Hi all,

Has anyone on this site tried Tesco Diets? And if so did they find that it worked?

Nicki xx

All diets work if you can stick to them!  :)  :)

yes but my problem as with other on line diets is I need a book and other paper resources to refer to write down browse through wherever I am. Just a personal thing I haven't found any type of on line diet works for me because of that. 

the only diet that worked for me was Weight Watchers and thats only because i new i was going to be weighed each week and didn't want to look as if i hadn't achieved anything.
As far as i'm concerned doing it online is not a lot of help as it's still down to self control and there isn't the pressure of seeing someone to be weighed but i hope it works for you.

Hi Nikki.
Yes I tried it, and it worked for me, You get support on line from the team when you submit your weight loss each week, they e mail you. So that boosts you up.
I lost about 2 stone, I printed off the diet sheets they gave me each week, but you can adjust them if there are meals you dont like, as there are loads of different alternatives to choose from, and you can get different types of meals for different diet requirements, Im veggie, so there were all vegetarian meals, but you could get diabetic, lacto, etc, and of course being Tesco it makes it easy to shop for all the diet food.
I would recommend it yes. :-)
Marie x

My husband started off doing WW but found it boring, so changed to Slimming World, he's now lost 8 stone in 3 years :)

> My husband started off doing WW but found it boring

Did he find the (female dominated) meetings boring (can't say I found them entertaining), or was it the dietplan?

How does the Slimming World one difffer?

When all is said and done sadly it comes down to less fuel in than fuel used.

That is my problem, I love food and I most love fat and Carb rich food at that :D

With Slimming World he finds he has to eat more than he can manage, which is great as he's never hungry!  The meeting he goes to does actually have 5 men attending too and around 30 women....lol.

With WW he found the meetings boring, the dietplan boring and just lost interest in the same things all the time.

> With WW he found the meetings boring, the dietplan boring and just lost interest in the same things all the time.

That could be down to the lecturer in that particular class, a good lecturer can make a world of difference.  :)

Hi all,

Thanks for your responses they were very helpful, Oldilocks - I agree with what you say, all diets can work if you still to them, but that is the problem for me unfortunately, I know much of every kind of diet going, its not that I don't know how to diet, its having the blooming willpower, thats why I am looking at different options :-)

Oh to be thin!! :-)

Nicki xx

>That could be down to the lecturer in that particular class, a good lecturer can make a world of difference.  

I agree with that, the WW meetings I go to are a really good laugh and informative but thats because we have a great "leader" :)

I have done both  ww and sw (and many other diets!) I think it very much deprneds on the leader as tohow interesting they are. As far as the diets go ww now does two different ones, the points which allows you to eat almost anything but limits your portions and the no count which allows you to select from a fairly wide range of basic food plus 21 points a week. The no count is very similar to slimming world, personally I think it is what suits you best. I have done WW to death so atm am planing to go back to sw again. Thats the problem I seem to be a total yoyo dieter !

They dont do the no count anymore, I wonder if it didnt work as well as they hoped - I know I was rubbish on it !

Really , wonder  y you could be right, funny I didn't do anything on it but do on  slimming world does work. I guess they all do if you can stick to them. Maybe lipo is the solution !

I lost two stone a couple of years ago with WW but was trying really hard.  Since having my baby 3 months ago ive gone back to WW and lost just over a stone so far but again ive been making the effort and sticking to it, the weekly weigh in pushes me to try though - I get really disappointed if I havent lost.

well done claireyS and with a new baby

Well done you!  :-)  Keep it up Claireys

It did work, but 80% of members preferred doing the points system.............I did both last year with equally good results. At least now, the Leaders only have one plan to talk about!.........saves alot of confusion!

Well done on your weight loss Claire :-)

I can see why most people that diet wouldn't get on with no-points.  the problem for many of us is that our bodies appetite doesn't tell us we are full/don't need any more reliably at all, and that is why we gain weight.

there are people out there whose appetites match their bodies fuel needs perfectly and their weight hardly ever varies, my hubby is like that, so was my dads wife until her hysterectomy.  for the first time in her life she is now finding she can't trust her appetite any more.

I eventually get bored sick of the discipline of counting points/calories, but as soon as I stop and try to eat sensibly and use my appetite I put on weight, been on this roller-coaster all my life.

Back to point counting after putting on 1 1/2 Stone since my best weight end of last year (I'd got down to 11st 5lb).  I put on half Stone before the wedding, half during honeymoon and half since.  If I didn't get back to the diet grindstone another year or three and I would be up another two or 3 stone.

>the problem for many of us is that our bodies appetite doesn't tell us we are full/don't need any more reliably at all, and that is why we gain weight.

I agree, I can eat for England, I never know when im full !!

I can eat for England............even after my body tells me I'm full lol but when I'm in diet mode, I'm very good and do listen to my body properly :-D