Slimming world

[NapQueenReturns]

That Erika looks like she needs a good slap across her piggy nose.

 

[Moonflower]

I honestly think a massive part of weight loss (regardless of whether it is SW, WW, calorie counting, whatever, personally I do CC) is changing your lifestyle and HOW you eat (well duh, sorry know I'm stating the obvious) and massive sugary breakfasts ain't that you just cannot eat like that on a daily basis and expect to lose weight.

And I'd love to know what measuring cups these people use as a tsp of syrup looks much smaller in my house.

 

[fedupfatty]

I’ve been lurking on this thread as I thought it was going to be another bash the plan kinda thing but so relieved to see it’s not & that it is not just me that thinks there is SW then there is the insta hun version all for likes & cliques to blow smoke up each other’s butts.

Although I knew this for myself it’s helped massively to see others say it & reinforce that it’s not just me that can’t eat like that & not lose. Despite my forum name I’m not carrying weight I’m at target & have been for years but I think that’s because when I was losing insta sw was genuine & not for the freebies & likes

 

[MamaD]

SW are clutching at straws as all their poster boys and girls have switched to cal counting. Thing is, SW and WW are a business as are any weight loss company. This includes all calorie counting clubs. I don’t know why someone in Team RH, Rebelfit, Munro, JSA are up in arms about SW being toxic when I see that most of them lost all their weight with SW and are still part of the diet culture they claim to hate. If you are counting calories and pay a coach/trainer each month and are actively trying to lose weight, you are in a slimming club!

 

[RedHotMoon]

I have followed slimmingworld Instagram for over a year and when you see accounts like this, there is nothing humble about them, ego, brag and beg for free things.

More fool you if you buy frozen peas from m&s and pay £2 instead of 79p in Aldi

 

[swipe_up]

That spaghetti hoop tankard deserves a whole thread of its own

 

[Missy21]

God the slimming world instagrams really annoying me. The ones I've seen are big liars! I've got sucked in by some of the things they've posted and when you make them yourself they are fowl! Like using promise rolls with cream etc to make a bun and there is no way that tastes good. Or using blended oats to make a cake (spoiler alert its not a cake it's porridge with a crispy outside) and those portion sizes! So misleading to anyone watching!

 

[SpiceWeasel]

The reason I like SW is because I suffered with an ED in the past and I get overly obsessed with calorie counting, so I find the SW plan a healthy way of doing things with the focus being on eating a balanced diet with lots of fresh produce. I do weigh my carbs e.g. I'll do a 60g portion of dried pasta/rice, as someone else said I keep quiet about that at group or you get pounced on. I do fully understand calorie deficit and macros etc but it's just best I don't do it or it takes over my life. I also always used to eat a lot of convenience foods just because you can easily track the calories without having to weigh everything individually. I ended up back at SW in November last year cos I'd managed to put nearly 20lb on during lockdown and need the accountability! I do feel so much better for it lost a stone so far and enjoyed every meal. I don't tend to have a lot of 'free' food really even though I could quite happily eat pasta every night for the rest of my life. My losses are slow anyway cos I don't have loads of weight to lose (ideally another stone) so try and have SP meals most days. The thing I don't get with the current SW plan is SP days you can only have 10 syns and EE 15, I think it would make far more sense to have it the other way round never done the plan with Red/Green days, when I was a member last time it was 2 x HexB on an SP day.

 

[letsmeltthatlard]

A big thank you for the suggestions. I’ve added them to my shopping list.

The first slimming world group we attended the consultant was always complaining about money and how much pressure slimming world out on her. For the family holidays in 2017 onwards we joined a different group and there was a huge difference. The consultant was friendly and very knowledgeable she like ones mentioned on here warned people away from the sweetener based treats and try and include syns on more flavoursome food. When the kids were at home, as soon as a pack of biscuits were open they would be gone so I understand what the consultants mean.
The good consultants make slimming world either a great experience or a bad one. The members set the atmosphere. I remember a young lady called Sally who said she was always really on plan, everything made in batches and meals set for the week. My old counselling offices for a contract were above a Subway sandwich shop and I saw her there almost every lunchtime. Every slimming world member has a member that stretches the truth but some of the Instagram slimmers are really dishonest and I don’t know why the feel the need to be dishonest and have these large ego’s.

I find with most that as the stomach shrinks the head gets bigger.

This was my Dinner/Tea Tonight..

A Syn Free Tikka with added speed veg

 

[littlemissgiggles]

I'd love to know what these greedy bastards were eating before their slimming world "diet"

 

[rubyred66]

I can’t believe some of these slimming world people are posting having battenburg cake on their breakfast. People in group tend to have overnight porridge oats or some fruit or a little bit of cereal. That is horrible. How are these people in a position to influence others. I hope their consultant would tell them what they are doing is wrong.

 

[memoii11]

Who the fuck puts smarties on crumpets?! What fresh hell is that?! They can't seriously say that they would've put smarties on crumpets before all this one-upmanship. Cooking for likes and to gain followers is just sad. Get a life.

 

[so_u_thinkimskinnyyy]

honestly the whole shoving all your syns into one meal - particularly breakfast - is just baffling to me.
i struggle with fucking coco pops because i was always told they were too sugary as a kid, never mind a flaming battenburg and mini eggs???

 

[Monkey47]

I wasn't sure of the general attitude towards SW vs CC on this page so I've held off commenting.
Here goes; SW fucked me up. Big style. My mum joined SW, had previously been on WW but it wasn't working anymore. A colleague lost weight on SW so my mum decided she would too. My mum has always been on a diet. I have grown up around a woman who calls food 'good' and 'bad' and is absolutely obsessed with how much she weighs. My mum lost 3st initially which was great and I loved that it made her seem happy so I decided to join SW with her when I was 20/21 (I can't remember because, frankly, I don't want to)

I thought being 'skinny' would be the answer to all my problems. The consultant always went on about how 'happy' everyone will be once they are 'skinny' or their 'goal weight'. I lost 2.5st, eventually got down to 10st 8lb which should've made me happy. But I wasn't. I was terrified of putting ANY weight on. I was terrified to go out with friends, would turn down lovely, delicious food at my boyfriends house because I couldn't control how it was made or what the ingredients where. I specifically recall working all day Saturdays and not eating (I worked at Asda, very full on and exhausting) so that I could 'save myself' for going out and getting drunk that night. I was no longer in control, SW was. I weighed myself everyday, sometimes multiple times. Even the 'free' and 'speed' food made me feel this consuming guilt that I was eating 'too much'. There was an event in group in which people wrote 'inspirational' things (centred around losing weight) and stuck them to this big board. One woman wrote 'nothing tastes as good as skinny feels'. This quote is used widely in the pro-anorexia community and was famously said by Kate Moss during her battle with anorexia. That quote stayed on that board until I decided to leave SW over a year later. I went on holiday at this 'goal weight' and I expected to feel confident and gloriously happy, like my consultant promised I would.

However, I still hid away because I still felt 'too fat'. Anyway, life progressed and I started to see through the plan. Things that didn't make sense, for example the blended fruit not being free and the Muller Light saga where they magically gained syns over night. I still went to SW, paid money to stand on a scale because my mum did. How could I explain to my mum that SW was impacting my mental health in such a way? We aren't the sort of family that talk about serious things like that. I don't even think my mum or dad believe mental health issues are real. Lockdown came, the first one, and I STILL did the Zoom meetings, still transferred this woman who didn't really care about me £2.75 (reduced fee) to weigh on my own scale and sit on a video call with women I didn't like who, actually, really annoyed me. Then the opportunity came, the consultant was leaving. And I knew, that was my chance to leave too. So I did, I said to my mum (terrified, may I add) that I was leaving SW because it was affecting me negatively (she still doesn't know about the borderline ED part of it all) After leaving I spent time eating food as I wanted, when I wanted and actually enjoying myself for the first time in almost 3 years. I did put all the weight back on, but that's fine! I would rather weigh more and be happy because being 'skinny' made me miserable.

A few weeks ago I decided, mainly out of curiosity, to look at how many calories I ate a day. I never intended to start CC. I realised I wasn't eating nearly enough for my body. Most days I sat at around 1000 calories which, I'm sure I don't need to point out, is extremely unhealthy. Because I always thought that the less you ate, the more weight you would lose. I did this for a week and then the week after I decided to weigh myself and start CC but in a lighter way, I didn't want to fall back into the SW trap and the control that had over me. I don't track when I go out, don't track my drinks (I mainly drink diet anyway) and definitely don't count alcohol. I'm not as in to the losing weight side as I once was and eat what I want mostly, just in better moderation. in 2 weeks I have lost 2.5lbs. I think that's pretty sustainable. SW was not the dream I was sold it to me. One day I hope to convert my mum to CC. SW is not working for her anymore.

SW does work for some people, but I don't believe that it is sustainable for long time use. I believe it is like a drug you need to wean off of, it's a safety blanked to go under when you lose trust in yourself. The woman with the Kate Moss quote quit SW and now does CC. I fully expect backlash for this comment but I needed to share my experience somewhere

What a fantastic post (not the struggles you had but the complete 180 in your thinking).
I found I was getting into a terrible binge cycle with SW and I’ve tried CC and I know it works but I’m struggling so so much with the binge eating however this week I decided to invest in myself. I’ve joined a CrossFit gym (I weigh 240lbs and I’m 5ft! So I’m surprising myself what I can actually do there). I’ve invested in a PT package too. I’m not putting too much pressure on myself and I have my first therapy session for the binge eating in 2 weeks. I’m not saying SW caused my disordered eating but the whole ‘all or nothing’ attitude that’s thrown around in group just messed with my head

 

[SpiceWeasel]

Boothys sw insta - the amount of chips is insane! Clearly carb loading because she would stuff her face otherwise. Those savoury rices from Aldi she uses alot, absolutely FULL of salt. Also, does anybody remember when she ended up in hospital?! She did a post about her fast weight loss causing her major gallstones and had to have it removed. Doubt that was from her portions. Her food now is purely for the Gram likes and freebies.

Sophiejude - Definitely loves herself!! Another one trying to get through life with Insta Ads. Sick of the posing.

Those JD Seasonings are full of salt, biggest rip off. Every account offering '20% off' but is still a rip off. Also, everyone using 'gluten free promise rolls' to save a couple of syns. Just use a normal bread roll and get on with life.

I proper pissed off my SW consultant’s sidekick the other day, she put a post on the group Facebook saying what you can have instead of 400g loaf or cereal of all these fancy overpriced HexBs like the promise rolls and gluten free wraps that cost a bomb so I posted screenshots in the comments of Morrison’s 49p wholemeal muffins and Aldi 69p oat rolls there is absolutely no point spending £2.50+ on a special bread if you’re not gluten free. Plus I remember when they first became all the rage actual coeliacs couldn’t get any because of bloody Prickard and the like stockpiling them

 

[Doingitforthegram]

That laura_emily_x does my head in. She puts the picture of her a day after birth as her face face. She only does it to make her look like she's lost so much weight. She's very strange her and her weird husband.

She is tragic

Same comparison photos about 5 times a week.

She literally has nothing else in her life but losing weight and staying thin. I pity her.

I guess you have to do something to keep your husband who has a wandering eye happy.... I mean if my husband had been sacked from his job for being inappropriate with young women I may feel the same

 

[SpiceWeasel]

I just find the OTT sugary breakfasts baffling - I'm 28 now but I'm still going by the rule of thumb that if my mum would shout at me for eating it for breakfast in the morning before school, then it's not okay and Battenberg she definitely would have done remember creme caramels were an unacceptable breakfast according to my mother

 

[Grumpyscotslady]

I'm finding calorie counting more liberating than Slimming World and Weight Watchers. I wouldn't join RH, Munro or Courtney whatsherface

Totally agree with you. I find there's a lot less guilt with calorie counting. You can eat pretty much whatever you like as long as you plan for it. I know SW says you can do this on their plan, but its a lot of rubbish. It's 24 syns for a Mcdonald's meal thats 696 calories, but you can eat a gigantic 800 calorie brekky for less than 5 syns I get that it's trying to steer you to "healthier" choices, but in my opinion it just demonises food.

I'll never understand why people pay TeamRH to work out their TDEE for them and to be shouted at for not doing 15k steps. I've never been a member, but from what I understand you log using MFP which is free

 

[Makingmemories]

Anyone else feel like this is a bit of a humble brag? "I shop exclusively in M&S don't you know!"

I just think shes a fool for wasting her money. Im refusing to shop in m&s now #freecuthbert

 

[Caffeine Fiend]

So much bullshit in there, I don’t know where to start.

Its all a bit contradictory really. 'A calorie controlled diet is not the best way to achieve health'

But a diet of muller lights, choc shot, sweetener and fry light is? I havent been a member for a while but things like muller lights and choc shot were always advertised in there magazine when I used to buy it, before anyone crops up that they dont encourage members to eat those.

Theyre obviously losing members with lockdown. I think many people have looked at other options they wouldnt have even considered had classes continued.