Weight Watchers Review

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tlwsj
San Jose, CA

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Learn to eat healthy and exercise

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2007

Before you start your next diet --- you should know that 95 to 98% of diets fail, and most dieters end up putting on the weight they lost and more. Also the weight lost is often muscle but the weight coming back on is fat - so you literally end up fatter than you started. And fat cells are forever!

If you feel you must go to weight watchers, I would encourage you to get the positive things from it - ideas about healthy eating and adding exercise to your life. AND SKIP THE WEIGH IN. You don't have to weigh-in to participate in Weight Watchers. If you feel it helps you live a healthier life style that's great, but don't make it about losing weight.

You can be fit and fat. I would recommend you check out the HAES (Health at Every Size) movement.

Last edited on Aug 30, 2007

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In response to Astaire2's comment from Nov 15, 2007 at 11:40PM:

1. I have been on weight watchers (and about every other diet you can think of) - a number of times.

2. How dare you. You don't know anything about me. I take total responsibility of who I am. I am a fat proud woman. I take accountability for my actions - including dieting, which is at least partly what caused me to end up as fat as I am. I stopped dieting because I didn't want to end up being fatter than I already am.

Almost all of the health risks that are (allegedly) related to obesity can be avoided by a healthy lifestyle that has nothing to do with weight. Making healthy food choices and getting exercise. And guess what thin and average size people have health issues too.

Sounds like you believe in calories in- calories out. If that is true, why do people on diets plateau?

I think weight watchers can be a good place to learn about nutrition and healthy food choices, my objection to it is the focus on weight loss and the humiliation of weighing in.

Fat people are fat people. Stop trying to make fat people into thin people. Lets make fat people into healthy fat people.

All I can tell about you, is that you have enormous prejudice against fat people.

In response to AnnttMnd's comment from Nov 13, 2007 at 7:23AM:

Yes. A number of times. And each time I went back I was fatter than ever. Literally. When you lose weight you tend to lose muscle, when it comes back it tends to come back as fat. Fat cells are forever (unless you do something dangerous like liposuction).

If you believe in the theory of calories in-calories out - why do you plateau on every diet? (including weight watchers).

I think weight watchers is a good program to learn about nutrition. I object to the focus on weight loss.

Here we go with the HAES stuff again. IF YOU ARE MORBIDLY OBESE YOU ARE AT GREAT RISK FOR A MULTITUDE OF AILMENTS. You are not Healthy! Period, End of Story. Sounds like TLWSJ - 1. Has never really been on WW. 2. Has a real fear of being accountable for her actions. Like eating more than her body needs!