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To have laughed at her Slimming World advice?

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Pikaso · 18/01/2022 13:04

Woman at work has been doing Slimming World. She’s obsessed with it and goes on about it constantly armed with her books and Muller Lights at every meal.
I told her last week I was going to give it a go. I didn’t buy Muller Lights but instead bought some asda own yogurts which had almost identical calorie, fat and sugar content. Sat down to eat lunch yesterday and she came in and said “I thought you were doing slimming world?”. I said “I am” so she said “how many syns in those yogurts?” So I said “none, they’re the same as muller lights”. She replied “no, you’re meant to eat Muller lights!” And looked really concerned and worried!! I did owl noises in her face and told her the calories, sugar and fat etc were exactly the same so why would it matter??! She actually left the room muttering about how it won’t work if you don’t do it properly.

I did slimming world a few years back and stopped because of the cult like behaviour of the members and leaders. I thought I’d give it another go but she has totally put me off again! Nothing has changed!!
She’s been off with me ever since. WIBU to have laughed at her muller light concerns?? Common sense tells you it’s the calories etc that matter, not the bloody name on the pot!!

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Toothsil · 18/01/2022 17:08

Owl noises in her face? You sound annoying!

Skeumorph · 18/01/2022 17:09

Oh I hate these threads. People, the point of the thread is the owl noises. It's an 'I'm mad, me!' thread. All the faux half ignoring everyone falling around 'spitting out their tea' on the laptop then 'Oh, owl noises? What do you mean I shouldn't?'

So irritating!

BABAHOTEL · 18/01/2022 17:09

@Allycott

OP - I am interested in the comments you make about SW being a cult. I thought this when I went a few years ago. I got sick of the automaton-like behaviour every week and down playing of the importance of exercise. I did manage to lose half a stone but now I follow a more balanced diet and exercise more using cardio and weighs and the results are much better. And I only have to be accountable to me.
She didn't go to a meeting she just used the woman whose face she hooted in for her knowledge and books
Skeumorph · 18/01/2022 17:09

OP isn't batshit, OP is fishing for mad points!

EmmaH2022 · 18/01/2022 17:09

@Skeumorph

Oh I hate these threads. People, the point of the thread is the owl noises. It's an 'I'm mad, me!' thread. All the faux half ignoring everyone falling around 'spitting out their tea' on the laptop then 'Oh, owl noises? What do you mean I shouldn't?'

So irritating!

Don't you mean rotating head?
AnAutumnAfternoon · 18/01/2022 17:12

**Every time you post it sounds even more weird.

Do you do this a lot?

How do people generally react?”

———-
People normally just stop talking
Go**

Yeah , probably because people can't believe what they've just heard - and adult human making owl noises during a normal conversation.

PupInAPram · 18/01/2022 17:12

It's not coo coo, it's hoo hoo. Or twit twoo.

Owlnoises · 18/01/2022 17:16

[quote Joinedforthis22]@Owlnoises you got the name before me, I'm peed off now, coo coo![/quote]
Grin I've never been fast enough to get a topical name change before. What animal noise should I make to communicate smugness?

iklboo · 18/01/2022 17:16

My friend at the time was doing slimming world and she couldn’t fathom why I was eating things as calorific as a banana when I could eat a slimming world bar for half the calories…

Then your friend had it wrong. SW doesn't mention calories, nor would a decent consultant advocate eating a bar instead of fruit.

Cailleach · 18/01/2022 17:16
2021Hangover · 18/01/2022 17:16

@BrinksmansEntry

COOO FUCKING COOOO

now it's MY turn to speak.

Stop making bird noises at people.

This is the strangest thread I think I've ever seen but this comment has made my day, can't stop laughing to myself
JesusMaryAndJosephAndTheWeeDon · 18/01/2022 17:17

@Pikaso

I didn’t screech at her, it was just a coo coo type thing
What like a cuckoo? Or like Vic and Bob summoning the dove from above?

Owls go twit-twoo not coo coo so you are absolutely unreasonable

VillanellesOrangeCoat · 18/01/2022 17:18

@MabelsApron

Does anyone remember Green Wing? There's a sketch in there about the noises birds make. Alan Statham does a weird impression of a chaffinch. I'm sort of imagining that, but with yoghurt.

Either way, not sure you can object to the irrationality of Slimming World cultisms if you habitually make bird noises at people. People in glass houses etc.

OMG I LOVE GREEN WING! Yes that’s how I imagined it too!
hopeishere · 18/01/2022 17:18

Owls don't coo?? They go "twit twoo".

crosstalk · 18/01/2022 17:19

I'd be more interested in finding out if SW have a tie up with eg Muller Light. The new food apps should make it easier to follow the rules just by using your phone to read the code on non-fresh products.

Tawny, Barn, Screech and Little all make different noises - YouTube them! But yes, OP, you were rude! Just apologise.

PinkEll · 18/01/2022 17:20

This thread 😂 why would you make an owl nose to get her to listen to you? So weird OP. But I love it.

LadyCatStark · 18/01/2022 17:23

I hate slimming world but I can’t get past the owl noises…

treesandweeds · 18/01/2022 17:24

@POFuserred

"I didn’t screech at her, it was just a coo coo type thing"

I'm sorry but that's pigeon noises...

Isn't coo coo a Cuckoo bird, not a lodge in? Why the noises anyway?
FaoinDrualus · 18/01/2022 17:24

This thread is hilarious!!

@Pikaso - If you have all the books, and SW worked for you before, just follow what you have.

At the start of lockdown 1, I decided it was a good time to get a grip on my diet, and got all my (very) old WeightWatchers books out - from 1998! The program has TOTALLY changed since then, but I just followed what I had and managed to lose 3 stone between April and November. Just follow a program consistently, you'll be fine!

REP22 · 18/01/2022 17:26

Perhaps OP is frustrated because she never got her Hogwarts letter.

camperqueen54 · 18/01/2022 17:27

What's the deal with the owl? Is that a thing? Making owl noises if you are ridiculing someone?

ilovemybeachhut · 18/01/2022 17:28

@LadyPenelope68

You made owl noises in her face??? How incredibly rude and childish. Sounds like you need to grow up a bit.
This 100% Just made yourself look stupid tbh. Common sense on the yogurts otherwise.
whiteworldgettingwhiter · 18/01/2022 17:30

Owls don't coo. Just sayin' (for the next time you want to make owl noises at someone). 🦉

iklboo · 18/01/2022 17:30

I'd be more interested in finding out if SW have a tie up with eg Muller Light.

Well you can do an FOI request but none of their cookbooks mention Muller Light, nor have any of my consultants have ever pushed them. One openly detests them & says fat free Greek yoghurt is nicer (it is). Maybe they're Rebel Scum?

Deadwould · 18/01/2022 17:32

You made owl noises in her face?