I have lots of friends to whom WW/SW is a rolling programme.
They do it every year.
They join up. They talk about it constantly. They sometimes stick to the programme but mostly they dont. When they dont stick to it they talk about everything they are eating and drinking and how many points/syns it is.
As if doing that somehow counts as dieting.
I dont hate them or think they are stupid. I hate what drives them to it.
If you are going to eat crap do it without paying someone to weigh you once a week.
Apart from the screwed up way women are made to feel about themselves, the thing I hate most about these diet factories is I think they are an alternative to healthly living.
They pretend to have an answer so complicated that you need 'expert' help to explain it to you. Its so complex that you need log books and rule books and passwords and special cookery books.
They sell a lie. Its a multimillion pound industry that exploits women.
It tells us that to be thin is the most important thing in life. It sells us the idea that if you are thin everything else will fall into place.
I am thin, always have been. Being thin did not stop me losing my DD, it did not prevent my OH getting a horrible disease, it hasnt made me rich or beautiful.
It just means I am thin. It doesnt even mean I am particularly healthy (although I am now doing something about that).
I will tell you what else it doesnt mean. It doesnt mean I despise overwieight people, that I starve myself, that I am vain or that I have an easy life.
As an outsider looking in, I do feel strongly about it. The majority of my female friends, since I was a young teen, have been overly concerned about their weight.
That is 30 years of listening to women complain, moan and sob about how ugly they are because they are not a size 8.