I'm an online member of slimming world and I started with a BMI of 29.2 which means I needed to lose about 2st to get to a healthier BMI of 25. I'm middle aged and things have spread a bit with my sedentary job and lots of cakes and biscuits in the office. This eating plan is working very well, in spite of my scepticism - I find it hard to believe that I can lose weight even though I'm having ample carbs. Unlimited potatoes, rice, pasta. Porridge for breakfast. Loads of mullerlight yogurts, bananas, other fruit, 5% mince, low fat sausages, eggs galore and a nice glass of wine. I eat two cooked meals a day plus my breakfast and snacks and I'm losing an average of 1.3lbs per week. It's slow, sometimes 1/2lb, sometimes 2.5lb but I'm 40% towards my target. I could keep this way of eating up indefinitely. I only knocked off one star as there are improvements that could be made to the website. Finding quick and easy recipe ideas is very helpful, but the site does not allow you to filter by maximum syns per serving, search by ingredients etc. All you can do is browse through page by page.

I finally got fed up with my weight before Christmas and decided to visit my GP to ask if she would recommend mw for some Slimminh World vouchers for 12 weeks of free slimming. I started goingas soon as I received them despite it being just before xmas. No time like the present! I lost 1/2 stone by Christmas and got my award which i was quite chuffed about. Then the rot started to set in which was not my fayult. Apparently the next 2 weeks I put on despite following the plan to theletter. The third week when I went in the consultant said that she was sorry but as she had been away for 2 weeks the other consultants scales had been used which meant that everyone just about in the group had put on!! I went this week and had lost 2 llbs again which is a relief, but I was not impressed with the 'supposed' weight gains the previous 2 times. it could have made me think it wasn't worth it and stop doing it! Also, the group is on the large side and I know they get commission on the numbers attending, but barring the first 2 weeks i haven't stayed to group since as its really boring (and not uplifting!) sitting listening to everyones losses or gains. I now go early to beat the long queues for paying and weighing and then go home. i am quite a strong person and can motivate myself so I will succeed. I have done SW before many years ago and with great success. That was the best group I have ever attended. The consultant had a different topic each week which she made very interesting and made you want to stay. She also had a chap come in once a fortnight and cook SW meals up rigt in front of us for us to try out. Now THAT is what I call image therapy! We always went away totally motivated for the next week. Something needs to be done to sort out the long queues for paying and then weighing, plus the consultants need to be doing more than juust standing there reading out weight losses and gains. There is NO motivation in that at all!

Slimming World does work if you stick at it. I've lost about 1 1/2 stone over the past 9 months or so and therefore I guess I have to recommend it. I think it sometimes frustrates my BF that I'm always pulling the book out to check certain foods and that I have to effectively decide what I'm going to eat at the start of the day (or at least not eat certain food types - which does cut down spontaneity), but he loves the results and so do I ;)

I've been a SW devotee for about 3 years now, and have been at my target weight for s and a half years. I have read some of the reviews and agree with some and sympathise with others. If you get a good consultant, it is great. The support from both the consultant and the group can be really motivating, especially if you are having a bad time with the weight loss. If you have a bad consultant, you can be given bad information, be unmotivated and totally lose interest. I know - our group have had about 8 consultants for one reason or another since I have been there, and that's not including the ones who stand in for the odd week!! My group is supportive and that is crucial. The diet plans (there are 3) are based around the same theme of free and superfree food. It works for veggies as there is a green plan, and the meat eaters have the red and extra easy plans. SW are really pushing the extra easy plan, but this does not work for everyone! The trick is to give it a good go, ask for support from the group and have faith. My only complaint is that in all the leaflets and booklets they push you to lose, but there is little focus on what to do once your each target to stay there. It has been trial and error (and lately a lot of error) but it is a lifestyle change. On SW you can still eat chocolate, biscuits, drink alcohol and eat cheese, but in moderation!! In short, good to give it a go for about 3 months before a true judgement can be made, and it will only work if you are totally honest about your food intake!

since I'm not very slim so I decided to practise more to be good-looking,so I join in the healthy queue and wait for my change!!!

I've tried many weight loss diets and none of it works for me until I was introduced to slimming world by a friend. I've come to see that different diets work for different people. Slimming World works for me!!! I use to attend weekly group in our area but then the group stopped running a few months later for some reason. Even though we don't have any SW group in our area I was fortunate to have gotten all the food optimizing information I needed when i was in group. Now I just keep myself informed with all the latest recipes and new food in the market through the SW magazine sold in our local supermarket. Without group I managed to lose 1st 7lbs in 6wks. But I have to confess, it was quite tough doing everything on my own without the support of the group. The Festive Season was the worst. Right now I'm struggling to lose the 'festive' weight. But all in all, slimming world works and yes like everyone else has been saying, it's not a diet, it's a lifestyle!

Hi there, I have just been reading all the reviews on this and just wondered if anyone could help me get motivated. Like most women i've done 101 diets and took slimming pills but NO MORE. I need to lose it sensibly and hopefully keep it off. I am only small but just over 11stone (not too big) but need to lose 2 and i'll be really pleased.

I joined sw last year, you know what its like when you go the first week and stay the same and then second I stayed the same. Granted I didn't exercise and probably had a takewaway thinking I could get away with one. I am joining tomorrow and i'm gonna study all the books and get to know what is free and how to do Food Optimising. My friend lost 5 stone on the original red/green day so I am thinking to do that??? help!!!

Been with SLIMMING WORLD for just over 6 months now and in that time have lost a much needed two stone. Weight loss has been progressive, sometimes speedy, sometimes far too slow for my liking, but generally it is going in the right direction, which is Down. Yeye. Some of my colleagues at the same club have lost far more than I have, but suffering from Graves Disease and lack of Vitamin D - did you know it increases weight gain? Betcha didn't, plus aching joints, however another story - I am really pleased with the weight loss achieved so far.

In one way very easy as you really can eat huge amounts of food - obviously that is good - the downside if any - is if I really want to go out on the town and drink copious amounts (oops) this will certainly decrease you weight loss for that week as does believe it or not, not eating enough. Generally it is very easy, as long as you are selective in your chosen restaurants you can esily eat out plus I think all inclusive holidays would be a doddle with the choice that one has and if you keep your 'slimming world hat on' then you can do all the picking and choosing you wish, remain healthy and above all, not increase the weight that many people do when they go on vacation.

In my opinion it is certainly worth doing, if I have had a weight gain, I just think, OK, keep to the tried and true and generally another weight loss the following week. I have tried other diets they really didn't work, I am now sat here thinking wow a year ago I was TWO whole stone heavier - yuk - and people are saying OH! you are so slim, I feel I have another 1 1/2 stone to go to get to a much healthier weight, but when you have dropeed two or three dress sizes, boy does that make you feel great and what an achievement. Go for it - really, what do you have to lose - your weight and what have you to gain? Get your self confidence back and go get 'em and good luck

I lost around 3stone on the Atkins diet several years ago, so wanted to try a healthier diet. The weight loss with Slimming World isn't so dramatic, but it does work if you stick to it. I find I can only lose weight on the Red days, (I PILE it on on the Green days), so obviously the protein rich diet suits me.
I have recently started it again, I read reviews about the Extra Easy, and wasn't impressed, so sticking to the tried and trusted old way.
I didn't really get on with the classes, although most people would want the support. I've got all the books I need from previously classes, so won't be going myself again. Hopefully I have the motivation I need (ie: my clothes are REALLY tight! and I will not buy a size up!)
Additonally I do object to the money made from dieting, when all it cost me for the Atkins was £8.99 for the book from Smiths.