Russell Williams
Well-Known Member
Does Weight Watchers work?
The following represents my opinion. Before forming their own opinion people should contact the Weight Watchers company and study their data about the long-term effectiveness of the program. Be sure to ask to see their five-year and 10 year out data.
In my opinion if the Weight Watchers program really worked Weight Watchers would've gone out of business years ago. If most of the people who joined Weight Watchers successfully lost weight until they reached insurance company standards and that weight stayed off for the rest of their lives what would have happened?
Weight Watchers was created in the late 60s. If most of the people who joined Weight Watchers lost all the weight they wanted to lose and kept it off Weight Watchers would initially make millions and millions of dollars as millions of Americans paid to join the Weight Watchers program.
However, since it is a written program, while it could be copyrighted, it would be impossible to prevent people from sharing it with their friends and to prevent other people selling the program at greatly reduced rates or giving it away for free. Therefore, there would very quickly be two classes of people. The first class would be those who had lost all the weight they wanted to with the Weight Watchers program and therefore had no need to participate in the program anymore. The second class of people would be those who were still losing weight on a bootleg copy of the Weight Watchers program and therefore were not paying any money to Weight Watchers. Soon all of those people would also be thin and would no longer need to participate in the real Weight Watchers program or in some bootleg copy of the Weight Watchers program.
If the Weight Watchers program truly caused everyone who used the real program or a bootleg copy of it to lose weight and keep it off for the rest of their lives there would be no repeat business.
In summary, if almost everyone who joined the Weight Watchers program, the real program, or a bootleg copy of the program, lost weight and kept it off for the rest of their lives, for at least the last 20 years there would been almost no fat people in the United States and the Weight Watchers program would long ago have gone out of business.
The above represents the opinion of Russell Williams and may or may not represent the opinion of Weight Watchers Inc..
The following represents my opinion. Before forming their own opinion people should contact the Weight Watchers company and study their data about the long-term effectiveness of the program. Be sure to ask to see their five-year and 10 year out data.
In my opinion if the Weight Watchers program really worked Weight Watchers would've gone out of business years ago. If most of the people who joined Weight Watchers successfully lost weight until they reached insurance company standards and that weight stayed off for the rest of their lives what would have happened?
Weight Watchers was created in the late 60s. If most of the people who joined Weight Watchers lost all the weight they wanted to lose and kept it off Weight Watchers would initially make millions and millions of dollars as millions of Americans paid to join the Weight Watchers program.
However, since it is a written program, while it could be copyrighted, it would be impossible to prevent people from sharing it with their friends and to prevent other people selling the program at greatly reduced rates or giving it away for free. Therefore, there would very quickly be two classes of people. The first class would be those who had lost all the weight they wanted to with the Weight Watchers program and therefore had no need to participate in the program anymore. The second class of people would be those who were still losing weight on a bootleg copy of the Weight Watchers program and therefore were not paying any money to Weight Watchers. Soon all of those people would also be thin and would no longer need to participate in the real Weight Watchers program or in some bootleg copy of the Weight Watchers program.
If the Weight Watchers program truly caused everyone who used the real program or a bootleg copy of it to lose weight and keep it off for the rest of their lives there would be no repeat business.
In summary, if almost everyone who joined the Weight Watchers program, the real program, or a bootleg copy of the program, lost weight and kept it off for the rest of their lives, for at least the last 20 years there would been almost no fat people in the United States and the Weight Watchers program would long ago have gone out of business.
The above represents the opinion of Russell Williams and may or may not represent the opinion of Weight Watchers Inc..
