As such, TOPS provides members with information, motivation and fellowship in attaining and maintaining their physician-prescribed weight goals. TOPS has almost 300,000 members in 11,700 chapters in the United States, Canada, and numerous other countries throughout the world. Membership includes women, men, and children. TOPS, the oldest major weight-control group, was founded in 1948 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, by Esther S. Manz, a homemaker.
Members meet weekly in their local chapters.
There is a private weigh-in followed by a program. Programs vary, but all in some way provide members with positive reinforcement and motivation in adhering to their food and exercise plans. Please continue to next page.