Your post-summer SLIMDOWN
Ditching those extra pounds is easy with this exclusive Slimming World plan
If the start of the new season has got you thinking about getting back on track with your weight-loss goals, then we’ve got just the plan to help you get started. We’ve teamed up with the UK and Ireland’s leading weight-loss organisation, Slimming World, to provide you with this five-day eating plan, filled with healthy and seasonal meals that will help you get closer to your goals without ever feeling hungry or deprived. Give it a try and you could lose up to 7lb in just two weeks!*
HOW IT WORKS
✱ Choose one breakfast, one lunch and one dinner every day. Feel free to repeat meals you enjoy – you’ll find more ideas at slimmingworld.co.uk or slimmingworld.ie.
✱ Slimming World’s eating plan, Food Optimising, is based on the scientific principles of appetite regulation and helps members to reduce their energy intake and lose weight without ever feeling hungry or deprived. It’s based on an understanding of how a food’s nutrient content and energy density (its calories per gram) affect satiety (our sense of satisfaction and fullness).
✱ Free Food is at the heart of Food Optimising. Choose from a huge range of Free Food including fruit, veg, pasta, rice, potatoes, pulses, lean meat (and some plant-based proteins such as plain Quorn and tofu), fat-free dairy, fish and poultry. These foods are relatively low in energy density (calories) and highly satiating, allowing you to satisfy your appetite and feel fuller for longer without having to count, weigh or measure. Base your meals around Free Food (printed in bold) and, to make meals flavoursome and tasty, stock your store cupboard with herbs, lowcalorie cooking spray, oil-free tomato puree, seasoning, soy sauce, spices and stock cubes, most of which can be used freely to flavour meals.
✱ For an overall healthy balanced diet, Slimming World encourages you to enjoy measured amounts of foods that provide calcium, such as milk and cheese (two portions per day), and those providing fibre and other essential minerals and nutrients, such as wholemeal bread, high-fibre cereals, nuts and seeds (one portion per day). These can be part of your meals, in hot drinks or on their own as a snack. We’ve provided specific measurements where we’ve included them in the plan, and where you’re enjoying them separately:
● Enjoy 2 slices of wholemeal bread (from a small 400g loaf) or a 60g wholemeal roll/pitta, or 40g plain porridge oats or 2 wholewheat cereal biscuits. Or opt for 20 whole/plain almonds or 2 level tbsp chia seeds.
● Choose 350ml skimmed milk, 250ml semi-skimmed milk or 400ml plain unsweetened soya/almond milk with added calcium. Or opt for 30g full-fat hard cheese, such as Cheddar, or 40g reduced-fat hard cheese.
✱ Other options are available too – you’ll find out more when you join Slimming World. If you have dietary requirements, let Slimming World know when you join and you’ll get specific advice to help tailor the plan to your needs.