User Review #62 by holly on November 18th, 2009 at 12:42 PM CST

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I'm a WW lifetime member, but have decided to look elsewhere for weight loss and maintenance support. Originally, I enjoyed the low price, and the points system, and the fact that no foods were off limits, but, there was still a bit of a structure to the daily food plan. Now, you can choose various plans, make your own, or just eat chocolate and milkshakes all day long, it seems to make little difference to Weight Watcher's leaders, in the long run. Plus, when I sit in the meetings, all I hear is talk about food, where to get this food, or that food, and I see members salivating at the mention of food. In every meeting, from the time you walk in, until you leave, you see boxes of WW candy bars, milkshakes, full color posters of foods, and some of the rewards after the meetings are food! Do drug addicts sit in a pharmacy, looking at full color posters of the drugs of their choice? Do Alcoholics Anonymous meetings have free samples at meetings, and pictures of beer, wine, and liquor plastered all over their walls? The meeting leaders don't really seem interested in any personal struggles of the members. Well, they like to listen to you contribute to the meeting, as long as it doesn't get too deep in thought, or take up too much of their time. I can not recommend Weight Watchers to anyone who wants to keep their weight off for life. There is no real info on how to change your thoughts about food.

I'm a WW lifetime member, but have decided to look elsewhere for weight loss and maintenance support. Originally, I enjoyed the low price, and the points system, and the fact that no foods were off limits, but, there was still a bit of a structure to the daily food plan.

Now, you can choose various plans, make your own, or just eat chocolate and milkshakes all day long, it seems to make little difference to Weight Watcher's leaders, in the long run.

Plus, when I sit in the meetings, all I hear is talk about food, where to get this food, or that food, and I see members salivating at the mention of food. In every meeting, from the time you walk in, until you leave, you see boxes of WW candy bars, milkshakes, full color posters of foods, and some of the rewards after the meetings are food!

Do drug addicts sit in a pharmacy, looking at full color posters of the drugs of their choice? Do Alcoholics Anonymous meetings have free samples at meetings, and pictures of beer, wine, and liquor plastered all over their walls?

The meeting leaders don't really seem interested in any personal struggles of the members. Well, they like to listen to you contribute to the meeting, as long as it doesn't get too deep in thought, or take up too much of their time.

I can not recommend Weight Watchers to anyone who wants to keep their weight off for life. There is no real info on how to change your thoughts about food.

User Review #61 by Alisa on November 13th, 2009 at 4:08 PM CST

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I agree. I don’t think weight watchers teaches people to eat healthy. What I learned was how to eat the most for the least amount of points. And the meetings were far from group therapy; it was mostly people talking about how to eat the most food for the least amount of points. There really was no mention of eating smaller portions of nutritious foods. I knew people who would eat cake for dinner or a pile of broccoli because they had no points left.

I agree. I don't think weight watchers teaches people to eat healthy. What I learned was how to eat the most for the least amount of points. And the meetings were far from group therapy; it was mostly people talking about how to eat the most food for the least amount of points. There really was no mention of eating smaller portions of nutritious foods. I knew people who would eat cake for dinner or a pile of broccoli because they had no points left.

User Review #60 by leslie on October 19th, 2009 at 10:35 AM CDT

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I’ve been a lifetime member of WW for about 15 years and have been back and forth with it feeling I need the weekly meetings to stay on it, however for the past few times I’ve joined and rejoined, I’m finding it harder and harder to stick to it. I feel like all I do is think about food, what to eat, how much to eat, when to eat, etc all day long. I’m finding I don’t like it as much anymore and I’m thinking that Nutrisystem might be worth a try. After all the $$$ I’ve spent at WW with buying some food,the books and meetings, it’ll probably be less expensive.

I've been a lifetime member of WW for about 15 years and have been back and forth with it feeling I need the weekly meetings to stay on it, however for the past few times I've joined and rejoined, I'm finding it harder and harder to stick to it. I feel like all I do is think about food, what to eat, how much to eat, when to eat, etc all day long. I'm finding I don't like it as much anymore and I'm thinking that Nutrisystem might be worth a try. After all the $$$ I've spent at WW with buying some food,the books and meetings, it'll probably be less expensive.