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Weight Watchers Review: Online Diet Program |
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| Flexible, emphasizes healthy choices | |
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Weight Watchers has a strong track record, with over 40 years of helping people lose weight. As they say themselves, "Weight Watchers works because it's not a diet. You'll learn how to eat right and live healthy."
Meals Weight Watchers features the "PointsPlus System," which teaches its users how to make healthy and smart food choices. The PointsPlus System is the newly updated Weight Watchers' methodology of assigning points to foods that you eat based on protein, carbohydrate, fiber, and fat grams. It does involve a form of calorie counting, with a daily allowance of points and a weekly allowance of extra points, but the online tool makes it easy because it will do the counting for you as long as you remember to record your meals. Weight Watchers has specific programs for both men and vegetarians. They also allow extra points for exercise and nursing. Weight Watchers is one of the only plans with a special program for nursing moms. Meetings vs. Online When signing up for Weight Watchers, you are given two options. You can elect to attend Weight Watchers Meetings, or you can go the strictly online route. With both options, Weight Watchers helps you to establish healthy goals for weight loss including helping you to determine a healthy range for your final weight goals. Weight Watchers Meetings Weight Watchers offers numerous meeting locations in cities and towns throughout the U.S., so odds are there is one where you live. Meetings provide a more interactive approach to weight loss, with confidential weigh-ins, and personal guidance, strategies and tips. Each meeting is chaired by a 'Leader,' someone who has lost weight with Weight Watchers and typically guides the meetings. Weight Watchers meetings offer a "Monthly Pass" option for $39.95 per month that lets users attend as many meetings as they wish. They also have other pricing options, which vary by location. Additionally, meeting participants are given the option of signing up for eTools, the online portion of Weight Watchers, at an extra cost of $12.95 per month. eTools will help track points and chart your progress online. Weight Watchers Online If meetings aren't your thing, you can choose to just sign up for the full-featured Weight Watchers Online program. Their online, password-protected site is where you can track your points values, find recipes, get meal ideas, track your weight, switch your meal plan, read motivational success stories, and watch videos. Weight Watchers Online has several interactive tools to assist you with your diet: a food search, a recipe builder, a points tracker, and an activity tracker. The food tracker lets you save common meals and tracks your daily points intake. The activity tracker lets you determine the points allowance for your exercise activities and automatically factors that into your daily points allowance. The recipe builder is where you input the ingredients and it calculates the points totals for your meal; recipes can then be saved for later use. The food search lets you find the points values for a variety of foods. Fitness Weight Watchers Online provides workout tips and clear direction on how to do exercises, complete with video and pictures. However, it doesn't actively make any recommendations as to what sort of fitness routines you should be doing on a daily basis like we saw on eDiets. The overall fitness tools require a bit more work on the user's part to determine what exercise they'll be doing that day, and to develop their own balanced plans. And if you have questions, you'll need to find your own fitness expert as Weight Watchers online also doesn't provide one. You can also track and see how different activities will affect your points totals. To use it, you indicate which activity you did and for how long. Once this information is entered, the number of points you used are automatically calculated and then subtracted from your total number of points. Bottom Line Weight Watchers offers two solid choices for weight loss: Weight Watchers Meetings and Weight Watchers Online. Overall, both choices are very well-rounded, promoting sustainable weight loss and a healthy lifestyle, and the online tools are very effective in helping you track and manage your goals. |
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| Cost: | $17.95-39.95/mo |
| Diet Types: | DIY diet with some prepared meals |
| Support Types: | Tracking tools; online forums; restaurant advice |
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| Recipes & Meals: | 1,500+ recipes and meals |
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