Paul Saladino· MD
this idea that you can just limit your calories without improving food quality is Insidious this is where Weight Watchers comes from and I'm I'm eating based on points or something you know
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this idea that you can just limit your calories without improving food quality is Insidious this is where Weight Watchers comes from and I'm I'm eating based on points or something you know
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And I feel like there is an underlying scop here and maybe it's not a real scop, maybe it is the calories idea. You know, I just think this this is an insidious notion that has been forced upon us and this is Weight Watchers and there are so many incarnations of this. I fell victim to it. You know, I thought, "Oh, I can go to my boss's desk and eat Twizzlers because there were only one point.