Once you learn serving sizes and number of servings, it's easy to stay on track. You are allotted so many servings from each food group every day. You eat real food from all the food groups: starch, protein, fat, fruits, vegetables, and dairy. What I learned way way back in that early 1990s Weight Watchers exchange plan has stuck with me all these years.
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Recently, I had a lightbulb moment: While I learned the Weight Watchers Points and Points Plus systems, and know how to calculate them, I don't think in terms of Points, I think in terms of numbers of servings of food groups. Martha McKinnon's Weight Watchers Story: Part 3 Martha McKinnon's Weight Watchers Story: Part 2 Martha McKinnon's Weight Watchers Story: Part 1 I now know that I need systems, discipline, accountability and support to maintain a happy healthy weight. I thought I'd be able to go it alone-a big mistake in retrospect. Naive and cocky, I failed to take maintenance seriously. I followed the plan, learned a ton about healthy balanced eating and portion control and consistently lost weight week after week. I did lose weight and become a lifetime member following, Quick Success, Weight Watchers food based exchange program, long before they switched over to Points.
This would be quickly followed by: "How could that be?" "You're nuts." "Weight Watchers is a huge public company that knows a lot more than you do." "It's so retro." "It's just because you learned it first, it's the plan you had initial success with and became a lifetime member following." "You're being nostalgic." I'm taking a break from my regularly scheduled WW Meal Planning this week to provide some food for thought instead.ĭid you ever have a nagging thought that you just couldn't get out of your head? Here's one that I've been wrestling with for a while now: "The old Weight Watchers food based exchange program (Quick Success) from the late 1980s / early 1990s was better for weight loss than counting points or points plus." Warning: Serious Weight Loss Rambling ahead Proceed at Your Own Risk! Old Weight Watchers Quick Success Program Cookbook
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