Weight Watchers: Watching your weight the smart way

     It's been more than forty years since Weight Watchers came on the scene and started helping people live healthier lives. Weight Watchers helps members create a foundation to introduce healthier choices and physical activity into their lives.

The original Weight Watchers plan invites members to weekly meetings where members hold group sessions, helping dieters form a network of support with people sharing similar experiences. Upon arrival, each person checks their weight privately. Meetings are conducted by a trained Meeting Leader who motivates and offers the group support through information about nutrition and fitness.

Weight Watchers was made popular by a points system called Flex Plan. A point value is assigned to each food on the comprehensive list of more than 27,000 foods. The Flex Plan allows you to eat the foods you like. Just stay within your daily points and you can still enjoy fried chicken and Diet Pepsi.

Weight Watchers emphasizes eating more wholesome food through its Core Plan. Members don't count points; just choose a balanced combination of whole grains, lean meats, fruits and vegetables, fish, poultry, eggs and dairy.

Jenny McCarthy recently appeared in a commercial for Weight Watchers after successfully losing and maintaining her post-pregnancy weight by following the program. Perhaps its most prominent celebrity endorser is Sarah, Duchess of York. Before her, Lynn Red grave appeared in a series of popular television advertisements for the packaged low calorie food division of the H.J. Heinz Company, then the parent of Weight Watchers.

Weight watchers is a great plan and a great program for losing weight and keeping with tasty meal choices. Being able to continue to eat for fun and for weight loss is the corner stone of programs like weight watchers. Other programs that starve the body leave you craving sweet foods, carbohydrates, etc... and ultimately lead to a break down and food binge. Food binging is one of the worst possible things that can happen to new dieters as it not only will erase prior progress but can sometimes set the dieter back even further than before starting the diet.

Members are also welcome and encouraged to join the Weight Watchers community online, at weightwatchers.com. From the comfort of their homes, members can form virtual support groups, monitor progress and access hundreds of approved recipes, like Blue Cheese Muffins, Sweet and Sour Pork, Grilled Beef Fajitas and even delectable treats like Chocolate Mint Brownies. If it's not convenient to prepare WW-approved meals at home, they offer a wide variety of frozen meals and point-complimenting menu items at Applebee's to help you lose weight.

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