Weight Watchers Review

Weight Watchers is a good place to start your weight loss plan.  The group meetings can be encouraging while the weekly weigh-ins keep you accountable.

The plan is pretty simple because most foods are assigned points and you simply add the points you eat each day.  They give you a booklet with lots of foods listed in the index.  The internet may give even more information.  You can also calculate points using a sliding scale based off calories, fiber, and fat grams.

You can deduct activity points for every twenty minutes of exercise.  The program should work well at first if you follow the plan, unless you're just mildly overweight.

Daily point allowances are designated for varying weight ranges.  Unfortunately, the lowest weight was 150 pounds which corresponded to 19 points per day.  This really is not going to encourage weight loss for a 150-pound woman.  So shorter people may have to calculate their own allowance.