Weight Watchers
Weight Watchers has helped many overweight people become healthy individuals. Weight Watchers has developed a new formula that is supposed to help the members loss more weight and eat healthier. Weight Watchers has tried to listen to their members and their concerns, and because of this they have made the program better, more preferable, and far superior then other weight loss clinics. Weight Watcher’s goal is not to have you concentrate on an unrealistic goal, they want you to concentrate on a practical goal.
When I walked into the concrete building I was shocked. I was expecting it to be a depressing environment, because who likes hearing that they are overweight. In spite of that, all of the employees had a smile on there faces and made you feel like it was ok if you didn’t loss the amount that you wanted to. They look at the bigger picture. Claudia, a Weight Watcher leader, said “Many people join us with an idea in their heads of how much weight they’d like to loss. We encourage them to forget about that number for a bit and focus first on 5% weight loss.” For many people, including me, the 5% goal seems like that can be achieved. “And that’s the kind of goal we want you to start with: one that you know you can do.” Claudia continued.
I waited in line for what I thought was going to be the end of the world. As I got closer and closer to the end of my world my heart started beating faster and faster. As I stepped on to the scale I squeezed my eyes shut not wanting to see anything. “Ok, you can step off the scale, here is your booklet. Have a great day.” As I walked into the meeting room I couldn’t help but look on the inside of the booklet were it said my starting weight. After seeing that number I knew something had to change. “When you notice your in a cycle, just change something, anything will do.” Rebecca, a Weight Watcher leader told us in our meeting. For me my “something” was going to Weight Watchers. Rebecca continued by saying “Things that don’t change remain the same.” This is my first step to not remain the same, to change my life around.
Weight Watchers has changed their formula in calculating their points. Its called the PointsPlus formula. “Foods are ranked within categories using a proprietary formula. In our rankings, we were looking not only at foods’ ability to be filling, but also on health (how their contents of sugar, sodium, saturated fat, fat, and or fiber stacked up).” stated in The PointsPlus Getting Started Guide on page 18. In the new Weight Watchers program they have made fruits zero points. Which is a great incentive to grab an apple instead of a candy bar for a snack. The PointsPlus Getting Started Guide, on page 58, says “Fruits are especially filling, especially nutritious, especially powerful foods. We’ve been helping people lose weight for a long time, and, in general, we don’t see people becoming overweight because they ate too many bananas. But we do see that people who eat fruits for snacks and with meals feel satisfied. They’re great foods, and we want you to feel encouraged to eat them.Thats why we made then zero PointsPlus values.”
Weight Watchers has many tools that can help you lose weight and conquer your weight loss goal. Weight Watchers has a tracker, were you can write down what you have eaten and how many points you have used in the day. In this new program Weight Watchers has tools that are on the computer and can be downloaded to your smartphone. This is great for a lot of people who are on the go and who are on the computer a lot. Weight Watchers has come out with this amazing PointsPlus Calculator, this calculator figures out everything for you it can figure out PointsPlus values of anything, calculates your daily PointsPlus target, and it tracks your daily and weekly PointsPlus values. Weight Watchers has also published four books for their costumers. They are titled Dining Out Companion, CompleteFood Companion, Ready Set Go, and The PointsPlus Pocket Guide. Also, when you go to the meetings after your weigh in you get a Weight Watchers Weekly.
“Activity burns energy and therefore has an impact on your weight-loss progress. Activity PointsPlus values are our way of helping you measure that impact.” stated in The PointsPlus Getting Started Guide on page 76. Weight Watchers wants you to get up and move, so they have added a program that allows you to earn more points daily based on how much daily activity one participates in, each activity is worth a different amount of points based on the endurance level some activities include, taking the stairs, walking more regularly, playing with your kids, etc. “Activity can be therapy for mind and body!”
Weight Watchers has realized that it’s hard for their members to spot filling foods, so they came up with the Power Foods and Filling Foods program. This program is a mini program within the Weight Watchers PointsPlus Program. The Power Foods include fruits and veggies, lean protein, non-fat and low-fat dairy, and whole grains. In this program it also states that you need liquids, healthy oils, multivitamins, and the be active.
In conclusion, Weight Watchers has helped many people with their old program, but with their new program they are going to help double the amount they did before. Weight Watcher’s new program has helped people not just think about their weight but conquer your goals in life. Weight Watchers is hard, but the results far surpass most diets people experiment with. Weight Watchers succeeds in helping people reach their goals.
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