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View submission: Does Slimming World make sense?
I don’t see how SW or WW can work. They’re based on sins or points but finding out what makes a food a sin or certain point value seems arbitrary.
A friend of mine lost loads of weight on WW and now works as a personal trainer - only she’s deathly afraid of gaining any weight and has the most disordered eating I’ve ever seen. She went travelling across Europe and SE Asia and couldn’t eat anything as she didn’t know what the points value of things were. She was only saved by there being a Tesco in Thailand.
The other thing I’ve seen is people saving sins up for the weekend. Once worked with someone who, every week, would save her sins up and have a chicken kebab on a Saturday night. Surely that is just binge eating?
I don’t think these schemes teach people how to eat better or instil the mindset change needed for long term weight loss. It’s about you sticking to a regime they know is unsustainable so you’ll keep coming to the meetings.
Comment by UnusualSomewhere84 at 27/01/2025 at 11:34 UTC*
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When I went to weight watchers I'd already been bulimic for years and my BMI was in the 'healthy' range (which really shows how bullshit that is!) There was no screening of any kind, and nobody questioned that I was using less than half my allocated points most days and then having double once a week in a binge (that was allowed!), or that I was losing weight far faster than was safe, or that my goal weight was right at the very bottom of a healthy BMI. I was applauded when I announced to the group I'd lost 5lbs in a week despite weighing less than 10stone. I was even in the magazine, I fasted for a week before the photos and binged and purged later in the day after they taken.
The leaders aren't trained to spot worrying signs for eating disorders, and the corporate bosses don't give a shit.