I love Weight Watchers. If you want to slim down, you’ll love it, too.
Thanks to a good 2 years that featured a sedentary lifestyle and excessive consumption of junk food – a nonstop parade of (delicious, delicioussss) Kettle Chips and other assorted snacks – I put on 30 pounds. While Mac from Always Sunny would maintain that I was adding mass, and man do I wish that had been true, I was not. I was just putting on a gut.
Eventually, after outfatting every suit I had, then all dress pants, then all jeans, I realized I needed to do something. I bought myself a single pair of dress pants and jeans in my newly upgraded size to get me through this period, and joined Weight Watchers.
It’s a straightforward and easy system. All foods have points, and you have a daily point limit, along with weekly flex points. Just stick within it and the weight comes off. I lost a steady pound roughly each week. There are also a ton of zero point foods that you can eat as much of as you want. Fruits, veggies, lean meats like chicken and turkey – all of these are zero points. You never hear anyone saying, man, I gained all this weight because I couldn’t stop eating carrots and cauliflower.
Eventually, I got very good at eating healthy. Which is not something you’d think you’d need to get good at, but go figure. I cut down – then cut out – almost all junk food, which I now only have on rare occasions. I eat whole foods and don’t slather them in sauces full of garbage ingredients anymore. I often have entire zero point days now, and that has massively accelerated my weight loss.
After a year of weight watchers, I not only got back to my goal weight and can fit into all of my clothes again, but I exceeded my original goal and feel way better than I have in years.
If you’re looking for a jump start on a fitness journey, definitely give weight watchers some consideration. It really trains on you HOW to eat properly and healthily, and even when I no longer need it and will cancel my subscription, I now have the blueprint for proper eating that will keep me in good health going forward.