I can really eat all that???? (Slimming World)

Member Name: NikkiH

Product:	Slimming World
Date:	23/02/01 (1705 review reads)
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Advantages: I will be thin by summer!

Disadvantages: None so far

I joined Slimming World at the beginning of February after recommendations from friends. I will admit right here my willpower is very poor, and I love food, so the normal calorie counting diets that have forbidden foods never work for me as I can never eat enough.

Going into the class for the first time was horrible. Everyone seemes to know each other or be there with a friend, but I knew I had to go through with it.

The leader Honor, a past member, held a chat for newbies and explained how Slimming World worked. The diet works around a system called Food Optimising. It has been planned by trained nutritionalists, and you choose each day to be either green or original. The whole eating plan is based around the idea of healthy eating that can become part of your lifestyle rather than a diet which is restrictive.

Each of the 2 days has a lost of free foods, which generally include fruit and vegetables, plus on a green day your other free foods are pasta, rice, potato, noodles, and on your original day the free foods are basically meat, fat free variety! You should fill up on these foods when hungry. You could eat a whole chicken minus the skin if the mood took you! Then you choose from the Healthy Extras menu, which ensures you get the vitamins and minerals necessary for good health, and also this gives you the chance to add meat to a green day or pasta/rice to your original day, and this ensures that you can eat pretty standard meals. Then the section that helps to keep you on the straight and narrow is the Sins. You are allowed between 5 and 15 sins a day, and they include crisps, chocolate and alcohol etc.

It sounds confusing, but after a couple of reads the book you get when you join makes sense, and in my 1st week I lost 3lbs.
It costs £6.95 to register then £3.25 per week.

There is a monthly magazine which has lots of recipes and motivational stories. It is £2.10 in the shops, however at class it is only £1.40. r>
The website is excellent. www.slimming-world.co.uk, and there are lots of hints and tips, and also a chat room.

Please try it, you do not need to change your eating habits totally, and they are proven to work.