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My best friend on WW, a size 2, don't know why she goes! Except for the support I guess. Have gone with her several times and enjoyed the meetings. They have great protein bars! My lifestyle is too busy to make it every week though, have to be out of town, and don't want to be treated like a kindergartener and be "punished" when I miss a meeting, so haven't ever joined.
I lost weight the old fashioned way: diet and exercise. It really works! Stay away from the sugar and all the other WHITE stuff, flour, white rice, bread, etc. or anything refined and packaged. Stay out of the inner aisles of the grocery store. Use meat as a condiment, mostly WHOLE grains and vegetables. Kind of a semi-macrobiotic diet. It really works. I do cheat once a week, like WW says to do (I think). Has to become a lifestyle though or it won't work over the long haul.
The WW points system works if you stay on it. My daughter lost somewhere less than 70 pounds in about 8 months and has kept it off for more than five years now.
No diet works if you don't stay on it. You have to make a commitment.
With the points system you eat exactly what you want to eat within the points limit. Sometimes you will want a particular food, like a gravy biscuit from Bo Jangles, and have to adjust the rest of the day or week so you can afford that food. The person who created this points system diet has to be a genius. No other diet would ever work for me. The points system does and you will lose approximately 2 pounds per week, but it won't come off exactly like that. I once went 30 days without losing an ounce and found I was counting the points wrong for a particular food. I had looked at the package wrong. So now I check each food every time I eat. No saying, "This was such and such points yesterday."
I remember when I first started to bowl and did not know how to keep score. We were in a new league and the person keeping score finally had been asked one two many times what the score was. She told me that if I knocked down all the pins the score would take care of itself. It is the same with the WW points. You don't have to worry about how much you are losing. If you stay on the points, the weight will take care of itself.
Once you learn how the diet works, going to the meetings or not is a choice.
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