Advantages: inexpensive, quick to lose the weight, lots of support Disadvantages: you have to ea too much!!!
...I saw an ad for Slimming World in the local shop, and it was held just along the road from where live. I plucked up courage and went along to the group, on the Tuesday evening. I was welcombed warmly by everybody, and listened to the introductory talk. It all souded very good, but a little unbelievable. They were saying that you could lose 4/7 pounds a week!! I needed to lose 3 stone, and if that was the case, it wouldn't take too long to get it ... ...and behold lost 6 lbs. Amazing. I followed the diet for the next month, and had lost one stone already. Afer 3 months I had lost the 3 stones. Fantastic, and I was never hungry. you just follow one of the several eating plans, and hey-presto! I would recommend this diet plan to anybody, people in the goup have lost 12 stones and more in a relevently short time. In my opinion it is well worth a visit, there is still plenty of time to lose few stones ...
marilla0197 29.05.2009
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I joined Slimming World last year, but then moved house so had to leave. However I have now re started it and it's fab! I am a pasta lover so green days are great for me as I can eat as much as I like.
I am on a tight budget, but I still manage to buy fresh chicken or turkey, tuna steaks and cod are cheap too so it is possible to do it on a budget.
Free foods are fantastic as you are never hungry and you can fill up on these foods as much as you like. You also have syns so you can allow yourself a little treat.
Strongly reccommended and you loose weight to. ...
loopylass217 01.05.2007 (25.04.2007)
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Advantages: Easy to do, can still eat carbs, can still have treats, encourages healthy eating Disadvantages: None!
I first did Slimming World when I was younger, more to get an idea of healthy eating than anything else. I then put on about a stone and a half about 3 years ago during a tough time of my life and as my best friend was going to Slimming World, I joined her! I absolutely LOVED being on this diet! I don't even think it feels like you are on a diet when you're doing it. Firstly let me outline the diet as it was when I did it: Each day you picked whether ... ...no need to go hungry!! That is the best part about it. I had a steady weight loss for about 3 months until I lost my stone and a half which I have kept off ever since! An absolutely fantastic diet - well done to Slimming World! ...
victoria.clarke 04.04.2009
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Advantages: Good for men, easy to learn Disadvantages: strange at first
...limited.
I tried the Slimming World one and I'd recommend it to anyone who likes their food but wants to loose weight, as it actually encourages you to eat at times you'd skip meals and go without, but allows treats with the "syn" structure.
As a bloke, I like my big meals in the evening, so being able to use their "green day" options, for unlimited rice, pasta and potatoes, with limited (~3-4oz) meat, meant I could have spag bol, chilli or fried ... ...days you can have unlimited meat with no carbs (rice, pasta or potatoes), so a lean steak is still ok with carrots, sweetcorn and stuff.
It's a bit of a stuggle if you have a sweet tooth and my other half stuggles at that time in the month she wants chocolate, but we work our way through.
The groups are good and our local one, Warmley in Bristol, as a good atmosphere with reciepe swapping, where I got a good one for lasagne chips that can be had ...
longboyad 18.06.2004
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Advantages: local Disadvantages: lots - not effective, very costly, instructors unorganised!
...loss clubs - weight watchers, slimming world and Rosemary Conley. Only lost any weight at all with Rosemary Conley - mainly because there is exercise in the class - and you follow SIMPLE and easy recipes and no counting "syns" or "points"
The classes were local to me which was good, although the people in the class were abit snooty and stand off ish. not a very friendly atmosphere and the instructor was late more than once.
I did lose a few pounds ...
ajh2909 09.02.2009
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Advantages: losing weight, meeting people, feeling good about yourself Disadvantages: cost of membership and sessions, having to pay for missed sessions, pressure to lose weight, possible side effects
I was a member of slimming world for four months and in that time i lost 3 stone which i was very pleased with. Slimming world is described not as a dieting plan but a positive eating plan. The basic idea behind it is that you either have a red day where you eat mainly meats or a green day where you eat mainly vegetables. You have guide of what to pick for each meal and then each item on top of that counts as sins and you have a recommended daily ... ...now and so i left slimming world.
I do feel that it is a positive thing to encourage people to lose weight but some of the aspects of the meetings are not necessarily the best way to go about it. The other major negative is the cost, you hava to pay for membership and sessions and if you miss a session you still have to pay which i think is a bit unfair on people that have other commitments such as children. To be successful in losing weight you ...
ilusvm 02.11.2004
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Advantages: You can eat loads! Disadvantages: Can get confusing!
I joined slimming world last year, i lost just over a stone quite quickly and became cocky and complacent so i left, thinking like many before me and since, that i could carry on on my own and save the rather costly weekly weigh-in fee of £3.95. Like the others before me, i failed, i soon slipped back into old habits, telling myself that i could be bad this week and make up for it the next. It doesnt work!! So, in February this year i rejoined. I ... ...it, i also know that slimming world is my only hope. I'm a complete pasta and potato freak so they're green days could have been made for me, there's no way i could do a diet that didnt include them and that you can eat unlimited amounts means that you never have to go hungry. The hardest part about slimming world is getting your head round the idea that you can eat as much as you want of the free foods and still lose weight, i've been known to have ...
sezbobaloula 04.08.2004
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Advantages: No dieting, meeting people Disadvantages: Costly
I first decided to join slimming world after the birth of my first child in March 2002 as i was due to get maqrried in the August. Determined and brave i went along to my first class all by myself, obviously nervous but was soon put to ease by my consultant Jackie and the welcomming people there. I was sat down and the whole slimming world way of eating was explained to me. Food optimising as its called is based on green days ( for those who love ... ...sins taken from original recipes with a few ajustements made. I can honestly say that i never ate as much as i did whilst i was at slimming world and still lost 2 stone in 5 months. Well worth the money each week just for the motivation you receive. ...
Mumof2kids 16.12.2004
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Advantages: As it is expensive you do try to be good Disadvantages: not really healthy eating, expensive
Although I agree with any plan that encourages a healthy weigh, I do not agree with this one. The person who looses the most weight each week is rewarded, this is not encouraging a health weight loss of 1-2lbs a week, it rewards you for extreme weight loss. You are also told you can have unlimited amounts of certain food on certain days which are listed in your membership book, however this does not take into account the salt content saturated fat ... ...bring in a piece of fruit for the slimmer of the week and also asked to take part in the weekly raffle to win a product the organiser talks about. If you add up the costs each week £4.50 weekly fees, 50p raffle and a piece of fruit 25p (ish) it begins to be expensive. During my weekly meeting no emphasis was put on exercise and all we discussed at the meeting was new products in the shops we could eat. i also did not like the clapping of everyones ...
santa1 11.02.2008
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Advantages: can do it without going to class Disadvantages: have to do homework (study)
...for a doctors surgery) about slimming world.
I was told about all the health benifits it had to offer as it was more of a healthy eating plan rather than a diet.
I wanted to try it but didnt want to go along to the classes not because i am so big, but because i am generally a shy person in crowds.
So i looked up Slimming world online and found the site straight away which had a special offer on to join the Body Optimise for £20 a month which at ... ...serious thought....if I paid it out surely Id be more determined knowing ive paid ?
Well I felt so desperate to loose weight I just did it and I was given a lovely greeting online,
It has a online food diary that I fill in daily and its all seperated into sections so you can see clearly just what you have eaten and how many sins/syns you have used up (allowed up to 15 a day).
I like the online reciepe bank which has so many recipes on how to cheat ...
mirry 03.03.2004
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...involved, just healthy eating. Slimming World is based on Food Optimising which is just giving the slimmer the choice to customise his or her slimming campaign using the Food Optimising handbook. Incentives are that the hand book illistrates whether the food you are eating is full of fiber, calcium or if it will help you lose weight quicker. Who would have thought baked beans were free on a green day and also a super speedy food, meaning they help ... ...this diet. You can eat as much as you like and there is a wide variety of free foods to eat. As well as free food you are given 4 healthy extras. (it used to be 3) Two 'A' choices for calcium which is mainly cheese and milk allowances and two 'B' choices which are mainly cerials bread or meat if you are on a green day, and pasta and pulses if you are on a red day.
All in all the best weight loss program to ever be introduced. Well balanced and easy ...
buzymummy 07.11.2004
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Advantages: Eat basically what you want Disadvantages: Difficult to follow sometimes
...found out by visiting the Slimming world website or by looking it up in a food directory (available from your class leader). You will be allowed between 10 and 20 Syns a day, depending on your starting weight, which you can spend on whatever food you want.
The best bit of the eating plan is the 'free foods'. These are found in a specially created book, available from your class leader, and are different depending on the colour of the day you are ... ...which should be avoided. There is also the occasional guest speaker who comes to have a chat wth the class. This varies from someone who has lost a lot of weight through Slimming World to local Fitness Centre Staff offering help and support and the occasional free pass. ...
spenceroates 26.05.2004
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Advantages: Lost lots of weight Disadvantages: Classes were too child like.
It is a great why to get rid of the extra pounds that is both lots of £'s and the heavy sort.
At first I thought it was the best thing on earth and after about 9 months I got so bored and the thought of everybody telling you how well you were doing and clapping, it is so degrading and if you put on a pound you felt like you had let the whole class down.
I lost 3stone but could not take the pressure that everybody in the class puts you under.
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HellyBelly 13.10.2000
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Advantages: learn that to overeat is OK Disadvantages: You will end up fat
...overweight.
District Managers of Slimming World: Majority are overweight
Can you honestly see yourself having red and green days for the rest of your life?
I know this because I was accepted as a consultant for Slimming World and then discovered that the managers for the company are all overweight. I asked the question - You say this is a diet that you can stick to for 95% of your life for the rest of your life, so why are you all so grossly overweight. ... ...an admission from one of Slimming World's managers that when you have a hectic job or life is hard you cannot follow the plan. These women are not just fat they could audition as the next PIRELLI women. Keep your money. Eat less. Exercise more. As Dr. Hilary Jones on GMTV states repeatedly this is the only way to long term weight loss.
Slimming World will not change the behavioural factors of your weight problems and stop you eating for psychological ...
MrsBBurn 22.10.2003 (31.01.2004)
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Advantages: You don't feel like you're on a diet Disadvantages: Buying new clothes (if that's a disadvantage!)
...Watchers, I decided to try Slimming World, and I'm so glad I did. I know I have not been going for long, just 6 weeks now, but in that time I have lost nearly 10% of my body weight and have not felt hungry at all, the plan is designed in such a way, that you don't feel like you are on a diet. The major choice each day is whether you will have an original or green day! You have super free foods that you can eat copious amounts of, and then you have ... ...green. For those treats that you require, you have syns. Our instructor recommends trying to keep to 10 syns per day.
The cost is £4.50 per week, there is a one off joining fee which I think is mainly to cover the cost of handing over all the books and information in case you don't go back. They also do a countdown where you get 6 weeks for the price of 5 or 12 for the price of 10.
There is no telling everyone what you weigh, and it helps that ...
foxymadam 25.05.2008
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