Weight Watchers - How They Make Their Millions

[twitchycurtains]

Anyone watching this?

So far so so, feel like they are trying to find something out of nothing- this is how a lot of group based diets work. I say this as a recently joined SW member.

The product comparison is interesting.

Branded diet food is more expensive than the non diet food - shock! horror! oooh look at the group leader trying to flog WW products to the people in her group....who doesn't know this?

Someone needs to tell Jane Moore that a lot of the WW branded food is sold in the 99p/Poundland shop as well as Iceland.

Its all a bit silly so far. "Brand name diet food is expensive". No shit.

Also, low fat food is full of crap to make it taste better without fat/sugar - again, no shit, and I didn't like how she deliberately failed to pronounce ingredients that she clearly knew how to say, to ham up how bad it was.

I hated the hard sell at WW meetings. I never caved, but yeah it spoiled it for me. It was so obviously about getting your purse out.

I follow WW and I eat fruit, veg, salad, meat and fish. I don't buy the diet food as it's too dear. However I use the ProPoints system to help me eat the right amounts.

Thinking of doing 5:2 though

As a WW follower for the last 25 years I am now low carbing and losing LOADS of weight.

Crunchie - come and join us on the low carb thread!

The thing is, you guys all know this, you know how to logically analyse information you are given, and not accept things at face value. Many, many people don't have this skill.

All diets work if you make a firm commitment to changing you're lifestyle and not see it as a quick fix. I think this programme is looking for controversy where there isn't any. It's not revealing anything earth shatteringly new or shocking.

Commercial Business in Profit Making Scandal!!!
Give me a fucking break.
Their ethos is 'eat healthily to lose weight'. If you're too lazy to work out your pro-points then that's your own fault.

I agree twitchy. If people gain weight after stopping following the plan, its not because the plan is faulty, but because they've stopped following it.

What a strange programme, can't beleive channel 4 fork out the £££ for this kind of investigative (snort) journalism (bigger snort)

Ridiculous argument that it's too tricky to work out the points value of non-weightwatchers branded products. It's very very easy!! Even for me as a technophobe. There's a database of most products at my fingertips, or I can use their calculator.

Lazy, biased journalism.

I'm not saying there are no flaws in WW, but this programme didn't point out anything other than the screamingly obvious.

How can they blame WW for the fact that participants often regain the weight they lost? It's because they go back to eating more calories than they need, ie the choices they make.

Hilarious programme. People shocked at the horrific revelation that a £21 monthly subscription adds up to more than £200 annually. People shocked that diet failed cos like I started well but then I slipped back to me old ways teehee. And the indignity of a business seeking to make a profit - note, you don't have to buy that stuff! Crap, lazy so-called journalism.

I totally agree icetip, those ridiculous women looking shocked to the core at the annual cost of their WW membership! It was very simple maths FFS.

Dispatches must think we are all very very stupid.

Weight watchers may have a social purpose; which is good, but they are a
psychological rip off in a way/ Business is like that these days. The supermarkets use loads of psychological tricks

Just watched this and I do agree that it's not anything we didn't already know before as others on this thread have put it.

I've never been on a weight loss plan like WW, so cannot comment on how successful they are.

I wonder whether WW are affected by the increased availability of free apps that do a similar thing, e.g. MyFitnessPal. There are also increasing numbers of online support networks.