Weight Watchers Votes Jennifer Hudson as New Spokesperson

Celebrities stumping for weight-loss programs has become the norm in the industry and the newest to join the pack is American Idol fave Jennifer Hudson. We've seen Marie Osmond touting Nutrisystem, Valerie Bertinelli and Queen Latifah for Jenny Craig, and now new mom Jennifer will sing the praises of Weight Watchers, one of the old-time standby diet programs.

Weight Watchers has over forty years in the business and an estimated 1 million followers across the globe at any given time. One of the reasons this weight loss plan has continued success is the focus on overall health: mental, emotional and physical. Weight Watchers provides the tools and support to change the way you eat and live.

The four tenets of the Weight Watchers program are Eat Smart, Move More, Helpful Habits and Get Support. In the Eat Smart category, Weight Watchers provides common sense advice, a Weight Watchers point list program that allows you to choose what you want to eat, and prepared meals available for purchase at supermarkets, online, and in Weight Watcher Diet Centers. There is also an extensive listing of recipes and meal suggestions available in books, at centers, and online.

Your Weight Watchers advisors can help you put together an activity plan which will address the Move More portion of the program. You are not limited to yoga, spinning, walking or swimming, but guided toward activities that will interest you and become part of your daily and weekly routine. It will allow flexibility and work with your lifestyle, whether at home, at work, or on the road.

Helpful Habits are built on learning what is best for you body, nutritionally and otherwise. By changing the way you live, and developing healthy eating habits and exercise routines, you can take the weight off and keep it off long term. Weight Watchers wants you to sustain the weight loss, not bounce up and down on the scale.

Support is offered to help you reach your Weight Watchers goal. Members are encouraged to attend weekly meetings that include confidential weigh-in, information about weight loss and healthy habits, and will allow you to share with other members and gain insight and ideas into weight loss. If you do not live near a Weight Watchers center, there is help online. The online portion of Weight Watchers offers eTools and allows you to log in your plan, find recipes and meal ideas, assess your exercise habits, and monitor your weight.

There is a cost to join the program either at a center or online, although books are available to guide you through the process (minus the support and individual guidance).

 

As with any diet program, do your research first. Go to the library, search the internet, and above all, consult your doctor about any diet regimen that you are contemplating.