{"id":102126,"date":"2025-10-04T02:35:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T02:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/102126\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T02:35:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T02:35:24","slug":"saoirse-hanley-im-glad-slimming-world-is-finally-getting-rid-of-syns-but-the-world-of-dieting-still-depresses-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/102126\/","title":{"rendered":"Saoirse Hanley: I\u2019m glad Slimming World is finally getting rid of \u2018syns\u2019 but the world of dieting still depresses me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nThe weight-loss brand has implemented a drastic overhaul of its language, but it jars with society\u2019s noticeable shift back towards the old narrative \u2013 that skinny is good and fat is bad\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Saoirse Hanley says Slimming World's revamp of its categories is a welcome move in the right direction. Photo: Frank McGrath\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/112815755.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Saoirse Hanley says Slimming World&#8217;s revamp of its categories is a welcome move in the right direction. Photo: Frank McGrath<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">I never thought I\u2019d be saying this, but I have to give weight-loss brand Slimming World some kudos in light of changes the company is ushering in. With a drastic overhaul of the club\u2019s language, they\u2019re doing away with their Syns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Two years ago,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.ie\/life\/health-wellbeing\/healthy-eating\/why-joining-a-weight-loss-group-was-the-worst-thing-ive-ever-done-for-my-health\/42258228.html?bcrFallback=bcrFallback\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> I wrote about my own teenage experience as a member <\/a>and the ways that I felt the structure and design of their formula impacted my relationship with food and my body. A large part of that stemmed from what often felt to me like the demonisation of certain foods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The weight-loss brand has implemented a drastic overhaul of its language, but it jars with society\u2019s noticeable shift&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,18,19,17,24322],"class_list":{"0":"post-102126","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-saoirse-hanley"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}