ADVICE NEEDED! Should I become a slimming world consultant?

[MrsRose2018]

Hi All

I am just wondering if there are any slimming world consultants here - past or present - that can give me some truthful information?

I am a current group member and have not a lot of weight following slimming world and I have just been approached with an opportunity to become a consultant?

I work 4 days a week and I have two young children 3.5 and 14m but life is fairly flexible and the opportunity for a side hustle and to earn more money is not to be sniffed at!

However from a quick google it seems like you're expected to invest a lot of time and money for not much reward. I'm not expecting to make thousands but I'm not sure I would be interested if I'm earning less than minimum wage when it all balances out!

Please let me know your thoughts - good and bad!

Thanks xx

No.

Slimming world is a ridiculous scam and isn't sustainable for proper long term weight loss. The less you have to do with it, the better.

Why would they approach you to represent it if you haven't been that successful with it?

I think there's a typo in the OP and it should read "lost a lot of weight".

SW is not a ridiculous scam. The issues are that people lose weight on it then go back to their old habits. As happens on probably 99% of weight loss programmes for very many people.

I would find out what the time commitment is weekly and what your costs are. How many members do you need to break even and how many to make more money than minimum wage. There are other benefits to doing something different from your usual job so you'll have to weigh up whether it's for you.

Typo!

I've lot loads

Sorry all - typo!

Ive lot a lot of weight doing this

I personally won’t go back to SW because it constantly failed for me and I just used it as a way to eat a lot of sweet tasting things.

However I don’t know much about it as a business model but I imagine there is a lot more work involved than it seems. You need to promote yourself get new subs, plan and run the meetings, be contacted by everyone in your group all the time, run the social media and most likely trying to recruit other consultants in the pyramid scheme that these things usually appear to be? You will be expected to sell all those awful sugary bars to people each week (which a lot of people binge eat after weigh in day, we all used to)

To make money I assume you would have to be running a lot of groups with a lot of members so it’s a big time investment?

Of course it's ridiculous - food doesn't have "syns" - that's disordered thinking about food.

You're entitled to your opinion @QuestionableMouse. I know a lot of people who have been happy with weight loss achieved via SW.

Slimming world is a perfectly good plan that encourages lots of fresh healthy food and doesn’t demonise carbs.

It does limit sugar and fat. Which needs to be limited.

SW isn’t going to create issues for anyone. The majority of people who go already have issues.

@pickledandpuzzled why do they use the word syns and sell low nutrition UPF bars in big packs at the meetings and call them ‘healthy extras’ that you can swap out real food for?

They allow sweeteners.
Small packs of high fibre bars offer a sweet treat instead of a slice of wholemeal bread. Some people do well with the bars, and enjoy them as they are designed.

They do nothing for me. I can eat a pack in one sitting and would prefer to make and syn a flapjack, which would be very similar. I’d count the oats as my Healthy extra, and syn the fat. The sweetener is free in small amounts so wouldn’t be a problem.

People eat a lot of UPF foods and a lot of high fat and sugar foods. On SW most people eat fewer of each, not more.

The majority of food encouraged on SW is unprocessed fruit and veg and lean protein. If that makes up all your snacks and meals, a fibre bar in the evening isn’t going to give you an eating disorder.

Remember SW is mainly needed for people with poor eating habits. It may not be perfect but it’s better than what people ate before.