The Weight Watcher Diet

The Weight Watcher diet can help achieve weight loss and heart health.

A diet can provide the tools to begin living a healthy active lifestyle.Each person is different, with different needs, wants, and cravings strengths and weaknesses.

Choose the diet or technique that helps you in your unique way to achieve the goal you want to obtain. To live a happy active lifestyle and avoiding heart disease and other life threatening diseases.

Weight Watchers

Weight Watchers operates in about 30 countries around the world, generally under the name "Weight Watchers" translated into the local language. In North America alone, 20,000 Weight Watchers meetings are held weekly. Its most prominent celebrity endorser is Sarah, Duchess of York.

WW scientific advisory board includes Myron Winick, M.D, WW medical director, three other physicians and five PhD health researchers (two of whom hold a PhD in nutrition).

The Program

The POINT system

The POINT system is based on allocating servings of food a specific number of points.

A program participant is allowed to eat food that amounts to a certain number of points per week. The number of permitted points for an individual is calculated based on the individual's weight goals, and the level of physical activity of the participant.

Every fresh and processed food is assigned a point value. The fat, calorie and fiber content are taken into account in the WW Point rating system.

In general, the higher points are assigned to foods that contain high in both fat and calories, low in fiber. For example, a fried item (high in fat & calories) is 10 points but a steamed vegetable is 0 points (low in calories and fat).

Daily points allowed are based on baseline body weight. Participants are expected to stay within their WW Points range until they achieve desired weight loss. For example, participants who weigh between 150-174 pounds are allowed 20-25 points daily.

Participants are encouraged (but not required) to attend weekly meetings held at a convenient location. At these sessions, exchange tips, recipe and product suggestions, exercise and stress management concepts are discussed under the direction of a WW group leader (WW participant who has successfully maintained desired weight loss).

Participants' weigh-in at the beginning of each session and recorded by WW group leader. On-line WW "home" program is another option for participants to receive support services offered by WW.

The formula for calculating the POINTS content of a specific food serving uses a formula described in US Patent 6,040,531: Where p is the number of points, c is the number of calories, f is the grams of fat, and r is the grams of dietary fiber (if the dietary fiber is greater than four, use four).

Theoretically, all foods are allowed assuming participant is able to keep within daily points allowed. In the WW 7 day way menu planner, fruits, vegetables and other high-fiber, low-fat foods are staples of this reducing diet.

The balance of the suggested menu plans are:

55% carbohydrate,

25% fat and

20% protein.

As with any other diet program, each person must decide if this particular one can work for him, or her. The main objective and goal is to lose weight, become active, and reduce the risks of getting heart disease.

If Weight watcher can help, why not give it a try, we will never regret anything we did to improve our health and wellbeing.