Does anyone follow slimming world & calorie count?

moobalina

Hey - I was curious to know if you are getting better results on the scales with a little more desipline counting calories along side following slimming world plan?

I love the slimming world principle but not the ‘free foods’ ‘eat as much as you like’ curious to hear your views/tips/ideas

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cmriverside

I'm not on SW or WW, never have been. I knew it was about calories so when I wanted to lose weight I started on this site in 2007 and started logging food daily.

Consistency. Time. I lost 70+ pounds in 2007-08 and have kept it off for over a decade.

There are no "Free" foods.

RelCanonical

I think that slimming world and weight watchers "free food" deal only works for certain types of people. For the rest of us, having a "check" by counting calories can prevent overeating of those "free" foods. I'm certainly someone who would overdo it, and my mother was struggling for a while on WW because she would down pounds and pounds of watermelon to stay full. Doing both can be beneficial if you like the general guidelines of what to eat and the community surrounding SW and WW. For me, I'd rather just pick out what I like to eat and just count calories, but that's just my personality.

janinemarie830

I did ww and didnt like it. I didn't like the idea of the free foods. I followed we for 2 months and didn't lose any weight.

MySlimGoals

I did WW back in 2003 before I discovered this site (did it even exist then?). I didn't understand calories back then at all and it wasn't really written on food labels back then most of the time. So WW had a book they gave me when I joined that had all the brands and foods listed in it and I would look up each food and it would have points. Then I would write down in my WW notebook what food I had eaten and how many points and I had a certain amount of points to spend each day. It was actually very similar to counting calories on the more digital MFP! I paid for that and did well on that and it worked for me back then. But there is no need for me to be on WW these days because MFP is free (although I pay for premium) and you could say by the time I found MFP I had already laid the groundwork all those years ago for what I needed to do to go it alone on MFP.

So I think if you want to do Slimming World for awhile you should. You'll probably get good results with the support that comes with going to meetings and learning off actual people in real life. But you also don't need to as all the resources are here online now.

I'm also pretty sure they must have guidelines for 'free food' that they would explain in meetings because they didn't have it when I did it. That's a very recent thing and overeating anything would ruin your weight loss.