Monday, November 26, 2012
Why Weight Watchers is the right diet program for you!
By: 10067141 COMS369 - L02
Being a university student, we have all heard about the “Freshmen Fifteen” in which students potentially gain at least fifteen pounds in the first year of university. Reasons for this weight gain can include: hectic schedules, sleepless nights, quick and easy fast food, neglecting nutrition, and the only workout received is partaking in beer pong competitions. An easy fix to beating the “Freshmen Fifteen” is a weight loss program called Weight Watchers. I am sure most of us have seen the commercials with Jennifer Hudson and Jessica Simpson endorsing the Weight Watchers program, leaving one to wonder whether or not the Weight Watchers program actually does work. However, having tried this program myself, I can agree 100% with Jennifer Hudson and Jessica Simpson that Weight Watchers does, in fact, work.
I first started Weight Watchers in 2007 when I was in grade twelve because my dream pair of jeans was Rock and Republics by Victoria Beckham. Being in high school, I didn’t have a high-paying job, so I knew I could not afford to buy these $300 jeans. My mom, knowing I wanted these jeans, took the situation to her advantage and made a deal with me. My mom told me that if I lost twenty pounds by graduation that she would take me shopping to buy these pants. As I wanted these pants like no other, I took my mom up on her offer. Not knowing how to approach weight loss, my mom suggested that I try Weight Watchers, as she had had success with the program before. My mom got me the food points plus book and I followed the program on my own, simply counting points and exercising a few times a week. After two months, I successfully lost twenty pounds and got my jeans in time for graduation. Since then, every time I have wanted to lose weight I turn to the Weight Watchers program simply because I know it works.
Being a university student and knowing the benefits of the Weight Watchers program, I have come up with four positive benefits on why you should try Weight Watchers. If you want to change your lifestyle and feel healthier about yourself, you should follow these four advantages in joining this program: the easy to follow point system, the simplicity of moderating your normal diet, it’s cost effective, and exercising isn’t a requirement.
The first benefit of Weight Watchers is the simplicity of the program. The Weight Watchers program is a run off of a point system; based on your sex, age, weight and height. For example: if you weigh 127 pounds, are 5’6 tall , and are twenty years old, you get 6 points for being a female, you take the first two digits of your weight (12), two more points for being 5’6 and 1 point for being twenty years old. From that calculation you get to eat 21 points each day and, based on your diet, the book indicates what each food item is worth in terms of points. You base what you eat over the course of the day on how many points you can eat. The good thing about Weight Watchers is that the majority of fruits and vegetables contain zero point value meaning if you are hungry you can eat an endless amount of fruit and vegetables.
Weight Watchers bases itself around maintaining the way you eat today, within moderation. In other words, you can eat a chocolate bar for dessert, as they are only five points depending on what you eat throughout the day. This diet program allows the person on the diet to even eat out at restaurants and fast food joints as Weight Watchers has a guide for dining outside of your home. The problem I find with other diets is that you become deprived of what you normally eat, causing you to break your diet and binge, making lots of other diet plans unsuccessful for the long term. Weight Watchers is a way of life more than it is a diet, teaching portion control for now and for the future. After being on Weight Watchers for quite a while, it becomes easier to know how much and what you are supposed to be eating.
As university students, it’s common to struggle financially, living paycheque to paycheque. This means, more often than not, grabbing a cheap burger on the go is easier than going to the grocery store. Weight Watchers program is cost effective as the program does not cost a lot to join and you do not need to eat Weight Watchers food. The food points plus book cost me ten dollars and I do the program on my own. However, if you want help setting goals, or partake in a weekly weigh in, it does cost more money; most of us can afford to follow Weight Watchers program on a minimal budget, leaving those fast food joints alone.
As I’m not a fan of working out, I found this program to be the right fit for me, as regular exercise is not essential in order to succeed in the Weight Watchers program. Working out in the Weight Watchers program allows you to eat more food points over the course of the day. Being busy university students, not all of us have time to set aside to workout leaving Weight Watchers my number one choice for weight loss.
In contemplating these four simple benefits of joining Weight Watchers, you too will feel better about yourself. Not only does losing weight make you feel better physically but it also contributes to a higher self-esteem and higher levels of energy. Through becoming a Weight Watchers member you too can try to beat the dreaded “Freshmen Fifteen”.
Being a university student, we have all heard about the “Freshmen Fifteen” in which students potentially gain at least fifteen pounds in the first year of university. Reasons for this weight gain can include: hectic schedules, sleepless nights, quick and easy fast food, neglecting nutrition, and the only workout received is partaking in beer pong competitions. An easy fix to beating the “Freshmen Fifteen” is a weight loss program called Weight Watchers. I am sure most of us have seen the commercials with Jennifer Hudson and Jessica Simpson endorsing the Weight Watchers program, leaving one to wonder whether or not the Weight Watchers program actually does work. However, having tried this program myself, I can agree 100% with Jennifer Hudson and Jessica Simpson that Weight Watchers does, in fact, work.
I first started Weight Watchers in 2007 when I was in grade twelve because my dream pair of jeans was Rock and Republics by Victoria Beckham. Being in high school, I didn’t have a high-paying job, so I knew I could not afford to buy these $300 jeans. My mom, knowing I wanted these jeans, took the situation to her advantage and made a deal with me. My mom told me that if I lost twenty pounds by graduation that she would take me shopping to buy these pants. As I wanted these pants like no other, I took my mom up on her offer. Not knowing how to approach weight loss, my mom suggested that I try Weight Watchers, as she had had success with the program before. My mom got me the food points plus book and I followed the program on my own, simply counting points and exercising a few times a week. After two months, I successfully lost twenty pounds and got my jeans in time for graduation. Since then, every time I have wanted to lose weight I turn to the Weight Watchers program simply because I know it works.
Being a university student and knowing the benefits of the Weight Watchers program, I have come up with four positive benefits on why you should try Weight Watchers. If you want to change your lifestyle and feel healthier about yourself, you should follow these four advantages in joining this program: the easy to follow point system, the simplicity of moderating your normal diet, it’s cost effective, and exercising isn’t a requirement.
The first benefit of Weight Watchers is the simplicity of the program. The Weight Watchers program is a run off of a point system; based on your sex, age, weight and height. For example: if you weigh 127 pounds, are 5’6 tall , and are twenty years old, you get 6 points for being a female, you take the first two digits of your weight (12), two more points for being 5’6 and 1 point for being twenty years old. From that calculation you get to eat 21 points each day and, based on your diet, the book indicates what each food item is worth in terms of points. You base what you eat over the course of the day on how many points you can eat. The good thing about Weight Watchers is that the majority of fruits and vegetables contain zero point value meaning if you are hungry you can eat an endless amount of fruit and vegetables.
Weight Watchers bases itself around maintaining the way you eat today, within moderation. In other words, you can eat a chocolate bar for dessert, as they are only five points depending on what you eat throughout the day. This diet program allows the person on the diet to even eat out at restaurants and fast food joints as Weight Watchers has a guide for dining outside of your home. The problem I find with other diets is that you become deprived of what you normally eat, causing you to break your diet and binge, making lots of other diet plans unsuccessful for the long term. Weight Watchers is a way of life more than it is a diet, teaching portion control for now and for the future. After being on Weight Watchers for quite a while, it becomes easier to know how much and what you are supposed to be eating.
As university students, it’s common to struggle financially, living paycheque to paycheque. This means, more often than not, grabbing a cheap burger on the go is easier than going to the grocery store. Weight Watchers program is cost effective as the program does not cost a lot to join and you do not need to eat Weight Watchers food. The food points plus book cost me ten dollars and I do the program on my own. However, if you want help setting goals, or partake in a weekly weigh in, it does cost more money; most of us can afford to follow Weight Watchers program on a minimal budget, leaving those fast food joints alone.
As I’m not a fan of working out, I found this program to be the right fit for me, as regular exercise is not essential in order to succeed in the Weight Watchers program. Working out in the Weight Watchers program allows you to eat more food points over the course of the day. Being busy university students, not all of us have time to set aside to workout leaving Weight Watchers my number one choice for weight loss.
In contemplating these four simple benefits of joining Weight Watchers, you too will feel better about yourself. Not only does losing weight make you feel better physically but it also contributes to a higher self-esteem and higher levels of energy. Through becoming a Weight Watchers member you too can try to beat the dreaded “Freshmen Fifteen”.
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