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TranceJen tells us all about Weight Watchers:
"I think they’re only out to sell their food, which is loaded with unhealthy preservatives and other assorted addictive shit, just like the rest of the diet industry’s shit, designed to get you addicted and even fatter, stuck in the dieting cycle, because they’re a multi-million dollar corporation who could not possibly give less of a shit about you and your fat ass."
While I have no such vitriol towards Weight Watchers, I will totally join "The Holy Sisters of The Big Asses" as soon as Trance starts it up.
"I think they’re only out to sell their food, which is loaded with unhealthy preservatives and other assorted addictive shit, just like the rest of the diet industry’s shit, designed to get you addicted and even fatter, stuck in the dieting cycle, because they’re a multi-million dollar corporation who could not possibly give less of a shit about you and your fat ass."
While I have no such vitriol towards Weight Watchers, I will totally join "The Holy Sisters of The Big Asses" as soon as Trance starts it up.
posted by mo pie at 3:45 PM
5 Comments:
I would completely join the Holy Sisters of the Big Asses!
Great site, thanks for the link!
I see her point, but I feel like the article is a little... uninformed. If you are talking about a program like Nutri-system, or Jenny Craig, where every single one of your meals is prepackaged and handed to you, then, yes. Those programs teach people nothing about nutrition or portions or anything, they just make them totally dependent on their food. At least Weight Watchers isn't like that- you can easily do the diet and never eat a single prepackaged "weight watchers" product. And it is a little more realistic- it doesn't say you can never have chocolate or binge or eat in a restaurant. Which is good, because guess what- you will. It actually allows you to see the scope of the damage. When I did weight watchers, I realized that if I absolutely HAD to binge on something sweet, an apple croissant at my favorite bakery was far less harmful than, say, two of their chocolate chip cookies.
I don't use weight watchers, I have better success with a slightly different plan, but I think just attacking it as, "A bunch of fat people trying to get away with eating chocolate and calling it a diet" is wrong, and a little insulting.
I just want to point out, as people seem a little confused on this point, the link is not to an "article" or anything written for a publication -- it's a diary entry on someone's online journal. Though she has an interesting point & this can spark a healthy discussion, I don't think it should really be held to exacting journalistic standards.
-J
Yes, you're absolutely right! It's a journal post, thanks for clarifying that.
Thing is, WW still has the 8 healthy habits, even if people don't focus on them as much as the points. If you really eat 5 fruits or veggies a day plus 2 dairy servings, that's a chunk of healthy points already. Totally agree that too many people just use points to eat all junk, but then, you are hungry. For me at least WW has seemed like the easiest diet (erm, lifestyle) to maintain long-term because I can work it into my daily life no problem. When I tried some other ones I felt like it was impossible to ever eat out or on the run.
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