Slimming World #4

[iamme3]

I hope you’re doing better now!

I am doing a little better thank you for asking
Only left last year
Have struggled with my mental health tho not one member of my so called sw team or management has reached out and asked how I am

They all care when your bending over backwards for them and covering all the groups they can't get a consultant for but then once your not your dead to them lol

I just glad finally saw the light

Tho it scares me that there are still people that eat breathe sw and from there Instagram you can tell they have some kind of eating disorder

Even our district manager was calorie counting says a lot about the plan really

 

[rubyred66]

Same here with the assumptions... "save it all for wine with him indoors once the kids have gone up to bed"

I had just left my husband after a nasty few years! Wish I'd have told the consultant to see how he'd have got his way out of that!

We very rarely had men join slimming world in our group. I remember the new member talk including a man who was a recovering alcoholic, in the same group, people were talking about having binge drinking weekends and the consultant said it’s like an AA meeting, I was really annoyed about that. She told the man the next week that he can save syns to have beers with friends. He left soon after.

The next man who joined wanted to lose 10 stone, the consultant kept showing us all pictures of Big Ben to Slim Ben who seemed so arrogant and told the man this is who he could look like. The man said he would rather be fat and level headed rather than being slim and big headed like him and he never came back. We never liked having instagram profiles of arrogant people thrown in our face every week.

 

[JustWonderingIf]

'Snares rock'

 

[JustWonderingIf]

A proverb for SW'ers to remember, long passed around groups across the land, as ancient as Mags herself:
'One appearance in SW mag maketh thou a celebrity not'

 

[bellinibobble]

It’s not sustainable and to show a dishonest journey is not fair to others who are following her. I knew as soon as I saw the losses 7 lb one week. 5 lb the second - is nit normal.

Totally agree, in fact I noticed a few pointed comments on a grid post of hers from someone explaining a sustainable loss is 0.5lb to 2lb a week. I cannot fathom how much of a deficit you’d need to be in to have those losses every week consistently.

I noticed the amount of exercise she is doing as well, hourly daily workouts with 1-2 hours walking on top. Seems like overkill and also a little concerning that no breakfasts or lunches are posted.

From personal experience when you lose a lot of weight quickly, all the compliments you get from friends and family can give you such a buzz. I often think doing so drastically well, then as soon as you try to loosen up some habits (ie, that amount of exercise, plus lack of takeaways or eating out being incompatible with any sort of social life) you regain some weight, surely it’s even harder mentally? You have your own thoughts/pressures, plus you’re wondering what everyone else is thinking about it.

 

[ChampagneBox]

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Not sure the churches she does her group at would approve…

 

[ChubClubThug]

Always found those jd seasonings fakeaway boxes cringe. Like those that used to put quorn nuggets in empty mcnugget boxes or put their stirfry in a foil tray.
Also that burger the size of it will have more cals than most mcdonalds

It's so tragic. Why is she clinging on to this bullshit. She hasn't lost any weight has she since 2017? you're right a big mac is less than 500 cals!

 

[Beanpop442]

Her meals have been nothing short of terrifying. I don’t know her back story but maybe she just needs to take a break from dieting. She’s not massive by any stretch and not everyone is made to be thin.

She genuinely nearly died from following SW. she was hospitalised and it really ruined her MH, it was completely heartbreaking to see her so poorly.
The photo is from before she was hospitalised.
(photo taken from open account showing 12 stone loss)

 

[Stillsneezy]

This week at my slimming group the consultant was being quite aggressive towards a lady who calorie counts. She was using a woman who lost 6 stone to tell her how much better slimming world is to calorie counting. Both members looked so uncomfortable

My money is on that they both cal count, only one is honest about it.

 

[anonymous1221]

It can be so difficult I imagine, and I have no experience on it, I just wonder if anyone on here who posted about their concern knows her and could intervene.

I’ve toyed with the idea of reaching out to her and voicing my concerns as an outsider looking in, but weighing it all up, I don’t think that a stranger’s opinion from the internet would be taken the right way, no matter how good my intentions would be.

 

[JustWonderingIf]

thats it! I actually don't mind her cook book and recipes but that's because I know how to cook within moderation and not tweak to death like the rest of SW

Her recipes are good.
Pinch of Nom stole a load of her recipes. I remember her implying they had and 2 chubby cubs siding with Slimmingeats and basically confirmed they had without naming them

 

[JustWonderingIf]

Look who quietly started up another account 4 days ago....

 

[ChubClubThug]

Oh but the big difference - fry shite! And the most over used line at group "it's free so squirt til it hurts!"

You can have your SW chips with chippy fish as long as you take the batter off and it's completely free!

Squirt till it hurts Jesus fucking wept

 

[elloelloello]

I'm feeling the nostalgia now...
-Lasagne sheet crisps (yet would use butternut squash sheets for actual lasagne )
- scan bran pancakes (soften them with boiling water, mix in an egg)
- lasagne sheet spring rolls
- smash as a pizza base
- quiche made with cottage cheese
- freezing mullers to make ice cream
- always ordering black bean chicken or beef from chinese
- having a mugshot but always having a clementine on side for speed
- quark cheesecake
- quark lasagna topping
- quark tagilatelle
- using quark instead of mayo with tuna

Fuck quark.


I know some people used to spray the butter flavour one on toast..i drew the line there

Fucking quark! I remember once I made a bacon and mushroom pasta, it tasted amazing, then I added quark to make it creamy and it ruined the whole meal I had to bin it no wonder I got so slim

 

[ChubClubThug]

for me the worst I've seen from him was when he posted his breakfast, and he cooked it with the fat on, and then said it was still a free food because he "cut around the fat" but at this point he was piling it on so wasnt really cutting around the fat

what message does that send to his followers and possible members of the groups he runs as a consultant?

This is why he's failing he's just kidding himself and not changed any habits. Why not just syn the bacon?? He'll get loads of syns being a man and at his size. He is just a fraud like the rest of them. He wants the attention, he's not interested in helping people

 

[dietdodgers]

Does anyone remember laurasw89? She lost 17st and had skin removal. I unfollowed a few years ago (can’t remember why).

She went scarily thin after reaching target and blamed it on being on her feet all day at work and not getting proper breaks.

Did she manage to find a healthy balance?

She used to eat onions like apples and I never forgave her for it..

 

[rubyred66]

For someone who claims she has her account just for herself she really gets bothered about engagement and traffic.
Shes been moaning for weeks about lack of likes and comments on her posts.
Blaming the instagram algorythm.
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I think boring Slimming World accounts with predicable ego and self importance will never get the M25 traffic that they crave in their own little world of self importance.

 

[JustWonderingIf]

This is what I despise about slimming world is it reels people in with guise of 'no restriction, eat what you want'
But then in reality promotes restriction covertly
By placing massive syns on most foods on most takeaways and convienience foods knowing it will make members stay away as most members won't eat anything above a few syns in one sitting.

They then create a vicous cycle by encouraging members to fill up on potatoes, pasta and rice.
When someone weightloss stops or plateaus eating this way they suggest SP
They then tell you not to spend too long on sp and start filling up on carbs again.
Then if you're not losing again tell you to priortise free lean meats and speed.
So people then begin to associate lean and speed with losses and carbs become a fear food as people lose less on the weeks they eat them.
In reality carbs are fine when well portioned but SW does not teach portion control.

If you look through the SW hashtag there is some serious disrordered eating

People lose eating like these photos but its not sustainable. They get fed up and leave SW.
Go back to eating 'normally', gain massively as metabolism is messed from restricting.
They return to SW and the cycle begins again.

 

[rubyred66]

The WW app was good but I like the SW app.
I know I should move away from SW but it’s my safety blanket I just don’t like groups so want to do it online for the app

There are good apps out there as I am learning. I liked the groups but I don’t like how Slimming World encourage the ego of some of the members. My friend saw the slimming world bus when it was touring and was disgusted by the ego and attitude of some of the Instagram slimmers. It’s how we ended up finding tattle and having a good laugh.

 

[gotcha77]

Hate to admit it but yeh I think you did hit a nerve. Just trying to slap myself into accountability. Sorry if that came out as wrong as it clearly did. I’m a right gobby cunt sometimes. I’m just tired of failing at every diet I’m trying. They all feel the same to me.

that bit about Swiss roll farts did make me laugh though