To be fair though ww DO encourage healthy eating, its a complete myth that they don't. The whole point of the discover plan is that it encourages you to eat mainly 'filling foods' which are all very healthy foods, and if you stuck mainly to these foods then you would be following a healthy diet - ie eggs, lean meat, poultry, fish, low fat dairy, fruit and veg, pulses etc. I do believe that most of us 'long term' ww's do this. I know you are viewing your weight loss as short term therefore you have a different attitude which is fair enough - ie I saw you say that you ate 0 points all day so you could have a high fat baguette for dinner. Yes you would stay within your points, but thats obviously not a healthy way to eat, and its not actually following the ww plan!! If you went to class you would see that they encourage you to eat a healthy brekkie that contains carbs and protein, etc etc therefore eating 0 points all day doesn't actually fit into the plan.
As for the cost, I think you forget that theres a huge amount of work going on ehind the scenes. WW is a huge business, and employs scientists who are constantly performing research, and they have to pay to train leaders, advertise - imagine the cost of those tv ads!, run the website etc etc.
I love my ww class, and happily paid for it for a year prior to becoming a gold member, and for me it was worth every penny! The only thing I would love for them to provide is excercise, like Rosemary Conley classes do, but I can see why its not really practical for them to do that!
