Weight Watchers has been hanging tough in the diet world since the 1960s.  The program is backed by body science and thousands of satisfied dieters.  If we have your attention, here is how the Weight Watchers program works.

With this eating plan, people use a patented Points system to track their eating habits.  Based on your answers to a short survey, you are assigned a points value for your eating program.  As you lose weight, the amount of points that you can eat will be cut.  A points value is assigned to each and every food and drink including meals that you eat in restaurants.

By tracking your points and how much of what foods you are eating, Weight Watchers helps you to chart eating habits and where you need to make changes in order to lose weight and become healthier.  The program includes weekly meetings so dieters can discuss their strengths and weaknesses with others and find support.

From the Points system, evolved the Core plan.  With the Core plan, instead of counting daily points, you were assigned a list of healthy foods to choose from.  As long as you ate until you were satisfied and stuck to your list, you could lose weight just like dieters on the Point tracking, or Flex plan.

Weight Watchers went online and dieters could use e-tools to help them manage their exercise and eating.  The program provided hundreds of recipes, an online points tracker and a helpful guide determining points in each serving of your recipes.

The newest breakthrough for Weight Watchers is their Momentum program.  It combines the Point system and what they call “filling foods.”  Dieters start with counting points to learn the basis for choosing their foods and how to manage portion sizes.  Next, they transition into eating “filling foods.”  These are foods that are designed to give you more sustained energy throughout the day and to fill you up so you are not hungry all the time.

The new changes in Weight Watchers teach dieters to learn about food and not simply eat points.  There was always the hazard that dieters would eat their daily point limit but not change their views on food.  Eating 30 points worth of sweets is not the way to get healthy.  The turning point comes when dieters learn to make better food choices.

Dieters still track their eating habits with the Momentum program.  Keeping them accountable is the difference between staying on the right track and slipping back into poor food choices.

Weight Watchers equips the dieter with all they need to succeed on the program.  The support system created by the meetings aid in more permanent weight loss and not yo-yo dieting.  Getting involved in your own weight loss is invaluable.

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