I don't think any weight-loss diet plan, even weight watchers, helps compulsive eating habits; they make them worse. That's my experience with it, and the experience of many other people's. They do teach portion control, but they also teach you to follow a plan instead of listening to your own body's wisdom. They also re-inforce "good food/bad food" thinking, which is extremely unhealthy. People get an all-or-nothing mentality about foods, or they think THEY are "bad/good" depending on what they eat. Also, it just doesn't work long-term. Studies show that the small number of people who actually lose a large amount of body weight and keep it off do it on their own, without a commercial weight-loss plan. Question, have your friends on WW kept the weight off for more than a year? I no of not one person who has done so. I realized that's anecdotal evidence, but it's in line with the statistics.

Just to be clear, I'm not against educating yourself about appropriate portions or examining your relationship to food, but that's not WW's main goal; it's taking your money.

I'm really afraid of weight loss surgery, too. There are so many horror stories about things going wrong, people getting very sick, gaining all the weight back. Yuck.