I was absolutely gutted to discover that SW just doesn't exist in Canada. I need to lose some weight and I no longer have any of my previous SW stuff. I found that it was the only eating plan that worked for me. I looked at joining online, but it's quite expensive, and you can't half the foodstuffs out here

I have just joined 'Curves' instead.... we'll see how it goes. Have done WW before but was always starving hungry.

Curves - pfft - there will be a fab new GoodLife gym opening next year ion Abby!! http://www.goodlifefitness.com/new_c...fall_2009.aspx

I do it online and have been finding it okay, you get access to all the food lists as well as a syn calculator, food diary and support stuff. Also a graph etc that plots your weight loss for you. There is also a great group on facebook as well as various slimming world forums for support. Plus I have managed to find lots of alternatives to food things if you shop around. The slimming world team are pretty quick at answering queries re: food items if I email them too.

Most of the free food stuff is cook from scratch type items anyway, as it is one of the diets that tries to deter from processed foods.

Fingers crossed they do well in Texas and start branching out further a field.

Wifey has recently taken part in Game On, which seems to be some kind of diet game. Not sure if anyone else is familiar with it, but she enjoys it, has lost a fair amount of weight (although she didnt need to), is much fitter and HAS to eat 5 meals a day.

There's quite a lot of them doing it, and it seems really popular. Looks like most of the women taking part hit/exceed their weight loss goals. From what I can see, it's more of a healthy lifestyle plan as opposed to just dieting.

Dont know anything about Slimming World, but thought I'd just add my 2 cents....

...Here's one for the weight conscious....

Kate Moss comes out with her "Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels” quote and is vilified in the media as a dangerous role model etc. While someone like say, 5ft. 19 stone, morbidly obese Dawn French with her "big is beautiful" attitude is treated like a national treasure.

Now, I don't have actual statistics and, to be honest, can't be arsed to look stuff up online, but I'm pretty confident in saying that more people (by a long way) in the Western world die from illnesses related to being overweight as opposed to those related to being under.

So, if this odd fat/thin attitude isn't down to health, is it just down to plain old jealousy?

Hey, i go to Slimming world every monday so would be happy to post the password on here every week...
I have the food directory etc too so if anyone wants to know syn values, feel free to message me and i will look it up...
Hope that helps

I'm gonna pm you!

How are you finding Curves???? I haven't been going regularly lately-not getting much time off to do my thing But after crimbo when my hours get cut to about 10 a week, I'll have plenty of time, so I will really knuckle down then. There is a possibility that my Mum is comming this year so I really want to be a slimmer me before she arrives.

I have only just joined and go for my first 'proper' session on Saturday. I need to lose about 20lbs to get back to my regular weight. I'm quite motivated so hoping to do it by Springtime. None of my clothes fit me anymore You know it's time to do something about it when your undies are too tight

Have pm'd you back!

This outfit sounds like a great way to meet new people. What do I have to do to join? Are there specific entry criteria or something?

I think the problem being SKINNY v healthy. Te media does push the heroin chic, still, even tho a lot of the fashion sizes claim they wont use size 0 models. The image they push is unnattainable for most people without resorting to drastic dieting / drugs!

You will find that in a few weeks you will slim down and maybe not even lose weight and if you can't already you'll be able to touch your toes in no time! 30 seconds doesn't seem long on a machine - you'll soon find out on some of them it feels like a lifetime

...if the media is so say pushing the skinny thing, then looking around, they're not doing a very good job. I'd say heroin chic is killing far fewer people than "pizza" chic.

I,m not saying that more people are dying of being underweight than overweight - just that the models that the me=media use make for an unnattainable goal - hence a lot of yo yo dieting by women particularly to achieve a body they could never really have and then usually gain more wight than they lost!