Sureslim - anyone tried it?

Im seriously thinking about joing sureslim but its so expensive so was wondering if anyone or anyone you know has tried it and had sucesss. I just cant see how you can lose as much weight as they say just by eating the right things but im getting desperate. I have been walking between 3-5kms pretty much every day while training for my walk and my eating has been maybe the same if not better than ever, certainly not worse and Im gaining weight!!! not just weight on the scales but my clothes are feeling tighter and im at the point where im losing motivation to exercise, specially since the walk has finished.
So anyway, sureslim.... any opinions?

A girl at my work did it. It's very strict, only eating 3 meals a day, 5 hours in between and no snacking at all. She did slim down, but then you would when you cut out ALL carbs, no bread, pasta, rice, flour etc. She has managed to keep a bit off, but not everything that she lost.

I don't see it as a long term thing, I can't imagine how you would have a life and still stick to the program.

I'm a WW advocat!

thats interesting. I was reading the womens weekly (to check out our oh baby famous lady !!) and one of the women had lost heaps and heaps of weight on it but the way they make it sound as if its completely sustainable and easy to keep the weight off. Maybe i should look at weight watchers again then. its the same weekly price basically but im not tied onto a years worth of paying, although that could be a good thing and mean i didnt give up. oh decisions decisions.

A couple of people have done it at work. I looked into it, but decided it wasn't right for me (I don't care enough!) My main problems with it (apart from the guilt add which I hate) are the fact they say they tailor the diet to your blood tests (which is not strictly true as they have something like 4 diets - one for high blood sugars/type 2 diabetes type results, one for high cholestoral etc) when in reality they group yyou on the results.

My other problem is the no eating in that 5 hours between meals extends to nothing other than water - so no coffee, no tea etc. Then there are the lunches that are a heap of seeds and salads, which are really hard to organise when you are in a limited lunch job like teaching.

One put the weight back on plus some. The other one has so far kept it off but with it she has become a little irritating 'self righteous' about her eating, and whenever she does something normal - like have a meal out or a glass of wine (which ion maintenance you should be able to do), she goes on about it being so naughty.

Weight watchers seems more manageable for a life style change you want to keep up.

A friend of mine has had good success on sureslim but I'm personally not convinced that it's sunstainable either.

I'm a Weight watchers fan and I love the fact that it teaches you to eat right and eat normally!

Gsmum's right....let us know what you're eating and maybe we can give you some pointers.

My friend is doing the sure slim at the moment and it is soooo strict. She has a list of foods she can eat and nothing else. Only allow certain veges. No potatos/kumara carb things like that. Heres a sample of her dietary intake for the day. Only eating 5hours apart. can consume plain lettuce, celery,cucumber at any meal time as much as she wants. Condements (spelling) not allow. Allow salt pepper and herbs and spices like curry, thyme etc. Has to drink 2litres water per day and have pumpkin seeds and sunflour seeds at any meal time.

Breakfast: 50g veges 1egg

Lunch 50g cheese 90g vege either 5criskets OR 2slices of burgen linseed bread no other bread allow.

Dinner 100g veges 100g meat or poultry

She can eat breakfast lunch and dinner in any order thru the day eg, have breakfast menu at dinner etc.

Hope this helps out, sorry I havent done it personally, too hardout for me. Im an advocate for WW and have just started on that 1 1/2 weeks ago All going good so far lol

Good luck to you

After you have been on the quick loss diet like listed above there is a lifetime programme to go onto to help maintain the weight loss. Not sure about that one thou

I too have a friend who has wasted her money on sureslim and lost weight but put it back on and then some...i looked into myself also but im a snacker so i cant go 5 hours without eating.

if you look at doing weight watchers...and your hubby is going to do it with you...then you both will ahve different plans as there is a mens program just for them...both of them you can get online and still get the support you need.

I feel a bit strange giving you advice or an opinion since ive had the bypass...so while i know the ins and outs of pratically every diet out there...becasue they didnt work for me it just feels a bit strange..

A work mate has done it and lost 30kg but problem is now with her that if she laxes off on her exercise or eats more normal type food then she gains back the weight very quickly. Also she has had some skin issues from loosing so much weight so fast.

I personally don't think it's very "safe", a body isn't built to loose a ton of weight in a very short amount of time. I've always read that it's best if you loose 10% of your body weight per year until you reach your ideal weight.

I have heard of people hating it and that they wasted all that money as the diet was so strict and they couldn't eat a normal diet.

I love WW as you can eat all types of foods and still lose weight with the points plan. My mum went to WW 2 years ago and her, dad and my sister ate the meals and they all lost weight. Dad even started eating the points he could eat and it was a lot of food and was still losing weight.