WeightWatchers rant
Haystacks (the dad/step-dad next door at the camp site) obviously saw the weekend as a chance to get in some fishing and he certainly had quite a lot of angling gear, and fishing as a pretext for some bonding with the older boys. About three of them were back and forth with boxes and rods all day every day we were there. What was uncomfortable about this was the sight of a young man struggling to walk more than a handful of paces without huffing and puffing; and the biggest of the boys was already struggling to walk normally with the weight he's piled on.
That said the family we were travelling with are all overweight, much bigger than the Fat Bastard. The girl of 15 weighs about that in stones and the mother weighs well over 20 stones. She's also forking over a fortune to the mighty Weight Watchers corporation in her efforts to shed some of that weight. But in the course of our three supermarket expeditions we purchased one punnet of peaches and one bag of grapes. And they were put in there by me because I couldn't imagine shopping for food and not putting in at least some fruit. On the other hand we bought plenty of sweet biscuits and chocolate and pudding and so forth.
I've never experienced the lifestyle of the almost morbidly obese before; though I've never bought the line that its glandular and always tended toward the hypothesis that the problem boils down to taking on too many calories. Having watched these past few days I now know that overeating is the heart of their problem. The mother is too large to exercise, the girl couldn't keep up with the men and me as we set up a pace slightly under that of a forced march on our way back along the tow path from Staines.
The only way she's going to turn her situation around is by changing completely what she eats, how she eats and the volume of food she eats.
Meanwhile Weight Watchers prey on her, seducing her through offers of WW sticky toffee pudding into believing that she can actually have her cake and be thin. Their products sell at a premium and do nothing to alter her mindset. The hard truth is that the mighty Weight Watchers corporation is out to make a profit, and the only people it can make a profit from are those who are, or believe themselves to be overweight. It follows that Weight Watchers' best interests lie in consumers of its products not actually losing weight and adapting to a normal diet that doesn't come at a premium.
WW behaviour is repellently parasitical. Ditch the WW pudding and buy some fruit and vegetables instead.
That said the family we were travelling with are all overweight, much bigger than the Fat Bastard. The girl of 15 weighs about that in stones and the mother weighs well over 20 stones. She's also forking over a fortune to the mighty Weight Watchers corporation in her efforts to shed some of that weight. But in the course of our three supermarket expeditions we purchased one punnet of peaches and one bag of grapes. And they were put in there by me because I couldn't imagine shopping for food and not putting in at least some fruit. On the other hand we bought plenty of sweet biscuits and chocolate and pudding and so forth.
I've never experienced the lifestyle of the almost morbidly obese before; though I've never bought the line that its glandular and always tended toward the hypothesis that the problem boils down to taking on too many calories. Having watched these past few days I now know that overeating is the heart of their problem. The mother is too large to exercise, the girl couldn't keep up with the men and me as we set up a pace slightly under that of a forced march on our way back along the tow path from Staines.
The only way she's going to turn her situation around is by changing completely what she eats, how she eats and the volume of food she eats.
Meanwhile Weight Watchers prey on her, seducing her through offers of WW sticky toffee pudding into believing that she can actually have her cake and be thin. Their products sell at a premium and do nothing to alter her mindset. The hard truth is that the mighty Weight Watchers corporation is out to make a profit, and the only people it can make a profit from are those who are, or believe themselves to be overweight. It follows that Weight Watchers' best interests lie in consumers of its products not actually losing weight and adapting to a normal diet that doesn't come at a premium.
WW behaviour is repellently parasitical. Ditch the WW pudding and buy some fruit and vegetables instead.
posted by Enyo @ 7:05 am
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