Wether you have a busy lifestyle, have kids, travel, don't have time to cook or if you just love to cook ... The Weight Watchers diet fits the bill! Weight Watchers has the reputation for being a no nonsense, gimmick free plan. A plan that has evolved over the years.
Most recently, it has developed the very popular Points plan called "Flex", along with a "Core" plan, which is their answer to the good carb and low carb diets that have flooded the market in recent years. In either plan that Weight Watchers offers, you are rewarded with a little extra food if you exercise. Brilliant, in today's couch potato world!

You can join Weight Watchers two ways:

First, and most popular, are the in-person, weekly meetings. They used to be popular in church meeting halls, school cafeterias, and hotel meeting rooms. Over the past few years, they've become less mobile and more central, coming up with official Weight Watchers stores, complete with meeting rooms. Generally, you have to pay a fee (although it is low, and very reasonable) to join. This gives you the start up materials, and everything you will need to officially begin. After that, you will pay a weekly fee, which is commonly around $10-$15 per week. This isn't much, considering what you will get. Each week at Weight Watchers you will be weighed, and this will be logged in. You'll get some materials each week. This might be a recipe, or a tool to help you stay on track. You'll also be there with other dieters, and you'll all share when somebody does very well.
Nobody's weight is announced, ever, but if you reach a milestone weight loss -generally either the first 10 pecent of your weight loss, or another consistent loss- then you will be recognized for that and given a ribbon, or some other type of momento. The Weight Watchers meetings are incredibly supportive, and everybody there is just like you - they want to acheive their weight loss goals and share a little help while they're at it.

If you attend Weight Watchers meetings, you can also join Weight Watchers eTools. This is not part of your weekly Weight Watchers fee. This is an additional program that you can use to stay motivated when you're not at the weekly meetings. On Weight Watchers eTools, you will have menus, recipes, a quick glance restaurant guide, and tips. You'll also be able to chart your progress as you lose weight. Plus you have a huge online community available to you at www.weightwatchers.com . There are other great online communities on the internet that are free, but the other resources available by Weight Watchers on eTools are very valuable, and very cost effective.

[Continue to part two of the Weight Watchers review]