Weight loss is simply a matter of eating less.

"Diets" were created by for-profit companies like WW and by book authors at
the expense of overweight people.  They all promote lifelong subscription
plans.  There are as many diet plans as entrepreneurs.  Diet plans are about
making money.

WW cleverly takes this a step further by promoting membership in a "club"
atmosphere where overweight people become emotionally dependent on "help"
from others like them.  Be honest - What can an overweight person learn
about losing weight from another overweight person?  Nothing.  But WW makes
a lot of money helping folks become emotionally dependent on others like
them who follow a "system" that encourages people to crave fattening foods
as "treats," and thus remain overweight.

Many on this NG have been WW members for years, are still overweight and are
still counting "points".  And WW keeps counting their money.

Curing gluttony is no different from breaking dependence on alcohol or
drugs.  You simply stop ingesting the wrong stuff.  It has nothing to do
with complicated groups, points, or emotional support networks.  You just
stop.

Not simple, you think?  Yes, actually, it is.  Make a mental adjustment and
think of high-calorie, nil-nutrition junk as poisonous.  Which it is.  When
you truly accept that, willpower will become irrelevant - you won't even
consider eating junk food.  For the first time you'll understand that
struggling with points just so you can have junk food "treats" is absurd.
The simplicity of regaining normal weight is obvious.

Millions of people have regained normal weight, stopped smoking and cured
addictions by making cold-turkey attitude changes.  But almost nobody has
ever done this on a WW-like lifelong point counting plan that encourages
treats.

Yes, this is all about the right attitude.  For examples of the wrong
attitude read the emotional outbursts below from the chronically fat for
whom there is no hope.