Does Slimming World work?

Every plan should work if you stick rigidly to it! I lost 2 stone very easily several years ago on WW, but currently I am struggling to lose the extra 3 stone I gained whilst on medication (for an overactive thyroid) which slowed down my metabolism. I am counting the old-style WW points, which I know by heart, but keep cheating. I have an exercise bike but even if I watch TV I find my brain can't take more than 15 minutes on it at a time!
phoenixbfh I wish you well, whatever method you choose. Sometimes a programme which costs money is an added insentive to stick to it.

Slimming World works for me - I have lost over four stone and DH one and a half stones. The reasons it works for me are
- everyone can eat these meals they are not slimming foods
- we can eat as much fruit, veg, lean meat, chicken, fish as we like
- eating this way our appetites have reduced and we no longer crave sweet things
- when guests come they dont realise its SW its just healhty eating
- you can have treats in moderation
- you dont have to stop going to restaurants or refusing to go to friends for meals.
I cant see us coming off this plan now we feel and are healthier and look better. I do recommend it.

Melanie yes I am getting that from WW they want me to bring diary in with more detail now. I qualified City & Guilds etc in 1956 and could have been a dietian if there had been enough jobs and they took on women, so I understand science of food and have always eat healthily, organic etc. I was 6/7 stone until 55 and the change and weight just went very gradually up now 17 years later I am being treated like a lazy slob! I never stop, 10 committees, grandchildren, school, ballet, singing run etc. and very young doctor sat in her chair suggests I get an excercise bike!

I ABSOLUTELY stuck to it. I never cheated. I filled in the food diary accurately every day and it was checked every week. The weight didn't budge. I knew everyone was thinking I was cheating on it, but why would I? I'd only be cheating myself.

I agree SW does work if you stick to it and you get to eat lots and lots but if you dont like fruit and veg you will be hungry.

I'm a SW fan, like you glassortwo, I follow the extra easy plan. It took me four months to lose just over two stone and I have been 'in target' since September last year. I've never tried WW so cannot comment but would definitely recommend SW

Give SW a go it has worked for me lost 3 1/2 stone a couple of years ago,I joined SW after loosing a lot with WW but had got into a rut and was sick of counting everything. I have just gone back to SW and lost 6lb my first week and doing the extra easy plan it is so easy no messing with red and green days it works if you stick to the plan and you are never hungry!

I have tried both SW and WW and neither worked for me I got to mixed
up with green day's and red day's with SW,I have lost the 2st I needed to
over the past 3 mths with British heart Foundation Plan and their eat well
plate,cut down on what fat I eat and some exercise,you can be recommended
by your GP or contact your local group and they are very good at fetting you a place on one of their programme's,you also get 3 mths free membership to a
gym,it is the local council gym and they will do a programme that you can manage easily or if you can't do the gym they have classes where you can do excercise from your chair.Some days if I don't want to go to the gym I go for a twenty minute walk,I have met some good friends who are all about the same age and we swop all our idea's etc and tell each other what we think works and what doesn't.Its been good fun

I lost loads of weight easily with SW...and loved the eating plan.
I became a consultant and worked for the company for about 3 years.

Since having agoraphobia and other problems I have put on a lot of weight but that is my fault not SW.....never need to feel hungry on SW plan.

Slimming World seems to work for most people but not for me. Weight Watchers seems to work for most people but not for me. What works for me is calorie counting, 1,200 calories a day. It's not easy, keeping count of every calorie, but it does work. I lose weight even faster on 1000 calories a day, but feel so ill and tired that it's not worth it.