Misinformed Weight Watchers

First of all, please don't bash on a program that you don't know because someone is not representing it properly.

I'm not seeing bashing.

I love Weight Watchers and think they have an excellent program; unfortunately most people do not do the program correctly.

Not all veggies are 0 pts. Starchy veggies (potatoes, peas, corn for example) have pts values to them. All FRESH fruit may be counted as 0 pts. however WW does not say that just because something is 0 pts. you can eat as much as you want.

Their healthy guidelines say 5 servings of fruit or veggies a day, not as many servings as you want. They'll also tell you that if you are doing all or mostly fruit and your weight has stalled or you are gaining, it may be time to eat more veggies and cut back on the fruit.

I feel sorry for your friend, she's missing out on a lot of food that she could be eating on WW. Turkey burger can have as much fat in it as regular hamburger. Cheese, nuts and an apple are a snack for me. She needs to re-read her material.

Course some of the blame can be the leaders; there were times I wanted to just take over the class as my leader would seem so wishey washey with the new program. But she never said to eat all the 0 pt food you want or avoid nuts and hamburger.

Let her know that if WW workks for her that is good and if this is working for you that is fine also. I know WW goes by points and veggies are 0 points and you meet certain points depending on your weight. I was on WW and it is a good plan but I like this better because it is free and hate going to their sessions where they all jump up and down bragging about how much they lost, making you feel horrible. The reason she says that about the nuts and beef is because they are worth more points than other stuff. Just ignore her if need be. She is only trying to make herself look good by putting youo down. Chin up and surge ahead.