No, absolutely not!
When I first signed up I found myself using the syn library regularly when shopping but I could have done the same by typing the food followed by syns into google and 90% of the time the answer is there.
The disappointing thing for me with online slimming world is how much you don't feel like a member of slimming world! If you go to a meeting you get certificates, some places do prizes for weight loss and the opportunity for other morale boosting awards. Online you get a pdf with the weight loss on which doesn't even print to a page size. No potential annual awards as they can't verify your weight loss! No free weeks for continuous weight losses and it's not free when you hit target as again they can't verify you've done it.
When my plan runs out next month I will be transferring my weights over to my fitness pal and continue to log my weight on there instead as I'm only really paying for an online tracker as it currently is. I find it pretty amazing they haven't got a team focused on the people who do it online. Yes, they have online chats every now and then but these are very laggy and not very user friendly as they are heavily monitored by the girls running it (you can't post anything before it's approved by one of the two running it and when they're both replying to people you see nothing in the chat for a long time then all of a sudden an influx of messages and stuff just disappears!). How many articles do you read in the magazine where it says the person has lost the weight doing it online? None is my guess? I did the gold online membership which includes the monthly magazine subscription and I think they all are people from local groups. Again, I think it's something where if you're at a group your rep puts you forward for these. Whilst that's great, surely with a team of people working on the online side of the business they could reach out to people who only do it online and see if they would like to feature? They could work on a more personalised award for weight loss which fits on an A4 sheet if someone wanted to print it. They could add the ability to have a certificate sent out even if it's for a small charge. Everything seems geared towards the local groups are the focus of the business and the online bit is a quickly put together addition that isn't much of a priority.
Honestly, posting regularly here has helped me more than the slimming world website/subscription!
