Slimming World - Slimming World Food Optimising

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INTRODUCING FOOD OPTIMISING

THE RECIPES

Founded in 1969 by Margaret Miles-Bramwell, who remains its managing director, Slimming World is the UKs largest and most advanced slimming organisation. It currently manages thousands of classes across the country with over 250,000 members attending every months and another 15,000 attending free as succesful Target members. Between 10 to 30,000 members joineach week and around 2,000 reach their personal target every month. The astonishing success of Slimming World is legendary.

Having plenty to eat and no forbidden foods is every slimmers dream. But this is the approach that has enabled hundreds of thousands of Slimming World members to reach their target weight, the weight they have personally chosen to be. No foods are banned, there is no calorie counting and there are hundreds of free foods which can be eaten in unlimited amounts.

Food Optimising is the name given by Slimming World to this highly succesful weight-loss technique. In complete accordance with current national guideline, the Eating Plan is not a short-term diet but can help you to develop healthy eating habits for life.

Food Optimising is designed to give you:

SATISFACTION, so you never allow yourself to go hungry again

FREEDOM to eat exactly as slim people do

PERSONAL APPETITE CONTROL, so you can eat according to your own inbuilt appetite system

CHOICE to have your favourite treats every single day

Now, Food Optimising uncovers the secrets of this incredibly succesful programme. Packed with nutritional, lifestyle and diet information, as well as over 120 wonderfully healthy yet delicious recipes, it offers you the opportunity to adopt healthy eating habits and watch the weight fall off.

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First published in Great Britain in 2000

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Text Slimming World 2000

Food photography Random House Group Ltd/Daniel Pangbourne 2000

Other photography, see acknowledgements on page 224

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FOR SLIMMING WORLD

Editorial direction Margaret Miles-Bramwell

Contributing editor Claire Crowther

Nutritionist Jacqui Lavin MMedSci. PhD RNutr.

Food co-ordination Allison Brentnall

Menu developer Emma Naylor

Recipe development Kathryn Hawkins

Food photography advisor Diane Brown

FOR EBURY PRESS

Editor Emma Callery

Designer Alison Shackleton

Stylist Tessa Evelegh

Food economist Val Barrett

Picture research Claire Taylor

ISBN 9780 09 187254 0

Dear Reader,

I havent met you, yet I want to thank you personally for two things: for deciding this book can help you slim effectively and for taking a moment or two with me.

I believe that this book will be of lifelong value to you. Actually, you are enormously valuable to me. Every day of my life for the past forty years, I have woken up and begun a days conversation with you you, the everyday slimmer, the woman or man in the street who, like me, lives a life thats pushed towards weight and longs for a body thats never put on an extra ounce. When I was young, it was you who gave me hope, for I realised I wasnt alone in my struggle. Since 1969 my personal life goal has been to forge a path forward for anybody caught up in the diet trap and the misery of excess weight.

There isnt a slimming dilemma that I havent experienced. There isnt a day I dont wish for a magic bullet because Im an everyday slimmer, because Ive struggled with overweight, because I feel nobody should go through such struggles alone. So Im delighted to share with you this incredible system of Food Optimising which I, as a food lover, know to be the kindest, most effective weight loss system possible. Hundreds of thousands of men and women have used it, lost weight and live by its principles.

Im pleased but not surprised to say that nutritionists agree with our findings at Slimming World. They have ensured our methods are in line with current nutritional thinking. But its not just a matter of nutrition, important though that is. Losing weight successfully is about motivation, enjoyment and letting ourselves off all the hooks we slimmers get stuck on.

I am delighted to share Food Optimising with you in book form as we at Slimming World have been sharing it, week in, week out, for so many years. Find out why Food Optimising is the nearest thing to a magic wand youll every need. Discover the joy of weight loss without hunger. Experience the thrill of those inches melting away. Enjoy the liberation that your new self-confidence brings. Become, at last and for ever, the person you really want to be.

Use this book to the full and we promise the only thing that will grow larger will be your self-esteem.

Theres really only one thing you need to remember you can do it.

Warmest wishes

Margaret Miles-Bramwell

FOUNDER OF SLIMMING WORLD

Photograph by Lord Lichfield

Eat to satisfy your appetite?

Eat in the way slim people do?

Choose foods you personally enjoy each day?

Know you are eating in the healthiest way known to nutritionists?

If you answer yes to these questions then Food Optimising is a way of losing weight that will work for you. It is designed to give you:

Satisfaction, so you never allow yourself to go hungry again.

Freedom and relaxation around food just as slim people have.

Personal preference in what you can eat freely within the larger food groups, such as pasta, potato or meat.

Your choice, every single day, of your favourite treats.

Food Optimising goes further than freedom, satisfaction and personal preference. It is founded on very sophisticated concepts about how and why we overeat. This is the heart of Food Optimising. When you find yourself wondering why a certain food is free when other diets tell you to cut it down, you will have hit on Food Optimising in action. This way of losing weight has forty years of development behind it. Slimming World knows as much as there is to know about the way overeating, dieting and healthy eating interact in practice. We know just how you will feel when you start eating instead of starving to lose weight. We know how you need to eat to succeed and also how you will want to eat to stay slim long term. All these factors are built into our Food Optimising programme.