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View submission: Does Slimming World make sense?
My understanding of weight loss is that it needs to be a permanent lifestyle change, unless you commit to weight watchers forever, you’re not doing yourself any favours whatsoever.
Why restrict yourself to their meals and their rules regarding foods, when you can learn about calories, nutrition, portion control, exercise etc and use that as the basis for your diet forever. You can convince yourself unlimited pasta is fine, or you can learn what a normal portion of pasta is, how to make a healthy variation of the classics such as adding lentils to bulk the meat out and make it more filling, not putting as much cheese in, omitting the cream, adding flavour with herbs and spices, having one piece of garlic bread instead of a full baguette etc. This can be done slowly so you make small changes, giving you time to get used to them instead of swapping your whole routine for something less fun all at once. If you go from large plates and lots of snacks to smaller plates with no snacks, you’re going to struggle. It’s easier for someone to slowly cut the snacks down, slowly serve smaller and smaller portions, slowly get used to drinking more water etc.
Comment by Steeeeeveeeve at 26/01/2025 at 23:52 UTC
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You have hit the nail on the head with regards change in mindset, slimming world works and does help with mindfulness of nutritional value (syns are calculated based off them) but this diet (or any) are not going to have a long term positive impact without a change in relationship with food.
Comment by olivercroke at 27/01/2025 at 09:18 UTC
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Ding ding ding ding ding. This whole concept of dieting is the problem. The mentality has to be permanent lifestyle changes not short-term, very restrictive dieting just to go back to how you ate before. It inevitably leads to yo-yoing in weight. Even if you are successful at losing weight with SW, you will put it back on. If you are successful it's usually too drastic to be sustainable. Long-term weight loss is a slow process requiring permanent changes to your diet and changing your relationship with food not going on a temporary diet. It's very well studied that the vast majority of people that go on a "diet" to lose weight put it back on.
Comment by Postik123 at 27/01/2025 at 11:50 UTC
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Well said, the only successful diet or scheme, is the one you can stick to for the rest of your life. If what you're doing currently is not enjoyable or difficult to stick to, then it's just not going to work long term
Comment by cgknight1 at 27/01/2025 at 09:19 UTC
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My understanding of weight loss is that it needs to be a permanent lifestyle change, **unless you commit to weight watchers forever**, you’re not doing yourself any favours whatsoever.
So you need permanent lifestyle change but I've never seen anything that suggest *diets* rather than a change *in diet* *and lifestyle* works.
Comment by alexandriaweb at 27/01/2025 at 13:39 UTC
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You can still have the cream, just not on every meal!