The easy to follow diet I couldn't follow (Weight Watchers)

Member Name: vicky_wire

Product:	Weight Watchers
Date:	18/01/09 (212 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Good for others but not for me, can calculate points on everything

Disadvantages: site is hard to navigate, too complicated for me

I recently joined weightwatchers, on a two week online free trial to see what all the fuss was about. I had been looking at different diets for a few weeks, and found that strict diets with meal plans weren't suitable for me - the plans were either too complex, not to my taste, meals were too expensive, or the meals wernt to my taste.

With weightwatchers you choose your meals yourself, and calculate their points value. Based on your BMI you are given a maximum number of points for the day, and you can save some points up for the end of the week if you want too. You can find the points value for most products, or if you have your own recipes you can enter the ingredients and find the points value that way.

I spent about two hours messing about on the site, and found it quite hard to use, it would be something you would really have to get used to. The lack of mealplans put me off, I felt I needed a bit more guidance, and on this site was left to myself, without any simple tutorials to show me what to do. That coupled with the need to record everything on the site eventually led me to give up on weightwatchers, it seemed like too much time and effort, so I just resorted back to counting my own calories and trying to keep them low, without sticking to a specific diet.

Weightwatchers wasn't for me, but I can see how it would be good for someone with a lot of weight to lose, and it is something that can be incorporated into your lifestyle, and probably easy to pick up when you've been doing it for a few weeks.

It is however very expensive to join, you can just get the books from ebay, or just count your own calories, and its cheaper with less effort!

Summary: I'll just stick to whatever I want to do, it will work just as well and save me loads!