Word: weight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Founder of Weight Watchers Inc. is Jean Nidetch, 43, a New York City housewife who in 1963 weighed 214 lbs., but still found herself cheating on her reducing diet. She invited six fat friends over to talk about it, came out of the gathering convinced that group therapy was the answer. She has since slimmed down to 142 lbs. (her husband Marty has gone from 265 lbs. to 196 lbs.), and she estimates that 500,000 members in 16 states have lost more than 10 million lbs. since she established Weight Watchers...
...known as "civilians"). Says Jean Nidetch: "There's no such thing as a jolly fat person." Adds Jerry Pozner, a Long Island University junior who has reduced from 238 lbs. to 137 lbs.: "People eat because they're lonely. When you come to Weight Watchers, you're not lonely any more...
Fairest of Them All. For Weight Watchers, the rewards are touchingly simple. Says Walter Jenson, 23, a Queens office clerk who went from 425 Ibs. to 191 lbs. and from size 60 pants to size 36 in one year: "I can get on my knees and pray better." Brooklyn Bookkeeper Alex Galietti, 29, finds that after losing 106 lbs., "I'm doing things I could never do as a teen-ager-skating and bike riding...
...greatest reward of all, of course, is that Weight Watchers look better to members of the opposite sex, and know it. Singer Sylvia Syms, 43, dropped 30 lbs. in eleven weeks, as a result dared to wear a bathing suit for the first time in her life on a recent Caribbean vacation. And when New Jersey Housewife Fran Jaffe, 38, took off 50 Ibs., her pleased husband presented her with a full-length mirror, to which he lovingly attached a note: "You are the fairest of them...
...side effect most commonly complained of is weight gain-up to 20 lbs., say some women. Yet most gynecologists believe this was caused only by early, high-dosage forms, and that today's one-milligram pills rarely provoke a gain of more than five pounds. The sequentials usually cause less weight gain than the combinations. The next most frequent complaints are nausea ("like being four months pregnant"), breast tenderness and breakthrough bleeding. These usually disappear within three months...