WeightWatchersReviews 158

I got this for my wife as a Christmas gift and she really liked it for a few different reasons. For one, it has the updated program information in it and goes along those lines, so she liked that. It also is set up nice with good strong pages and sort of a spiral book set-up. One review I read called this book more of a folder, which I have to totally disagree. This thing is about 1.5 inches thick and is well made. I have no doubt this can survive a lot of cooking in the kitchen. I am not the one that does most of the cooking so I can't comment totally on some aspects, but it was well received and seems to be the right price. I think I paid around $15 on this site.

Just try to cancel your account on WeightWatchers online! Just try! It is next to impossible to cancel your account online! They offer an email address so I sent an email and they responded. They said the email is only an 'acknowledgement' even though I requested cancellation 3 months ago! They kept charging me month after month. When I telephoned their office in NY *******112) and said I am filing a complaint with BBB, their response was, "We can only credit the most recent amount charged."

I love this site. I had put on so much weight recently but now feel great and ive just done my teeth white too and look great... im ready for a new girlfriend now. From carl... thank you weightwatchers you were amazing

My uncle was using this website for one year ago and he doesn’t have any changes in his body. Now he is feeling very frustrated in this website and he stopped using this service. They are not given him a best diet procedure and not only given good exercises for reducing the calorie.

I have been a Weight Watchers member for more than 20 years and it's a great program. I lost a total of 40 pounds from my initial weight, and my weight has stayed in a healthy range ever since.

The most important things about weight watchers are: It is not a diet, it emphasizes life style changes to improve your health -- eating healthy foods, exercising, identifying the triggers that start compulsive eating and avoiding or battling them, learning to deal with failure (in weight loss and elsewhere) without stressing out, and so on.

The meetings deal with predictable challenges as they arise -- holidays and the parties that go with them, summer and the temptations that come with it, food at work, eating out, and so on. The leader will have suggestions for dealing with these things, but also the other members have suggestions, and sometimes other members' suggestions are the ones that will work for you.

It's a great, proven program. If you're concerned about both your health and your wallet, you should be guided by this direct quote from WebMD (http://www.webmd.com/diet/news/*******/weight-watchers-thumbs-up-study):

"Commercial weight loss programs may offer as good if not better weight loss results than
Those led by a health professional, according to a new study.

It's the first time the two types of group-based weight loss programs have been tested in a
Head-to-head comparison.

The results showed that people enrolled in a commercial weight loss program, Weight
Watchers, lost as much weight as people in a professionally led behavioral weight loss
Program.

In fact, more than twice as many Weight Watchers participants lost at least 10% of their
Starting weight than those in a group led by a health professional or in a combination of
The two weight loss programs.

Experts say the results may open up more affordable and effective weight loss options for
The more than 70% of Americans classified as overweight or obese.

If Weight Watchers focused more on encouraging health, then the program materials would be fairly helpful. However they continue to focus on weight loss, which they have never been successful at. Research repeatedly finds that, contrary to common opinion, intentional weight loss attempts predict weight gain and eating disorders, but they do not predict weight loss or improved health. Weight Watchers is part of the $60 Billion annual industry that teaches us to only focus on the scale - even though their own research studies show that long-term, significant weight loss isn't possible.

Seriously. I bet you didn't realize that. Their own study showed that participants lost around about 10 pounds in six months and kept off half of that for two years. Doing the math, that is a five pound weight loss maintained for 730 days. Karen Miller-Kovach, chief scientific officer of Weight Watchers International at the time, said: "It's nice to see this validation of what we've been doing." Can you imagine? If she is so excited by this study, why don't they change their advertising? Can you see it? Join Weight Watchers and you have a pretty good shot at maintaining a 5 pound weight loss for two years. Is that really worth $20 per month to use their website?

Rather than focus on a program that wants to sell you packaged food-like substances, I encourage people to look at Health At Every Size principles. HAES works with the fact that health is multi-dimensional and includes genetics, environment, stress, access, and past, present, and future behaviors by putting the focus on the health that is possible for each individual body. HAES eliminates chasing unattainable concepts of "perfect health" based on a certain size, and it gives up the ridiculous notion that our health is only a matter of our current behaviors and is entirely within our control.

Love the online tools. Love the educational articles. Lots of stuff available that I do NOT use. Forums etc.
Weight Watchers works when you truly do the programs. Those that try and tweak the program are the ones that don't do well.
For example. I had an acquaintance join WW, she went to every meeting and did not loose weight. She was mad and kept telling everyone WW did not work. I find out later that she did not think their "points" program would work so she was counting calories instead... Duh... why bother with WW if you know so much more than them and are going to do your own thing anyway?