To think weightwatchers meetings are toe-curlingly bad?

[Momsnatter]

Went to my first ww meeting on Friday. I was given a piece of string "to keep things in balance" and then the leader rang a bell for people who had reached their target.
I came away feeling patronised and decidedly de-motivated!
Plus the leader was nasal and giggly. Not her fault I know but I can't face going back.
Are they all this bad? Was really like something out of Little Britain.

I did SW a few years ago and the worst thing was all the tongue biting I had to do because the leader and a lot of the regulars evangelicly pushed diet coke, muller lights, pasta n sauce and the cereal bars sold at the meeting.

I was considered a lunatic because I didn't believe all these wonderful 'free' foods were healthy or delicious and did bizarro things like drink water and make my own soup .

I also didn't get how things like tinned macaroni cheese were free, although I don't think it is anymore, but you didn't have a hope in hell of making your 'free' own macaroni cheese even if you used disgusting free ingredients like quark or other fat free dairy.

i came to the conclusion, with my training background that i could be a world beating slimming world /ww leader. the downside is that id have to actually get through their diet to do it!

Most weightwatchers leaders are on minimum wage and helpers in England get nothing. I have stopped going and do 5/2 instead stops me obsessing about food all the time.

I did WW for nearly 2 years. I did ok, lost about 20lb but was about 6lb off that illusive 'healthy' weight bracket. I got rather tired of eating 14 points a day, exercising 4 times a week and not losing only for the leader to say What are you doing wrong? so I left, put it all back on and more!

Now I follow Paul Mckenna's I can make you thin. I've stopped dieting and failing, started enjoying food and feeling motivated to exercise. I did lose a fair bit but then got pregnant, however I only gained a stone during pregnancy! There's a support thread on here which keeps me motivated. It's a slower process than a diet but the changes are long lasting.

this thread has made me chuckle! I joined sw around 7 yrs ago and did really well. I loved my meeting and it was fabulous. I stayed for years. I got pregnant and gained alot back. I've attempted a few different sw groups since and they've all been absolutely shit. Sw just doesn't suit my hectic lifestyle anymore either.

I started learning about clean eating and doing high impact exercise which was great but has made me obsessed with food. I am anxious about how its made and whether its organic and its horrible. No matter how hard I try to be relaxed about it I can't. I know that eating unprocessed foods are way better than diet pepsi and white pasta but my head is completely screwed for the guilt clean eating instilled in me.

I've just started ww online this week and its been a revelation. I work 12 hr days and its impossible to plan my food. its so good to still 'be on track'and be able to flow with the day and what's available to me aslong as Itrack it and stay within my allowance which is surprisingly generous actually if used properly.

id really just like to get this weight off again now. Its horrible to be unhappy and in a vicious circle.