Has anyone used or is using Weight Watchers to help them lose weight?

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I finally have decided to get motivated and start beginning to care for my physical health. I have weighed too much for too long. So yesterday I started weight watchers to help me in the process.

I need to lose quite a bit of weight. I have diabetes, so weight loss with more exercise should help get that more under control.

Anyway if anybody else here is in the same process, I've joined that journey. If you used Weight Watchers has it been a positive experience?

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cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

My sister didn’t join Weight Watchers but someone shared the diet plan with her when she was in high school and she lost quite a bit of weight. It has changed since then. Eating a candy bar doesn’t give nutrition and sugar creates hunger hormones so in the end that type of diet will fail. They taught us in school when I was young that a “calorie is a calorie regardless of what you eat. And if you eat too many calories you will gain weight.” Even doctors would say this when discussing weight loss. But now they are finding out this isn’t true. Calories from certain foods will help your metabolism burn more fat from your body, proteins and fats especially and high-fiber low-carb veggies will help too. Also foods high in resistance starches will help, you have to know how to prepare each food properly though for that, it varies depending on what type of food it is.