Weight Watchers Diet Plan

Type in diet plans on any online search engine and you are sure to have thousands of diets pop up. There are diets that restrict you from eating everything in a certain food group to diets that allow you to eat everything in only certain food groups. The one proven way to lose weight is calorie reduction and exercise. Weight Watchers is a diet program that practices and encourages both.

Weight Watcher's diet plan is advertised as not being a diet but more of a way of life. This is because the principle theory behind their weight loss success lies with exercise and calorie reduction alone. They do not claim you have to eat meat and eggs together and wait two hours before eating a carbohydrate as some diets do. Weight Watcher's bases their diet plan on the food pyramid. The system Weight Watcher's goes by is a simple one. Currently, they have two weight loss plans. Throughout the
One method is called "Flex Plan" and the other is called "Core Plan". The first method, the Flex Plan is a point system. Using calories, fat and fiber, each food is given a point value. Each person has a set number of points they are allowed in a day based on their current weight. Each person also has extra splurge points they are allowed to use each week. The extra points are called "flex points". The less a person weighs the fewer points they are allowed during the course of a day. This method is essentially calorie counting without calling it that. The other system of monitoring intake Weight Watcher's uses, in case someone does not feel like keeping track of points, is called the Core Plan. The Core Plan does not use counting points or calories, instead there is a list of food provided in which the dieter is allowed to choose foods from and consume as much as they want until they feel full. The foods on the Core Plan are supposed to be low density foods. Essentially Core foods are low calorie