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Weight Watchers
Weight Watchers is one of the most consistent weight loss programs in history. Their program has helped thousands of people to lose weight, generally in a sensible way. Weight Watchers has continued to stay up-to-date offering more and more flexibility with their plans. No longer do they just run the POINTS® system.
Now with The Momentum™ program is a fresh approach to weight loss from Weight Watchers. This easy-to-follow program helps you choose wisely with the POINTS® System so you can stay fuller longer and handle hunger and temptation. You’ll learn to make smart, healthy choices, while adapting the program to your needs.
They also have an entire range of branded food products, scores of recipe and cookbooks, and even produce a magazine!
Weight Watchers Basics
Weight Watchers latest innovation is called Momentum™. This encompasses healthy nutrition, effective calorie control, and livability. The goal is to lose weight and keep it off.
The philosophy behind Weight Watchers believes that dieting is just one part of long-term weight management. A healthy body results in a healthy lifestyle (both mental, emotional, and physical health). They do not tell you what to eat, but provide the information, tools, and motivation to help you make good eating decisions.
Weight Watchers Momentum™
MomentumTM is supposed to help you stop dieting and start living. Using the techniques Weight Watchers teaches, you will be able to:
- Learn to handle hunger and beat temptation
- Stay full longer, with delicious Filling Foods
- Make healthy, smart choices second nature
- Get expert information based on the latest nutritional research
- Learn to choose wisely with the POINTS® System
- Adapt the program to your needs
Foods Allowed on Momentum™
The new MomentumTM program is supposed to help you look at food in a fresh way as there are no required foods or forbidden foods, but rather you should learn how to make better choices. You should learn to eat smarter so you stay fuller longer, and you’ll get strategies for beating hunger and temptation. On the MomentumTM program, you will be taught about filling foods and satisfying choices that you can rely on to help keep hunger in check.
Meetings
One of the strengths of this program is the ability to meet regularly with others – in an environment of mutual encouragement and support.
Enjoy support from your Meeting leader who lost weight with Weight Watchers, is a trained expert in the program and is committed to your success. You also benefit from the exchange of tips, recipes and others’ practical experiences. As a Meeting Member, You attend Meetings once a week for less than an hour. There’s no contract, so you pay as you go, and you can sign up for the Internet weight-loss companion for Meetings, Weight Watchers eTools.
Weight Watchers Online
Weight Watchers Online provides all the tools you need. Chart your progress online and see your rewards as you go with the Weight Tracker. A series of interactive foods enable you to manage daily food choices and activities.
The on-line program also has a very strong community – chat rooms, numerous message boards and recipe swaps. All are extremely active and very helpful.
Does Weight Watchers work?
Weight Watchers is a sustainable (2 pounds weight loss per week) and workable program that has been successful for over 40 years. It is common to see a number of people try different diet fads, only to return to Weight Watchers when things don’t go so well. It is also refreshing to see that their on-line will NOT accept people who are on (or 5 pounds above) the minimum weight range for age and height.
Pricing
Pricing varies, so you will need to check with the Weight Watchers® site.
Downsides?
No diet program will work for 100% of the population – but Weight Watchers is most certainly one of the best choices out there.
Links
Weight Watchers® USA – Official Site
Weight Watchers UK – Official Site
Weight Watchers Canada – Official Site
Weight Watchers New Zealand – Official Site
Weight Watchers Australia – Official Site
Hi there! I think and know for sure, that WW is working!!! But you have to do your part also. Don’t think this is a quick weight loss plan, it took you years to be “Overweight” so it will take you at least 3 month to loose 5-6 pounds…
Have fun and GOOD LUCK! It works.
After all you have to do also EXERCISE (but that every diet will tell you !)and not only think the “diet” alone will do the thing. It’s all about mind-setting and YOUR commitment to yourself. I lost 10 pounds since 3.November ‘09 go swimming with a couch, 3x a week for an hour. I never used to do sport! I was a couch potato!!! So if I can do so can you !
I have done WW twice. The first time i lost almost 90 pounds and got pregnant. After the birth of my son i went back on it. I have lost 73 pounds now and it only been 5 months. I dont go to the meeting because im doing it for me. Since i already know how to maintain i just pick a date weigh in that day like if i was goin gto the meetings. I didnt know that WW really worked at first. I have learned that WWW isnt a diet it all about the portion size. Not only im doing point system but im also working out 3 times a week. All i can say is that I LOVE WW!!!!!
i have friends who swear by this diet…while they’re ON it. i have an aunt who has dropped 100 pounds…gained it. she’s happy with WW…while she’s ON it. please people, stop wasting your money and “checking in” at meetings…it’s a recipe for cheating. This system may have worked for dieters in the 60’s, but we know more now—specifically, the scale doesn’t mean as much when you are striving for true fitness. Don’t fall in love with the number on the scale and have a body composition that looks like crap. And don’t go to meetings when we’re in the age of the internet and you can find common interests with like-minded individuals and meet up for support if you so choose–for free! WW is outdated. As for me, I’ve struggled all my life, but no more. I went to my first WW meeting when I was 15, and then again when I was 20, and 26 having nominal success, feeling ashamed and defeated, and then gaining it all back and more. Afterall people told me I was just a big boned girl. And then when I was 28 years old (5′4 tall, 214 pounds) I discovered Body for Life. I started going to the gym with a friend who was trying to lose baby weight. I didn’t really think much of it, but soon I dropped weight, then I started eating 6 times a day, balnaced meals. I found out I had a passion for running, and so I trained for a marathon. Two years later, I ran my first marathon. By that time, I had lost nearly 90 pounds, and 8 dress sizes. I weighed 124 pounds and was a muscular size 4. Currently I’ve maintained at a size 8 and about 135 pounds (I’m no longer running 20 miles a week). I am in great shape, happy, healthy, and have maintained a healthy weight for 7 years. It’s totally possible to completely transform yourself, but you have to look to yourself, not others at meetings. A great support system is at transformation.com. It’s part of the Body for Life community. Good luck to everyone out there no matter which plan you choose. Peace.
I have used Weight Watchers twice. The first time I lost 18 lbs in 4 months without any exercise. The second time I lost 11 lbs in 3 months with moderate exercise. It’s not a ton of weight, average about 1-2 lbs a week. But it really changed the way I saw food. I learned which foods were really bad choices and how to substitute for lower fat/lower sugar/lower calorie equivalents without sacrificing much taste. I also learned quickly how big my portion sizes had been, and how to eat the right amounts of food. It only took about one week to get used to the new size of meals and I no longer felt hungry or craved sugar. I could eat almost anything, I just had to adjust the amount or sacrifice something else later that I might have eaten. It’s all about making wise choices. More than anything, W.W. changed the way I looked at food overall and the way I ate in a permanant, sustainable way. It wasn’t a fad diet, not a quick weight loss scam. It was something I can and do use all the time now when I need to shed a few pounds. I highly recommend it. (I did the online version, not the meetings, as I’m on the computer all day. It was so easy for me to look up points and put my foods into the system to keep track.)
i am edeline i am 16 years old i am 200 pounds i need something that can make me drop some fat
Where is your meeting schedule?