Does Slimming World work?

Some research at Birmingham University said that the only plan which works is WW. Never tried any of them so can't comment.

I like www.myfitnesspal.com as you learn exactly what the calories you are eating are, including how much fat, protien, carbs, cholestrol etc. which should train us to eat helthily in future.

DH is currently cooking from the Hairy Dieters' Cook Book and loves it as it used the ingredients we tend to have around. He has lost weight combining the two but I am having a real struggle because I have no thyroid gland and cannot stand for long let alone take any exercise.

I tried SW about 4 years ago, followed the plan ( can't remember which one I chose) Lost nothing.
Then 2 and a half years ago went on WW as my DH had done several years ago before I met him. He just explained how it worked, had all the info/ books. I was quite sceptical at first, but each day saw a significant loss and was amazed that it worked.
I lost 17 pounds in less than a year BUT gradually gained back about 7 of them, partly because of several holidays, and more wine than self control!!

So last Saturday, I bit the bullet, started again, lost 100 grams first day, but the last 2 days lost 200 grams each day.
500 grams in 4 days! Hopefully another 200 tomorrow morning. I intend to do a week of WW now each month and see how it goes.

Another 700 grams off this morning- and I had tons to eat yesterday!
I did notice when I did this before, that if you don't eat enough, you lose less.

Any form of diet will work, but only if you are ready to loose the weight.

Good luck with it

Slimming worls worked wonders for me but there again I had my son;s wedding as a focus after that stopped going and of course weight went back on.................so back I went and found it more difficult 2nd time round as no motivation but love the company and to be fair they are all in the same boat.....the extra easy plan allows you to mix protein and carbs...........but really eat less excersise more is the key just need to do it.................today for example work as a volunteer in a coffeee shop very slow............take my own low fat snacks but surrounded by tea cakes, butter, cakes, toast.....................and on my own bored..........at home would have got up and dustered or done something to take my mind off food...............

Oops! Think my scales went a bit wrong. Only 500 lost in my first week!

It is many years since I joined SW but I lost 3 stone in 3 months and felt and looked fabulous. The only problem was that I was starving the entire time. I kept the weight off for many years but since a messy divorce it has crept on again.

charley I do SW and have never been hungry unlike Weight Watchers.
Slimming World is slightly different now if you have not been for a few years, its not just orginal and green days. They started a new plan a couple of years ago which is a mixture of red and green and is called extra easy, you can mix your meat and pasta, rice, potato in the same meal, unlike the old days... as it said its extra easy and everyone has fantastic results with it, but no I have never been hungry.

I think most of the diets work SW WW Rosemary Conley have tried all three.|I lost weight on all of them, it is after you have lost the weight is the biggest problem.

It was many years ago when I joined SW but I lost 3 stone over 3 months and I felt fabulous. I did find it difficult but I did not cheat. I kept the weight off for many years, it was deaths and divorce that started the weight gain. I have been thinking about the 5.2 plan as it seems to work for many. I cannot exercise at present which is a problem.

SW can work for some people. It worked for my stepdaughter - in the last 3 years she's lost another person's weight, approx what her very slim sister-in-law weighed to start with! So, she's effectively halved her weight. However she tried to explain it to me and I couldn't get my head around it. It was the companionship, a group of new friends that she wouldn't have met otherwise, the mutual support, which helped at a difficult time of her life - redundancy/marriage breakdown.

From my background in behavioural sciences, and what I've seen/heard/read, I really do think that a lot of the problem is in our heads. By that I mean, way back in the past someone encouraged us to regard 'food and wine', as you say, as a 'treat'. There are always going to be difficulties in life. No one ever said it was going to be a rose garden from start to finish. Did you by chance see 'Big Body Squad' recently where there was a man who dated all his weight gain from his father's death 10 years earlier? And yet that's the kind of thing, death of parents, that we can all expect to happen to all of us! Is it a reason for eating your way into an early grave, doubling or tripling your weight?

Some people can eat even when they're not hungry. They 'have to' eat all that's on their plate even when their physiology tells them they've eaten enough. They've managed to - somehow - over-ride normal biology. Again, this may be learned behaviour - they were told long ago to 'eat it all up'.

I'm lucky. When I'm full, I'm full. I stop. That's it. I don't eat according to time of day/happy/unhappy/to please other people/as a treat (well, rarely). I'm also as active as I can be - aqua-aerobics a couple of times a week, pottering in and out of the garden, don't sit still for too long. I shouldn't have a problem, but I still find weight creeps on when I don't want it to.