Weight Watchers stock hit hard by falling earnings

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(Jane) #41

Nailed it!

(*Tame Those Ghrelin Gremlins) #42

I think the last paragraph of the article is full of ignorance and incorrect. Keto is not a quick fix, and I think it may become the demise of WW lol.

I never personally tried a diet program before so I don’t know how WW works but the commercials make me cringe. Watching everyone eat carbs pizza and pasta.

(Jane) #43

Yep. Have your carbs and still lose weight - magic!

Nope. But a recipe for failure that keeps you coming back and paying your weekly dues. :wink:

(Jane) #44

Well if the media (backed by Big Food) keeps touting that people will believe it and then give up when the weight doesn’t melt off. A cursory glance at the newbies section confirms that.

(Brian) #45

I don’t support WW at all. I don’t support any diet program, really. Never have. Don’t intend to. No reason to.

I eat low-carb / keto. I don’t buy “special” or “prepackaged” ready-to-eat foods. I don’t play little card games. I don’t count calories. I really don’t even pay much attention to macros anymore. I did pay attention long enough to figure out where the carbs were (and foods that needed to be avoided) and then were the good protein is (and made a habit out of eating enough) but after that… I eat real food, and pretty much all I want. Some of it I grow, some of it I buy from local farmers. Some I buy at the grocery store. But few things I buy have more than one or two ingredients and none of them are “diet food” unless you count the stevia and/or erythritol I use for my coffee and the occasional treat.

I eat meat, fish, eggs, and dairy. I eat nuts and seeds. I eat veggies. I eat a few berries. I make almost 100% of my “treats” and they’re low-carb / keto friendly when we do have them (not as often as we used to, I think it’s been like a week now since I even had one, kinda lost track).

Maybe significant numbers of people really are figuring out that they don’t need to pay dues to some organization or buy prepackaged “diet” food, of whatever denomination, in order to lose weight or be healthy. I hope so.

There is always… always… someone trying to part my heard earned money from my wallet for a product or service I really don’t need, whether it’s food or clothing or warranties, the list could go on… I look at the WW, JC, Atkins, and similar pretty much the same way. If there is something good in any of them that you really need, go for it. Some of them may have good and useful goods and services that are of real value to you. Then again, you might find that like me, and many others, more all the time, there are things that just aren’t worth paying for. (I won’t even go down the “Hollywood / TV / celebrity” rabbit trail.)

“Real food. It’s what’s for dinner!” LOL!!

Just my opinion. :slight_smile:

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #46

Sad for them (or should it be SAD for them?), but at least there’s a positive aspect: MORE BACON FOR THE REST OF US, YAY! :grin:

(Was that insensitive of me?)

(squirrel-kissing paper tamer) #47

No, no it wasn’t. Remember: Bacon–it’s not for sharing.

(Scott) #48

Two words “shelf life” this is why you want see the real foods we crave.

(Scott) #49

After reading this I started thinking of how we used to put away items after shopping. Large quantities of packaged or bagged processed food would be moved into the pantry. We still ate a decent amount of veggies and such. Now the vast amount of foods have no labels and go in the fridge. I can do this for ever.

(Jane) #50

So true.

It would almost have to be a local restaurant that prepared the foods daily, but offered a list of ingredients so you know they didn’t slip in extra carbs as fillers, flavor or thickeners.

#51

It has been for me, for over two years now. :+1:

With NO interest in going back to the way I used to eat.
This is my life, now!

(Libby) #52

A Keto Buffet… OMAD’s Keto Buffet

(Stickin' with mammoth) #53

I can relate. I was Marie Kondo before Marie Kondo back when I discovered my true religion: minimalism.

Keto fits right in. Nothing I like better than seeing one or two items sitting regally on a shelf with tons of space around them.

Keto should be taught to accountants: You save on storage equipment, you save on food, you save on space, you save on time, you save on gas because you can pare your grocery shopping schedule down to once or twice a month if you work it right.

You even save on smarts. My brain is freed up from all the previous worrying and anxiety over health and nutrition and whether I’m getting enough of the right kind of green fiber this week.

Funniest thing I’ve seen in a while: The church on my corner has an electronic sign and the first title said “Next Service: Why Would God Let Suffering Happen?” and the one immediately following (and I swear I’m not making this up) said “Got kale?”

(Cindy) #54

Given how many people there are who ask for help with macros, understanding the science, asking for advice on what to eat, how to cook it, when to eat it, etc, WW could probably continue to sell memberships and meeting WITH keto as a dietary option. They’d be able to make their little booklets and menu planners, give their members the “Page 4” guidelines, and it would reassure some people that they were “doing it right.” We know that all the info is on the web for FREE, but there are still plenty of people who don’t trust “free,” so they’d feel better paying for the info (and would believe it more because of the money).

(Scott) #55

Not going to work for me, I buy a ton of produce. It is quicker now though, produce, meat, dairy, checkout. I call it the outer loop.

(Keto butts drive me nuts) #56

They (WW) will be offering KETO options before you know it. I can hear it already, WW KETO BARS!!!:joy::joy::joy:

(Heather Meyer) #57

I was not successful on the points system. I ate as many low points foods as possible and there are a lot of good tasting junk foods on the market for low points… and then they brought in their flex points that you could accquire through exercise and that made it worse!

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #58

I’m a devout Christian, but I have to confess that the existence of kale, okra, and beets shakes my faith in a merciful God. . . :grin:

(Stickin' with mammoth) #59

Amen.

(Stickin' with mammoth) #60

I’m carnivore, no regrets. I use all the extra gas driving to hiking trailheads.