New Slimming World Support Thread

I will update this space with new Healthy Extras, details of current offers etc!

The Healthy Extra I want to share this week is the Green Giant soup range.

a 330g pouch is one HEB and you can pick from
Farm Harvest Mushroom
Country Garden Vegetable Soup
Vine Ripened Tomato soup

they retail for about 74 pence per pouch, cook in the microwave for about 2 mins and are very yummy

Challenge of the week

Something a bit different!
This week's challenge is to purchase a fruit or vegetable you have never cooked with before. There are plenty of obscure fruits and vegetables listed in your food optimising book. Have a read of your food op book and see what you can come up! My chosen vegetable for this challenge is a dudhi !!

Why wont anyone share the password for the Slimming World Members site Lifeline Online?


It may seem unfair that those members who attend class each week and therefore know the password do not share it! The simple answer to this is that the sharing of the password will get this invaluable forum shut down.


I can say no more on the subject as the following letter sums it up perfectly. This letter was posted by another member on our previous SW thread. I understand the letter was sent by SW in respect of another SW support forum.


Dear Administrator,

I’ve received a letter from a Slimming World member who is very disappointed to see that the password for LifelineOnline is being shared on your forum. Whilst I can see that your forum is a source of mid-week support and motivation for many members – and possibly non-members too – I would appreciate it if you could ensure that the password isn’t published on your pages.

Group members pay a weekly fee which includes exclusive access to the site. LifelineOnline is an extension of Slimming World, rather than a support system in itself, by passing the password on to non-members it is depriving them of experiencing for themselves the unique support of a Slimming World group and Image Therapy. We are the only slimming company that allows members free access to a member’s website via a password (other companies charge for this service); if the password continues to be made available to non-members on unofficial forums, we may have to review LifelineOnline ‘free’ status.

We do take this seriously because we want to offer our members the very best online support and help for free. I hope you can appreciate that and are able to action this on your support forum as soon as possible.

Yours sincerely

Nicola Slack
Slimming World Assistant Website Editor


How much does it cost?


Students / persons over 60 weekly fee of £4.25
other members weekly fee of £4.50


missed weeks have to be paid for. It is therefore important to inform your consultant if you will not be attending the following week. A quick phone call or e-mail to your consultant is strongly advisable if you have left class and then find out you can't make the following week. As the classes go digital, the computer is too clever for its own good and will know if you didn't attend the previous week and if holiday hasn't been booked you will be asked for two weeks money.


If you miss too many weeks, it will be cheaper for you to rejoin rather than pay all your back fees.




What is a countdown?


You can purchase a 6 week or 12 week countdown. Simply you either pay for 5 weeks in advance (£22.50) (and get 1 free) or pay for 12 weeks in advance (£45.00) and get 2 weeks free.


A countdown is not suitable for shift workers.


If you are still attending a paper based class then it is sensible when you request your countdown to note with your countdown request that you require (at least) 2 weeks holiday. When SW issue your countdown, it will only be for the specified number of weeks (starting with the week you requested it). Therefore if you miss a week then that week is lost and your consultant will not be able to let you off as the little vouchers have expiry dates on. Your SW consultant could lose her job if she was to accept countdown vouchers that have expired.


Even if you don't have any holiday planned, requesting some will give you a couple of weeks grace should something crop up.


If you have gone digital then you need to inform the team member who takes your money of any holiday PRIOR TO them making the countdown request on the computer. The computer throws a wobbly if the countdown is booked and paid for and you then try to book holiday for any weeks during the countdown period.


Attending class isn't for me? How can I get hold of the books?


You have two options: -

1. Join a class, attend for your first week, pay your joining fee/ first week subs, collect your food optimising and never go back or;
2. take out a bank loan and buy on ebay!

I don't advocate either of the above but for some of you, this may be your only option.


Ebay is good for the slimming world magazine – I buy duplicates and cut one up which I then put in my recipe folder and retain one so that I can re-read the success stories / useful articles.


It is not good however for the books particularly the food optimising pack which members get when they join SW. They change hands for extortionate sums! So be warned! A friend of mine recently paid £9 just for the extra easy book.


It makes me cross when I know how reasonable the recipe books are to buy at class and I see them for sale on ebay for stupid sums.


Attending class each week is not cheap and I also appreciate that with family / work commitments, it just might not be possible for you. Therefore my preferred choice is option 1. Attending class for just one week will at least give you the opportunity to see what it is all about, will mean that the plan is explained to you and will mean you can ask any questions you may have and also see how well other members have done on the plan.




What can I expect when I go to my first class?


Rest assured you will be made to feel VERY WELCOME. I am pretty sure that to be a SW consultant, you must have previously been a SW member and lost weight with SW. Thus your consultant will at some point have started the journey you are now embarking on.


Your consultant will more than likely have a “social team” i.e. a team of 2 or 3 SW members who will look after the collection of subs and the weigh in of existing members. Please be rest assured that if a fellow member is on the social team, they will have signed something to say that everything will be kept confidential.


This then frees up the consultant to look after you !


Your consultant will give you your food optimising pack and will spend some time explaining about the plan, how it works, red / green / extra easy days. And answer any questions you may have.


Image Therapy will then follow.

This will no doubt vary from class to class but typically will involve the consultant reading the news i.e. advising of the password, advising of the accumulative weight loss for your group, informing you of any promotions, freebies, money off vouchers that she has received, any new cookbooks that might be out etc / any slimming world promotions i.e. the current promotion that is running for slimming world being in its 40th year.

She will then speak to each member individually. She will report on how well you have done i.e. how many pounds you have lost. She will ask you how you are getting on with things and whether you have anything cropping up during the following week that might throw a spanner in the works, such as a meal out, a weekend away at a wedding. Any problems you have will be addressed either by the consultant or by the other members.

If you have had a gain then your consultant will typically say ????. little gain this week, how do you feel about that? In our class, my consultant does not typically report on the exact gain just that there has been a gain. Everyone wil be supportive and you will not be judged.

What is / why do I have to complete a food diary.

When you join SW, your food optimising pack will contain 4 weeks worth of food diaries.

You should complete food diaries for your first four weeks and hand these to your consultant. This gives her the opportunity to see how you are getting on and whether your understanding of the plan is correct. She will therefore be able to offer any comments or suggestions to enable you to get the most from SW.

What is an SAS Log?



What is FAST FORWARD?


FF or Fast Forward is for want of a better explanation, a secret plan that SW consultants have up their sleeve for those times when it just isn't working for members. As I understand it (having not followed it personally) its very restrictive and EVERYTHING has to be counted.

I am going to use this spot to post a recipe which I will change each week. The recipe that I remove will be archived and if you would like the recipe archive e-mailed to you then please PM me your e-mail address. The recipe might just be nabbed from the SW site or it might be from a taster evening I have at class. Credit will be given where it is due ! If you have a suggestion for a recipe then please PM me.

My first recipe of the week is Marion's (Retired Lady) Breakfast Rice as follows

I simply mix half a cup of pudding rice with 1 to 1.5 cups of water and cook untill most of the water is absorbed and the rice is cooked. I then mix the cooked rice with a muller lite yogurt and a complimenting fruit. Some that I use are banana, toffee, any of the chocolate yogurts plus a chopped banana. Of course blueberry yogurt with blueberries, strawberry with strawberries etc.
I often eat this for breakfast but I also often use it as a filling pudding in the evening to stop me picking on unsuitable foods. I prefer it warm but it does taste good cold also!