i was wondering if anybody else has had a similar experience
Slimming World, let's not forget:
Weight Watchers
Tesco Diets
Tesco Health and Wellbeing
Rachel Ricketts
Rosemary Conley
Fat Fighters
TrimDownClub
The list goes on, and they all do a pretty good job at advising, encouraging, educating people on what is considered to be a sensible diet. For a lot of people eating carbs isn't a problem but if you're diabetic, this may not be the case.
This is from the Slimming World website and that looks suspiciously like a bowl of spuds and although that might be OK for some, I reckon that would cause diabetics a bit of a problem.
I think it's fair to say that if anyone had achieved success with controlling their BG by following any particular brand of slimming club, you would probably have found a thread or two shouting the benefits of that club. As has already been mentioned, cutting carbs is in essence the essential component of eating sensibly and cutting carbs cost nothing.
Don't get me wrong, well done on the weight loss and being able to ditch the insulin, great result. I would suggest that it's cutting carbs that has achieved that result, not Slimming World. In fact, I've just looked at the free 7 day menu and I find it very hard to believe that any diabetic would lower their BG eating that. In fact, do people lose weight on that. I'd be interested in what other forum members think, because I would not be able to lose weight eating this lot, especially as the instructions are that you can eat as much of the stuff in bold letters as you like, it's a wind up isn't it?
Day one
Full English
Help yourself to a huge bowl of refreshing
orange and
grapefruit segments, then enjoy a
breakfast for a king – lean grilled
bacon, grilled
tomatoes, baked beans, eggs, mushrooms and
potatoes all cooked with low calorie oil spray (less than one calorie per spray) and
1 slice wholemeal toast from a thick-cut 800g loaf to soak it all up.
Ham roll-ups
Spread slices of
honey-roast ham with
6 Extra Light Laughing Cow Triangles and roll each one up into a sausage shape. Enjoy with loads of lean cold cuts of
meat, pickled onions and
beetroot,
cucumber and
carrot sticks, and a
mixed-leaf salad drizzled with
fat-free vinaigrette.
Cottage pie
Enjoy lashings of
cottage pie with
leeks, carrots and peas. For pud, enjoy a bowl of
fat free natural yogurt drizzled with runny honey (1 Syn per level teaspoon) and dotted with fresh
raspberries.
Snacks: wherever, whenever and however much you like!
Crab sticks, slices of cooked
chicken, fat free natural cottage cheese mixed with
prawns and grated
apple.
- See more at:
http://www.slimmingworld.com/healthy-eating/non-vegetarian/day-1.aspx#sthash.Afu6Z1bQ.dpuf