Slimming World

"English Rose" wrote in message
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Is anyone here following the UK Slimming World diet?
http://www.slimming-world.co.uk/access/default.asp
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English Rose

Hi English Rose (love the name)

We do have some members of the group who have used the Slimming World
program. Hopefully they'll see the post and reply. I do remember they
seemed to like the program.

"English Rose" wrote in message
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Is anyone here following the UK Slimming World diet?
http://www.slimming-world.co.uk/access/default.asp
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English Rose

Hi English Rose (love the name)

We do have some members of the group who have used the Slimming World
program. Hopefully they'll see the post and reply. I do remember they
seemed to like the program.

On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 10:00:52 +0000, English Rose wrote:

Is anyone here following the UK Slimming World diet?
http://www.slimming-world.co.uk/access/default.asp

I followed it for a few months last year, and went to classes for a
while. I'm in the UK, by the way, where I think the diet and classes
are mainly based - are you?

As far as I was concerned, the "pro's" we

The vast range of free foods you can have without weighing them.

The healthy way of eating.

Being able to cater for and eat with visitors without them knowing
you're on a diet.

The "con's" we

The relatively slow rate of weight loss compared with when I count
calories. This is totally illogical, but impatience for results is
one of my downfalls, and if I'd carried on as I was going I would have
reached goal long ago. However, 1 lb a week maximum turned out to be
not enough for my liking.

The restriction of some foods I was used to incorporating into my
calorie controlled WOE - particularly sweet foods such as the cereal
bar I have for breakfast every day. This led in the end to an
inordinate craving for (and eventual bingeing on) sweet and sugary
things, to a degree which I haven't experienced before. I know they
allow anything if you count it as a "syn" but it bugged me that some
of these foods carried points out of proportion to their calories.

I found it so hard to trust the diet. I couldn't (and still can't)
understand how one can eat all those unlimited foods and still lose
weight, and yet they claim lots of successes. The science of it just
beats me.


Overall I have to say I liked the way of eating, and felt it would be
a good way to eat for maintenance.

What do you think?

janice

"English Rose" wrote in message
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On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 16:30:47 +0000, janice wrote:
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Well I lost 4.5 lbs the first week with SW but stayed the same for 3 weeks
afterwards (now) so this is why I am posting here, to see if anyone doing
Slimming World has any tips

Thanks for your input Janice

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English Rose

Hi Rose,
I've been doing slimming world along with my partner for the last 3 and a
half weeks. He's lost 12 pounds (men always lose faster) and I've lost 5
pounds. I had a 1 pound gain my first week which nearly caused me to give up
there and then, and my second week I only lost 2 pounds making my overall
loss in 2 weeks 1 pound. Yesterday when we weighed in we'd both lost 4
pounds - slimmer of the week yay!- Anyway, here's the thing, I find green
days much much easier than red days so we were having all green days. My
consultant suggested that my slow loss was because I probably needed to get
a few red days in so last week we had 2 red and 5 green and we both lost the
4 pounds. And also I had been getting lazy about writing down my food intake
and counting syns so I made an effort. Maybe you just need to swap around
your days a bit see if that helps.And try and fill up a bit on fruit and
veg, I can't stand most fruit but I ate an orange yesterday (first one in 10
years) and it was actually quite nice.
Let us know how you get on.
"Back to lurking now......"

Sue

"English Rose" wrote in message
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On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 16:30:47 +0000, janice wrote:
Snipped
Well I lost 4.5 lbs the first week with SW but stayed the same for 3 weeks
afterwards (now) so this is why I am posting here, to see if anyone doing
Slimming World has any tips

Thanks for your input Janice

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English Rose

Hi Rose,
I've been doing slimming world along with my partner for the last 3 and a
half weeks. He's lost 12 pounds (men always lose faster) and I've lost 5
pounds. I had a 1 pound gain my first week which nearly caused me to give up
there and then, and my second week I only lost 2 pounds making my overall
loss in 2 weeks 1 pound. Yesterday when we weighed in we'd both lost 4
pounds - slimmer of the week yay!- Anyway, here's the thing, I find green
days much much easier than red days so we were having all green days. My
consultant suggested that my slow loss was because I probably needed to get
a few red days in so last week we had 2 red and 5 green and we both lost the
4 pounds. And also I had been getting lazy about writing down my food intake
and counting syns so I made an effort. Maybe you just need to swap around
your days a bit see if that helps.And try and fill up a bit on fruit and
veg, I can't stand most fruit but I ate an orange yesterday (first one in 10
years) and it was actually quite nice.
Let us know how you get on.
"Back to lurking now......"

Sue

"English Rose" wrote in message
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On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 10:40:13 GMT, Sue wrote:

Hi Rose,
I've been doing slimming world along with my partner for the last 3 and a
half weeks. He's lost 12 pounds (men always lose faster) and I've lost 5
pounds. I had a 1 pound gain my first week which nearly caused me to give
up
there and then, and my second week I only lost 2 pounds making my overall
loss in 2 weeks 1 pound. Yesterday when we weighed in we'd both lost 4
pounds - slimmer of the week yay!- Anyway, here's the thing, I find green
days much much easier than red days so we were having all green days. My
consultant suggested that my slow loss was because I probably needed to
get
a few red days in so last week we had 2 red and 5 green and we both lost
the
4 pounds. And also I had been getting lazy about writing down my food
intake
and counting syns so I made an effort. Maybe you just need to swap around
your days a bit see if that helps.And try and fill up a bit on fruit and
veg, I can't stand most fruit but I ate an orange yesterday (first one in
10
years) and it was actually quite nice.
Let us know how you get on.
"Back to lurking now......"

Sue

Hi Sue, hope you're still lurking so you'll see this

Can you give me some idea of what a day's menu would be for you? Do you
drink wine at all? And how many syns do you count per day? Sorry about
all the questions but your replies might help me TIA
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English Rose

Hi English Rose,
Well today I had Alpen crunchy bran with a banana and milk for breakfast,
some pasta and sauce for lunch, made with water, for tea I had chicken stir
fry made with loads of free stir fry veg and free noodles (yet another green
day), 113g chicken and a Schwarz Cantonese chicken stir fry packet mix (5.5
sins between 2 of us). I've also had a chocolate and orange hi fi bar as a
healthy B, and a mug of Cadburys highlights hot choc for 2 syns. And a pear.
And 2 rolo's. 2 syns for them. So that's around 7 syns today, 1 healthy A, 2
healthy B's and the rest free food. Sunday I'm doing red so I'll have the
same breakfast as today, roast beef, veg and new potatoes for lunch and
maybe a ham and egg salad for tea, or an omelette. Most days I use below 5
syns, which isn't deliberate, it's just how it works out, although I'm not
at all bothered if I go up to 15. Also I don't drink wine, or anything else
come to think of it hardly ever, but if I wanted a glass I would have one.
Also I guess a lot of how your weight comes off depends on how much you've
got to lose in the first place, and also my weight gains or losses show the
following week. What I mean is I spent last week decorating and running
around like a blue arsed fly, but the loss didn't show until this week. I'm
quite convinced that if you don't "cheat", count your syns properly, and
weigh out your healthy A's and B's, that this diet, sorry, way of eating :-)
will work. Maybe you're gearing up for a whoosh, or maybe you just need to
focus a bit more, that seems to be what did it for me.
Hope this very long ramble on helps anyway :0)
Sue