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WeightWatchers CEO walks it back

2023-12-18 19:02:32.784835+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

The headline is Oprah and WeightWatchers are now embracing weight loss drugs. Here's why, about Wegovy and Ozempic and such, but I think the biggie is this quote from WeightWatchers CEO Sima Sistani:

I'm going to say, as somebody who was very humbled to take this role — because WeightWatchers also worked for me — yes, that advice was wrong. Because we said it was choice, not chance. And the truth is that this is a chronic condition. And ultimately, for every one person that we helped, there was one person who our program did not work for because they were dealing with a chronic relapsing condition, with biology and genetics and environmental underpinnings. So, in order for us to reintroduce ourselves, we need to acknowledge the part that we had in the past.

Though this is also feeling like a cynical ploy to sell drugs...

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