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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

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I posted this link because I thought that it was very inspiring. I don't follow WW, and I don't plan to. However, I find success stories to be very inspirational and uplifting, regardless of how the weight was lost. This woman has a lot of good advice on her website, advice that has nothing to do with the WW program. I enjoyed visiting her site, and I thought that others would as well, since we all have common weight loss goals.
~~Linda
~~Linda
Fear
Fear
To put my two cents here: I did open the website, and I think it's an ad just like all the other ads which WW plants across the web. You see these things all over, and I think they are just paid advertisements for a particular program. And they are often disguised as "individual" websites. For crying out loud, WW just advertises itself this way and has for a long time. It's probably a way to get "under the wire" (so to speak) on boards like this one, which don't allow advertisements for other businesses to be spammed here.
WW has done this for eons. Someone posts a "did you see these success story pictures" on websites where advertisements for other businesses aren't permitted. It's a way for WW to advertise itself, for free, to a lot of women. And when you multiply that by the number of times this "website" of a lady's "success pictures" are printed....well then, a big company like WW has really cheated and gotten itself a lot of free advertising, without getting pulled as "spam." But "spam" by any other name, is still "spam."
I just wonder how much money that woman got paid by WW for putting her photos on display across the internet? Or how much people get paid (if they do) to post the links to her "website" on boards all over the place? One thing though, it's a business. But it may save WW money to engage in this sort of self-advertisement....I'm not so sure it speaks to the integrity of their business practices though. Who knows!
It is rather transparent, though.
All that said, I'm really out of words on this one. I just saw this, and knowing how advertising works wanted to weigh in with my two cents worth. It's really not that interesting, or "inspiring" when you come to think of it. It's just WW trying to make a buck.
I think that's all I have to say on this score. As I said, it's really not that hard to figure out.
~~Linda
~~Linda
I appreciate your two cents, and hope that you can appreciate mine.
I totally understand what you are saying, I really do, but if advertising something that inspirational is making someone else feel better, then there is no harm in it.
Fear
I don't think it's "contraversial" as you say. It just is, what it is. If the woman actually lost weight, then good for her. But we can't always believe everything we see or read. And one thing is pretty certain: somebody is making money by these kinds of "success stories" for WW plastered on the internet. If it weren't profitable, it wouldn't be one of the ways WW advertises itself to potential "customers."
Crazy, but it seems so. Oh well, Fall will be here.......someday!
Ha!
Dawn
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