I do the program online, which actually means that I don't go to meetings, but do all of the point-tracking online and have access to the oodles of online resources on the website (including an excellent bulletin-board system).
There are two WW plans: Flex and Core. I do Flex.
When you sign up, you are assigned a Daily Points Value based on your height, weight, and average level of activity each day. Each food has a Points Value assigned to it, so you put what you eat each day into the handy online calculator and it keeps track of it all for you. Every day you're supposed to consume ALL of your allotted points. If you do exercise that day, you enter that into the calculator and you get a few more points, which you are NOT required to use (but if you do use them, you have to use them the same day that you earn them). Additionally, you get 35 Points a week to use however you want. You are not required to spend all of them.
Provided that you are conscientious and don't go over your weekly points, you WILL lose weight. I lose 1-2 pounds a week, and I am NEVER hungry! You can eat SO MUCH FOOD on this plan. What's really great is that there are absolutely no restrictions on the kinds of food you can eat: you could theoretically have a Big Mac every day if you wanted, provided that you accounted for it in your points total. Of course, I don't do that very often: I tend to eat a lot of grains and veggies, since they're low in points so I can eat more.:)
I highly, highly recommend WW to everybody now. The key to it is that it's not a "diet", it's a lifestyle change. Once you attain your goal weight, you switch to a maintenance phase where you eat a certain assigned points value every day in order to neither gain nor lose weight.
The only thing that kind of stinks is that as you lose weight, you eventually are given fewer points to work with every day. I just lost my first point- a bittersweet occasion!:)
I do the program online, which actually means that I don't go to meetings, but do all of the point-tracking online and have access to the oodles of online resources on the website (including an excellent bulletin-board system).
There are two WW plans: Flex and Core. I do Flex.
When you sign up, you are assigned a Daily Points Value based on your height, weight, and average level of activity each day. Each food has a Points Value assigned to it, so you put what you eat each day into the handy online calculator and it keeps track of it all for you. Every day you're supposed to consume ALL of your allotted points. If you do exercise that day, you enter that into the calculator and you get a few more points, which you are NOT required to use (but if you do use them, you have to use them the same day that you earn them). Additionally, you get 35 Points a week to use however you want. You are not required to spend all of them.
Provided that you are conscientious and don't go over your weekly points, you WILL lose weight. I lose 1-2 pounds a week, and I am NEVER hungry! You can eat SO MUCH FOOD on this plan. What's really great is that there are absolutely no restrictions on the kinds of food you can eat: you could theoretically have a Big Mac every day if you wanted, provided that you accounted for it in your points total. Of course, I don't do that very often: I tend to eat a lot of grains and veggies, since they're low in points so I can eat more.:)
I highly, highly recommend WW to everybody now. The key to it is that it's not a "diet", it's a lifestyle change. Once you attain your goal weight, you switch to a maintenance phase where you eat a certain assigned points value every day in order to neither gain nor lose weight.
The only thing that kind of stinks is that as you lose weight, you eventually are given fewer points to work with every day. I just lost my first point- a bittersweet occasion!:)
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