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View submission: Does Slimming World make sense?
Of course not, but it wouldn’t be a very good model if everyone lost weight and left. They need people to keep going
Comment by StuChenko at 26/01/2025 at 21:41 UTC
40 upvotes, 1 direct replies
This. It's not designed to help people lose weight and keep it off.
Comment by lazyplayboy at 27/01/2025 at 00:04 UTC
8 upvotes, 1 direct replies
SW doesn't charge if you stay in your target range.
Comment by hooooola7 at 26/01/2025 at 22:11 UTC
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Even the leaders seem to do this
Comment by Spamfactor at 27/01/2025 at 02:20 UTC
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Oh come on that’s just silly. There’s hundreds of millions of people across the world wanting to lose weight, and the number goes up every year. Slimming world could have a 100% success rate and they would never run out of customers. In fact having a 100% success rate is probably the one thing that would guarantee they never run out of customers.
Thats not to say slimming world does work or is a good idea. But successfully helping people lose weight is a damn good business model. That’s why ozempic is worth over 500 billion.
Comment by carolomnipresence at 27/01/2025 at 06:01 UTC
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The people who lose down to their target weight, which they set, attend free and remain supported. If they do leave, they'd be more likely to drift. Recidivism is the norm in obesity, regardless of the means of weight loss achieved, so remaining within a good group can make a great difference to sustaining loss, and costs only time.