Weight Watchers v Slimming World

Skintski

I hit target 15 months ago with SW and have kept the weight off. I still go back every couple of weeks to make sure I'm still within range but I don't stay for the meetings. If you adopt it as a change for life with a few tweaks once you've hit target I don't see why you wouldn't keep the weight off.

flea72

olgadapolga wrote: »

So far today I've had poached egg on toast, yoghurt, bananas; I'll be having roast beef and trimmings for dinner, all within my calorie goal which is set at a level so that I lose about 2lb/week.

How do you work out what to set your calorie goal at?

june89

flea72 wrote: »

How do you work out what to set your calorie goal at?

If you use My Fitness Pal, you tell it your current stats (age, height, weight, activity level, etc) and how much you want to lose per week, think it's between ½ and 2lbs. It will then calculate your calorie intake for you.

From my personal experience though, it underestimated for me. It wanted me to eat 1200 calories per day (I'm short, so it always uses low amounts) but I bumped it up to 1400 and was still losing more than what I set. It is good as a guide though, which you can then tweak to better suit your body.

I have used it before when I've wanted to lose a quick few pounds before an event. It does work but makes me focus too much on the calories of food. I believe SW is better long term for me.

flea72

I have myfitnesspal, but it doesnt suggest a calorie intake for me, how do i get it to do that? I have the basic free version. Under goals, i can enter my weight, height and proposed weightloss, but it doesnt then suggest a calorie amount

squirrelchops

WW worked better for me as although at times I hated points I need the rigidity of that. I didn't lose half as much at SW as portion control a big issue for me. Now if I want to lose some weight I go low carb......drops off me. I don't do atkins just cut out refined carbs and have some days of carbs only coming from fruit and veg. 5:2 every now and then also kicks starts things.

Carl31

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ecgirl07

flea72 wrote: »

I have myfitnesspal, but it doesnt suggest a calorie intake for me, how do i get it to do that? I have the basic free version. Under goals, i can enter my weight, height and proposed weightloss, but it doesnt then suggest a calorie amount

When you enter in the food diary at the bottom it gives your goal intake for the day, just below the total calories intake for the day.

maman

Carl31 wrote: »

For a profiting company to be truly successful, they need to rely on repeat custom, just bear that in mind

That's true but word of mouth recommendations help too.


Think of an analogy of a painter and decorator: you don't keep trashing your house to keep him in work but you might well recommend to a friend.


I can't speak for WW as SW is the only 'diet' I've ever tried and I'd highly recommend that. I found it the nearest I'd red about to normal eating and so easily sustainable. I got to my target and have maintained it for 4+ years. I. too, loathe the 'happy clappy' format of classes but endured it while I got to target. Now I just pop in about once a month to make sure I'm still at the weight I want to be.

Carl31

maman wrote: »

That's true but word of mouth recommendations help too.


Think of an analogy of a painter and decorator: you don't keep trashing your house to keep him in work but you might well recommend to a friend.


I can't speak for WW as SW is the only 'diet' I've ever tried and I'd highly recommend that. I found it the nearest I'd red about to normal eating and so easily sustainable. I got to my target and have maintained it for 4+ years. I. too, loathe the 'happy clappy' format of classes but endured it while I got to target. Now I just pop in about once a month to make sure I'm still at the weight I want to be.

thr trouble (i see) with WW and the like, is they never explain 'why' or 'how' it works, merely if you stick to their plan, then it will

trouble is, you cant spend your life sticking to the plan, ideally you want to learn what you did wrong previosuly, and make the require lifestyle change to fix it, these plans don't show you that

Each to their own, personally i just think they exploit people a bit, but hopefully there are people that have benefited from it on an on going basis

maman

Carl31 wrote: »

thr trouble (i see) with WW and the like, is they never explain 'why' or 'how' it works, merely if you stick to their plan, then it will

I'd certainly agree with the magical mystery element. That's true of SW too to an extent. I'm not sure whether it's because some consultants aren't very bright or they have to stick to script but they rarely explain anything and I find that 'blind faith' attitude irritating too.


That being said SW is really common sense but with a structure to help you plan and organise yourself. Put very briefly it's a case of eating a balanced diet (roughly a third each of carbs, lean meat/fish, and veg) some daily fibre (like bread or cereal) and calcium (milk/cheese) and then keeping things we all know should be treats (chocolate, cakes, wine, crisps etc) at an occasional treat level. So it's not how much you eat it's eating the right things.