Doing Slimming World and MFP - Too much conflict?

Hi,

I have just joined MFP and had decided to do it along side the Sliming World way of thinking, as a past gold member know the diet worked but wanted to also ensure that I keep to my 1200 Cals as I know from the past I can eat a lot of pasta and this has prevented me from losing weight, so though MFP will help with the portion sizes.

Your right Syns are essential to Sliming world. What I have been doing is ensuring that I do have a treat each day, be it cheese (use milk as A choice) this way i get variety and feel like I am treating myself for my hard work all day.

I would suggest you make sure you use some of your calories for syn items.

This is my week one so will soon see if this worked...... fingers crossed

Not sure if this helped or not, but good luck be good to hear how you have got on?

WR

Sounds like SW mixed with MFP is the way to go for both of us.

You syn choice does sounds appetising!!

I had the same issue when i was only doing SW, just no good for me to be told I can eat pasta till it comes out of my ears, as I will!!
To be honest I always found that as long as you have five minimum you can spread your over the week, never good to have less than 5 or only five all week, (I would have extra at weekends) as your body can go into starvation mode and then just stores the fat... boo!!!

At the mo I am having between 10 and 5 a day, but each week have two days of 10 -15 to prevent me going off the wagon when the craving for something nice hits in, I know a little will keep me going without splurging.

When your next weigh day? Would be good to see if our experiment works. We deserve an A for effort and dedication to the weight loss!!!

Hi I've just started slimming world again but this time I've been using MFP to log my food and exercise. I wanted to use the slimming world rules but control my calories too. However, I've had my 1200 calories, and I've got about 100 of my exercise calories left... but I've had no syns. All my calories are from free and superfree food... but in order for slimming world to work, you need to have the syns. So I'm not sure what to do - does calorie-counting conflict with slimming world too much or is there a way to use them in conjunction?

1200 cals is possibly too low for you, the MFP default settings are sometimes too low especially if you set it to lose 2lb+ a week.

You can't really combine the two systems, do one or the other, but if you do calorie counting then look for a thread called "in place of a road map" (or words to that effect) about how to calculate your calorie needs better than the default MFP way.

If you follow the Slimming World rules and are just using MFP to log/keep track, then ignore it when it says you've run out of calories, provided you're following the SW rules, you may find you're over some days and under other days, or it may be that you simply need to eat more calories than MFP suggests.

Hi
I've been doing SW for around 10yrs now and since January been using MFP mainly as a food diary to keep track, but over past few weeks have decided to leave SW I've been still cooking the SW way and logging it and sort of combining the 2 systems one day I may be cal counting and the next doind a SW day, last week was my first week doing this and lost 2lbs. Cals last week were set at 1500 this week I've lowered them to 1200, WI on Wednesday so will see how this week has gone then

I think it depends on how much weight you have to lose. What weight/height are you? I think Slimming World is a great plan for overweight people that works by teaching them to eat the right types of healthy food and strictly controlling the intake of "treats" ( via syns). I think once you get to a healthy weight, however, it may not be the best plan for shifting 10 -15lbs. With a small amount to lose "unlimited" pasta ain't going to be the way forward! You totally need to keep an eye on calories as well so I think it is a good idea to combine the 2. The rules of SW allow you to get the most from your calorie allowance.
Also - I agree with the poster who said you do not need syns for SW to work. This belief they peddle that if you don't have your syns you will not lose makes zero sense at all. Are you seriously trying to tell me that I will lose weight better by having a 10 syn chocolate bar instead of a yoghurt and a banana ( free foods but probably about the same calorie content)?? Course not. Syns exist to encourage people to eat controlled amounts of the food Slimming World assume made them fat in the first place. The thinking being this reduces feelings of deprivation and makes it more likely that people will stick to the plan and lose weight long term. If you don't want them though, don't have them!