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At WW Philadelphia, memberships were designed with your preferences in mind, whether you love to chat online or in person. Prefer dedicated guidance, or find inspiration from a group? Like to Zoom with your friends? Now we support you in specialized and personal Virtual Zoom Workshops, too. You don't ever have to choose one or the other. Go to your weekly Workshop and Zoom in with your Virtual Group throughout the week.

Weekly, we feature a Member of our staff. This week, we're featuring a very inspirational story about a Virtual Group who met last weekend, in-person, for the very first time!

This is the magic of WW.
Row 1. Ellen, Jessica, Marty, Roberta, and Gail Row 2. Sue Tami, Rhoda, Elaine, Bobbi, and Hilary Row 3. Pamela, Terri, Ellen, Joy, Michele. and Sherri
All Members are not pictured as not all were able to attend.
A Virtual Group DecidesTo Get Personal
Sunday Morning 9:30 Virtual Workshop
Coach Roberta

The Sunday morning, 9:30 Virtual Workshop, Coached by Roberta and Ellen has been together since the beginning of 2021. Meeting once weekly in the same zoom Workshop, Members who were originally strangers became friends. And after a short while, only being in touch once weekly just didn’t cut it.

Members began reaching out to one another outside of the Workshop. Texting privately, and staying in touch throughout the week became the norm for these Members. But now, becoming closer, they wanted to get together! They wanted to meet in person.

It started with a group of the Sunday Virtual Members getting together to attend one of Roberta’s In-person Studio Workshops. (Roberta Coaches in Doylestown, Warminster, and Montgomeryville Studios). They went to meet their Coach-- In person! Emotions ran high as eyes welled with tears. After almost a year these friends met!

Not to stop there, after discovering the feel-good emotions in the Studio, Marty, Hilary, Terri, and Sherri took it upon themselves to plan a Meet and Greet for all the Members of their Sunday Virtual Workshop. 

These four Members literally did all the planning from renting a pavilion at Warwick Township Park and coordinating raffles for prizes, to planning Zero and low Points foods for Members to bring if they chose.

We spoke to Coach Roberta and asked about the event. She said, “The focus was not on eating â€Śthe focus was on having a good time. And believe me, we did!”

She continued, “Three hours and nobody wanted to leave, a lot of hugging, I’ll tell you!” She assured us, “The group is going to do this again!”

When we brought up the ideal location of the park, we couldn’t help but ask about activities and what the group did in that regard, to which Roberta said, “Well the weather wasn’t ideal…does running our tongues count?”
WW 4 Pillars for a healthy lifestyle
Food • Activity • Mindset • Sleep
Food, activity, sleep, and mindset. These are the four pillars of WW's approach to weight loss. While each of these things is important on its own, the combined power when all four work together is undeniable.
Food • Foods that contain more sugar than you would think
Exercise Cardio Fitness Health Activity Workout Fit Concept
Activity • Feel comfortable when exercise feels hard
Mindset • Activities work wonders for your wellbeing
Sleep • The connection between sleep and overeating
This Week's Message From DebW!
Voice of WW Philadelphia and General Manager
Hello WW Philadelphia Members!
There is a fine line between advice and judgment when it comes to making changes in our lives.
More than once, someone has asked me to ‘talk’ a family member into joining WW. Every time I have declined. This is not a change that you can convince someone to do. This is a change someone makes when they are ready.

Many times, in our lives we need a chance to sit in the back, listen and think about making a change. Changes come in all forms, our health, our fitness, our relationships, our beliefs, and our futures. The best part: change can be good, change can be exciting, and change can be healthy at all times of our lives. The bad part: even good changes usually come with some pain.

I remember a Member coming back on week two of her membership and she leaned towards me and whispered, “I cheated this week.” I said, “okay, do you want to tell me about it?” She said, “I ate an extra tablespoon of raisins.” I whispered back with my best poker face, “I think it’s going to be okay.” This beautiful Member was judging herself harshly for eating an extra tablespoon of raisins and not basking in the many good choices she had made throughout the week.

Think of the times the heavy judgment we applied to ourselves because of an “extra tablespoon of raisins” and how that lead to a binge of bags and boxes of stuff equaling 100’s of POINTS not counted. Our lower number at the scale is stolen, or at least put on hold by our own judgment of ourselves for extra raisin consumption.

One change I made for myself some years ago was to minimize or eliminate the use of artificial sweeteners as much as possible. This decision didn’t come easily as I LOVED Coke Zero and routinely used several packets of sweeteners in my tea. This is a change I don’t share often because it is not right for everyone. Everyone needs to make their own decisions about sweeteners.

The reason I made this move was that I really thought about the many years of using artificial sugar products and asked myself, “can this possibly be good for me on a lifelong basis?” My decision was no but everyone must make their own decision about using sweeteners or other similar items. Here’s a link to a study about the use of artificial sweeteners and how they might be impacting some Members’ gut health. I thought it was kind of interesting and connected a little to this week’s Workshop topic about consuming less sugar:



Members have shared with me since the COVID pandemic, they have used the time to focus on something they could control, their food intake, activity level, and positioning themselves towards a healthier life. Just as many Members have shared how the stress of the COVID pandemic has made them feel completely out of control with food and activity. I hear the feelings of failure, stuck in this moment, by this moment, and applying heavy judgments to ourselves.

It is hard to make good choices for our own good health when the weight of the world seems to be closing in on us and the comfort of food is an easy fix.
Taking control often means taking your own advice, creating your own changes, saving yourself from your own judgments, and living well for the potential future you can make for yourself and the positive influences you can inspire in your circle of friends, family, and neighbors.
Stay well and be kind to yourself,




Deb Wright
General Manager
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