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View submission: Does Slimming World make sense?
There's a woman who works at my company who has also been running a group for maybe 9 years. According to her husband she's 5 stone heavier than when she started.
Clarifying food as sins seems ridiculous.
Comment by ClevelandWomble at 26/01/2025 at 22:09 UTC
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And she's not exceptional.
The thing is, people with weight issues are desperate. Telling them to eat fewer calories, use less sugar and take more exercise is all very well but that relies on them learning skills they may not be capable of and then applying them rigorously.
The weight loss industry offers hope, simple rules and support. (Or the scales of shame). I have seen family go through this and I know that me offering advice like stop ordering take aways, cook your own meals with less pasta/potato/rice etc. would not be well received. They want prepackaged solutions, not more work.
Oh, and people managing their own diets would cut down on the number of lapsed clients returning. The cynic in me suspects that is the reason for obfuscating calories as syns.
Comment by PavlovsHumans at 27/01/2025 at 07:32 UTC
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They say “it’s not ‘sins’ it’s ‘*syns”, which is short for synergies which just basically means how many calories it’s got in it…” I find that bit so false. Applying moral language to food creates disordered eating at worst and poor relationship with food at best IMO
Comment by Geezer_Flip at 27/01/2025 at 05:49 UTC
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It amazes me that there isn’t a wider understanding of calorie deficits. Who would have thought if you move more and eat less you’ll lose weight!
Sadly, both my parents are stuck in their ways and are never wrong about any conversation ever, including this. They’ve tried every diet in the world (except calorie deficit, which I’m not sure I’d even class as a diet) and lose weight originally but end up slipping up and going back to normal.
I’ve lost 2 stone now since beginning of December by counting my calories & exercising, but because it hasn’t got a fancy name like ‘Keto’ they don’t think it’s worth doing.
Comment by _J0hnD0e_ at 26/01/2025 at 22:48 UTC
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I bet she blames that on "hormones", "age", or just simply dismisses it altogether as "water weight".