Esther Manz was the founder and president of TOPS, a weight-loss support group that started at her kitchen table in Wisconsin, and grew to at one time to 360,000 members. Chapters started all over the United States, Canada, and around the world. TOPS was the first weight loss group in the US, even before Weight Watchers.Decades later TOPS is still going strong and operating the same program that Esther started in the beginning.