@circes: can you back this up? What else are green and red days to you?(extra easy is a different plan but still forces you to eat protein and carbs in moderation)...or rather: what do you think is food combining?
And of course low fat diets try to cut out fat...at least more than sw does. In most low fat diets for example eggs are a non-no...or at least not viewed as a free food. Same with cheese...sw tries to moderate cheese but technicall you could use all your hex a&b for cheese on the green plan. A lot more than would be allowed on low fat diets...let alone nuts&oils...it obviously depends on the type of low fat plan..but sw in my eyes is not a low fat plan rather a lowER fat diet..but it's not being promoted as a low fat diet either. It's a healthy diet and on a healthy diet you need to eat all 3 food types in a balanced way..and that includes fat.
Edit: it also depends how you define "low-fat-diets" - if you mean that you are starting to eat less fat than before you started to go ona diet then you could view ALL diets as low-fat (apart from Atkins maybe..even south beach is low fat although high in protein)...
But if you mean that a particular diet concentrates mainly on "low-fat"-foods then SW is NOT a low-fat diet. Otherwise you would be hungry all the time (like on all the other diets you have tried so far) because once you drastically reduce one food group you WILL be hungry all the time. Fat in particular helps us to feel fuller (in combination with other food groups of course) but has to be eaten in moderation due to it's high calories content (9 cals per gram).
And here is the official definition of the SW plan from Wiki:
Slimming World states its eating plan, 'Food Optimising',
[5] is a "flexible, empowering, permissive approach to healthy eating". There is little or no weighing and measuring and no
calorie counting involved. Food Optimising is purportedly based on the scientific principles of satiety (the satisfying qualities of food) and
energy density, and encourages slimmers to fill up on nutritious, low energy dense foods to satisfy their appetite, while limiting consumption of less satisfying, high energy dense foods. Unique to food optimising is the unlimited choice of many 'free foods' which can include lean
meat,
fish and
poultry,
pasta,
rice and grains,
vegetables and
fruit, which may be eaten freely. To help ensure a balanced diet, daily portions of 'healthy extras' are permitted, including
bread,
cereals,
cheese and
milk. Finally, controlled portions of higher calorie, less filling foods are included, such as crisps,
wine,
chocolate and sauces. In Food Optimising these are called "syns". Most adults have a daily "syn allowance" of between 5 and 15 "syns".
[1]
Food Optimising has a variety of plans, which may be followed on a daily basis as the slimmer chooses:
[2]
- 'Extra Easy plan': Free Foods include most fruit and vegetables, fish, lean meat and poultry and eggs, wholemeal pasta, potatoes, grains and beans. Healthy extras include bread, cereals, cheese and milk.
- 'Original plan': Free Foods include most fruit and vegetables, fish, lean meat and poultry and eggs. Healthy extras include bread, cereals, cheese, milk and carbohydrates such as wholemeal pasta, potatoes, grains and beans.
- 'Green plan': Ideal for vegetarians, Free Foods include most fruit and vegetables, pasta, rice, potatoes, grains and eggs. Healthy extras include bread, cereals, cheese, milk, nuts & seeds, and protein such as lean meat, poultry and fish.
So if you want to call it a "low-anything"- diet - call it a "low-density-diet"