Summary: Understanding The Weight Watchers Diet Program

Weight Watchers is an excellent program to aid in weight loss and healthy eating. It is an easy, healthy, and effective method for losing weight and eating correctly. Weight Watchers has based their program on a point system, making it easy to follow by counting points assigned to foods. It promotes healthy eating habits by regulating serving sizes, which are set by the United States Department of Agriculture. In addition to promoting healthy eating habits, it offers support for people who might need it. The support, along with the eating plan, helps dieters lose weight and eat healthy.

One of the questions that I was asking myself before I read any of the articles was if the program works for people who are on certain diets, for example vegan or vegetarian. According to Weight Watchers Diet Review: Count Points for Weight Loss, it states that the way the program is set up, using daily SmartPoints allow one to still use the program given certain restrictions (Asp, K. A., & Nazario, B., MD.) In all of the sources found pertaining to the Weight Watchers Program, the authors provides some kind of evidence, biased or unbiased, of how the Weight Watchers program does help people lose weight.

In America today one in three adults are considered to be obese. Over the years the rate of obesity keeps climbing up and up. Some people blame fast-food or the environment Americans live in. After all,someone can purchase a chocolate bar at a bookstore nowadays. But, most people are looking at the incorrect factor to blame. Although the food industry is a huge contribution to obesity in America, people are ultimately responsible for their own health.

Weight Watchers was designed so that people can take charge of their lives and their weight without having to suffer with horrible tasting food or having a constant rumbling stomach. Not only does it help people lose weight but it helps them be conscious about what they eat and how healthy something really is. Once they start to see pounds shedding off and their waist size shrinking, they will begin to eat better and change their life styles. This is not just a diet for when someone is over weight. This is a diet for a life time. It will continue to help a person achieve and maintain a healthy weight without having to cut out some of their favorite foods, fattening or not. Weight Watchers has activity points just like they do regular food point. This also comes with a nifty slider so that when someone goes to the gym or even goes for a walk, they can calculate how intense it was to how long they participated in this activity for and gain activity points which give people all the more motivation to get out there and be active. They can then turn around and trade these points in for food points.

This assignment and the first 4 units of this course will assist me in becoming a healthier person not only personally but also professionally. I have struggled with my diet the past few years, either consuming to much or to little, ultimately eating not very healthy. My goal is to eat from each food group the best I can and to eat the portion sizes that is needed for my body. I am going to try and change my eating habits to create more positive choices for myself. Taking care of myself inside will help in the workforce mentally and physically but also help with my knowledge about healthy eating, I’ll be able to share and teach by example.

Another unique aspect of the weight watchers program is that it teaches its participants how to keep the weight off and how to keep up with their new healthy lifestyles and it does this while the program is still running by teaching members what is better for them to eat and why. The program becomes second nature, and instead of just providing members with pre made food, it teaches them to pick better portions and options.

When you scroll down the page of food page of the website of weight watchers they say that there’s no required foods in their program. The food recipes they recommend allow you to not restrict certain foods. The weight watchers program uses a points program. The points program is to not restrict, but to allow individuals to eat more healthy food (Asp, 2016). For instance, this point system is like a currency. The better you eat you have more points to spare; you’ll have more money to spend. If you were to decide to eat some junk food the points will be higher means that you have to eat less of these foods to remain in range of points; you spend more money which can limit the amount you intake (Asp,2016). The points are individualized by the person personal goal (Asp,2016).

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It is a food plan designed to help you lose weight by portioning the foods you eat so you are no longer consuming excess calories. Jean Nidetch founded the Weight Watchers Diet in 1963, in Queens, New York. The core ideas behind Weight Watchers is to use a science-driven approach to form healthful habits, to eat smarter, to get more exercise, and to provide support. Weight Watchers requires you to join a group to help you lose weight; their newest fad is SmartPoints. The SmartPoints plan helps to guide members toward an overall eating pattern that is low in calories, saturated fat and sugar, and higher in protein. This diet allows you to eat what you want based on your weight, height, age, and gender, provided you stick to your daily target of SmartPoints. The diet is very common among many Americans and in an experiment at twelve months Weight Watchers is associated with 2.6% more weight loss than those who were in a control

Everyday it is possible to open up an issue of “Men’s Fitness” or “Muscle and Fitness” or “Modern Woman” or “TIME” or any magazine for that matter, and find the “new and/or improved” way to lose weight, improve the quality of life, or extend your years working towards the other two goals. Almost all of the methods prescribed can work; some are exercise and some are diet. For the most part though, achieving diet or exercise goals requires one to have great discipline. It has been proven, by each of these diet deveopers, that the diets they prescribe will work if the individual will just manage his caloric intake.

Additionally, our nutrition information can help you if you have a special situation, such as needing to lose weight. You need to find the right balance of calorie intake and how many calories you burn in order to shed those extra pounds for good. We can provide you with the foods to eat that will help you to feel full while getting the nutrients your body needs to function optimally. You will discover that losing weight does not have to be a chore. The fact is that when done right, you will have more energy and mental clarity than many of the modern diets allow.

In tracking my eating routine in a 3-day diet plan using the Food Tracker, I was surprised by my results. I realized that my current eating habits were not the best. In comparing my diet to the recommended diet amount, I was not consuming the recommended food targets. I have learned that I can adjust my diet using the daily food group targets and the six classes of nutrients. The six classes of nutrients are essential to having a healthy well balanced diet.

Fighting obesity is something that many Americans struggle with. There are so many fad diets, and commercials that sell diet pills, claiming that they have discovered the secret to effortless weight loss. People often discuss their success, or failures with such diets, and pills. They may talk about counting calories or “carbs”. What are calories and carbohydrates, and how do they affect our bodies? With so many choices, how do they figure out which option will yield positive results in fighting obesity? Let us take a closer look at fighting obesity.

When physicians recommend that their patients go on diets, their implicit goal is unlikely to be to help these patients improve their appearance or body image. The assumption in recommending diets is that losing weight will lead to improved health, and yet, it is far less common for studies of the effectiveness of diets to directly measure health outcomes than to measure weight. There is ample evidence that diets do not lead to long-term weight loss in the majority of people (Mann et al., 2007), but what does this mean for health? Is losing weight closely tied to health benefits? In this paper, we attempt to answer this question by reviewing evidence on the long-term effects of weight-loss diets on health outcomes.

The first argument as to why dieting is more effective for weight loss than exercise is that a good diet is better for overall weight control. A better diet quality has been associated with less weight gain over time and one study looked to compare changes in diet quality in overweight and obese adults during a weight loss intervention (O'brien et al. 2014). Groups consisting of a standard weight loss program, an enhanced version of the weight loss program, and a wait list control group were tested to see if their diet quality improved their weight loss. The results found that the basic weight loss program and the enhanced version of the weight loss program lost  significantly more