Justbrowzin

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I have to say I love their recipes and have their book. What i can't understand is why they are extremely obese? Not in a mean way, just a curious way because they aren't a little bit chubby they are dangerously morbidly obese. You wouldnt take diet, health or exercise advice from a morbidly obese person would you?:unsure::unsure: They are making a lot of money from this and it seems very odd to me.
Have you ever seen a slimming world consultant ?
 
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SausageSam

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I feel I’m in the minority but I hate pinch of vom! 2 obese women who spout diet recipes stealing from other people (recipes that is) and riding on the coat tails of another successful business using their format but then play the victim when pulled up on it

Pull the other one
 
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swipe_up

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Picture from tonight’s bookseller awards. I don’t care if they’re big but it seems wrong to be selling weightloss books - almost fraud?
Fuuuuuuuuuuck me

Well they’re clearly not replacing double cream with fucking quark are they

Sheeeeeeeeeesh
 
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Skinny Bae

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I've just stumbled upon this thread and have read it all with interest

I am a past moderator for pinch of nom and had been working with them for a couple of years. I have been on weekends away with them too

They have several of my recipes on the website and also taken lots of my ideas for the books, including the third one which is due out in December 👿👿👿

They promised payment for my recipes but despite several requests for their terms of business , that never materialised

They offered me a job too !! Then the week before I was due to start, removed me from moderating

They have now booted and blocked me from the group

This is the last picture I have of Kay taken last year
 

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Meg78

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Totally disagree with you, two overweight women encouraging people not to end up where they are maybe?

I'm morbidly obese and I'd love nothing more to work with overweight kids. As a child I was forced in to see half a dozen stick thin dieticians up until the age of 13. I used to sit pretending to listen to them and take absolutely notice whatsoever , my regular thought was you don't have a clue. I had no respect for them. At 14 I went to a slimming club run by a lady called Ivy. At her heaviest she'd weighed 28st, she had a big cardboard cut out of herself at her heaviest at the front of the room, she was down to 15st when I joined. I worshipped the woman, she got through to me like nobody else could, she understood what it was like to be me. I was gutted when 3 months later she was diagnosed with terminal cancer and she left.

People who are in or have been in the same boat have an empathy and understanding that you don't get from somebody that has never been there.
I disagree with your rationale here completely. I do agree that someone having walked in your shoes who gives advice can be an inspiring influence, but they haven’t overcome their demons, what makes them qualified to give advice to others on doing so? That’s like an NHS Quit Smoking Advisor who smokes 40 a day whilst preaching to others, they’ve struggled with the habit so they’ll have empathy, but clearly their advice isn’t working or they’d be successfully doing it themselves. That’s not inspiring it’s hypocritical.
 
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I did find it weird that they're obese seeing as they've obviously been doing the plan and "healthy eating" for a while.. Not in a nasty way just makes me wonder about it all
 
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MadGal

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Good! Most of their recipes are stolen anyway so it’s good they’ve had a bit of a telling off for thinking they can get away with using Syn values! Now slimming world it’s time to stop allowing these big SW accounts to make money pretending to be following the plan 👀
 
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Prodcon21

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This is a tough one for me. Yes they gave syn values - but they are encouraging people to cook and eat healthy, which is what the plan is all about.

Whereas all these insta accounts (Harry etc) are misrepresenting the plan, and SW sit back and do sweet FA! Either come down on everyone, or no one.

To me, the insta accounts should have been first in the firing line!
 
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Lymony

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TLDR: the pon facebook group is run by idiots who kick you out if you don't toe the party line.

Ugh, I just need somewhere is have a rant about this. I actually quite like the pinch of nom recipes. I bought the books before I realised they were potentially stolen or that they were both even bigger than I am, but i do use them regularly and they are pretty nice (although need to up the seasonsing in some, especially the curries). I've also been a member of the FB group for probably about 6 months, just because i like to post my pictures and answer people's cookjng questions. I'm not even on SW, just trying to eat healthier (never used quark in my life).

I'd been slightly irritated with the group for a while, due to the cultish fanaticism that is underlying there. Some of then eat pinch of nom literally every single day of the week. There were a number of photos I tried to post which never got approved by the admins, but never any explanation as to why it just disappeared. I did get some clmment deleted with an explanation because it had a swear in it. Not abusive, just emphatic, but fair enough. But the comment just got deleted, no more said. I continued to contribute both my own posts and comment attempting to help others

So yesterday, someone asked for a buttermilk pancake recipe and I sent a link to the Slimming Eats recipe for pancakes. Happened to be scrolling later and noticed my comment had been deleted, but i got no notification for it, just disappeared. This really irritated me, so i posted another comment saying that "I thought this group was about supporting others, not pretending no other websites with recipes even exist". Then a separate comment either the same link. Less than ten minutes later, the link comment was deleted, this time I got a notification. Next thing I know, I go on FB this morning for a browse, notice that no posts from that group are appearing on my feed. I'VE BEEN BLOCKED. For daring to question the great and powerful PON.

Sorry this got so long, I'm just irrationally annoyed about it, and this is the only place I can find that seems to have real people talking about the realities of them two, not just starry eyed "OMG UR SO BRILLIANT, HOW MANY SYNS IN A BUCKET OF QUARK, IF I ROLL A SCOTCH EGG IN RAW SMASH ITS AMAHZING AND HAS NO CALORIES". I bought their book, they have my money already, can I not just talk like a real person on a fb group without getting kicked out by a load of SW zombies, because they're cranky from not getting enough hifi bars.
 
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megsmagoo

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Oh yeah big time! To be fair they’ve done well to get away with it for so long, I think as soon as people start making money slimming world are on them. Surprised they don’t hit the Instagram accounts that damage their reputation
 
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