Comments on: Dieting in Groups Better Than Dieting Alone http://www.starling-fitness.com/archives/2006/06/20/dieting-in-groups-better-than-dieting-alone/ Daily writings about fitness, diet, and health Sat, 20 Mar 2010 05:12:17 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Eh... not so much http://www.starling-fitness.com/archives/2006/06/20/dieting-in-groups-better-than-dieting-alone/#comment-28166 Eh... not so much Wed, 21 Jun 2006 00:44:11 +0000 http://www.starling-fitness.com/?p=771#comment-28166 <p>I went to WW meetings for a while, and I found the experience not useful. I felt like I was getting too much into a neurotic "loss on scale = good week, anything else = bad" mindset. As I lost a lot of weight, I even got some nasty looks and reactions from other WW members. "You're pretty SKINNY," a woman snotted at me once, "what are YOU doing here?" "I wasn't skinny 65 lbs ago!" I snarked back. Stoopid woman.</p> <p>Anyway, I'm doing fine now on my own.</p> I went to WW meetings for a while, and I found the experience not useful. I felt like I was getting too much into a neurotic “loss on scale = good week, anything else = bad” mindset. As I lost a lot of weight, I even got some nasty looks and reactions from other WW members. “You’re pretty SKINNY,” a woman snotted at me once, “what are YOU doing here?” “I wasn’t skinny 65 lbs ago!” I snarked back. Stoopid woman.

Anyway, I’m doing fine now on my own.

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