The Student Room Group

Reply 1

isnt it like some club that you sign up to join and they like help you to lose weight and improve your quality of life blah blah etc etc

Reply 2

My mum used to go to weight watchers classes. I think it is a thing run all over the country where you can go and do exercises / check your weight / swap ideas for loosing weight etc. I know that you get a series of books with receipes that are low in fat. I guess they have also released some of their own food? Or teamed up with certain brands which they recommend to their clients?

Not entirely sure, but this is the impression I always got.

Reply 3

Weight Watchers is an organisation that was set up to help people lose weight in the long-term, not in a drastic way or like a fad diet, e.g. Atkins diet.

It works on a points system, so every food and drink is worth a certain number of points (When you join Weight watchers, you get a guide book which tells you the points of most foods, and a little calculator thing to help you work out items not listed!). Depending on your age and your weight, you are allowed a certain amount of points a day (but the minimum is 16, so no one starves themselves!) and you keep to that amount of points. Also, doing different exercises earns you different amount of points.

Weight Watchers also do their own foods, e.g. cakes, crisps, etc, that you can buy in supermarkets: they have the points already listed on the back, and are usually lower in points 'value' than the normal equivalent!

Hope that explains it a bit :smile:

Reply 4

~nat~
Weight Watchers is an organisation .....


Ah yeah now I remember!! I was trying to dredge it up from my memory lol.

Reply 5

nikk
Ah yeah now I remember!! I was trying to dredge it up from my memory lol.


lol! :p:

Reply 6

~nat~
Weight Watchers is an organisation that was set up to help people lose weight in the long-term, not in a drastic way or like a fad diet, e.g. Atkins diet.

It works on a points system, so every food and drink is worth a certain number of points (When you join Weight watchers, you get a guide book which tells you the points of most foods, and a little calculator thing to help you work out items not listed!). Depending on your age and your weight, you are allowed a certain amount of points a day (but the minimum is 16, so no one starves themselves!) and you keep to that amount of points. Also, doing different exercises earns you different amount of points.

Weight Watchers also do their own foods, e.g. cakes, crisps, etc, that you can buy in supermarkets: they have the points already listed on the back, and are usually lower in points 'value' than the normal equivalent!

Hope that explains it a bit :smile:


nice idea :rolleyes: bet they make gold :biggrin: