Diets v Slimpod: So
what's the difference?
Slimpod creator Sandra Roycroft-Davis, a Harley Street weight loss specialist, explains the facts
The question I’m being asked all the time at the moment is “What’s the difference between Slimpod and Dieting?” So I thought I’d address it right now and get rid of all the confusion.
Slimpod gently changes your mindset about food
There are so many options for weight loss plans that it’s helpful to have some facts on the main differences between Slimpod, WeightWatchers and Slimming World to sort out confusion.
Probably the most important difference is that Slimming World and WeightWatchers are food plan – a diet by another name.
Slimpod is NOT a diet, it uses the science of unconscious persuasion to gently change your mindset about eating.
Behavioural change and its link to weight loss is something that is really being over-used by slimming companies right now because they’ve decided to distance themselves from dieting, which has just become a dirty word.
I just want to say I’m not disrespecting anybody or criticising any other weight loss programme. I’m not saying Slimpod is better than Slimming World or WeightWatchers.
I’m just giving you facts and the differences.
So let me begin with the biggest differences: Slimming World and WeightWatchers focuses on food. With an emphasis on good and bad food. Slimpod doesn’t include a food plan because we believe deep down inside you’ve learned what’s healthy and what isn’t, you’ve just stopped trusting yourself. We don’t ask you to weigh, or keep a daily log of what you’re eating.
The BIG differences
Slimpod
- On Trustpilot, 78% give Slimpod a five-star review. Overall rating is Excellent 4.7 stars.
- Slimpod’s 10-day trial is absolutely FREE – yes, nothing to pay!
- At the end of the trial, you pay £49 for the first month.
- Cancel during the first month, full refund is guaranteed. If you continue, pay just two further instalments of £49 with nothing else to pay
- Leads to lifelong change, sustainable healthy habits and weight loss that lasts.
- Puts food to the back of your mind, helping you end food obsession.
Diets
- On Trustpilot, Slimming World is rated 4.3 and WeightWatchers UK is rated 1.9.
- No free trial and many back guarantee period as long as ours.
- Refund aren't guaranteed if you decide to cancel.
- Focuses on food, putting food to the front of your mind.
- More than 80% of people who diet regain the weight within 5 years.
Slimpod helps unravel emotion around eating
With Slimpod you are effortlessly changing your eating habits. Plus, over time, Slimpod reverses your limiting beliefs and the bad habits that you will have accumulated over many years.
Slimpod also helps you to take the emotion out of eating and give you a fighting chance to take back control of your eating.
It’s emotion and triggers which are the big drivers for a lot of people who have lost control of their eating – they’re literally emotional eaters.
Slimpod helps to unravel all of that emotion.
Diets makes you focus on calories all day
Diets focus on food and calories and you have to track everything you eat every single day.
Slimpod doesn’t tell you what to eat at all, or include a food plan or diet or an eating plan of any description.
We believe that deep down inside you’ve learned what’s healthy and what isn’t, but you’ve just stopped trusting yourself.
You know that vegetables and protein are healthy, and you know that sweet stuff and doughnuts are not.
So deep down inside we all know what’s healthy and yet there is an awful lot of confusion about food.
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Slimpod puts food at
the back of your mind
Slimpod gently guides your subconscious to help you want to choose healthier options. And it helps you to lose the desire for the snacks and the sweet stuff.
This happens naturally and automatically.
The way the mind works is that what’s on your mind is brought to mind.
So if you’re focusing on food most of the time by tracking every day what you’re eating, then food is lodged firmly on the front of your mind – and it can almost become obsessive.
When you’re tracking food on a diet you’re thinking about the food you can have and the food you can’t have.
Your subconscious doesn’t differentiate whether it’s good or bad food. It’s all food.
Slimpod helps to put food at the back of your mind so you’re not constantly thinking about it.
The scales can trigger emotional eating
Diets ask you to step on the scales as a way of tracking your weight loss.
Slimpod asks you to stay away from the scales unless you find that they motivate you.
For the vast majority of people, the scales have become a trigger for emotional eating and this interferes with mood.
So I find the scales are more damaging than they are of use – especially if you have being weighing constantly for a long, long time. They can dictate your moods.
At Slimpod we believe there are plenty of other ways for tracking how you’re doing that don’t trigger your emotions or eating.
SOURCE: WeightWatchers.com and ThinkingSlimmer.com. Information correct on 10 April, 2023
Source: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5764193/#:~:text=Substantial%20weight%20loss%20is%20possible,is%20a%20futile%20endeavor6. Correct as of 29 August 2025.
Source: https://www.trustpilot.com/review/weightwatchers.com%2Fuk Correct as of 29 August 2025.
Source: https://www.trustpilot.com/review/www.slimmingworld.co.uk Correct as of 29 August 2025.
Source: https://www.trustpilot.com/review/noom.com Correct as of 29 August 2025
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