Weight Watchers Biggest Competitors Mindy Grossman was only 14 years old when she was first introduced to Weight Watchers. At the time, she was a chubby Long Island teen who had one dream: to make the cheerleading team. But for that, she'd need to lose 10 pounds. Her mother, who struggled with the scale her entire life, took her to a local Weight Watchers meeting. There, the staff weighed the young Grossman, asked her to monitor her daily calorie intake, and encouraged her week after week to keep at it. "I was able to try out for the team—and I made it," Grossman recalls with pride, all these years later. "Part of it was losing the weight, but part of it was the confidence [Weight Watchers] gave me." Mindy Grossman [Photo: courtesy of Weight Watchers] Grossman kept that touch point—namely, what she descri
