Weight Watchers Works If You Decide to Follow It

by Ally
(Seattle)

Weight Watchers is my favorite. I don't feel like I am being deprived and that is when I lose it on diets.

On Weight Watchers - if I truly don't sabotage myself and honestly stay with the program, I lose 1 to 3 pounds a week. Interestingly enough however, I have noticed that if I do use a significant amount of points for alcohol, even if I stay within my points, I do not lose weight that week.

So if theoretically, to lose weight, you should be around 1200 calories a day if you're a woman, if I eat 800 in food and drink 400 in alcohol, I don't lose.

All the trainers and health nuts Ive talked to are totally blown away by that, but the scale and the points system doesn't lie. I think it must have something to do with how the liver breaks down alcohol but I digress.

With the exception of using alcohol for points, Weight Watchers works for me every single time. I love it and will never try a different form of diet.

If you want to kick it up a notch, of course, exercise. Weight Watchers doesn't scare you with exercise and the amount of exercise it actually takes to lose weight in a healthy way is nothing like you see the torture it looks like they put people through on the Biggest Loser.

I do 20 to 30 minutes of cardio about 5 days a week. Then when I actually started to add in weights, I found after of few months of being consistent on it, I didn't gain a thing after going completely off my diet for a month.

I attribute that solely to all the lean muscle I had put on in the previous 3 months. Don't overdo it though, because it'll still catch up with you, especially if you quit working out.

When you're finally ready to lose weight...