by Eileen Eva

Created on: January 23, 2011

Weight Watchers community is a membership group that is widely recognized for its many years of support to those seeking safe and effective weight loss.  Weight Watchers diet plans yielded great and lasting results which made the group more credible.  “Momentum” was a program launched and become extremely popular and voted being the most effective diet plan among all the programs of Weight Watchers. 

Momentum diet plan was all about eating smart over eating less, a diet plan which suggests that filling foods are vital to provide satiety while losing weight.  Hunger and starvation will only lead to intake of more unnecessary food aside from the danger of being starved.  This weight loss program helps people to develop self control over temptation to eat more than what is just needed, and makes losing weight achievable and realistic. 

Momentum made it easier to commit long term weight management and is easy to incorporate with one’s daily lifestyle. Weight Watchers community gives big importance about being realistic on goals to achieve and whether one can live up with the diet plan.  Losing weight doesn’t have to be terribly difficult and full of agony.  An ideal diet plan is a diet which you can incorporate on your lifestyle without major changes on what you eat.  Just being wise which food to eat and making sure that you are just eating the right proportion daily is the key to a fun way losing weight.

Momentum diet plan promoted eating both high-fiber and high-protein diets.  Eating foods high in protein can make anyone feel fuller at long periods of time while the high fiber foods will help remove unwanted fats and toxins from our body.  With the extensive list of filling foods provided, picking which ones you want to munch in between meals make losing weight easier and fun.

Five servings of fruits and vegetables and up to two servings of lean protein are the suggested fillers for the day in order to avoid starvation and hunger.  Some love eating a bunch of high-fiber food and there are lots of crispy and tasty vegetables and fruits to choose from.  Protein-rich food is simply satisfying to our taste buds and helps being full longer. 

Some suggestions are:-

• Broccoli • Spinach • Raspberries • Pears • Pumpkin • Artichokes • Vegetable soups using cabbage and peas and other high-fiber vegetables, not cream based. • Canned fruits • Non processed meats • Eggs • Fish • Chicken, minus the skin • Ground beef • Pasta • Potatoes • Brown rice • Popcorn (unbuttered)

Many experts advise that, for a healthy diet, you ought to observe a good balance between high fiber and high protein diets to yield great results.  Too much concentration on eating one type of food may lead to bad side effects, especially if done in long periods of time.  Weight Watchers also stressed out the importance of belonging in a community with same goals the members would want to achieve as it greatly helps on staying on track and being connected in order to stay long on the weight management plan one follows.

Note: Weight Watchers changed Momentum  to The PointsPlus™ program

Sources:

Dietblog.com - Weight Watchers Momentum

Weight Watchers changed to The PointsPlus™ program

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