Weight Watchers for Women
Weight Watchers for Women – Is it Effective?
Recently, I had an email from Angela, a 49 year old reader from Boston with a question about Weight Watchers for women. Basically, her doctor has recommended the plan several times, but it doesn’t seem to be giving her the results she expected. Angela wants to lose weight, but wonders if there isn’t a plan that is more effective and offers better results. This is a good question, and one I get fairly often.
Weight Watchers for Women- The Results
Weight Watchers for women has shown varying results from exceptional to not so great. Some women have had huge success in their efforts to lose weight with the program, while others find that once they stop doing the point system the weight slowly creeps back on.
This is the problem with many plans – the results are not permanent for some women, and calculating points from now until you’re an elderly senior is something that seems unfathomable! It is really hard to stick with any program, regardless of what it is, if you are limited strictly to certain foods or pre-packaged diet foods.
A Very Positive Aspect of Weight Watchers for Women
One positive aspect of Weight Watchers for women is that they offer group meetings, which is something very important when your desire is to lose weight. It’s not actually the meeting itself that is important, it is the support of others who are in the same situation.
When you have personal and moral support of those around you and you’re all working toward the same goal, it helps you keep a positive attitude. You can also exchange ideas and tips to help each other lose weight.
When it comes to something that is life changing, it’s much easier when you don’t have to go it alone. The support of others makes you strong, gives you more willpower, and just makes you feel as if “we are all in this together.” So it is a good idea to at least have a pal or buddy to go the distance with you!
Weight Watchers for Women- The Long-Term Perspective
Weight Watchers for women, can work well or not so well, just like any other diet plan available today. Your main focus is to lose weight and keep it off for good, which seems to be the problem with this plan (and most other popular programs) for many women. Your goal should be to learn how to eat in a healthy way for the rest of your life, not how to count points.
Additionally, Weight Watchers for women can be intimidating, especially when it comes to weighing in. How much you weigh is really not the focus here; it’s how you look in your clothes and how you feel about yourself. One woman can weigh 140 pounds and look plump, while another may weight the same and look very fit and trim. It’s all about feeling beautiful and comfortable in your own skin!
What works best for most women is learning what the correct portion sizes are, and knowing how many calories you are eating each day. While this may take some work in the beginning, you eventually come to know how much food to eat, how many calories it has, etc. – it’s almost like second nature once you start on a healthy “life” plan.
When you want to lose weight, you have to realize that everyone is different. This means that Weight Watchers for women may work for one and may not be the right solution for another. It all boils down to metabolic type, activity level, hormones, stress, how much and when you eat, etc. Once you have developed a personal plan targeted toward your unique needs, you will lose weight permanently.
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6 comments
Perry, I agree with your assessment. I have tried Weight Watchers and lost weight and also another program and lost weight. The problem is once, you get off the program, unless you continue to eat the way you did while on the program, you will regain the weight. What I realize is that I have to find a balance between how many calories I eat and the amount of exercise I do. Group or some type of support is very important. Thank you for your blogs.
I’ve never known a weight program that works long term. I might not be able to speak on this because I’ve never done Weight Watchers or anything similar. What I do buy into are the work out videos. Currently I’m a beachbody coach and I do those programs. I didn’t get the results as fast as some people say in their testimonials but I do see a difference. What I like about working out is that if you don’t start the program eating right you will eventually. After doing such a hard work out I hate messing up all of that work by eating stuff that’s going to go against it. With that said, I feel it is easier to maintain a considerable healthy weight by exercising and it does wonders for your well being. I’m still struggling a bit with eating right but I’ll get there eventually if I just remain consistent with working out.
Hi Jo,
Thanks for your reply. There seem to be two attitudes in which people react to exercise. The first is: “I’ve spent X amount of calories, now I’m allowed to eat” what naturally will ruin all the exercise efforts. I get quite a few emails with detailed descriptions of the exercise the women are doing, and then they write “… but I can’t lose weight despite of all the exercise I’m doing”.
You obviously have the second attitude “I’ve put so much effort into exercising, I’ll certainly will not mess up all the good work by eating too much or unhealthy”. That’s great.
As so often, the mindset and the attitude is what makes the difference. What people do or not do comes from their mindset and their attitude, and changing the mindset and the attitude gives the biggest leverage.
- Perry
Janice, Thanks for your comment. When I’ve started this website I wanted to provide information on how to lose weight in a way that it stays off- and having a healthy balance between eating and exercising is certainly a key point for this. Also, all programs that make you eat anything you can’t eat for the rest of your life are useless for exactly this reason. This weeds out all the “prepared meals” programs, diet pills and other fancy/fad stuff.
And I’ve found over and over that especially for women group support or a friend who is also sincerely wanting to lose weight is extremely important. For guys it’s different- they often have a “lone cowboy” approach and can be successful with it. For women it’s different.
- Perry
TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) works great. You go to meetings once a week and weigh in and encourage one another. It encourages lifestyle changes and exercise. You have to have your doctor sign a script telling your goal weight.
Juanita, thanks for the tip regarding TOPS. Sounds like a good program.
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