Comments on: Does Weight Watchers Consider Inches Lost or Just Pounds?

By: Jason Pattinson

Jason Pattinson — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 21:44:07 +0000

Weight Watchers online asks you to take your measurements, leaders should also encourage it.

People tend to jump straight into the weight loss, and forget to take measurements for a while meaning they aren’t sure of the measurements when they first began.

The number on the scale can be misleading, and a broader look at your body composition will give a better picture.

I suspect your point occurs for most of the weight loss companies out there.

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 23:08:17 +0000

Yep – can be emotionally devastating if not handled properly. When I heard from my friend in the post, I immediately coached her about handling the emotions around her result and got her to do the measurements.

By: BLR

BLR — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 22:17:28 +0000

As has been stated before, WW does not really pay attention to, give you tools to track, or really address the issue of inches lost vs. pounds lost. At weekly meetings, the “OOHs” and “AAHs” during storytelling time happen when a person says they’ve lost _X_ pounds in that week – the other members want to know, “How did you do it!?” I’ve seen members of all sizes enraptured by the story of a person who managed to drop 2, 3, OMG 5?! pounds in one week. Is it water weight? Are they eating right? Who gives a crap!? The scale went down!

This is one of the reasons I ended up quitting WW – they have a sound nutritional approach by modern medical standards, but in general there’s far too much concentration on that weekly weigh-in. If you end up going up or stagnating? It can tear a person apart, especially if they’re doing everything “right.”

By: Jen

Jen — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:24:35 +0000

Weight watchers does focus on the scale. It does tend to be somewhat discouraging if you’ve been eating right and exercising a lot and find your weight to have remained the same. For that reason, I have started taking my own measurements. I think it would be great if Weight Watcher’s started emphasizing this…

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:01:52 +0000

@Akavar what I was trying to impress on people was the lack of logic behind the saying “muscle weights more than fat”, which, of course, it does not

By: akavar

akavar — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 23:25:41 +0000

obviously a pound of muscle weighs the same as a pound of fat – that is simple logic. what confuses people is amount of weight per mass. Muscle weights 1.06 g/ml and fat weighs 0.9
g/ml. Thus, muscle does way more than fat because of the amount of space each one takes up (fat taking up more space).

By: John's Weight Loss Blog

John's Weight Loss Blog — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 11:25:49 +0000

Isn’t that really more of a problem when you are pretty close to goal weight? I have 100 pounds to lose, adding muscle while I lose weight will be great, but really I’m going to need to see results on the scale. That side, tape measure is key tool. I don’t know about WW but I do know that two of the “Biggest Losers” I know how remarkable success on Weight Watchers so I do think there is something there.

By: Bonnie

Bonnie — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 05:35:06 +0000

Weight Watchers does not take your measurements at meetings. However, any good WW Leader will tell you to take your own measurements. They do tell you to get some exercise. There’s a whole “activity points” system for it.

By: JanSimpson (JanSimpson)

JanSimpson (JanSimpson) — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:19:36 +0000

RT @formerfatguy Former Fat Guy Blog Does Weight Watchers Consider Inches Lost or Just Pounds? http://tinyurl.com/besqkl

By: formerfatguy (Rob Cooper)

formerfatguy (Rob Cooper) — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:16:41 +0000

Former Fat Guy Blog Does Weight Watchers Consider Inches Lost or Just Pounds? http://tinyurl.com/besqkl