Treatments and supplements · Commercial weight loss programs
Are paid programs like Weight Watchers actually worth it?
What we can tell you today: how thoroughly this has been studied.
Thoroughly studied
3 studies, of which 3 bring together the results of several trials in people. This is as strong as evidence gets.
5 Repeated evidence 3 studies
This says how thoroughly something has been studied — not whether it works for you. What each study actually found is in the study itself, and in the plain-language write-ups we are adding.
Appears under: Weight loss and GLP-1
The studies
- 5 Repeated evidence
Meta- and cost-effectiveness analysis of commercial weight loss strategies.
2015 · Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.)
- 5 Repeated evidence
A systematic review of the economic value proposition for commercially available nonsurgical weight-loss interventions.
2023 · Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.)
- 5 Repeated evidence
Ineffectiveness of commercial weight-loss programs for achieving modest but meaningful weight loss: Systematic review and meta-analysis.
2018 · Journal of health psychology