Weight Watchers is now ww and there is
more to this name change the program is
still helping people lose weight and now
focusing on overall wellness we are
joined by our friend Florian mark
president and CEO of the WW group
welcome back thank you very much yes so
tell us about these changes with the
company well we're more into health and
wellness than we are into worrying about
how much weight you're losing that's
really important our goal is not changed
we want you to lose the weight but we
want you to be healthy
ww stands for wellness works and that's
really important and even our reward
system now instead of rewarding you for
pounds lost we're going to reward you
for tracking for eating healthier for
going into the supermarket and counting
your points we have a zillion apps that
where you come to weight watcher you get
all these apps you can walk into a
supermarket and go like this to any food
and find out how many points it is and
you know the freestyle program is always
the same you get so many points to eat
every day every food is equated to a
point and when you're through with your
number of points there are two hundred
zero point food so you can never be
hungry
ever ever ever a lot of people have
asked me you know what is wellness mean
well I asked them what is wellness mean
to you wellness means getting off
medications getting healthier moving
more having better time every single
life every single day which is very
important and that's what we're all
about we're all about wellness in fact
we're going to allow everybody no matter
if you have weight to lose or you don't
have weight to lose
to come to Weight Watchers to learn how
to eat healthy because we want a lower
health care costs and we want everybody
especially in Michigan to be happy every
day
absolutely and wellness is not just
about being slim and slender necessarily
okay so let's talk about the meetings
and now why are they now called
workshops well because people were
telling us you know we listen to people
and people were telling us for a long
time they don't like the word meetings
going to a meeting but a workshop is
something that you go and you learn
something and you and that's what we do
every person that works with me at
Weight Watchers every wellness coach
every single coach had a way problem
going to Weight Watchers lost the weight
and then gone through our extensive
training also our receptionist which are
now called on wellness guides and and so
they know we know how you feel I mean
I'm a 50-pound loser I've kept it off
now for forty some years but it's
changing your mind see I believe Tatia
that this tells you what to do and this
tells your hand what to put in your
mouth and we have to teach people
different mind how to change your eating
habits we've been doing that for years
but now we're really zeroing in on it we
want everyone in Michigan to be healthy
and and we're gonna do it we are going
to let me ask you this do you also go
into the workplace and help people oh
thank you for asking that question
absolutely we go right to the word we go
to Ford Motor Company we go to Blue
Cross we go every place in fact I just
spoke for the MBA school at the business
school at Ilic Business School it's so
beautifully haven't been there everybody
go down and see it and they were all
police officers and that we're learning
to get their MBAs and whatever and they
said why don't you bring this down to us
so we're gonna go to the precincts and
we're gonna teach these people how to
lose weight because what else do you
advise for people who are thinking about
joining w come and join us you don't
have to pay you pay just for one meeting
you can pay for three months which you
get a big rejection but pay for one
meeting if you don't like it don't come
back you don't sign any contracts
nothing is done like that and so we know
that we can help you feel better about
yourself and live better every day I
just had a man that lost 310 pounds I
just had a lady that lost only ten she's
been trying to lose ten pounds for ten
years and could never do it she finally
did it and she's keeping it off but she
not only learned to eat healthy brought
it home to her husband brought it home
to her kids that's what we want it's
that effect for everybody for the whole
family the kids everyone starts doing
the right thing I like what you said
about the mind connection to what you
put in your mouth thank you so much for
you you know you can call us yes yet to
us absolutely to find a ww
program near you and start your
freestyle lifestyle call 888 eight
eight eight eight three fluorine or
visit their website it's the same eight
eight eight three fluorine dot-com thank
you so much