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Originally Posted by barbaramatafeo
I asked on a WW forum too and so far people said no, don't count the points, but goes towards my fruit intake for the day. But the leader at my meeting is the one who mentioned it. But I need to make sure I did not take it out of context or something. We were talking about something else and it just kind of flew out of her mouth.
It's also possible that this is your leader's personal opinion or a misinterpretation of Weight Watcher's policy (she may be confusing juicing and blending, since many juicers look like blenders).
I've been a member of Weight Watcher's in the 70's, 80's, 90's, and 2000's (every decade but this one). Often I worked swing shifts so I didn't always have a consistent meeting/leader, because I didn't have consistent days off.
Attending different meetings with different leaders, I was surprised at how many times one leader would say one thing, and a different leader would say something completely different. When asked about the discrepeancy, some would look it up or ask more experienced leaders, and others would be adament that their policy was the correct one (even if all the other leaders disagreed).
One leader told us (this was under the first point system) that we had to not only count our points as we used them, we had keep track of every calorie, and every gram of fat and fiber, and then at the end of the day, double check our math by using our point calculator to determine the daily points, using increments of the highest calorie amount the paper point calculator would allow, and we had to use whichever number was higher as our count for the day.
That's obviously not how the program was meant to work (the idea was to make it easier than calorie counting, not harder), but that's how she interpreted it.
There were many other issues over which leaders disagreed, but this was the most extreme example (that leader eventually lost her job, because she taught a lot of things that weren't consistent with WW true guidelines).