The food and recipes you only know if you're on Slimming World
manchestereveningnews.co.ukAs all those following the Slimming World diet plan will know, finding new recipes to negotiate your way through the rules while sticking to plan is all part of the fun.
The popular slimming club uses a "food optimising" technique, where different foods fall into different categories. There are "free" foods like most fruit, vegetables, meats, fish and even things like pasta, rice and potato that you can eat without needing to weigh or measure - while treat foods like cakes and biscuits have a "Syn" value.
READ MORE: I ate Slimming World Iceland frozen meals for the week and this is what happened And then, each day, you get to choose two portions of measured "Healthy Extra A" (HEA) for calcium - like milk or cheese, and one portion of "Healthy Extra B" (HEB) for fibre, like cereals, oats, wholemeal bread or wraps.
No one seems to know exactly how it works that you can eat quite so much food and still lose weight (well, aside from the founder of Slimming World I suppose) - but genuinely it does work, for a heck of a lot of people out there.
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