Weight Watchers Discover Plan
What is the Weight Watchers Discover Plan?
It's a diet with a difference. It's based around four main principles: food (eating the right foods), behaviour (recognising whether you're hungry or not and knowing when to stop eating), support (attending the group meetings or being an online member) and exercise (doing more activity in your everyday life).
As well as the famous Points plan there's also a new Filling Foods list and 'weight training' advice. This isn't lifting weights at the gym, it's about helping you to listen to your body and suss out when you're eating for hunger or for other reasons.
The goal of the Discover Plan is to help you change your eating habits and lifestyle for good so that you keep the weight off.
How can I do the Weight Watchers Discover Plan?
You can be an online member or you can go to regular Weight Watchers meetings
On the Discover Plan they recommend that you fill in a food and drink diary and that you follow the diet, so when you're hungry choose from the Filling Foods list, such as breakfast cereals,lean meat and low-fat dairy products. and stick to your personal number of Points.
Do some activity. If you're just not one of those people who can spend hours on a treadmill, don't worry, Weight Watchers can help you to be more active in your day-to-day life. And they'll show you how to convert your activity into Points values, so you can eat more.
You'll be encouraged to look at why you're eating. Most of us eat for reasons other than just because we're hungry - sometimes we don't even know we're eating, or we don't think it counts, such as picking up leftovers from the kids' plates. This is something that the Weight Watchers Discover Plan can help you with.
What is the Points system?
Weight Watchers has given every food, drink or meal a points value. Depending on your weight, how much you want to lose and how much exercise you do, you can have a certain number of points per day.
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STACEY POWELL, 9 months
i have been on ww for 2 yearsnow and have lost 4 stine in my first year, i went to the gym 3 times a week and did the diet after the first year i felt gr8 and lost all the weight. now im mainting the weight at 10 stone but i am wanting to loose another half of stone which does not want to budge. any body know of any diet on ere that coyuld shift it as i think ive cum to my limmit with ww thanks stacey x
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carole gordon, 5 months
hey stacey - i had same sort of prob as u, I got really fat when I was pregnant and had to shift 2 stone or so afterwards. It was a struggle and took a while but now I am bak at work I sumtimes use one of those online diet delivery services when the pounds start to creep on again. they are useful as i'm always so busy and the meal is ready there for u so u dont have to think about it. there are quite a few to choose from - i tried golower nd diet chef - i found the chef one is slightly cheaper and more variety but check them and see what you think. cheers caz
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