{"id":2652,"date":"2008-01-13T11:21:57","date_gmt":"2008-01-13T11:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog2\/?p=2652"},"modified":"2008-01-13T11:21:57","modified_gmt":"2008-01-13T11:21:57","slug":"weight_watchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/weight_watchers\/","title":{"rendered":"Weight Watchers Canada is a rip-off"},"content":{"rendered":"

i’ve been spending a lot of time lately mulling over, contemplating, planning and gearing up for trying to enter into a fitness regime for the new year. i’ve been a total and utter sloth for the last year and i’m really quite sick of it. hence all my discussion about undertaking the “couch to 5K<\/a>” program or finding a workout buddy to, at least, get the ball rolling in the right direction.
\nthe ball, in this instance, being my rotund self.
\nknowing what i know about the mechanics of weight loss, i’m fully aware that there’s no long-term reduction strategy which does not include both exercise and diet alterations. with that in mind, i was revisiting the idea of joining Weight Watchers online<\/a>. i had fairly excellent success with them a few years back, so they’re usually my first thought when a new strict eating regime is contemplated.<\/p>\n

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this morning, i ventured over to weightwatchers.ca<\/a> to see what the going rate for online membership was these days. i was convinced that since the dollars are so close to par the Canadian prices were due to be dropped to entice more people to join. boy, was i wrong.<\/p>\n

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the Canadian pricing is exactly the same as it was in 2004 – it’s nice to see they haven’t jacked it up due to imaginary inflation – but, when the exchange rate is hovering around 5%, there’s not much logic behind a 41% price difference beside profiteering.<\/p>\n

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when car dealerships, book & magazine retailers and other commercial sectors are coming around to the economics of US and Canadian dollars near par, why isn’t Weight Watchers? especially when their product – health – is so much more important than cars or glossy publications!
\noh, i know the answer. they’re preying on fat people’s desperation. that’s why there are people who are willing to go on 600 calorie diets and get injected with vitamin supplements (yes, i’m talking to you Dr. Bernstein!) or eliminate all carbs from their diet even though that’s what your brain needs to function properly, let alone the rest of your body.
\ngrr. stupid, greedy Weight Watchers. good thing i know enough about your program now i don’t need to pay you a single, over-priced dime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

i’ve been spending a lot of time lately mulling over, contemplating, planning and gearing up for trying to enter into a fitness regime for the new year. i’ve been a total and utter sloth for the last year and i’m really quite sick of it. hence all my discussion about undertaking the “couch to 5K” …<\/span> Read More →<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}