# Who's had a good weight loss experience with support groups

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-had-a-good-weight-loss-experience-with-support-groups/624250>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 6, 2012, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-had-a-good-weight-loss-experience-with-support-groups/624250 "2012-06-06T06:10:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2012, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-had-a-good-weight-loss-experience-with-support-groups/624250/1 "2012-06-06T06:10:16Z")

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Title says it, tell me your story

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**Author:** ![Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7cd45c/32.png) [@Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glory)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2012, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-had-a-good-weight-loss-experience-with-support-groups/624250/2 "2012-06-06T06:30:39Z")

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I’m not sure if this counts, but I’ve been posting at [www.3fatchicks.com](http://www.3fatchicks.com) for almost 7 years. I think the online support has helped me maintain my 70lb weight loss during that time.

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**Author:** ![Illuminatiprimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/illuminatiprimus/32/11520_2.png) [@Illuminatiprimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Illuminatiprimus)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2012, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-had-a-good-weight-loss-experience-with-support-groups/624250/3 "2012-06-06T09:27:26Z")

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I lost about 35lb with weight watchers (about 20% of my body weight), but for me that was less about the support group and more about their method and having a structured way to do it, I think. That said, getting started it was really good to have people around me who were trying to do the same thing, and who didn’t say stupid things like “oh there’s nothing wrong with you, you don’t need to lose weight”. It was also good to be able to share mistakes, what we did wrong so we could help each other.

Sadly nothing is going to replace will power and hard work in these sorts of endeavours.

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**Author:** ![sandra\_nz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@sandra\_nz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sandra_nz)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2012, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-had-a-good-weight-loss-experience-with-support-groups/624250/4 "2012-06-06T09:57:33Z")

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I am currently doing Weight Watchers Online, but I no longer post on their forums, which I initially thought would be my support group. I just find there is so much misinformation spouted as fact, and a lot of txt speak, bad grammar and spelling, etc. (Of course, now that I’ve typed that, I’d like to point out that any spelling/grammatical errors in this post are purely intentional. Yes.)