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Weight watchers or slimming world?

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Testarossa1 · 24/11/2017 13:17

Hi, I've decided I'm going to join either ww or sw after Christmas. Doesn't seem much point now as festive excesses fast approaching. I've looked at both plans and really don't know which would suit me better. I'm not a huge fish eater, mainly tuna, love chicken, and cook a lot with beef mince (chilli, Bolognese) and i use a fair bit of pasta. I like my fruit and veggies, eggs, cheese and yoghurts.When it comes to carbs, I can't eat whole wheat (Brown rice/bread/pasta) I can't digest it and get awful stomach cramps, followed up by bloating. I don't eat much chocolate, prefer crisps and do like my tea and coffee.

So any thoughts on what might be better? I'm currently leaning towards ww, but just wondered if anybody has done both and what they thought? TIA.

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FlopIsMyParentingGuru · 10/12/2017 11:17

Start "now" rather than "low"!

Viviennemary · 10/12/2017 11:19

I don't really like either of them. But probably WW is the most sensible of the two. Slimming World eating gigantic portions of things you don't even want to eat anyway seems a bit pointless. And not keen on the syns or the silly meetings. After doing SW couldn't eat another Mullerlight again. I think there's room for a different approach.

Migraleve · 10/12/2017 11:22

Slimming World eating gigantic portions of things you don't even want to eat anyway

It's really not

KiaOraAura · 10/12/2017 11:23

I cant see how you can lose weight eating pasta , rice, etc.

Why not? A gram of carbohydrate has far fewer calories than a gram of fat. There's nothing wrong with carbohydrates in moderation, especially if they are complex.

TheEagle · 10/12/2017 11:23

WW has silly meetings too, viviennemary

They all seemed to be geared towards how you could still eat chocolate cake/ice cream and lose weight rather than how to make a permanent change in your thoughts surrounding eating.

I never went to a SW meeting as I used their online system.

TheEagle · 10/12/2017 11:24

WW also has a variation of their plan (healthy and filling or something?) which is almost identical to the SW plan

Viviennemary · 10/12/2017 11:25

I was just giving my opinion. I know SW works for a lot of people but I don't think the track record of actually keeping weight off is that good. And I didn't much like the hard sell of stuff in the meetings at all. And the raffles. It's a bit of a 'racket' IMHO.

TheEagle · 10/12/2017 11:28

Totally agree with you there viviennemary, they’re both geared towards peddling their branded wares.

TheEagle · 10/12/2017 11:28

Plus SW must have some affiliation with Mullerlight (bleurgh)

Migraleve · 10/12/2017 11:30

I don't get the obsession with muller lights. You don't have to eat them!

TheEagle · 10/12/2017 11:32

I was on a few SW Facebook groups and all people seemed to talk about were the various flavours of Mullerlights

Migraleve · 10/12/2017 11:46

I suppose like anything you take from it what you want. But that suggestion that you have to eat certain things is the very opposite of how SW actually works.

Raisedbyguineapigs · 10/12/2017 12:08

You don't have to eat mullerlights. I don't like them, so I eat plain greek yoghurt. I think as with any diet, if you are looking at the rules and wondering how you can eat as much as you possibly can without circumventing them, then you really aren't in the correct mindset to lose weight so you wont. I don't know anyone who can eat massive bowlfuls of plain pasta or tons of mullerlights. It is about portion control as you are meant to fill your plate with vegetables and snack on fruit. I found it hard to eat as many vegetables as you are supposed to on it. I do agree I think sticking with 'syns' was probably a mistake when they revamped it because whatever they are meant to mean, its a stupid word for things that might just be a bit of olive oil in your cooking or a blob of tomato sauce. I don't know about WW as this is the only slimming club Ive ever done.

TheEagle · 10/12/2017 12:23

I think that idea of “circumvention” is what I grew to dislike about WW, particularly the meetings.

From my experience of the Facebook SW groups, a lot of people there were trying to find a way of using the plan so that they could still eat sugary/artificially sweetened foods (cue Mullerlights and Fivre One bars) and drink alcohol but still lose weight.

The actual SW plan and their own materials were more focused making permanent healthy eating choices.

TheEagle · 10/12/2017 12:24

Fibre not fivre

Testarossa1 · 10/12/2017 19:26

I don't like mullerlights, find them far to sickly, so I'll be okay with that one

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Raisedbyguineapigs · 10/12/2017 20:24

I have mullerlights in the fridge because my DH (who isn't doing SW but still manages to scoff more hi fi bars and muller lights than me) likes them. This thread has made me want one even though I don't normally eat them!!!

ShapelyBingoWing · 11/12/2017 23:19

I do agree I think sticking with 'syns' was probably a mistake when they revamped it because whatever they are meant to mean, its a stupid word for things that might just be a bit of olive oil in your cooking or a blob of tomato sauce.

Completely agree. Fairly sure they were at least honest about the meaning previously and spelled it 'sins'. Between that and the term 'body magic' it's called exercise FFS sometimes I do cringe a bit talking about the plan. Wankiest words ever.

That said, there are probably comments from me on some of these boards in the past criticising SW. On that front I'm a bit of a convert. It turns out I am able to eat carbs in sensible portions and I can be trusted to pick sensibly when I'm hungry between meals. I believe fats are an important part of my diet and lose better when I use my wanky 'syns' to incorporate them into my meals rather than for snacking on sugar. I hardly use any sweetened products. I've found it to be more about good home made food. It's not a plan for those after convenience if you want to stay away from junky sweetened foods full of unrecognizable ingredients though.

Testarossa1 · 12/12/2017 19:07

Picked up the SW magazine today. No voucher for joining though. Haven't read it properly yet, but some lovely looking recipes. One was for sausages with root veg, syn free if you use the slimming world sausages. Any one tried them? Are they tasty or vile?

Quite looking forward to trying out some of the recipes. I can see my self batch cooking at weekends and freezing up in portion sizes for during the week.

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Raisedbyguineapigs · 12/12/2017 23:15

I don't like the sausages plain, but they are passable in a casserole. I don't know of any other good sausages.

Testarossa1 · 13/12/2017 08:38

I was looking last night and low fat sausages are quite low syns. I usually only have them in a casserole anyway!

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