{"id":316913,"date":"2010-02-13T19:07:19","date_gmt":"2010-02-14T00:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f20\/floor-collapse-puts-weight-watchers-spotlight-39424\/"},"modified":"2010-02-13T19:07:19","modified_gmt":"2010-02-14T00:07:19","slug":"floor-collapse-puts-weight-watchers-in-the-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/316913","title":{"rendered":"Floor collapse puts Weight Watchers in the spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><b>Floor collapse puts Weight Watchers in the spotlight<\/p>\n<p><\/b>If you step on a scale and the floor collapses under you, you&#8217;re probably on a Weight Watchers diet. <\/p>\n<p>I know that sounds like a punchline &#8212; but 20 Swedes learned the cold, hard truth about gimmicky diets when the floor gave way during their Weight Watchers weigh-in. <\/p>\n<p>There were no injuries&#8230;unless you count pride. But honestly, what&#8217;d these folks expect from this masochistic diet cult? <\/p>\n<p>Weight watchers &quot;works&quot; by assigning points to food. You get so many points a day and you can eat whatever you want with them&#8230;half a cookie, a bite of pizza and maybe lick the powdered sugar off a jelly donut. <\/p>\n<p>Run out of points and you&#8217;re supposed to stop eating for the day&#8230;or you can earn more by punishing yourself with exercise. <\/p>\n<p>But the only thing you&#8217;ll really lose with this backwards plan is money&#8230;and maybe your sanity if you&#8217;re forced to sit through enough of their weekly confessional-style meetings. <\/p>\n<p>If you really want to lose weight, you don&#8217;t need points, exercise, meetings or other gimmicks. Just skip the junk &#8212; give the carbs a one-way ticket to Sweden and eat a healthy diet of animal fats and protein. <\/p>\n<p>And if you insist on trying Weight Watchers, just make sure you reinforce the floor first. <\/p>\n<p>Watching the weight watchers,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/clicks.douglassreport.com\/\/t\/AQ\/+co\/-+k\/C+U\/AQ\/Ad481Q\/xDsn\" >William Campbell Douglass II, M.D.<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Floor collapse puts Weight Watchers in the spotlight If you step on a scale and the floor collapses under you, you&#8217;re probably on a Weight Watchers diet. I know that sounds like a punchline &#8212; but 20 Swedes learned the cold, hard truth about gimmicky diets when the floor gave way during their Weight Watchers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4296,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-316913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4296"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}