# Weight Watchers Support Group **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 18, 2003, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-watchers-support-group/169589 "2003-04-18T17:15:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 18
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2003, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-watchers-support-group/169589/341 "2003-10-12T12:09:07Z")
50! ---
**Author:** ![skittles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@skittles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skittles)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2003, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-watchers-support-group/169589/342 "2003-10-13T14:08:11Z")
50!!! YOU ROCK!!! I get weighed today - wish me luck!!! ---
**Author:** ![Isabelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b5a626/32.png) [@Isabelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isabelle)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2003, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-watchers-support-group/169589/343 "2003-10-13T14:42:20Z")
22 Reasons You Might Be Fat Forever. 1. You are still looking for a quick and easy solution to weight loss. 2. You think that diet and exercise are the only essential factors involved in weight loss. 3. You have not identified the psychological reasons that drive your eating patterns. 4. You have not learned to manage or heal the psychological reasons that drive your eating patterns. 5. You have a fear of or resistance to growing up and becoming a full adult. 6. You use food as a reward or a treat after any or all stressful events. 7. You think you can lose weight without making exercise a regular part of your day, every day. 8. You think you can lose weight by doing it “your way.” 9. You expect to lose weight without making significant lifestyle changes. 10. You refuse to learn to become a good receiver as well as a good giver . 11. You have never learned to be effectively and appropriately assertive. 12. You have not learned to express your anger in a healthy, honest fashion. 13. You have not learned to be self-nurturing except with food. 14. You are excessively self-critical. 15. You refuse to take responsibility for your life. 16. You resist learning to love yourself. 17. You resist learning to love your body before it is thin. 18. You have not faced your inner fears of being thin. 19. You are certain that spirituality (a connection to a force greater than you) is irrelevant to weight loss. 20. You think you can lose significant weight without the support of others. 21. You have deep emotional wounds that you refuse to explore and heal. 22. You are not prepared to have weight be an issue that you will have to face each and every day for the rest of your life. OK, now you have some incredibly important information about yourself and the things that a re blocking your weight loss. You now have a choice. You can get depressed and go into avoidance or denial, or you can choose to make a renewed and informed commitment to your growth and well-being. The decision you make could change your life and your body for good! ---
**Author:** ![Joyfulgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f04885/32.png) [@Joyfulgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joyfulgirl)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2003, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-watchers-support-group/169589/344 "2003-10-13T14:52:09Z")
50? Woo hoo!!! Go on with your bad self! I tried really hard last week and lost 3 lbs by Friday, plus I made my Halloween goal 3 weeks early! Yes, I rock 🙂 Good luck, **Skittles**! I’m sending positive (that is, negative) WI thoughts your way. ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2003, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-watchers-support-group/169589/345 "2003-10-13T15:17:48Z")
**Isabelle** , where did you get that? Some definite food[sub]pardon the pun[/sub]for thought. ---
**Author:** ![Isabelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b5a626/32.png) [@Isabelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isabelle)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2003, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-watchers-support-group/169589/346 "2003-10-13T15:35:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by scout1222 \* > \*\ ***Isabelle** , where did you get that? > > Some definite food[sub]pardon the pun[/sub]for thought. \*\* A group of women I know trying hard to lose weight wrote the list amongst themselves. I think there are 30 women all together and all on different diets. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2003, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-watchers-support-group/169589/347 "2003-10-13T16:03:24Z")
I think you guys, as a group, will appreciate [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=216888) thread, even if nobody else does. I’m getting some not so great responses from other places about losing 50 lbs. Jealousy, mainly. What the hell? Skittles! Did you weigh in yet? Joyfulgirl: Good job! Yay! scout: Hi! I’m trying to help another doper/lj friend stay OP. She’s been pretty discouraged as she’s not losing OP but is losing when she eats whatever. Does anyone have any tips? ---
**Author:** ![skittles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@skittles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skittles)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2003, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-watchers-support-group/169589/348 "2003-10-13T17:12:19Z")
OK - just back from my meeting. Down another 0.8 pounds making my total 39 pounds! **GingerOfTheNorth** my suggestion for your friend is have her find an old journal from a week where she lost and try to eat those same things again. She should still lose weight for that week and it will give her faith back in the program. Also - I would just be understanding…we all have times where we want to stop doing the plan. She just has to get back on the horse. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2003, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-watchers-support-group/169589/349 "2003-10-13T21:32:42Z")
Yay skittles! 39 ugly fat gross pounds gone for good! ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2003, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-watchers-support-group/169589/350 "2003-10-14T15:17:06Z")
What we have decided to do in the LJ community is to post our food journal for the day. That way, we’re all accountable to one another, and it shouldn’t be easy to slip up. ---
**Author:** ![fizzestothetop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e79b87/32.png) [@fizzestothetop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fizzestothetop)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-watchers-support-group/169589/351 "2003-10-17T00:48:43Z")
Hey guys. I had weigh in tonight. Another 1.8lbs gone! That makes my first 10lbs lost! Yay! For the past three weeks I’ve been losing .2lbs more each week so hopefully next week I’ll lose a whole two pounds again! 10lbs! YAY! ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-watchers-support-group/169589/352 "2003-10-17T01:48:58Z")
YOU’RE A SUPERSTAR! Yay Fizzy! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-watchers-support-group/169589.md?page=17)