Success story

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Success story
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Sat, 08-07-2004 - 7:53pm
I came across this website of a woman who lost over 90 lbs doing WW. Go through all the pages. Her weight loss is very inspiring and she has some good advice to share.

http://www.freewebs.com/dimpledn/

~~Linda

~~Linda

 

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Fri, 08-13-2004 - 9:03pm
thanks for sharing it's always nice to read a success story and see the before/after pics
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Sat, 08-14-2004 - 12:20pm
WW itself often puts up "success stories," as a way of inticing more new members. It's interesting, they don't put up "failure stories" of people who leave the program or don't experience such "success." It's all a matter of how business is done, I think. Some of it is no more than an extended advertisement for a weight loss program.

hippolytes

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Mon, 08-16-2004 - 11:17am

You do have a point.



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Mon, 08-16-2004 - 12:13pm
I appreciate you posting that website. Both Carla and her cousin are such a big inspiration for those of us trying to lose and thinking of weight watchers. Seeing Before and After photos gives me the hope that I will be able to lose the weight and keep it off.

People should not be so negative about it. I really appreciate seeing those success stories. Who would want to try a program that shows failures? Whatever program works is one that I want to try. This may not mean that it works for me, but to see the results these ladies have is an inspiration and worth the time and effort.


Edited 8/16/2004 12:16 pm ET ET by csiraca

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Mon, 08-16-2004 - 12:15pm
Joyce,

I don't follow links posted on message boards, for obvious reasons. But I do have to agree with hippolytes on this one. WW tends to make protracted "advertisements" disguised as "success stories." Of course it is good that the woman in the story (apparently, since I haven't read it) found something (WW, of course) that worked for her. I think the one point, though, would be this.....would WW encourage such "success stories" to be printed, if the "stories" said their product (the business) **didn't** work for them? If the woman, for instance, had said that she tried WW and gained weight, and so opted for good old fashioned commonsense (counting calories, and sensible exercise) and THAT worked? I think not. Really, those WW stories tend to be just advertisement for a weight loss product, that being membership in the WW services.

I've yet to see WW print "failure stories," and surely those exist too! Just a thought.

Forte

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Mon, 08-16-2004 - 12:24pm
"good old fashioned commonsense (counting calories, and sensible exercise)"? WW helps people to understand the food content and gives them a system to do so. They also provide support and counseling if needed, which is more then just counting calories and exercise. Weight Watchers, to me, seems logical because you are getting all of the support you may need (if this is the right program for that person). They help with long term goals and losing the weight for lifetime acheivment. No, they do not "promote" the people who have quit Weight Watchers, and why should they? The program was not for them. Personally "Common Sense" should not be counting calories and sensible exercise, it should be doing what you think it right for yourself. This is just my opinion, of course and I felt the need to voice it.

On the other hand I wanted to ask if you have a program that works for you. If so that is wonderful! I have not found one yet, but Weight Watchers is my next step. I am hoping it is the right program for me, because I tried counting calories and exercising, but I failed. Probably because I did not have the support backing me up.


Edited 8/16/2004 12:25 pm ET ET by csiraca

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Mon, 08-16-2004 - 12:27pm
I don't think anyone is being negative about it. My point, and I think the other poster's too, is that some of these "success stories" we really have to take with a grain of salt. As I learned in business school years ago, the first rule of business is that "business is in business to make money" and WW is a business. Nothing more.
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Mon, 08-16-2004 - 12:45pm
Hi everybody,

Well I did just click on the link, and saw her pictures. The woman does look nice, but it does seem to be just another one of those "success story" websites that WW itself probably puts up to "showcase" the business. We see them all over the place and sometimes I wonder how much these people are paid by WW for their pictures. Maybe it's nothing of the sort, but WW has been posting "success stories" like that and all over the web, at least for many years now and probably for as long as the world wide web has existed. Before that pictures and "success stories," little vinettes like this, were commonly "posted" in Ladies Home Journal, or Redbook, and the like. I think it's all part of advertising, and you see it not only in WW but in Jenny Craig and any of those "programs" geared predominately at women.

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Mon, 08-16-2004 - 12:46pm

Just to back up what Joyce said, these are businesses.

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Fear

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Registered: 08-16-2004
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Mon, 08-16-2004 - 12:49pm
I think that was the point he or she was already making. WW is a business. The "success story" is just a thinly disguised advertisement for that business. It's an ad, like any other ad.

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