Be a Stunner for Summer with Slimming World

Lois_Lane

littleblue735 wrote: »

Hi All
Quick question....I'm thinking about joining a club locally, but on the SW website it doesn't mention if there's a minimum period for being a member. It mentions the first meeting is free and then you sign up. I would like to try it for a few weeks but I don't want to waste money if I have to sign up for 6 or 12 months, in case it doesn't work for me.

Hi there

There's no long term commitment with joining a SW group - you can go once, have the starter talk, get the books and never go back. That will also give you full access to the SW website for a few weeks.

Some people find attending a group works as you know you're going to be weighed and that focuses the mind. If you're committed you can also follow the plan and successfully lose weight without going to group (much more money saving!).

This particular thread will be closed soon as we've all moved over to a new thread with a new challenge. You're very welcome to come and join us there, we can be your virtual SW group. There's a link to the new thread on the previous page.

Good luck.

LL

Abbafan1972

Hi all,

Haven't had time to catch up on the thread, but I hope everyone is ok.

Finally got my 6st award yesterday and won slimmer of the week, as shock horror I managed to lose 4lbs this week! Not sure how I managed that to be honest.

I got the new magazine and tried the recipe at the back of the little recipe book (toffee and chocolate mousse). It didn't exactly work out to plan as mousse mixture and yoghurt wouldn't layer it just mixed together. So even after the chilling time in the fridge it didn't set.

What does every do for a low syn Sundae/dessert?

Have a good week all.

beanielou

Abbafan~~ that is a great result.
There is now a new thread.
Link is further up the page.

Top_Girl

Can anyone advise me on the syns for the co-op Hereford beef omince please? It's 10% fat, got it by mistake but God, that 5% makes a huge difference to the taste, it's delicious.

If it's low syn, I'm making the swap permanently.

Pixiebob

Does anyone know what's good to have at a Morrisons Cafe? Going today for lunch with my friend and it's weigh day :eek::eek::eek: Thank you!!

Nessa56

Pixiebob wrote: »

Does anyone know what's good to have at a Morrisons Cafe? Going today for lunch with my friend and it's weigh day :eek::eek::eek: Thank you!!

Thereis a new thread now. Be lean for Halloween

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ThinkingStraight

It puzzles me that in this day and age people are still messing around with diets and slimming clubs. Have we learned nothing in the past 5-10 years? The success of clubs appears to be statistically very poor. Certainly some people reach their target weight but the number of people who are able to keep it off for up to 2 years is small. For Weight Watchers a study showed it was about 20% I think. So the vast majority of people (mostly women) are piling the weight back on and much of the time adding more to boot.


I'm guessing many in this thread would be able to tell me all about the former Red and Green day regime of SW. If so, why are you still here? Why are you going back to SW to try the latest regime?
It makes no sense. It suggests that the "system" as a whole doesn't work and various people, including those in the medical industry seem to confirm this.


It puzzles me why people don't simply resolve to educate themselves properly as to food in general and what the body needs. Why they don't educate themselves on the horrific impact sugars have on your body and mind. Call me a sensationalist but I sincerely believe that if you haven't first resolved to remove sugar from your diet almost completely, then you are totally wasting your time with diets and clubs. It is a vital issue to understand and deal with. And yet I read in the thread people talking about Muller yoghurts and the like. Yoghurt, particularly low-fat natural yoghurt we think of as a healthy food. Yet a glance at the ingredients reveals that a 500g tub of it contains approx. 9 full teaspoonfuls of sugar !! Each of those little Actimel original 100g pots contain just under 3 teaspoons of sugar and a 150g pot of Muller Corner contains about 6 teaspoons of sugar. None of these contain a spec of fibre and so that sugar is going to get converted straight into fat if your body doesn't immediately need that energy. Do they teach you this stuff in slimming clubs? I'm thinking not because I see recipes with ingredients loaded with sugars. The SW site 7-day menu has recipes with things like passata as an ingredient. One can imagine the hapless slimmer grabbing a jar from the supermarket shelf without realising that it is loaded with sugar. Did you know that even a simple small carton (400g) of Sainsbury's Basics Chopped Tomatoes contains 3 teaspoons of sugar?

This is the food education that people need. When you eat stuff that we think of as healthy but which is packed with sugars, of any kind, those sugars are going to mess with your body, brain and metabolism. Your brain will have its reward/pleasure senses triggered resulting in you thinking that this is a nice food product. Your hunger system, the fundamental sense that informs you when your body want/needs food, will be fooled and will make you feel hungry when in fact you are not. That leads to people snacking which is the main reason many are overweight. It's not about people eating cream cakes and sweets. It's about people not realising the hidden sugars in a ton of "normal" store foods many of which we have been taught to think of as healthy. You've been conned. The sugar manufacturers, by stealth have messed with your brain and body and helped you pile on the lbs by making you feel hungry when you are not. The famous Atkins diet of yesteryears puzzled scientists of the day as there appeared to be no scientific basis for it to work. They eventually discovered that the diet made you NOT feel hungry and as a result, people simply ate less and hence lost weight. Your hunger sense is vitally important. If you can't rely on it, you are pretty much stuffed.

I get that the sliming clubs, all of them, provide a social element where people can get support and solidarity, but surely if the advice and regime were good people would never need to go back and yet they do, constantly. Many people in fact just flip between clubs and diets seemingly endlessly.

Isn't it time we did real proper research and got one-off sound nutritional advice that sets us on a permanent path forward to better health and which we will never again need to go back to?

mrsp1987

Thanks for opinion. Maybe this thread isn't for you though.

UKTigerlily

Because, some people need that even if they know how to eat right. SW is very different from WW/RC/LL etc
I have a Personal Trainer who is a Nutritionist so know all I need to know but SW works with my eating disorder & for me.
I went back as I am not yet finished, and hadn't put it all back on