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Slimming world or weight watchers?
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Which diet is best? How does weight watchers work? Thank you
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I have done both but haven't done WW in a few years so not sure if the plan has changed or not. I currently do SW and personally find it much better for me. Less points counting, not much weighing of food, it encourages you to eat fresh home made food and I can see myself following their principles for life. Also nothing is off limits.
I have lost 5.5 stone so far on Slimming World. On previous goes at WW I would have stopped long before now.
Basically, on extra easy at every meal you should have 1 3rd of your plate superfree food (most fruit and veg) and the other 2 thirds with free foods (carbs and/or leans meats).
You also get 5-15 syns per day to use on things that aren't free/super free. Which can be anything from chicken skin to chocolate to crisps to name but a few.
This is a sample of one of my days last week:
http://i62.tinypic.com/vqpg6f.jpg
Many thanks for that, I really like home cooked chips, how do sw home cooked oven chips compare?
Do you mean as in pealing and cutting up your own potatoes? If so and if just cooked using fry light and no other oil they would be free. Frozen oven chips would depend, they all have syns but some quite low like 1 syn per 100g.
There is an element of portion control to SW and you should stop when you are nicely satisfied not eat till you are stuffed.
Sorry, I meant how do they taste compared to deep fried? Are they more like roast potatoes?
edit: Just had a look on the site and
Basic, Chips, homemade, average thickness, deep fried, per 100g are 5 syns. So you could have 300g deep fried chips for your syns if you wanted.
Thank you for your help, there are 5 groups near me, I m going to look into them and see which one to go to.
Good luck FANNY_ANNE , I hope you achieve your goals
I looked at the sample SW menu linked above (the vegetarian version) and I thought it looked really tasty, healthy and the sort of food that you can eat long term. I might try a couple of the recipes out myself, without signing up as a member.
Yes fitness plan is great, but I am not very good at planning meals, so I may try sw for a bit. Have you tried http://www.endomondo.com/ it is very good for working out calories used when walking/running/cycling and you can also see what people are doing near you.
I agree with you about the food, I joined weight watchers around 10 years ago and was not really impressed.
Good luck to you also
Yes I saw that you could join online. I may go for a month and see if it fits. I am quite anti-social though so I may be better doing in by myself. But I may surprise myself
Well done for your weight loss, I am over 10 stones overweight, but I just would like to lose 2 stones by Christmas and then see how I feel. I don't do well on diets as I just keep thinking about food (which I do not normally do!), but this looks like a good rest of your life plan. Take care
Not sad at all. The ethos of the groups is to encourage participation and motivation with fellow like minded people and if you look forward to it then you are getting your money's worth and the level of support that keeps you going. I tried WW once years ago but just did not really like it because of the complication of the points. By the time I had worked out all my meals I had lost interest in eating them. Hey perhaps that was what was supposed to happen! ;-) I am now using one of the door step chef delivered programmes which is OK as everything is pre-packed and already sorted but I am thinking of going back to a group environment just to get the support from others.
It's all about normalizing good eating, with thousands of ideas for recipes.
Better than faffing about with points, weighing stuff, and buying WW own-brand stuff.
I can't compare with SW as I've never been, but the WWs's meeting I go to has a great leader and a lovely group of people so it's an enjoyable hour or so!
I'm doing sw, just I've heard a few friends say that ww is easier.
There is no such thing as a "diet". Its about reevaluating your eating habits for the rest of your life. Go to either if you feel you need support but there is no substitute for willpower. Always get up from the table still feeling a lttle hungry was advice given to me and I lost 3 stone and didnt find it that hard. Its all about portion control and the way things are cooked really. Good luck
I have to disagree. WW might be easier if you don't like cooking cos you can use their ready meals etc but honestly the last time I looked I'd need 2 of those to even start to satisfy my appetite.
I'm flying the SW flag loud and proud, yes it can be time consuming cooking everything from scratch but I recommend cooking double of meals where possible and freezing.
I've lost nearly a stone, it's coming off slowly for me but it's coming off. I hated weight watchers, got to 6pm and ran out of points - not good
Good luck