Melanie Lawson and Natalie Atkinson describe how they have done it
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00:00So, Acacia, tell us how you lost the weight with Slimming World.
00:03Just doing the plan the right way.
00:05We've done it so many times and we've joined and then we've rejoined,
00:09and we've joined and we've rejoined.
00:11And then that click just happened.
00:14We go every week, we stay in a group.
00:16We've got a lovely group at half past ten.
00:18I can't fault them on a Wednesday.
00:20We've got lovely Lorraine and Karen we sit with,
00:23and they're doing amazing as well as us.
00:25And everybody is.
00:26It's just eating the right things,
00:28cooking from scratch and sticking to plan,
00:31getting ideas from all of the members and stuff like that,
00:34weighing and measuring your food.
00:36Instead of doing it half-hearted like we used to,
00:39we just 100% cook from scratch and weigh and measure everything
00:44and listen to what people say every week.
00:46We don't see it as a diet, we see it as a life change.
00:48We've just changed the way we look at food now.
00:51It's amazing.
00:53And what sort of things do you eat now?
00:56Curries, we make our own curries, our own kebabs.
00:59Paddles.
01:01Dinners, cooked breakfast.
01:04There's nothing off the limit.
01:06We use our sins.
01:07If we use our sins, we use our sins.
01:09We get 15 sins a day and we use the sins
01:11and we combine them in our meals
01:13and we have our little treats and things like that.
01:15Tonight I'm doing fajitas for the whole family
01:17because it's a favourite of theirs
01:19and it's still on plan for me.
01:21It's lovely, it's nice, warm, home-cooked food.
01:25And do you think it's the fact that you've done it together
01:27has that helped?
01:28Yeah, I couldn't have done it without Melanie.
01:30Messaging her every day with what I'm eating
01:32and then getting her pictures of what she's eating
01:34or even just saying to her, I'm knocking up a dinner
01:37and she'll come along and we'll just sit and eat together.
01:39I couldn't have done it without Melanie.
01:41It's different, isn't it, from doing it on your own.
01:43It's the same as the group, we stay at the group every week
01:45because we get that support from the group, which is amazing.
01:48And how different do you feel in yourselves?
01:51Totally different.
01:52Amazing.
01:53It's so nice being able just to walk into a normal shop
01:56and pick clothes up with my daughter
01:58or run about after my son.
02:01It's lovely, yeah.
02:02Instead of thinking, no, I can't be bothered.
02:04We've got that get up and go now, haven't we?
02:06Yeah.
02:07It's different.