User Review #8 by J. Stoddard on December 28th, 2007 at 10:50 PM CST

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After reading the comments left by others, I felt a need to tell my story, even though it is old. At 273#s, I knew I had to do something. For three weeks I sat in my car, watching WW members going into a meeting, waiting for a man to go in, preferably one bigger than me. Finally, one did go in, and I followed him. He signed in, weighed, and left while I was filling out paperwork. I never saw him again, but he got me into a meeting. The weigher explained that my goal weight would be 170#, a loss of 103. I couldn't emagine losing that much, but stuck to the diet for the first week, and lost 14 lbs, getting me to 259. From there, I just thought of it as working my way (weigh?) down a ladder, a 10 pound rung at a time. I never felt hungry on the plan, and for the most part enjoyed the food, meetings and program in general. I made up my mind to stay on the plan religiously, and to lose weight every week. I succeeded in those goals, taking 52 weeks to lose 105 lbs. I actually had a fear at the end of not being able to stop losing! After I reached my goal weight, I decided that the best way to stay with the program was to become a weigher, which I did for over a year, until I was transferred to another city. Being a weigher, I heard every excuse imaginable as to why someone had not lost weight that week, and because of that, I refuse to make an excuse today. If I gain or don't lose, it is only because I failed myself. It's not because of anything or anyone else.

After reading the comments left by others, I felt a need to tell my story, even though it is old. At 273#s, I knew I had to do something. For three weeks I sat in my car, watching WW members going into a meeting, waiting for a man to go in, preferably one bigger than me. Finally, one did go in, and I followed him. He signed in, weighed, and left while I was filling out paperwork. I never saw him again, but he got me into a meeting.

The weigher explained that my goal weight would be 170#, a loss of 103. I couldn't emagine losing that much, but stuck to the diet for the first week, and lost 14 lbs, getting me to 259. From there, I just thought of it as working my way (weigh?) down a ladder, a 10 pound rung at a time.

I never felt hungry on the plan, and for the most part enjoyed the food, meetings and program in general. I made up my mind to stay on the plan religiously, and to lose weight every week. I succeeded in those goals, taking 52 weeks to lose 105 lbs. I actually had a fear at the end of not being able to stop losing!

After I reached my goal weight, I decided that the best way to stay with the program was to become a weigher, which I did for over a year, until I was transferred to another city. Being a weigher, I heard every excuse imaginable as to why someone had not lost weight that week, and because of that, I refuse to make an excuse today. If I gain or don't lose, it is only because I failed myself. It's not because of anything or anyone else.

User Review #7 by kiya schultz on December 25th, 2007 at 11:20 AM CST

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After reading these reviews I'm at a loss as to what to say. I've been a lifetime member of weight watchers since 1988 and feel it's the best thing out there on the market. We do whatever we please and then when the solution takes time, commitment and self discipline to resolve, we get upset because "they" can't fix it quick enough. What happened to personal responsibility? Nobody made me eat that pint of Haagen daaz. Granted, this may not be the best way for all people to lose weight, but my way wasn't working for me. How's things working for you? Anytime we change ours food habits, our body has to adapt. Sorry to hear that the lady with the baby had such a bad experience. She should call the ww toll free number and maybe they can do something to help. As a lifetime member I have always been treated well. Whatever plan ya'll choose, I wish you the best of success. I can't wish you luck because luck has nothing to do with it. It takes alot of HARD WORK, DEDICATION, and MOTIVATION to change our unhealthy habits. ALL the best.

After reading these reviews I'm at a loss as to what to say. I've been a lifetime member of weight watchers since 1988 and feel it's the best thing out there on the market.

We do whatever we please and then when the solution takes time, commitment and self discipline to resolve, we get upset because "they" can't fix it quick enough.

What happened to personal responsibility? Nobody made me eat that pint of Haagen daaz.

Granted, this may not be the best way for all people to lose weight, but my way wasn't working for me. How's things working for you?

Anytime we change ours food habits, our body has to adapt.

Sorry to hear that the lady with the baby had such a bad experience. She should call the ww toll free number and maybe they can do something to help.

As a lifetime member I have always been treated well.

Whatever plan ya'll choose, I wish you the best of success. I can't wish you luck because luck has nothing to do with it. It takes alot of HARD WORK, DEDICATION, and MOTIVATION to change our unhealthy habits. ALL the best.

User Review #6 by jason on October 23rd, 2007 at 3:02 PM CDT

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it is so sad my wife just started what she would call a "life changing experience" with ww. She hasn't been a member a week and she is ready to quit. Not because of physical requirements, but by the way she was treated by 2 different area weight watchers. she joined last friday, with a dear friend of ours who is a Cancer patient, basically taking CHEMO for a little more time, and who wanted to worry about something else besides here condition. my wife is a beautiful mother of 3, one a new born 5 weeks old. she goes to the first location, with our friend and our newborn and signs in, pays her money (which included her first "meeting") and goes to enter the meeting. But she is stopped!! Why you might ask. The lovely skinny little chick who just took her Cash refused to allow her in the meeting because of her SLEEPING NEWBORN!!!. and says, "You'll need to go to the meeting in a different location, we don't allow children in here, the next one available is on monday" at said location. Oh, well thanks for saying something before you took my money, 35 dollars may not seem like a lot, but that is 3 or 4 packs of diapers. so my wife goes to said location on monday. before she walks in she is told she must pay again, for the meeting. pay again? she was not able to go to the one she already paid for, because sleeping Newborn children are apparently 'weight loss poison'. she tried to explain that she had already paid. The lady proceeds to tell her that that was for last weeks meeting, and that she needs to pay for this weeks meeting. my wife was besides herself, what do you mean you are going to charge me for a meeting "THAT YOU WOULDN'T ALLOW ME TO GO TO IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!" she hadn't even been allowed to go to 1 meeting but is going to be charged with 2!! she did not pay. and never will again. when she was weighed in, that was exactly what it was, a weigh in. no one talked to her about weight lost goals, like they should do. during her one and only first meeting, it was conducted by a new person, by herself. She couldn't answer any question that my wife couldn't answer herself, a total fish out of water. my wife wanted some support to help her to loose weight, what she got was a company more interested in the bottom line than actually being fair. acompany that really does little to communicate with brand new people. because of the way my wife was given the runnaround, she has decided to never go to another meeting, overall ww is a joke, we're switching to nutrisystem.

it is so sad

my wife just started what she would call a "life changing experience" with ww. She hasn't been a member a week and she is ready to quit. Not because of physical requirements, but by the way she was treated by 2 different area weight watchers.

she joined last friday, with a dear friend of ours who is a Cancer patient, basically taking CHEMO for a little more time, and who wanted to worry about something else besides here condition.

my wife is a beautiful mother of 3, one a new born 5 weeks old.

she goes to the first location, with our friend and our newborn and signs in, pays her money (which included her first "meeting") and goes to enter the meeting.

But she is stopped!! Why you might ask. The lovely skinny little chick who just took her Cash

refused to allow her in the meeting because of her SLEEPING NEWBORN!!!.

and says, "You'll need to go to the meeting in a different location, we don't allow children in here, the next one available is on monday" at said location.

Oh, well thanks for saying something before you took my money, 35 dollars may not seem like a lot, but that is 3 or 4 packs of diapers.

so my wife goes to said location on monday.

before she walks in she is told she must pay again, for the meeting. pay again? she was not able to go to the one she already paid for, because sleeping Newborn children are apparently 'weight loss poison'. she tried to explain that she had already paid. The lady proceeds to tell her that that was for last weeks meeting, and that she needs to pay for this weeks meeting.

my wife was besides herself, what do you mean you are going to charge me for a meeting "THAT YOU WOULDN'T ALLOW ME TO GO TO IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!"

she hadn't even been allowed to go to 1 meeting but is going to be charged with 2!!

she did not pay.

and never will again.

when she was weighed in, that was exactly what it was, a weigh in. no one talked to her about weight lost goals, like they should do.

during her one and only first meeting, it was conducted by a new person, by herself. She couldn't answer any question that my wife couldn't answer herself, a total fish out of water.

my wife wanted some support to help her to loose weight, what she got was a company more interested in the bottom line than actually being fair. acompany that really does little to communicate with brand new people.

because of the way my wife was given the runnaround, she has decided to never go to another meeting,

overall ww is a joke, we're switching to nutrisystem.