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In this brand new 8-part season of Save Money Lose Weight, Sian Williams and Dr Ranj Singh aim to uncover vital money saving tricks, the best £ for lb diets and help debunk some weight loss myths.

This was the final episode in the latest season of Save Money Lose Weight and the diet under the spotlight was the revamped SlimFast Vitality Diet. Sian and Linia looked at low calorie alternatives to crisps and Dr Ranj looked at DNA test kits that claim to help you lose weight.

This diet plan includes one 600 calorie homemade meal each day, for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Then you have a protein shake for the two remaining meals. So, one main meal, two shakes and 3 snacks each day. The snacks and shakes need to be the SlimFast versions.

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The diet should come in at around £300 for the 28 days and the guinea pig this week was care worker Deana. She suffers from severe Type 2 Diabetes and takes insulin to help control it. She weighed in at 14 stone 10lbs and is around 3 stone over her recommended weight for her height.

She loves sugar and used to drink up to 6 cups of tea with 3 sugars in each per day. But the diabetes is threatening her independence. If she doesn’t get it under control, the DVLA could take her driving licence away.

She’d also been using Coffee Mate to disguise the sweeteners in her coffee and that contains lots of things that she shouldn’t be having. Despite the Coffee Mate though, her blood sugar levels still dropped and by week 3 she was back on track.

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After 28 days on the SlimFast Vitality diet, Deana had lost 4lbs. Deana was disappointed but, on the up side, her blood sugar levels were heading in the right direction. Because Deana’s dependence on insulin, making it more difficult to lose weight, the team felt it was unfair on SlimFast to include it on the leader board. So, these are the final results:

Crisps are a definite favourite snack for us Brits with 6 million packets being consumed every year. The nation’s favourite flavour, cheese and onionfirst hit the shelves in the 60s. Lots of brands market healthier alternatives so Sian and dietitian, Linia Patel, decided to put them through their paces. But what makes the original crisp so calorific? Linia said,

She went on to explain that there are around 10 times more calories, gram for gram, in crisps than there are in potatoes and that is purely down to the way they are cooked. Because the are fried, it adds a whole load of calories. What makes them so irresistible is the fat, and then the salt opens up the taste buds and makes us want more.

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There are lots of baked versions on the market that aren’t fried. These are marketed as healthier for us. Sian said that the full-fat fried version tasted more like a crisp to her but, if she saw ‘oven-baked’ on the label, she would assume it was healthier and, therefore, that she could have more. The baked versions are often advertised as 50% less fat so you would assume that would mean 50% less calories. Sounds logical, yes? But that isn’t actually the case. With Walkers Baked for example, they may have cut the fat, but they have doubled the sugar content to make them still taste good. Because of the extra sugar, the difference between normal Walkers crisps and the baked version, there is actually only 6 calories difference.

Sian and Linia then looked at the lighter versions like Quavers. In a bag of normal Walkers Cheese and Onion crisps there are 169 calories, Quavers have just 86. These are made from potato starch. Linia said that the reason there are fewer calories in snacks like Quavers s because there is less in a packet. So, if you can stick to just one packet, it’s worth going for these instead. Oh, and watch out for the packet size for normal crisps! Make sure you don’t pick up the grab bag versions!

In 2017, Jax weighed in at 18 stone 11lbs and put the Weight Watchers ready meal diet through a 28-day road test. She struggled without fizzy drinks to start with but by week 4 was getting to grips with it. At the end of the 28 days, Jax had lost 12.5lbs. The diet had cost £263.70 so that works out at £21.10 per lb lost.

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She carried on with the diet for another month after the 28-day road test and made her total loss up to a stone. Since then she has lost almost another two stone. She found that following the diet initially taught her some new eating habits as well as the importance of looking at food labels. She Does still get some of the Weight Watcher products that she was eating before, but she mixes and matches with other food.

Dr Ranj decided to take a look at DNA test kits that claim to use your DNA to help you lose weight. He was a bit sceptical. The kits claim to work out the best, personalised diet according to your genetic makeup. Dr Ranj decided to talk to a nutritionist. He said that the kits can be used to tailor your diet but that your genes are just part of the puzzle. Lifestyle needs to be considered.

Dr Ranj looked 3 different kits ranging from £59 right up to £399. All 3 involved a simple saliva swab that is then posted and the results, with your tailored diet plan, are posted back to you.

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To see if he could make sense of the results, her sent them to the Head of Lifestyle Sciences at the Brunel University, Dr Alex Blakemore. She said that the fact that he got 3 different recommendations just proves that the science behind DNA testing for weight loss just isn’t mature enough to make those choices. She did say that the companies aren’t making false claims, it’s just that they each use different bits of the scientific evidence by just looking at a handful of the many thousands of genes. Dr Ranj said,

‘So, it seems these kits don’t have the complete answer yet, but with our growing scientific knowledge, they could be exciting prospects for the future.’

The diet that was put through the 28-day road test on this episode was the Scandi Sense Diet. Sian was looking for the tastiest and best value diet version of the chocolate biscuit and Dr Ranj investigated products that claim to boost your metabolism.

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This diet was designed by Danish dietitian Suzy Wengel. Each meal combines four handfuls of food, three times a day – one handful of protein, one of carbs and one or two of veg, plus one of fat. It promises to provide a balanced diet that will make you feel full and lead to a healthier lifestyle. There’s no calorie counting or weighing food out, nothing is banned, and exercise is optional. The team estimated that the diet would cost around £400 for the 28-day road test.

Working mum of five, Jaydean, was the Guinea pig this time, weighing in at 19 stone 6lbs and with a BMI of 43.9. Her relationship with nutrition was definitely on the rocks. She said,

‘I just tend to love food in general and I love takeaway food. It’s easy and accessible, especially as my life is so fast paced at the moment. I can’t just have a little bit of something. If I have it, it’s going to be it all.’

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Day 1 and Jaydean’s food delivery had arrived. She picked up a packet of mangetout and had no idea what it was. She said it looked like snap peas. She had some flexibility around ingredients, but she was going to have to follow the recipes the diet plan offered. She seemed quite happy with her breakfast on day one.

‘I’m feeling a lot better. My energy levels are up. I’m making better choices and eating better foods which, essentially is giving me a better lifestyle.’

Week three and Jaydean was getting some exercise in with walking and had learnt to adapt some ofthe recipes to her taste. But a few days later, she came off the rails. Her husband and daughter went to McDonald’s and her lunch didn’t seem so appealing to her then.

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At the end of the 28 days she weighed in and had lost 13lbs. The diet had cost her £408. 71. She said,

She said she didn’t think she would be continuing 100% with the diet, but there were a lot of recipes that she would be using in the future.

The UK eats more biscuits than anywhere else in the world and it’s the chocolate digestive that regularly tops the polls when it comes to the nation’s favourite. There are lower calorie alternatives but how do they compare on taste, value for money and calorie content?

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‘There’s no getting away from the fact that biscuits come loaded with fat and sugar. For example, a