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WW...it.... WORKED FOR ME ! (Reply to this comment)
by louisdrinkingt
Way back I had excellent results from the 28 points that I needed to eat every day...
and the minimal exersise was never a problem.
I also wrote about that episode...here at epinions.
lou.
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Apr 01 '08
9:35 am PDT
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WEIGHTWATCHERS is not meant for crash dieting. (Reply to this comment)
by aohcapablanca
Dear LIBRAGIRLSC,
Your meditation on WEIGHTWATCHERS is as good as I have read anywhere. Bravo!
For what it's worth, your experience and analysis largely track with my own. Yes, WEIGHTWATCHERS is a sensible plan for selected aspects of a healthy life style, with a pretty good chance that most people who follow it will shed unwanted blubber. And, yes, once you pick up its basics, portion control, etc., you should not need to go to meetings, thus saving $11/pop. And different people will be able to throw off the meeting crutches at different times.
I am currently having arguments with my broker/Edward Jones financial advisor about whether to buy some WEIGHTWATCHERS (NYSE: WTW) stock. He doesn't like WTW's debt. I by contrast am fascinated by how smart and evolving its "philosophy" is and how sharp its web site is. It is a leader in that paradoxically named oyxmoronic "growth" industry which is weight loss. I also find WTW compatible with the ideas of Dr. Michael Roizen and Mehmet Oz in YOU ON A DIET, which emphasize waist size over avoirdupois, location of excess fat over its volume, if you like. Those doctors, I think, would be far happier to see our fat stored in a derriere than in an omentum too close to our liver for comfort.
Do I detect in the range of COMMENTS on your excellent review a subliminal desire by some to lose weight TOO FAST? If so, might that not be a mistake? Losing fast can mean imposing hard to maintain distortions of what ought to be a "normal" life style: e. g., quadrupling your exercises, swearing off hotdogs for a year, etc. But once the goal is achieved, good, prudent habits have not been hammered into your nervous system and it's likely we drift back up to excess pounds.
Of course we can use WEIGHTWATCHERS for crash dieting. But that is, at bottom, contrary to the WTW philosophy. In one of our recent weekly sessions our instructor spoke approvingly of a woman who took eight years to achieve her upper limit of acceptable weight, losing only 40 pounds to do so. Eight years! Only 40 pounds!
Such a person is my patron saint, though I am doing better than that. I am sure that she is just as pleased with her new "bella figura" as is the nurse in my class who has just shed 95 pounds from one October to the next (largely, I think, by exercise; she now swims 170 laps/day seven days a week.) Whom would you bet on as more likely to maintain the happy outcome?
Cynics might say: of course WTW wants you to lose slowly. The longer it takes, the more money for the instructors, clerks and the corporation. Except that, in practice, the instructors stress that success means reaching your goal, becoming a life member and not having to pay fees any more. They want those good habits to become so good that eventually you eat wisely without thinking much about it. This is also the approach of Drs. Roizen and Oz. And remember that every instructor, every clerk at those weekly meetings is a successful product of WTW weight loss herself/himself. At every meeting you see living proof that WEIGHTWATCHERS has worked for at least two people.
Again, thanks for your sensible, prudent review. I look forward to learning more from your product or service descriptions and analyses.
Cordially,
AOHCAPABLANCA 11/06/2007
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Nov 06 '07
2:59 am PST
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Re: Couple questions (Reply to this comment)
by Birdfeather
I also think that explaining the points system would make this review VH. You have some great information in your review and it is well written. Please let me know if you update (email link).
Karen
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May 08 '05
9:21 am PDT
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Couple questions (Reply to this comment)
by PattyTherre
This is a good review and gives some really helpful information. I just wanted to know a little more about the "Flex Points" part and whether that is a new addition to the WW program or just a fancy name for being given a set of points (calories) to eat daily.
Also, does Weight Watchers encourage vitamins?
What happens at a meeting? I know you said they weren't worth the money but I am curious to know what a typical Weight Watchers meeting is like.
I was once on WW online so I never had meetings to go to and I am trying to see how much different the actual WW is from the online version.
Good luck with your weight loss and here at epinions.
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May 07 '05
2:36 am PDT
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