Slim fast

kjmtidea

I tried it once and it was rank! Since the 1st Jan this year I have been doing the 'eat less, move more' method. I don't cut anything out I just be more sensible than I was before, smaller portions and do more exercise. I have lost 11 1/2 lbs so far. My OH has lost 22lbs, he is 6 stone heavier than me though.
We even have a night off our diet once a week and have a treat, we had chinese takeaway last week

no-oneknowsme

geri1965 wrote: »

I'm sorry, but that is not a healthy or sustainable weight loss.

And how the heck can you make a comment as ridiculous as that ????

You for one , have no idea of my starting weight.....

People with more weight to lose , lose it faster (at the beginning of the diet anyway) also , have you never heard that in the first week or two of dieting the biggest weight loss comes from fluid not fat !

no-oneknowsme

Angel_Jenny wrote: »

I have been on it about 8 days and have lost 6 pounds. Most of that will be water though as I have also upped the number of drinks I have as the diet requires you to drink 2 litres of water a day.

It is about £33 for ten days of shakes but I still think it is cheaper that buying a sandwich and a packet of crisps for lunch every day.

It seems to fill me up more than slim fast and I don't get hungry on it. Plus I am getting used to smaller portions.

Well done Angel-Jenny , thats good going !:j

chaosweddings

I have been doing the slim fast diet for a while now, and its working,
i have a shake/smoothie for breakfast, soup/pitta bread for lunch and chicken/fish with veg and new pots/pasta/rice for tea .

i have been doing this for 8 weeks and have lost 1 stone so far

i admit i hate breakfasts and dont feel like eating before 11 am but by having a shake or smoothie its not eating food if you know what i mean and ive always found that im starving by lunch time if i dont have a smoothie/shake.

i alternate the lunch soup by having a small pitta bread filled with salad and chicken or tuna or make homemade soup and have a snack between meals,

Pollycat

I always wonder what people who decide to diet using methods such as Slim-Fast do when they reach their target weight.

It's not getting you into a healthy eating habit.

I know that cgk1 slates Slimming World but as someone else has said on SW you CAN eat normal meals and even tailor your own recipes to fit in (e.g. I do a slimming topping to moussaka & lasagne).

Once you've reached your target weight you are already in the habit of eating healthily.

cgk1

I know that cgk1 slates Slimming World but as someone else has said on SW you CAN eat normal meals and even tailor your own recipes to fit in (e.g. I do a slimming topping to moussaka & lasagne).

I think what slimming world bring to the table is the support of the group and that's a good thing but over-all the slimming clubs seem to teach an unhealthy fixation on 'good' and 'bad' foods (and terrible concepts such as 'syns' - a psychological minefield!) and many people who go to them would be better with getting to the root issue of why they have problems with controlling their food intake. Moreover, they reinforce the attitude that a healthy lifestyle is something that you start and stop (which accounts for the yo-yoing) rather than is something that you do everything day as a matter of course. Both the slimming world and weigh-watchers threads are full of people who say "Well I had a week off", "It's Christmas, so I'll have a blow-out and then get back to it" - it's a waste of time when compared to actually changing your lifestyle. Sure some people will find some benefit in it but in context, I think a process of education is overall more healthy and cheaper!

Having said all of that, if someone is already going down that road, I'm not going to head over to the slimming world/weight watchers threads and try and persuade them otherwise, on threads like this however I think it's fair game.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

The coffee ones were rather nice, if still very sweet. I used to use them as it was the only way I could bear to have breakfast (I was always a three coffees and five Marlboro Lights type of person, so eating food in the morning is not something I can bear)

I think the reason why they work for some people is that they are eating out of habit, not hunger, or as a displacement activity for emotional distress - much like how people giving up smoking miss having something in their hands and the act of going outside, opening the packet, lighting one up and inhaling, people have the feel bad-must eat something reaction ingrained in their behaviour. By cutting out the physical eating, the idea is to dissassociate themselves with eating, so they can identify whether they are hungry, thirsty or anxious.


It's kind of a cold turkey thing.

alamaya

Ok. Not dieting atm obviously due to bump on board.
But i have done slimfast in the past and i LOVE it. The chocolate shake is devine. I admit i am hungry the first week but after that i stick with it fine.

Pollycat

cgk1 wrote: »

I think what slimming world bring to the table is the support of the group and that's a good thing but over-all the slimming clubs seem to teach an unhealthy fixation on 'good' and 'bad' foods (and terrible concepts such as 'syns' - a psychological minefield!) and many people who go to them would be better with getting to the root issue of why they have problems with controlling their food intake. Moreover, they reinforce the attitude that a healthy lifestyle is something that you start and stop (which accounts for the yo-yoing) rather than is something that you do everything day as a matter of course. Both the slimming world and weigh-watchers threads are full of people who say "Well I had a week off", "It's Christmas, so I'll have a blow-out and then get back to it" - it's a waste of time when compared to actually changing your lifestyle. Sure some people will find some benefit in it but in context, I think a process of education is overall more healthy and cheaper!

Having said all of that, if someone is already going down that road, I'm not going to head over to the slimming world/weight watchers threads and try and persuade them otherwise, on threads like this however I think it's fair game.

I'm surprised that you say that SW & WW reinforce the attitude that a healthy lifestyle is something that you start and stop (which accounts for the yo-yoing) rather than is something that you do everything day as a matter of course.

I say 'surprised' because I didn't actually join a group, my sister had been a member of SW and I borrowed her books, I didn't need the support of a group.

I was very comfortable adapting my own recipes to the SW principles.

I'm very strong willed and was very motivated to lose weight and also did excercise every day.
I never subscribed to the 'sins' as I didn't crave chocolate or biscuits but I can understand why some people feel they need a treat.

I thought their attitude was that it WAS a change of lifestyle and diet if you wanted to not put the weight back on, but I'm obviously wrong about that.

But for me, I understood it was a change of lifestyle & diet and although I don't follow SW rigidly, almost 8 years on I still observe red & green days (I don't know what they are called now).

confused57

In my opinion Slimming World DOES promote a healthy eating plan rather than a diet. I lost 3 stone in 10 months over two years ago and have kept it off (give or take a pound or two).

I had previously tried almost every other diet going and although I lost weight on most of them it always went back on.

One of the many diets I tried was Slim Fast and I agree with other posters when they say that although you can lose weight with it, it's difficult to keep to.

Just my opinion for what it's worth!!!!