Weight Watchers Diet

Weight Watchers believes that a healthy body results from a healthy lifestyle encompassing mental, emotional, and physical health. Dieting is just one part of a long-term weight management program.

Weight Watchers diet allows you to eat anything you want but encourages people to make healthy eating decisions and take up more physical activity that they enjoy with the aim to lose weight safely and sensibly. Weight Watchers members receives motivation, mutual support, and encouragement in handling the challenges encountered in making lifestyle changes at local support groups meetings.

Weight Watchers' philosophy is "Eat the food you love and lose weight". Foods are assigned point values based on their number of calories, grams of fat, and grams of fiber and you are allotted a certain number of points each day. You can earn more points with exercise, which is key to the Weight Watchers diet program.

The weight watchers forumla to calculate points values of foods is:

POINTS(R) = (calories/50) + (fat grams/12) - (fiber grams/5)