Oprah REALLY loves bread!
daylitemag
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I'm probably coming to this party late, but I've just recently clued into these WW commercials where Oprah seems obsessed by eating bread. Someone should tell her it's poison and probably responsible for her weight issues.
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Yeah, she's generating lots of interest in Weight Watchers and their shares are going up. It's just too bad that they will be leading many people astray with their food philosophies. It'll be a big money-maker for the company and Oprah, but people won't be any healthier.0
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Aren't they the ones that make people think fruit doesn't count? Lol0
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I remember when I was a kid, my mom watched Oprah, what I remember most was get constant weight change. She's done one program after another to lose weight and gains it back each time. She seems an odd choice to advertise yet another weight loss program.
I do hope one day she finds what works for her.0 -
Sunny_Bunny_ wrote: »Aren't they the ones that make people think fruit doesn't count? Lol
Yes, though I think they have changed that. Seems every few years they have a new ww and modify how points are counted and what not.0 -
It's all a crock of *kitten* designed to do nothing other than suck money out of desperate people willing to do anything to lose weight. I wish they could all find their way here. I've lost over 45 lbs since mid-October thanks to all the great (free) advice here on this forum.0
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daylitemag wrote: »It's all a crock of *kitten* designed to do nothing other than suck money out of desperate people willing to do anything to lose weight. I wish they could all find their way here. I've lost over 45 lbs since mid-October thanks to all the great (free) advice here on this forum.
Wait... You didn't mail your check yet?
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The only thing I've known that WW has that is a valueable piece to their program is their WW meetings. I've had a couple of family friends do WW and the meetings and support that they got is really what kept them going....the one gal picked up the tips and tricks and eventually left WW and continued to have success.
I think the big push with Oprah's "bread!" comments is because people think you have to deprive yourself to loose weight....eating LC doesn't deprive you! Ultimately people want quick fixes, and regardless of how you lose it, it's going to require some level of work....even if that's just planning out your meals (not counting exercise!).0 -
Group support and accountability is important. Lucky for us, we all have each other. And no one has to pay anything. Well, no one is stopping you from paying my mortgage... ... but you know what I mean. lol 0
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I gained 20 pounds on Weight Watchers. True story.0
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auntstephie321 wrote: »I remember when I was a kid, my mom watched Oprah, what I remember most was get constant weight change. She's done one program after another to lose weight and gains it back each time. She seems an odd choice to advertise yet another weight loss program.
I do hope one day she finds what works for her.
That was my first thought too.. She would be the last person I would follow or take weight loss advice from, unless it was a tutorial about "how to be a life long yo-yo dieter :huh:
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Those commercials struck me, too.
I will say, before we TTC I did WW to lose 20 lbs and it worked for me. I maintained for 6 months until I was about 12w pg and started gaining. Post-pregnancy, I lost the first of the baby weight with WW too but then I stalled and ever since then, I've only been able to lose weight with a lower carb diet of some sort.0 -
I heard on the radio that she bought a 10% share of weight watchers. That might be why she is the spokesperson now.0
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@landiodo She did and that is why she's the spokesperson. They were losing money and sought her out by offering the shares. She will be a big draw for many people.
I have paid them enough to own stock, too, but unfortunately, it was the love of bread that kept me fat!0 -
She bought 10% of Weight Watchers. She spent 43 million dollars, I'll bet she loses weight!0
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My MIL is a lifetime member. She isn't always at her goal though, she yo-yos. If you are at goal you get free meetings but if not she has to pay. Though they say you can eat anything on the plan but in order to stay within her points she eats a ton of sugar free, fat free junk instead of real food. Like fat free "butter" spray, artificially sweetened fat free yogurt, fat free salad dressing, etc. All her desserts are made with sugar free jello, sugar free cool whip, and fat free cream cheese. It grosses me out! lol.
I'm happy to be bread free in exchange for real butter, cream, and full fat cheese and meat!0 -
@anglyn1 ...ditto for me. I used to be a fat free everything, too. Feels so good to have the real deal!0
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My MIL is a lifetime member. She isn't always at her goal though, she yo-yos. If you are at goal you get free meetings but if not she has to pay. Though they say you can eat anything on the plan but in order to stay within her points she eats a ton of sugar free, fat free junk instead of real food. Like fat free "butter" spray, artificially sweetened fat free yogurt, fat free salad dressing, etc. All her desserts are made with sugar free jello, sugar free cool whip, and fat free cream cheese. It grosses me out! lol.
I'm happy to be bread free in exchange for real butter, cream, and full fat cheese and meat!
you know that's kinda funny, I've never done ww but I've calorie counted many times. I would always go for the fat free, diet foods because they were lower in calories. when I first started lc I was reading about coconut oil and something said to eat 2 tbsp. a day, all I though was that's impossible, I can't spend that many calories on coconut oil, I won't be able to eat hardly anything if I do. That's when I limited to 1200 kcal a day. It was such a huge adjustment to be ok with eating a full fat dressing or oil in everything. After a month or so I learned I didn't need to "save" all my calories for later in the day because I didn't feel like I was starving all the time. no wonder my hormones were all jacked up.
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I never paid any attention to Weight Watchers or Oprah. I always knew that I needed to get right with my own issues.0
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I wish there was a way to eat bread and lose weight. Unfortunately I now know that, for me, that is impossible. And now that I haven't had any in more than a year I think of it as something that I may have in the distant future, making it myself from the best organic flour (I used to make my own bread often so I know full well the difference in flavour from that and what is commercially available).
So now when I see bread I think "Terrible quality, definitely not worth of the consequences." And I start daydreaming about that "perfect" bread that I will make someday when I'm at maintenance. It's a bit like being in the office in Winter dreaming about the Caribbean sea, lol. But it works for me.
I was never tempted by WW, a friend spent a fortune in the online version and was very enthusiastic and did lose some weight, only to gain it all back as soon as she stopped obsessively counting every gram of what she ate. She wanted me to join but even at my worst weight I could never believe that a calorie from candy would be the same as a calorie from a nutrient dense food. I was wrong about a lot but this was just too absurd to believe.0 -
I did ww about 8 yrs ago, because a friend prodded me into joining with her. I lost 20 lbs in about 4 months, but I really think the success was from having support from my friend, not the points system or meetings. I did not know anything about MFP back then. Not even sure how long it has been around?0
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I tried WW a few years ago. I did the online plan for about 6 months. I lost NOTHING. They were doing the program where many vegetables and fruits were 0 points, which doesn't really make sense to me. I've had much better success counting calories with MFP, and it's free!0
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I tried WW a few years ago. I did the online plan for about 6 months. I lost NOTHING. They were doing the program where many vegetables and fruits were 0 points, which doesn't really make sense to me. I've had much better success counting calories with MFP, and it's free!
When I went back and tried the plan you're referring to (Points Plus) I did it online for 4 months and after an initial 2-lb loss the first week, I also lost nothing. (I had a very hard time shedding the last 10-15 lbs of twin pregnancy weight so that was my goal at the time.) The scale would just wobble up and down a few pounds for months. I tried tweaking a few things, still nothing. Then I did 4 months of calorie counting on MFP and had the exact same experience. *Then* I went LC (Dukan at the time) and lost 12 lbs in 5 weeks.0 -
I remember doing WW with my Mother and one of her friends. Want to talk about awkward for a 13 or 14 yo boy? I mostly remember that after the meeting we would go to Harvey's for a cheeseburger. LOL
For sure the only good thing about WW is the group support. Otherwise it's just an overpriced, complicated CICO plan. I've done the CICO thing my whole life and never had any sustainable results. Only time will tell if I can maintain this LCHF WOE but it sure feels better and seems like something I can do long term. Straight CICO diets are far to reliant on being hungry and deprived to last for the long haul. Nevermind the fact that your body adapts to the lower energy inputs.0 -
@daylitemag I did Nutrisystem with my dad at 13, also not fun. There were no meetings, it was basically a CICO program with packaged food. All low fat high carb junk. But I remember going to pick up our mini packages of high carb low cal snacks and dehydrated meals and stopping by Jack in the Box for burgers on the way home lol. If only I'd known then that all I needed to do was skip the fries and ditch the bun and ketchup! Then I could have avoided the space food
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The love of bread and carbs in general almost took me out I now realize. It now blows my mind watching how much bread others eat when I eat out.0
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GaleHawkins wrote: »The love of bread and carbs in general almost took me out I now realize. It now blows my mind watching how much bread others eat when I eat out.
I hear that. Had lunch out with my wife and daughter to celebrate our not so little ones 18th. We went to an upscale burger joint. We all had basically the same thing but I skipped the bun and the fries. I found myself looking at the size of these big fluffy white buns they were eating. I was trying to mentally calculate how many days worth of carbs just one bun would equate to. On the upside I wasn't even remotely tempted to eat one, so that's good.0 -
daylitemag wrote: »GaleHawkins wrote: »The love of bread and carbs in general almost took me out I now realize. It now blows my mind watching how much bread others eat when I eat out.
I hear that. Had lunch out with my wife and daughter to celebrate our not so little ones 18th. We went to an upscale burger joint. We all had basically the same thing but I skipped the bun and the fries. I found myself looking at the size of these big fluffy white buns they were eating. I was trying to mentally calculate how many days worth of carbs just one bun would equate to. On the upside I wasn't even remotely tempted to eat one, so that's good.
That's exactly what happened with us last night. I got a double bacon cheeseburger no bun with a side salad, he got a regular burger with bun with fries. Mine was delicious, his too probably, but I realized all the good stuff is the middle the bun just makes it easy to pick up. In the past I wouldn't had a burger with the bun but with nothing in it, no cheese, no bacon, no asiago, no nothing, and I still wouldn't lose weight. No thanks, I'll keep my delicious covered in cheese and bacon burger, they can keep they're lousy bun0 -
What's surprising to me isn't that she loves her bread (it's yummy) it's that she's such a zealot about a new diet after all these years and all the diets she's been on. Even now, she's sure THIS is the one.0
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Sabine_Stroehm wrote: »What's surprising to me isn't that she loves her bread (it's yummy) it's that she's such a zealot about a new diet after all these years and all the diets she's been on. Even now, she's sure THIS is the one.
Don't we all think "this is the one!?" I know I do, even though the history of my entire life has proven otherwise. We have to have hope and be optimistic. However, in Oprah's case I'm pretty sure it's all about the Benjamins. I seriously doubt that someone with her money needs or would ever use WW. She has a private chef, at least one trainer and a medical team all on her permanent staff. Which now that I think of it really says something about how hard it is to lose and keep off the weight. I mean, if someone with that much professional support (and who lives under constant media scrutiny) can't do it then.......0 -
@daylitemag YES!!! Exactly. But I swear, LCHF really, really is the one now I don't have to worry about trying to afford a personal chef, trainer and medical team lol 0
