I have little issues over the high cal stuff that has a label. But when it comes to fresh fruit & veggies, or having something someone else has made I spin. After nearly 30 years of SW indoctrination it is going to take a long time to fix myself. I can see damaging diet culture a mile off and it gets my back up.
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Sw was a lot better IMO before they introduced the extra easy plan. Not being allowed to eat 2 servings of bread/cereal etc. a day is absolutely ridiculous when you're allowed to eat huge bowls of pasta and rice and meat. The red & green plans worked so much better I don't know why they got rid of them
the green plan was my favourite, then they did something called success express that I liked as you could have 2 A & 2 B. Once they got rid of 2 B choices it went wrong.
She may have been mentioned before but I would give ASpoonfulOfAlice a view on tiktok. She explains exactly why slimming world, keto, WW etc don't work and her videos have changed the way I look at things completely
First and foremost they are all a form of business, designed to make as much money as possible from the customer, with as little effort as possible. Once you realise that you just can't go back to believing in them or the lies they spew out
I’ve been a slimming worlder since I was about 16, so more than half my life. Even when I wasn’t actively going to group and getting weighed, I would use the healthy a and b choices, would think of pasta and rice as free but not eat oil, nuts or avocado because SYNS. Done a lot of reading recently and turns out the diet slimming world promotes is really incompatible with PCOS (which I have) and explains why the diet has never ‘worked’ for me long term. I’ve recently switched it up loads, balancing my carb intake with protein and large, and I’ve never felt better.
I think as soon as you realise that these big diet companies actually aren’t supposed to ‘work’ (because then they’d never make any money as everyone would lose weight then not go back) it clicks.
I think as soon as you realise that these big diet companies actually aren’t supposed to ‘work’ (because then they’d never make any money as everyone would lose weight then not go back) it clicks.
Oh yes 100%! That's what she says - she did a video recently that says if target members get free membership forever as long as they stay at a certain weight, and if slimming world really works, why aren't they bankrupt and overrun with target members? Makes you think
I attended slimming world with my daughter and I would be upset if I screwed up her relationship with food. You have really made me think with that one.
We joined together to have something to go to and if we had a wedding or an event and we enjoyed the mother and daughter time. I admit there were times we would get weighed and then go for tea and cake afterwards, we never took itvery serious like some do. I can see where slimming world has caused eating disorders.
I'm another who started early. My Mum helped out at WW when I was 10. She's been attending for most her life between WW and SW.
She made me get weighed every week and even got me my own book at age 10.
Messed me up completely
I remember going with my best friend and her mum when I was about 11 as I was quite chubby as a kid. It wasn't until last year when I learnt about calorie counting that I realised how messed up I was. I remember one day is had maybe 10 or so more syns than normal and I felt so disgusted with myself I first tried to make myself sick then when I couldn't I ran 10k. I started working with a coach and realised that was maybe 250 Cal more than normal and wouldn't have done a thing to my weight loss. That being said, the weekly weigh in did keep me accountable. I think sw still could work if they updated things a bit
For me, mum was very overbearing. Everything I ate was scrutinised. Group was never an enjoyable experience and there wasnt any treats. I was never good enough and rebelled by eating in secret.
I'm now a emotional/stress eater, something I'm working on everyday. I have problems with certain food groups and feeling like I can drink fruit juice or smoothies. A comfort food is straight from the weird SW free food mash ups and is baked beans and boiled rice. Or just boiled rice & soy sauce on its own. The idea of making a salad dressing with oil makes me recoil.
It's a weird old world post SW.
This is heartbreaking to hear. Me and my daughter decided between us when she was in her twenties to join and we did as a weekly meet up. I hope I never do any lasting damage. I am horrified of some peoples experiences from a young age.
how do you cope now?
how do you cope now?
I think being in your 20s and joining is different developmentally from being 15. For me it was during the difficult teen years were I never felt I was good enough and didn't tick any of the boxes mum drew for me.
I know mum meant well, she just didn't know how it would effect me and that it made things worse.
One positive thing that I did get from SW is that I went on and researched nutrition on my own and have a better understanding of what bodies need to thrive I don't think I would have gone down that rabbit hole without SW.
Slimming world has helped my family be a bit more nutritionally aware. When cooking for the kids in their late teens I would reduce some of the portion sizes subtlety and introduce more variety of veg instead of carbs.
Now they’re grown up, I feel like I can have a cake when I’m out for coffee and when on the very rare occasion I fancy a takeaway, I’ll just have one. When people tell me of some of the pointless slimming world hacks. They make me cringe. I still haven’t got over slimming world members filling half Easter eggs with crap, sweetener and e-numbers.
I get the cringe a lot. In the fitness sphere, I've somehow found myself in the obsession with protein everything is insane.
I intentionally after getting an injury stepped back from a lot of diet culture and the wellness influencers I was following. Yes, I've gained a lot of weight back in the last year, but I'm starting to enjoy food again. Using other people's words I would eat things en masse as if I'd never get to eat that particular type of food again (I do have 2 teen boys in the house it's is a possibility). I'm getting better now at structure, although I do have doubts when I eat a cake that I cannot work out the calories for.
Saying that even at my height of SW indoctrination, when I literally could quote the Food Directory, I didn't go down the syn free roulade, sweet couscous soaked in squash and yogurt or anything in an Easter egg. I'd rather just eat the egg. Although I ate more than I should have of lemon couscous cake and made sugar-free, large-free and joyless cupcakes, and mixed 25g blue cheese (when it was a HB) into quark to make it go further.
Here endeth my lecture/rant/verbal diarrhea.
Anyone remember the SW syn free quiche using savoury rice? My outlaws ask me to still make it for her, she thinks it's a treat!
Has anyone seen that post slimming world soph put up because someone asked her about loose skin? Don't understand why she's labelled them as a troll, when they pointed out they've commented and messaged her before and been ignored, but as soon as she thinks she's being "trolled" she's jumped on it straight away
Because she’s a fool
I know someone who ended up in hospital for eating too much protein. Ran a "fitness" page and everything.
"Perfect dessert"? It's an ice lolly you disordered moron. Get a life and eat some cake like the rest of us.
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