Weight Watchers is more of a calorie controlled diet. The points are based on calories, fat, and fiber. You eat your daily limit of points, and you consume a controlled amount of food (calories). Most experts believe that it is the calories that should be controlled, not the number of carbs. I personally lost weight on a very high carb diet. Weight Watchers is the only diet plan that has proven their success, and their diet has never limited total carbs - just total food. It's all about portion control. The new WW Core program has a focus on "good carbs", which many believe is a way to compete with the popularity of the South Beach Diet. However, the plan itself is not very popular. Those that love it, LOVE it, but according to our survey, only 1 in 10 stay on core, the rest are on flex. Our mother (a WW Lifetime member) says no one at her center is on Core.
The diet that works for you is the one that fits your lifestyle and personal tastes, because this is the diet that you will stick with. All diets work, whether low carb or low fat (low calorie). Low carb diets cause a faster weight loss initially, but then they slow down. Over the course of a year, low carb diets and low fat diets result in the same amount of weight loss. However, of those that regain weight, the ones that followed low carb diets regain more weight, and faster. Of the successful dieters that kept the weight off long term, as tracked through the National Weight Control Registry, only a tiny percentage were successful with low carb diets. Low fat dieters had the most success.
So don't be afraid of the total carbs. It's portion control that will help you lose the weight
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