livestrong asked:

Week five on Weight Watchers.

Rachel asked:


Has anyone ever lost more than 60 pounds in six months using weight watchers. Because i feel like losing 60 lbs on weight watchers will take like 5 years! Please, help me out! I And for those of you who have lost 60 lbs, how long did it take and how many points did you have a day?

p106_peppy asked:


I joined weight watchers today. Did I waste my money? I just read an article stating that people who are on weightwatchers, and attend meetings regularly, are on average only 11lbs thinner after 2 years, which sounds rediculous.

Abigail asked:


I’m thinking about joining weight watchers, but my spouse is currently in Iraq, and with little to no family around getting to the meetings without my two little ones would be impossiable. Does anyone know if they are allowed to attend with partents?

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Overview

It has been said that “you are what you eat.” While this may not be literally true, what we put into our bodies does affect our health and appearances. For people who feel that they need to lose weight, eating habits can often seem like a tangled knot. Weight Watchers® is one of the many programs designed to help transform dieters’ eating habits. Whether such a program is the end-all to dieters’ striving will be addressed in the following review.

Program at a Glance

Weight Watchers® is primarily a nutrition program with some emphasis on exercise.

Program in Focus

The word on the street is that Weight Watchers began as a small, local gathering of people who were looking for support in their diet efforts. While weekly meetings still form a large part of what Weight Watchers® offers, the program now provides online support to participants who cannot make it to a local meeting. Mainly, the nutritional guidance provided by Weight Watchers® relies on what they call the “points” system. This system provides guidelines to participants by assigning a point value to every kind of food. Depending upon a dieter’s present weight and desired goals, Weight Watchers® assigns him/her a point limit for each day. This is basically a simplified form of calorie counting. Again, some guidance in the realm of exercise is also offered. It seems that there is little to no mention of supplementation.

Positives

•    Facilitates healthy eating

•    Encourages exercise

Negatives

•    Not everyone may want to count “points”

•    Does not seem to recognize the benefits of an appetite-suppressing, fat-burning supplement

•    Satisfaction guarantee does not seem to be offered

Final Thoughts

There are countless ways to approach the issue of nutrition. While some people will be content to pay for a membership in a program such as Weight Watchers®, others will aim to look for simple, free methods for reformatting their eating habits. Yet, beyond changing one’s nutritional approach, each dieter must find ways to exercise on a daily basis. Lastly, some people may find that using a fat-burning, appetite-suppressing diet supplement may help improve their results. Always look to your physician for guidance when it comes to losing weight.



By: Shane Crafton

About the Author:

Weight watchers points system is a program that works how one can lose weight. It has been successful in the business it stands. Getting into the program, one must first have knowledge how it will benefit and fit their lifestyle. It can provide good effects with other people and to some it may be something with no good effect. Using weight watcher point system all in all depends on one who uses it. However there are reviews that testify how great it is.



It has good outputs such as balancing a nutritional diet that targets ones body needs. The diet program includes recipes and meals which the users can take advantage of. The materials provided are for the user to keep and use long as she wants to. It becomes more beneficial because it offers one on one support to user so to learn more about things needed and ask about what related things that can help with it. And because of the advanced technology we had, you can take advantage of the programs to get into such as attending meetings or to use the program tools available online like the Weight watchers online point calculator. As much as that, it also helps the user avoid deprivation system like others does just to lose weight which is not healthy. Instead they provide a system how to control their eating like providing a correct amount of food that can be taken. The user will feel good as no worries and feeling of being hungry at times.



But though it has proven benefits to others, there are also bad issues that tackle about the Weight Watchers Points system. Somehow they provide media exposure like advertisements who promises high benefits that sometimes are unlikely to hear because it’s exaggerated. Some people think of it that way thus affecting their power not to use it. It also had a feedback that Weight Watchers Points programs have an over costly price for the consumers. With that, people don’t feel it will be beneficial for them. Imagine spending hard earned money over it. What’s more is there are other options that can be good as Weight Watchers Points program people with low budget can get a chance about getting a program to help them lose weight. Another disadvantage by taking Weight Watchers Points program is the possibility of the user not to develop self discipline or self reliance because of dependency to the programs meetings.



To this point, Weight Watchers Points program can be concluded as having good and bad effects to people. That’s why the best way to get ones weight desires is still through ones own will with discipline and courage. It helps to read self help books and read articles online that you can get for free. Aside from the benefits that you can gift yourself, you can also save instead of taking a program that are costly and at the same time you are not sure if it will work for you.



By: Kelly Purden

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In my opinion, Weight Watchers is playing games with people’s heads. You’ve probably seen their new slogans, “Stop Dieting, Start Living.” If you’re a woman, like me who’s spent (wasted) years of your life on Weight Watchers in an attempt to lose weight using their programs, only to be disappointed in the end and to regain back the weight you lost following their system, then you will be shocked and appalled to hear that they have reached a new low in their marketing. They are claiming that their program is not a diet, because diets don’t work.

Evidently the breaking news that came out in April of 2007 with the UCLA long term composite study claiming diets don’t work has already spread like wildfire. Now thanks to Traci Mann, a psychology professor at UCLA and lead author of the study, it is commonly accepted by most people that diets really and truly don’t work. I guess even Weight Watchers has to agree that it’s a fact. After all, now it’s backed up by solid research. You can find more details on the study in the April 4th issues of American Psychologist, the journal of the American Psychological Association.

The truth of the matter is that Weight Watchers is still a diet no matter what they claim to the contrary.

As a former devoted member to Weight Watchers, I want to scream when I watch their commercials that insult my intelligence. Like so many women, I was duped into believing that diets were the holy grail, the answer to all my problems lay in my inability to lose weight, have more will power, be more disciplined, just say, “No” , eat less food and by all means exercise more. So simple right? Weight Watchers made it all seem so damned simple. Yet it wasn’t. Because they are a diet. They were and they still are a diet, whether they want to admit or not.

Let’s review a bit about dieting and put Weight Watchers claim under a microscope. Shall we?

* A diet tells you what to eat. Weight Watchers often hawks products and sells them with the intention of making money off of your unwillingness or inability to choose food and prepare it yourself.

* A diet tells you when to eat. A common battle cry of Weight Watchers is don’t let yourself get too hungry. Make sure that you eat something before you head off to a party or somewhere else before you’ll be faced with too much temptation.

* A diet tells you how much to eat. All diets have a limit indicating either a range of calories, points or fat grams that must not be exceeded over a day or a week’s time

* A diet gives you a goal weight and tells you what you should be weighing. My years at Weight Watchers were spent hoping and praying that one day I would reach that golden number that would indicate that I had won the weight loss game.

* A diet keeps you focused on how much you weigh. Weight Watchers still wants people to come in to the meetings a half hour before to weigh in.

If I sound bitter, it’s because I am. I’m flippin’ mad. How dare they claim that they are not a diet.

I’ve spent the last 18 months of my life embracing a true non diet approach to eating. Sure there have been bumps in the road because I had so much to learn about how to listen to my body and undo all the hurt that years of Weight Watchers and other diets had caused not only to my body but also my self esteem, my metabolism, my sense of independence, general health, spirit and well being. In the long run, diets have caused nothing nothing but pain for me.

Now that I’ve learned to eat real food and discovered the importance of handling the stress that pushes me to eat when I’m not hungry, I can’t envision my life ever being dictated by a diet again. How about you? Are you still dieting or are you ready for a taste of some real freedom?



By: Andrea Amador

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?? Hello?Kelsey ?? asked:


When we went to Weight Watchers meetings, we always used to bring home these delicious Garlic Parmesan Pretzel thins that we could buy at the Weight Watchers center. We’re no longer members, but we still want those delicious pretzel thins!
Can we just waltz in there and buy a box still, or do we have to be members?
If not, does anyone know a place we can buy them? [Not online, if we can avoid it.]
Or does anyone know anything that tastes like these pretzel thins?

Tracy asked:


I want to start doing weight watchers but I really don’t need the whole personal support system. I just don’t want to pay the money and find out I have to go to the meetings?

sheila2937 asked:

Here are my before and after pictures for my first month on Weight Watchers!