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★★★★☆

“Great way of eating, but groups are not that great”

written by Brit2015 on 23/03/2015

Slimming World diet is certainly a way of eating which you could do for life. It is flexible enough for family life and it does teach you about healthy eating. There is a long list of foods which you can eat and you can certainly make some very tasty meals from this extensive list. You do have to cook from scratch, which I believe isn't a bad thing. Unfortunately it doesn't teach you about portion control - that bit you will have to do yourself. If, like me, you have a huge appetite, this could be the downfall of the diet!

My personal experience of meetings get a great big thumbs down. The impression I got was that my consultant was only interested in taking money, there was no support whatsoever. I submitted my diary for four weeks running and not once did I get any feedback, good or bad. I suspect she didn't even read it. On the occasions I texted her with a question I never received a reply EVER, so rude!

The whole meeting was taken up of sitting in a big circle and the consultant went round one by one and said how much weight we had lost (and hadn't lost) and then we had to give a little speech about our week - so if you are not into being the centre of attention with all eyes on you, then don't go to a meeting!

Image therapy? What was that?? We never covered it.

I left the group and never went back - even then I never received a text or a message of support to see how I was doing - I paid 10 weeks in advance so the consultant was happy and didn't care either way.

I have now joined on line. The website is okay(ish) but compared to the other big diet companies it is nowhere near as good, I don't personally find it very intuitiative and I struggle to navigate because placement of syn calculators, food diaries are not in obvious places. It does have an online chat with a helper which is really good as they are ready to answer a question if need be.

The phone app is absolutely rubbish. It hardly ever finds a food that you want or it brings up a completely random item which is nothing like you searched for! The app gives you nowhere to enter your food diary on the move. To make matters worse the app is hit and miss whether or not it works when you are not using Wifi. I have a 4g iphone and it often says I am not connected to the internet (which I am) and will not allow me to access the food syn search - most frustrating.

All in all, I would recommend Slimming Word as a diet, but not the meetings. Join forums on the internet, there are plenty out there to choose from and you will be able to get all the support you need without shelling out the astronomical membership fees. You can usually find syn values on the internet and if you are in a good forum people are kind enough to look them up for you.

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