My Dad started on WeightWatchers a few weeks ago. He is 76 and has put on weight over the past few years probably because he has arthritic knees and can't get about so easily. He went to see his GP who realised he is really serious and so he is now going to WW on the NHS! He now weighs more than when he started.
Week 1 -3.5 pounds.
Week 2 +2 pounds.
Week 3 stable
Week 4 +1
Week 5 +2
Week 6 -1
Week 7 +0.5
He was obviously pleased the first week but he was told he wasn't having enough variety in his breakfast and not to have boiled eggs every day.
2nd week he changed his breakfasts and alternated with porridge and fruit but managed to put weight on. He was told it was because although he was within his points amount he was having too much bread.
3rd week - Changed to Ryvitas (half the points) and stayed stable. He was told off because he wasn't eating enough.
4th week - Put weight on. Still keeping to right amount of points but told it was because he ate oily fish for breakfast.
5th week - put weight on - he was told it's probably becaue WW ready meals are quite low in points so difficult to get to his points total.
6th week - his fault - he had a blackberry pie.
It just seems to me that there is always an excuse. Personally I look at his schedule of food and he said he is struggling to eat so much food. He is eating lots of fruit and plenty of variety and has to have bread or ryvitas to get it up to the total. He is having 3 boiled eggs with WW bread for breakfast to get the points up. This is a ridiculous amount of food.
Another man is in the same position and puts on weight every week despite doing it religiously with his wife.
I'm just thinking there must be something fundamentally wrong with the amount of food that he has to consume on this. Surely if he is satisfied with less and is having fruit, vegetables, fibre and WW ready meals and soups on less points then he could just take a multivitamin and he'll lose weight?
Last week the person in charge didn't even look at his points sheet as there were some newcomers. Maybe the problem is that there are too many in a class for them to dedicate enough time to each member? There are about 30 people in the class - is this normal?
What are other people's experiences?
Oh and the talks - one was about picnics - and lots of people left. There don't seem to be any informative talks on actual nutrition and it is making my Dad a bit despondent. He's trying so hard.
Week 1 -3.5 pounds.
Week 2 +2 pounds.
Week 3 stable
Week 4 +1
Week 5 +2
Week 6 -1
Week 7 +0.5
He was obviously pleased the first week but he was told he wasn't having enough variety in his breakfast and not to have boiled eggs every day.
2nd week he changed his breakfasts and alternated with porridge and fruit but managed to put weight on. He was told it was because although he was within his points amount he was having too much bread.
3rd week - Changed to Ryvitas (half the points) and stayed stable. He was told off because he wasn't eating enough.
4th week - Put weight on. Still keeping to right amount of points but told it was because he ate oily fish for breakfast.
5th week - put weight on - he was told it's probably becaue WW ready meals are quite low in points so difficult to get to his points total.
6th week - his fault - he had a blackberry pie.
It just seems to me that there is always an excuse. Personally I look at his schedule of food and he said he is struggling to eat so much food. He is eating lots of fruit and plenty of variety and has to have bread or ryvitas to get it up to the total. He is having 3 boiled eggs with WW bread for breakfast to get the points up. This is a ridiculous amount of food.
Another man is in the same position and puts on weight every week despite doing it religiously with his wife.
I'm just thinking there must be something fundamentally wrong with the amount of food that he has to consume on this. Surely if he is satisfied with less and is having fruit, vegetables, fibre and WW ready meals and soups on less points then he could just take a multivitamin and he'll lose weight?
Last week the person in charge didn't even look at his points sheet as there were some newcomers. Maybe the problem is that there are too many in a class for them to dedicate enough time to each member? There are about 30 people in the class - is this normal?
What are other people's experiences?
Oh and the talks - one was about picnics - and lots of people left. There don't seem to be any informative talks on actual nutrition and it is making my Dad a bit despondent. He's trying so hard.