Weight Watchers Back in the Day

[quilting lady]

Check out these Weight Watcher Recipe Cards from 1974 (http://www.candyboots.com/wwcards.html) . There are such goodies as "Fluffy Mackeral Pudding" and "Frozen Snack on a Stick" which is just frozen coffee with a popsickle stick stuck in it. I remember those days graemlins/ugh.gif
Carole

PS Make sure you read the recipe descriptions and the disclaimer at the bottom of the page. :D

[ March 09, 2004, 08:16 AM: Message edited by: quilting lady ]

[raidermom]

LOL!!! LOVE the disclaimer..... :D

Thanks for sharing!

[crystallyn]

Okay, you have to check out the Mexican Shrimp Orange Salad. Read it, then click on What do they want?

OMG I was dying. These are so awesome. I can't imagine eating ANY of these. I have to send this to my mom...she's bound to remember these. smile.gif I was three at the time!

[Boombie]

I actually saw this web site back when I first started WW...knowing what I knew about WW today, I was cracking up...those things look NASTY!! DB got a kick out of it too!

[nancyny]

I agree these are amusing and somewhat extreme, even by the standards of WW of the day. I have seen other variations since then. They came out between the first time I did WW (with my mom in '70 or '71) and the time I did it "for real" and made Lifetime ('77-78). By '77, thankfully, they had expanded the starch group. (The '77 program is posted at Dotti's claiming to be the '72 program)

It always amuses me that even the most hard-core WW on the Internet (BCBs) would not go anywhere near the first WW program I ever followed (which was earlier than the 1974 version). And people DID follow that program, and they DID lose a lot a weight. And there were even an elite few who did it without cheating!

Imagine trying to make interesting meals when the ONLY available starch is white "Wonder"-type bread and there aren't a lot of options for any kind of sauce. Seasonings have always been free, but we ate a lot of naked baked or broiled chicken ("grilled" as we know it wasn't legal) and tuna straight out of the can (rinsed and drained, you couldn't get it packed in water back then). But we did manage! I was never a fan of mackerel though. There are lots of fish I like a lot more.

[mayfri230]

OMG! thanks for the post! i loved the one with the fish and the red sauce! yuck!

[UNH1982]

Those cards made my day! I remember them from my early days with WW.
One memory is having to make your own ketchup, and not being able to use any condiments.
I think in those days the requirements were so tedious that there was no possible way to make "life changes" because everything was so weird and unappealing.

PS: I was on the WW site today and on those boards I read that WW is again thinking of changing the plan. Anyone heard and rumors of change from FlexPoints to something else?

Dee :confused:

[promise2grace]

Originally posted by nancyny:
And there were even an elite few who did it without cheating!
So Nancy, were they the original BCB'ers?? :D I remember my mom being on a WW "knock-off" called "Weight Losers" and eating lots of broiled hamburger. How could a person lose weight that way? Really, these are hysterical. I can't imagine ever eating this stuff!

[Misti Ko]

I remember seeing this site a while ago too. What a hoot. I must say though, I find most of the recipe cards that WW gives out today just as unappealing, although more attractively photographed.

What do you think people will say about them 30 years from now.

PS my leader lost 140 lbs 30 years ago, so I guess that was the program she was on.