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Chasing Life

WeightWatchers CEO Explains Why ‘We Got It Wrong’

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.58K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Long before WeightWatchers became a weight loss empire, the legacy dieting company started as a small support group in the 1960s. The company rose to popularity preaching a message of moderation and making healthy choices. But in what some call a surprising pivot, WeightWatchers is changing the way the company does business. On today’s Chasing Life, CEO Sima Sistani sits down with Dr. Sanjay Gupta to share why she’s making these big changes, namely, embracing telehealth and weight loss drugs like Wegovy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

With everything else on your plate, grocery shopping can be a bit of a faff.

0:04.0

So whether it's a big bowl of feel-good greens, a heartwarming feast to warm your bones,

0:08.3

or something indulgent to celebrate, well, you.

0:11.6

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0:15.0

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0:18.0

now, delivered from your favorite supermarkets and local shops

0:21.0

in as little as 20 minutes.

0:23.0

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0:25.0

Geographical restrictions, service and delivery fees apply delivery times may vary.

0:28.0

See and how the current delivery estimates.

0:30.0

The year

0:35.0

the year was 1961 and Gene Nydich was fed up with dieting.

0:37.0

She was 38 years old, 5 foot 7,

0:40.0

weighed more than 200 pounds.

0:41.0

She said she had tried everything. Pills, hypnosis, fad diets, but she struggled

0:48.7

to lose the weight and even if she did lose weight she struggled to keep it off.

0:53.5

So she started her own support group and invited friends to her New York City

0:57.8

apartment once a week to share dieting tips.

1:01.2

But what Jean didn't know is that this small support group would eventually become a diet and weight loss empire. Is this Weight Watchers?

1:13.0

Weight Watchers.

1:15.0

Weight Watchers is helping people lighten up.

1:20.0

Weight Watchers has 23 entrees. That's more deliciousness than anybody else.

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