Question:
Has anyone else joined Weight Watchers and did you have success?

I joined WW after two months of not losing any weight. The first week I lost 7 pounds, I stayed at my point range and didn't use the flex points. The second week I lost 1.4 pounds again I ate at my point range but used more of the flex points, but was very happy with the 1.4 loss. This has been great for me because I was getting pretty bummed from not losing and being about 35 pounds to goal. Did anyone that did join WW tell Weight Watcher that they had the surgery? I read somewhere that they would not let you join if you told them.    — Janine B. (posted on March 10, 2004)

March 10, 2004
I joined WW the week after Christmas and have lost 12# so far. I am not real strict with counting my points but mainly use the meetings for my weekly weigh in and the motivation from the talks at the meetings. I am at a location for my meetings that is in a store front so there are about 20-30 at each meeting and there is a lot of feed back from the attenders plus I have about 20 different meetings to choose from in the course of the week. The store front meeting locations are common here in the Chgo area. I told them after I joined that I had WLS. Frankly, I do not feel it is any of their business whether you had WLS or not, you are paying them good money for the priviledge to be there. I would not ask them surgery related questions anyways I reserve those questions for the professionals at my doctors office. I go to WW for the sole purpose of utilizing the tools of their program and that is all. However I do believe that WW has a good solid program and it is not one of these fly by night programs that does not use good nutrition common sense to achieve weight loss. Do not worry about the fact that you are not loosing weight every week sometimes your body is just taking a break. It sounds like you have a handle on the point system and are following the program. Do not be so hard on yourself. Are you exercising and drinking the water that you need to get in? Email me if you want to have a WW-WLS buddy. I have 2 other girls that I work with that are going to WW also and we exchange tips and are motivators to each other. But, they are not WLS patients so they are not exactly going thru what I am going thru on my WW journey. Good luck. Christine open RNY 5/7/03 241/156/130
   — ChristineB

March 11, 2004
I joined WW about 2 months ago, and I've lost 10 pounds, which I'm pleased with. I had surgery nearly a year ago, and wanted to join a program that would get me on track with healthy eating habits before my window of opportunity closes. I felt I wasn't doing a good job post-op and needed some help. I didn't tell them I had surgery, mainly because I didn't want them to think any loss was strictly due to the surgery. I feel now that 80% of any weight lost at this point is due to effort, 20% is because of the surgery. As more time goes on, any weight loss is through pure effort. I also use WW weight range to determine my goal weight, not my surgeon's goal weight, which is 20 pounds lighter and unrealistic. Good luck! Open RNY 3/20/03 326/207/165
   — vittycat