I started in September 09, lost 10 pounds in 2 months, slipped a little over the holidays, but now am back on it, after managing to keep my 10 pounds off, but I can't understand this new plan.  I have written memos to Ali with no response.  I wish they would go back to the previous menus, I think it's better to have real food to choose from and to add additional foods.  Also, I like to eat fruit and lots of vegetables, which you can't do on this plan.  miisssmom

Jean53, even being on maintenance I too, logged my exercise and did my menus faithfully. I guess I got dependent on SF. Fortunately I've been a member long enough to know how to eat healthy. You've just started what was previously a wonderful program.

I couldn't rave enough about SF.......before....

Best wishes to you..PAnn

I, too, am disgruntled.  I started the plan in early Feb, and I really appreciated how easy it was to substitute items and find out the relevant nutritional info.  I logged what I ate and my weight and exercise level faithfully.  All that is gone, and all that is left is blatant self-promotion and error messages when I try to contact someone or update the slim bit of info the site now allows.  I set up a separate weight tracking page, too, as I miss the old slim-fast chart, which was encouraging me towards a specific weight goal.  Slim-fast, this isn't working for many of us.

I don't think my last post went thru, maybe it's delayed. Let's see if by Monday SF deletes this thread. If so I'll be on the "Staying Motivated" group discussion board.

Yup, it's me..Long time no hear from, either of us! Glad you saw this. As you've read here and may have seen on alot of other group discussions, alot of members are really upset with this change. Yup, I remember well the last one..How long did it take our group to find one another then?? They changed things and it took forever to getthe site back up and running again and it wasn't easy to navigate around anymore. It's just so much worse with this last change. Here we go again, except this time I find it alot harder to stay loyal like in the past. I do appreciate all that I've learned here and thought I'd be following the plan (past plan that is) forever..Guess not :-(

I'll email you tonight. It's been so long we have alot of catching up to do.  My work schedule since the end of last July has been just horrendous. Thanks for joining in this thread. I'm going to be watching it daily..PAnn

Hi Kaye. Glad you joined our "poll". Now to see if SF really cares. If they read posts in the other groups they'd see that they have alot of disgruntled members who are leaving or ready to leave. Let's watch this thread and see if maybe Ali the RD will jump in, too. I think her hands are tied, but her responses should be better than what we're getting. If she hasn't already done so (which I'm sure she has), she needs to get with the higher ups and tell them, like she and the other RD's told the members, how a real true healthful lifestyle should be regarding foods/amounts we eat. Thanks again for joining in. SF needs to har and see how we all feel!..PAnn

Hey PAnn,

I thought that was you.  I was on the SF site maybe two and a half weeks ago and thought I would put my weight in and start fresh, again.  The old weight chart was there.  Two weeks later I couldn't find it.  Asked Ali, what happened to it and from what I got out of it, there is no weight chart.  They just changed this site, what was it, two years ago.  I had really learned my way around the old one when it was changed.  I had finally learned how to work the new one and now it's changed again.  What gives, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.  Why can't they just leave well enough alone.  I'm having trouble changing from page to page.  It's like I'm on dial up.  Then a window will pop up and say something about a "script." I'm so disgusted, I don't even think I'm going to bother with it.  

I can't figure out how to have a personal conversation w/ anyone except on one of the groups.

Going to try to find a site that has a weight chart I can find.

I totally agree with all of you the old plan was much better for support  and to see progress levels  and to keep tract of  food journal  I cant figure out how to connect with anything on this site.

PAnn, I would like to put two cents in. I started this plan last June. I did really good. A few slip ups but that was my fault. Since the site has changed I don't get the help I use to from slim fat. I always told people how much I loved slim fast and how helpful the site was. That this site put our wellbeing ahead of everything else. It was teaching us how to handle food along with the slim fast. I even stuck with slim fast thru the recall. I have gotten several emails back from slim fast. It doesn't help though. The last email they sent me gave me an email address if I had other concernes. The email address would not go thru. I have since found another site that is more helpful. Helps to track everything even the sodium that I have real problems with. I can no longer brag on slim fast because the way I see it this is just a quick fix. How can everybody no matter how large need the same calories as someone thin? When I started this site they gave me a calorie range of 1700 a day. If you add up 3-100calorie snacks, 2 cans of slim fast, and a balance meal of 500 calories that comes up to just barely over 1100 calories a day. Like I said. A quick fix. I have a lot to lose and I will be doing this for a while. Would I like to wake up in the morning and all of my extra weight be gone? You bet but that is not possible or healthy

That is just my two cents for what it is worth.   Kaye

Hi JodieHut! Glad to se e someone got to see my post before it's deleted. Why is that, that SF deletes the negative posts such as these? I though they were supposed to be supportive. I've known of others that have been deleted over the years. Maybe they feel we're trying to start an uprising. Shouldn't our feedback be able to be reviewed by all members? Instead of listening to our feedback to see how they can help, they shut us out.. Now that's being supportive  :-(  

Our feedback is what should help to make the site better..

I need to log my meals and snacks and those in between forbidden foods that I will have from time to time. I guess I just gotten too dependent on this site and the help I rec'd for the past two years instead of relying on my own knowledge and skills that I did learn here. I used to be such a big spokesperson for SF, especially stressing to everyone the ease of use here. Not anymore. I can't endorse something I don't believe in anymore,, except maybe in the short-term now. This is more like the "quick-fix" sites now. Low calories and unsatisfying meal products (I speak only of the meal bars now and not the shakes because I haven't bought them). Anyway, thank-you for your reply and best wishes to you in your quest for a better, healthier life!