Weight Watchers Questions?!


Question: Weight Watchers Questions.?
I am doing an assignment about Weight Watchers and I have a few questions that need to be answered for my health class.

1. Where did the diet come from (Who invented it.?)

2. What does the diet consists of.?

3. Is it a healthy or unhealthy diet.? Explain why.

4. What is some other information you feel is relative to explaining what the diet is about.

Thank you so much.

P.S. I can't go to a meeting because I am 13.Health Question & Answer


Answers:
History

Weight Watchers, one of the most celebrated weight-loss plans of all time, had its humble beginnings in the apartment of an overweight New York City housewife in the early 1960s.

Jean Nidetch, then more than 200 pounds, brought together some overweight friends to discuss how they could all lose weight. Soon the women were meeting every week, confiding in each other about their common desire to overcome their food longings. In this supportive atmosphere, each woman was successful in losing weight.

Word spread quickly and Weight Watchers was incorporated in 1963. Today, an estimated one million people continue the tradition worldwide.

Philosophy

There are different ways to make Weight Watchers work for you: Weight Watchers Meetings provide coaching and real-life insights to help you make the positive changes needed to lose weight. They give you the support and guidance to help you reach your goal and stay there. In the words of Nidetch, "empathy, rapport and mutual understanding" are the energies that make the plan work.

Now with Weight Watchers Online, you can also follow the plan step-by-step online with interactive tools, tips, recipes and more.

The Diet

Weight Watchers introduced TurnAround, with two food plans to make it even easier to fit weight loss into your life: the flexible POINTS? plan and a No Counting plan. You choose the weight-loss approach that fits your life best.

On the Flex Plan, you can enjoy the full range of food options, while making better choices with the POINTS system. Each food has a POINTS value based on a special formula. You can eat any food as long as you stay within your POINTS budget. Since nutritious foods are low in POINTS values, you can easily handle any food challenge, even when choices are limited.

The Core Plan works by focusing your eating on a list of wholesome, nutritious foods without counting or tracking. Enjoy satisfying foods from all the food groups without empty calories, and have the occasional treat in controlled amounts.

Weight Watchers helps you build the skills to enjoy a healthy, balanced life by showing you how to boost your activity level, become aware of how your habits affect your weight and learn how to set achievable, step-by-step goals to build on your weight-loss success.

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Im unsure about the inventor, but nutritionist control it.
Its a healthy diet that teaches you how to eat. Meaning how many calories and how much fiber you should have in a day, as well as other nutrients.
The meetings are for support and tips on healthy weight loss. The members weight is watched over carefully to insure the plan is working for them, and to make sure they're maintaining a healthy weight once they've reached their goals.

You can go to their web site, it has a lot of information.Health Question & Answer

You CAN go to a meeting, at any age. You can't join without a doctor's note, but you don't want to join, you only want to learn. You can go, talk to any employee there and ask them the questions.

Or, a lot of information is online: http://www.weightwatchers.com

I would tell you all of the information you've asked, but then I'd be doing your homework for you. Go to the website. Go to a meeting if there's one around your area. Or, call the 800 number. It should be listed on the website.Health Question & Answer

can't you visit their website or something.?.?
i'm sure all the information you need will be there...

goodluck !!! ^__^

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