WeightWatchers Declares Bankruptcy as People Embrace Drugs

Thursday, May 08, 2025

WeightWatchers has filed for bankruptcy as more Americans turn to weight loss drugs to slim down.

Posted by gracieamazed at 08:32 PM | 13 COMMENTS | permalink | Comment on This Entry |

Iconic weight management brand WeightWatchers filed for bankruptcy Tuesday to shed debt while the company tries to expand its tele-health business. The 62-year-old company has been trying to shift its business model in the face of growing competition from weight-loss drugs such as Ozempic.

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-- The Washington Post (@washingtonpost.com) May 7, 2025 at 11:18 AM

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Drugs are easy.

Working out and eating well is hard.

#1 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-05-09 08:08 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Gracie used meth to drop a couple hundred.

Still has a weigh to go.

#2 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-05-09 08:32 AM | Reply

Actually sort of sad that pharmaceuticals are replacing aelf-discippline. Will other forms of self-control also be replaced by drugs? Not a good future we seem to be entering. I predict that those losing weight now with Ozempic will, unfortunately gain it back without continued use of the drug which will then require a new Weight Watchers....Weight Watchers NA!

#3 | Posted by danni at 2025-05-09 08:59 AM | Reply

No drugs here.
Through Weight Watchers and exercise I've lost 35 lbs. and kept it off. Sad to think back on all the crap, in small amounts, I put into my pie hole. Weight Watchers works for me...

#4 | Posted by catdog at 2025-05-09 09:29 AM | Reply

215 to 170. I miss bread though.

#5 | Posted by HanoverFist at 2025-05-09 09:39 AM | Reply

My guess is, things like Ozempic will become a horror story in about 5 years.

#6 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-05-09 10:32 AM | Reply

They went through the same thing in the 70s when women were given cocaine.

#7 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2025-05-09 11:08 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

This is too bad since current studies are showing the drugs can't be used forever and the loss is quickly regained once stopped.

It's another convenient fix, not a real fix.

#8 | Posted by jpw at 2025-05-09 12:41 PM | Reply

Working out and eating well is hard.

#1 | Posted by Nixon

It's also not always sufficient.

#9 | Posted by jpw at 2025-05-09 12:41 PM | Reply

Working out and eating right helps, which not bragging here but I've tried to keep the discipline to do it all my life. I still can get into my 1967 mil fatigues from basic T, not claiming they are a superb fit though.

I agree with others that these meds will have likely have fallout.

#10 | Posted by Robson at 2025-05-09 05:07 PM | Reply

Another downside about using drugs for weight loss is the behavior isn't changed.

Users of these weight loss drugs report gaining the weight back once they've stopped taking it.

#11 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2025-05-10 01:29 AM | Reply

I once bragged here on losing a lot of weight with ozempic. I gained it all back and now I have stomach issues. It's not worth it if you asked me. Not worth it at all.

#12 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-05-10 01:33 AM | Reply

I can't believe this is a conversation.

Our
species
is
insane!

#13 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2025-05-10 06:32 AM | Reply