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What's the difference between WW and SW?

  • 18-06-2016 11:57am
    #1
    pinkstars
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 656 ✭✭✭


    Wondering what to join - well I did join slimming world and still not on plan. I did weight watchers years ago when I didn't have much to lose and it always worked. I now have about 8 stone to lose ..... Eeeek but I'd love to know the differences now!


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  • #2
    Dolbert
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,154 ✭✭✭Dolbert


    SW extra easy and WW no count are more or less the same, WW also has a points plan which is really dressed-up calorie counting. They all work, as long as you stick to them and are consistent week after week.


  • #3
    Dtp1979
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,907 ✭✭✭✭Dtp1979


    pinkstars wrote: »
    Wondering what to join - well I did join slimming world and still not on plan. I did weight watchers years ago when I didn't have much to lose and it always worked. I now have about 8 stone to lose ..... Eeeek but I'd love to know the differences now!

    One will teach you as little about nutrition as the other.


  • #4
    Alf Veedersane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,737 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    Dtp1979 wrote: »
    One will teach you as little about nutrition as the other.

    To be fair, an awful lot of people improve eating habits and their relationship with food through both so while they're not perfect, being so dismissive of them is hugely unfair.

    People don't transition from terrible eating habits to being paragons of nutrition overnight


  • #5
    the groutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,096 ✭✭✭✭the groutch


    one of the main flaws with both systems is that there are certain "free foods" counted as zero points/syns, so people can still overeat without knowing it.


  • #6
    goz83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,035 ✭✭✭goz83


    the groutch wrote: »
    one of the main flaws with both systems is that there are certain "free foods" counted as zero points/syns, so people can still overeat without knowing it.

    This.

    I treat people for weight loss and the "free foods" is a double edge sword. On the one hand, it encourages healthy eating by making many healthy foods, free foods (point, yum, sin free); but on the other hand, it encourages over eating and what I call Calorie Cheating. A free food limit would be a wise decision, as it would still encourage healthy eating, but would cap the calories.


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