Weight Watchers
Weight Watchers is one of the longest running weight loss programs in the country. The plan has even reinvented itself to give plan users variety and therefore another reason to stick with it. The Weight Watchers program is based on the POINTS® system and group support.
Each starting weight category is assigned a range of points. This is the number of points that can be eaten in a day. According to the plan, as long as a person stays within that point range each day, they will lose weight. There are no food restrictions with Weight Watchers diets. They can have half of their calories come from a piece of cake as long as they don’t go over the daily point limit.
Dieters keep up with their points using a weekly food journal or a Weight Watchers calculator. They can subtract the point total of each thing that they eat to find out how many points they have left. Members attend weekly weigh-ins and group meetings to get advice from leaders and to hear others’ stories of success and sometimes failures too.
We all know that weight fluctuates often, weekly, daily and even hour to hour. This can be due to water weight and things like menstrual cycle, for women. Weekly weigh-ins do track progress but can sometimes be discouraging to the person who is staying within their daily points and exercising but only losing one or two pounds or worse, gaining a pound.
Every food is assigned a point value based on the serving size. Weight Watchers’ literature lists several of these foods, but obviously cannot list every food there is. For those foods that do not have a recorded point value, a slide rule is given to calculate that food’s point value. This number is based on fiber, fat, and calories per serving.
There is a cost for the weekly meetings. Each week dieters are charged before they weigh in. The cost is not high and you have access to not only the meetings, but the support and encouragement of those in attendance and online tools as well. Weight Watchers meetings can also be conducted at the workplace if there is enough interest.
Weight Watchers has expanded their diet to include chocolate candies, cereals, breads, yogurt, and frozen meals. Even other frozen entrees not sold by the company have the Weight Watchers point values on their boxes. Weight Watchers has several plans to fit the needs of the dieter.
Exercise is encouraged after the first few weeks. Be aware that a person on the Weight Watchers plan needs to read as much information as is made available to them in order to get the biggest benefit from eating health. Although the Weight Watcher’s diet plan allows participants eat what they want, doing so will more than likely backfire when beginning to exercise. If someone is not ingesting the right combination of foods, exercise will not help the weight to come off. This is the cause of many dieters spinning their wheels and finding themselves getting nowhere fast with their weight loss goals.
Anyone thinking of starting the Weight Watchers diet needs to remember the daily points are simply a guideline for eating. For those who don’t learn the right foods to consume, they may find the weight coming off, but a healthy lifestyle will still elude them. For those who don’t mind writing down everything they put into their mouths, this plan is great. Watch food points and watch the weight come off.
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WW has forced me to pick healthy foods most of the time since I can eat more of them than to fatty foods. If I eat something high in fat now I am on the toilet paying for it soon after.