Seems that I am now officially an employee of Weight Watchers (for a whole 90 minutes a week!) and having worked through some of their training manual and done a couple of hours of hands-on at the Selden center, I am beginning to get some interesting insider information.
So here we go with my expose of this multinational corporation.
THE TRUTH ABOUT WEIGHT WATCHERS #1
You don't lose weight at Weight Watchers meetings.
That is the official word. It is well documented and comes as a startling revelation to all except a handful of retired postal workers in Milwaukee who sat outside a Weight Watchers Center for six weeks monitoring the sizes of hundreds of people arriving at and leaving weekly meetings.
No one is saying that Weight Watchers don't lose weight. But you don't lose it at the meetings. Here's when you lose it -
+ When you order your toast dry in a restaurant
+ When you put skimmed milk in your coffee instead of half and half
+ When you pass on dessert
+ When you drag your tail out of bed in the morning to exercise
+ When you keep going at the gym though your body is screaming that it wants to go home now
At the meetings you'll get motivation, support and menu ideas, but the actual work is done in the other 6 days and 23 1/2 hours of the week. You see the results at the meeting, but the real work is done when no one else is watching. It's about taking control of your own future.
