Opinions on Weight Watchers?

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  • mm3898
    mm3898 Posts: 138 Member
    Hm, I'm confused about Quoting or Replying to people on the message boards! I was probably supposed to reply to everyone who I actually quoted. This is my test! Thanks to all replying and giving insight, I hope the people I quoted saw LOL I need to get more message board savvy.

    Best wishes to everyone!
  • VASMA63
    VASMA63 Posts: 19 Member
    Did WW for 2 years on the flex program and lost 105 lbs. Reached Lifetime and worked for them for a couple of years as a receptionist. What I believe is this: any restrictive calorie diet will work if you do it. The only time I was successful on WW was when I created my own program within the program, i.e. I posted daily in the forums (which was a pain because of the monitoring and censorship), had a group of members that I saw weekly in addition to my meeting, and had an extraordinary leader who had lost a lot of weight (more than the leader loss average of about 25 lbs...).

    Then I entered maintenance which in my opinion is NOT what WW is good at. They make no money as long as I am at goal weight (and am not swayed into buying their products). Then I moved out of State. I started regaining weight, and despite going to meeting after meeting trying to re-create the formula, no luck. I found a bunch of duds for leaders, didn't clicked with anyone in the meetings to form outside running/exercise/social support networks, and they changed the plan every year...So, here I am with only 1/2 of my 105 lb weight loss maintained...So far MFP is a far superior tracking program in my opinion.
  • kanstulpants
    kanstulpants Posts: 20 Member
    P.S. The thing that I did not like about WW is that there is a pretty big penalty for fat. I don't eat a high fat diet but more than what is in their plan.

    This is why I didn't like it when I tried it (I think it was one of the points plans several years ago). I refuse to buy low fat products, I prefer to just eat real food and I cook mostly all my meals from scratch. It seemed that using 100 calories worth of regular cheese or butter or something used up a lot more points than something that had the same calories but was lower fat.

    So if I stuck with the recommended points, I couldn't even make it through one day because I was starving.
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