Ugh! Can I just vent for a sec? Today was the worst WW meeting ever! Not only did I only lose -0.6 lbs (which, honestly is better than I expected because I have utterly FAILED this week)…but the meeting itself sucked. The material itself was fine. It was about making fitness goals. I have mine already but it would have been good to hear encouragement to keep trying to meet those goals.
But this was a different meeting time than I usually go to and MOST of the people there were lifetime members. They were all very skinny and mostly very fit. They were discussing their goals of (seriously) running a 50K. Yep that’s right 5 0! 50k! Next week!

And when the teacher said “If 1lb of fat is the same weight as 1lb of muscle, why do we want muscle on our bodies instead of fat?” One thin sour looking woman in the front said “because fat is NASTY” and then looked at me…I thought, surely my insecurities made me imagine that and brushed it off. But as the discussion continued with how “nasty” being fat is until finally, the only other larger person in the room, got up and left.

Then the teacher put up a sign that basically said to lose weight you need to do 30-45 min a day extra of exercise on top of what you are already doing, but to maintain you need to to 60-90 min of exercise a day. These two thin women got all argumentative with the teacher, telling her that her numbers were wrong and that’s absurd and all kinds of stuff. One of the women even stood up in the middle of the room! Then she decides to leave the meeting and go get weighed in…

A few minutes later, this woman who apparently was a lifetime member, started screaming at the lady behind the desk because she had gained a few pounds and would have to pay this week. (…clearly she knew what she was talking about when it comes to working out and maintaining weight).

Then to top it all off, when she had the opportunity, the thin sour woman in front again brought up how “nasty” fat is. She said “fat looks nasty especially when it’s around your middle section” and looked at me again!!! This was my cue to leave. What a TERRIBLE meeting!

And to think, for this entire week I have been beating myself up, trying to find a way to go to this! UGH!

Most meetings are not like this. I know now to not go to that time slot. But man, that meeting left me feeling anything but encouraged.

I’m not going to put any tags in this post because I don’t want some random person, googling Weight Watchers, to somehow find it. It would really suck if someone who’s considering joining Weight Watchers, stumbled on this and decided not to because of my one bad experience. Most of the meetings are great and I am losing weight and learning how to live a new healthy lifestyle, but I just had to vent about the ridiculousness of today’s meeting.