 'syns' on a spoonful of olive oil for cooking with. I agree the syns is an awful term though.

5rivers7hills · 07/09/2017 20:06

Coconut yog in a korma curry isn't gross at all. Are people just going "ewwwww" for the sake of it?

ItsAllAboutThePace · 07/09/2017 20:10

I go every week for the weigh in but don't follow the eating plan

grecian100 · 07/09/2017 20:13

I follow a blogging family who keep posting SW recipes and they seem so artificial and chemical based or else completely random concoctions. They made a sweet and sour chicken recipe that consisted of approx half a jar of canderel . A really random meal of cous cous with chicken stock and then scrambled eggs through it

TheNaze73 · 07/09/2017 20:20

YANBU. I was with someone back in the day doing this.
It tastes like cattles business

DontDrinkDontSmoke · 07/09/2017 20:30

Statistically any SW or WW member is destined to put all the weight they lost back on, and some.

That's how the diet clubs make their money. If they truly worked long term they'd go out of business PDQ.

Alright if you need to lose for a holiday or wedding or whatever, but useless otherwise.

OwlinaTree · 07/09/2017 22:39

I'm lolling so much at this outrage against the humble Muller light!

RiversrunWoodville · 07/09/2017 22:50

I have 2 friends who love slimming world but told me with looks of utter (genuine!) disgust on their faces "it wouldn't work for you Rivers you're a veggie (true) and don't like yogurt (don't I?)and you don't drink Diet Coke (very true) you know"

Groovee · 08/09/2017 07:57

Nowt wrong with drinking water instead of Diet Coke

I have a few friends who follow sw who are veggie! If I liked lentils I would make more things with them.

tabulahrasa · 08/09/2017 08:26

Lol, are they the sort of people who ask you what you eat with that confused look as if they can't comprehend a meal without meat in it?

TheFirstMrsDV · 08/09/2017 08:34

The only person sounding defensive or upset is you

What have I got to be defensive about? I have no stake in SW being amazing and the answer to my weight loss prayers.
I don't care what people eat or don't eat and I don't own a set of scales let alone know what I weigh.

Upset? Perhaps. In the same way I get upset at any other massive scam aimed at making women concentrate of the size of their arse and feel inferior because they are not thin enough.
SW and all the others market in a sickening 'all girlies together' way that makes me boak.

They are a business that is part of a massive industry that is rinsing women for their cash and depends on them coming back year after year after year.

You stick to SW if you want and defend them as much as you like.

They are not your friends and they don't want you to lose weight and be happy with their bodies. Women happy with their bodies don't pay to be weighed in public and allow their food to be catagorised into syns (they aint fooling nonone with that 'y')

Fruit = sugar and sugar is baaaad m'kay

FoxyRoxy · 08/09/2017 08:47

Big Mac in a bowl has to be the most disgusting SW "hack" I've ever come across I think if you do it properly though you can probably get results and sustainably continue with a healthier lifestyle. But the people who do it properly seem few and far between, all the FB groups seem to be people asking how many syns in a KFC and making "fakeaway" 🤢

BakedBeans47 · 08/09/2017 08:51

I think fundamentally it's a decent plan but I also don't get the muller light obsession as I think they are vile.

I also don't get people fannying around making sweets instead of having some proper ones and synning then and crap approximations of stuff e.g. The "sausage roll" made out of a piece of square sausage and a sandwich thin that someone at my class was talking about last week.

Gorgosparta · 08/09/2017 08:53

They are not your friends and they don't want you to lose weight and be happy with their bodies. Women happy with their bodies don't pay to be weighed in public and allow their food to be catagorised into syns (they aint fooling nonone with that 'y')

I dont think they are anyones friend.

I dont need to defend anythingm you spoke to a shit consultant and as result, dont really have a clue about slimming world or how it works.

Of course you are defensive, you jumped in assuming i called you liar, because i point out what you had been told it was wrong.

Maybr you need to understand that people are different. Its fine to really hate SW. Its also fine to point out that someonrs information is incorrect

Doodlebug5 · 08/09/2017 08:53

Do you know what?

Follow what you want
You want to follow a high carb low fat diet you follow it
You want to follow a VLCD then follow it
You want to follow weightwatchers then follow it
You want to follow nothing then follow it

I see this comment trotted our time and time again 'members always put on weight and go back to Sw heavier'

Replace SW with any diet/ meal replacement/ idealogy and you'll have the same situation. If you aren't following a plan 24/7 and go back to the same food you were eating before then yes you will put on the weight.

I've lost 5st with SW and I hate this talk behind mullerlights etc. The fact of the plan is simple.

1/3 speed food (low calorie high density food)
1/3 carbs
1/3 protein
And a little bit of fat
And some calcium and fibre

This is exactly what the NHS recommend too.
It's members trying to be sneaky and wedge in a whole cake for 1/2 syn that where everything becomes muddled.

Do what you want but don't criticise other people for ultimately trying to reduce their weight so they don't die before they are 40. Our country has an obesity epidemic so encouraging weightwatchers slimming world, low carbing can only be a good thing surely?

I started sw at 23 stone... so forgive me if I'm trying to reduce my weight so I live to see the rest of my life. And slimming world has/is working for me.

amusedbush · 08/09/2017 08:57

Big Mac in a bowl has to be the most disgusting SW "hack" I've ever come across

Each to their own. I really like Bic Mac in a bowl.

SunnySkiesSleepsintheMorning · 08/09/2017 09:17

It's not exclusive to Slimming World, there are some very rank recipes out there that seem to cheat the plans and then people wonder why they can't lose weight. I see people have come out in desperate defence of SW but they need to realise that there are many SW consultants (is that what they're called?) out there who do promote a poor way of following the plan. There are lots of groups where people sit around wetting themselves with joy at a new flavour of .

I'm sure I'll get told off by someone who's done the plan and loved it but hey, I've done it for a long time and I feel more than qualified to pass opinion. FWIW, I've done Weight Watchers and unfortunately, it can be the same. I'm sure other popular diet plans have massive pitfalls also but I've never been. These groups are a marketing scheme and they don't care if you're healthy or lose weight. Amazing to those who did and kept it off. Kudos to you, it's really fucking hard. Still, we need to acknowledge that these groups bloody love it when you return week after week with your fiver in hand and then go home and buy whatever brand they are affilitated with.

Sirzy · 08/09/2017 09:27

doodlebug spot on!

The basic principle of SW is healthy eating so if someone is willing/able to make the changes and most importantly stick to them then they will keep weight off - I have lost 7 stone and been at target for 2 years now.

A lot of people do waste money on things like SW of course they do, but that's because they think just turning up to weigh each week is some sort of miracle answer to their problems. The truth is no matter what method you lose if you want to shift weight or become healthier ultimately only one person can do that - others can support you along the way but only you control what you do.

BarbaraofSevillle · 08/09/2017 09:34

^I see this comment trotted our time and time again 'members always put on weight and go back to Sw heavier'

Replace SW with any diet/ meal replacement/ idealogy and you'll have the same situation. If you aren't following a plan 24/7 and go back to the same food you were eating before then yes you will put on the weight^

^^ This. People who regain weight after a diet do so because they go back to the way of eating that made them gain weight in the first place and that's the same whether SW, low carb, or any other diet/healthy eating plan.

The sad fact is that there's too much tempting high calorie food and drink in too large portions out there. It's very hard to stay slim in the environment we live in. It's been in the new in the last couple of weeks that most people gain weight because they eat just a little too much each day and food outlets are guilty of encouraging this by pushing the 'go large' with extra sides/cream/sprinkles option at every turn.

SW offer a maintenance plan and free lifetime membership to anyone who stays within a few pounds of their goal weight. How is that tricking people into regaining weight and becoming a repeat paying customer? They celebrate their long term members who keep the weight off.

People criticise SW as 'cult like' but the hatred on SW on here seems equally cult like, trotting out tired stereotypes about a non stop muller light, mug shot and diet coke fest. Many people lose weight the SW way with none of these things.

Cagliostro · 08/09/2017 09:34

Euww

RiversrunWoodville · 08/09/2017 10:03

Very much so tabulahrasa also the, have some fish its veggie types

nocutsnobuttsnococonuts · 08/09/2017 18:25

Some of the recipes are downright dodgy but I have been doing slimming world for 18 weeks now and have lost 1st 11lbs. So for me it works.

I am intolerant to dairy and artificial sweetner so don't have muller light or diet coke. I manage just fine and have adapted recipes I find online to fit SW. I make my own dips, have easy to cook meals that stop me from calling a takeaway. I chose to do this and for me is a lifetime change in my attitude to food not a quick fix diet.

nikkylou · 08/09/2017 18:37

Sirzy - exactly.

I've been off plan for a few months, and have come back. Unless you're prepared to make long term changes, the weight won't stay off.

Frylight goes back to being regular oil for your eggs, then your roasties, then everything else. You start adding the extras like chorizo and sundried tomatos in oil, streaky bacon, nice tiger loafs etc. and it starts adding up. I can see how living off fakeaways and "hacks" starts just going back to KFC and crisps etc.

But the premise of SW is your usual diet - fill up on low calorie foods and create a deficit. As an example, right now I have a massive punnet of grapes, not speed, but the box says 66cal per 100g. I'm still eating them, but one of the packs of crisps, under my bed would be gone by now, and I could be at the biscuits. Far more calories in them and I still would look for something to pick. I might put the grapes down in a minute.

DeloresJaneUmbridge · 08/09/2017 19:04

The thing is that overall SW is not that bad, there is a huge emphasis on fresh fruit and vegetables and at its core it's a good healthy eating plan.

The issue comes with syns.

I get that higher calorie stuff will be higher in syns but when you take an avocado and make it high in syns while assessing a curly Whirly or a HiFi bar as lower then I have to take issue.

Avocado should be a healthy extra....it should be in there. It an absolute superfoods full of healthy fats. Take the HiFi bars out of the Healthy Extra list and replace it with avocado ...then I will love SW. Until then I avoid them.