[IcePrincessA87]

if someone could please help me with the original weight watchers diet plan it would be so appreciated. im talking about the ORIGINAL, not the 1-2-3 point system stuff. my mother had the diet plan a while ago but lost it.

i know in the morning you are allowed 2 eggs and a piece of toast, and at lunch a salad or something of that nature, could someone help me out? thanks

[Ginaki]

Good morning - I have the original WW book from the 70s when Jean Neiditch headed the program. You are not specific about what you want to know. I'll be happy to share with you what I have. Let me know specifically what it is you need - you can e-mail me at [email protected].

[points]

I found this on another thread:

The 1970's ww plan:

The Weight Watchers Food Plan

Instructions
Weight Watchers strongly advises its members that they consult with their physicians before embarking on this or any other food plan to lose weight, and that, where required by local law, a doctor's certification is necessary.

1. Eat only food listed in quantities specified.
2. UNLIMITED FOODS: Use as desired, the following Items: Bouillon, approved dietetic carbonated beverages, coffee, herbs, horseradish (red or white) lemon, lime, mustard, pepper, salt, soda water, soy sauce, spiced, tea, unflavored gelatine, vinegar (including wine vinegar), water.
3. UNLIMITED VEGETABLES: These vegetables may be eaten raw or cooked, without fat or salad oil, or dressing, either at meals or between meals. Eat all you want of the following: asparagus, bean sprouts, beet greens, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, celery, Chinese cabbage, cucumber, endive, escarole, fennel, green, red, or yellow pepper, kale, kohlrabi, lettuce, mushrooms, mustard greens, parsley, pickles (no sugar added), spinach, summer squash (caserta, chayote, cymling, pattypan, scalloped, straight or crookneck, vegetable marrow, zucchini), string beans (French style), watercress.
4. LIMITED VEGETABLES: Vary your selection of the following vegetables from day to day (use only a 4 ounce serving): artichokes, bamboo shoots, beets, Brussels sprouts, carrots, eggplant, green beans, okra, onions, oyster plant (salsify) parsnips, peas, pea pods, pumpkin, scallions, winter squash(acorn, banana, butternut, Hubbard, peppercorn), tomato, turnips.
5. FRUITS: Women must eat 3 a day, men and youngsters must eat 5 a day. One fruit a day must be a vitamin C fruit.
Portions:
1/2 medium grapefruit = 1 fruit
1/2 medium cantaloupe = 1 fruit
1/4 medium fresh pineapple = 1 fruit
2 inch wedge honeydew = 1 fruit
1/2 cup berries = 1 fruit
All others: 1 whole fruit = 1 fruit
YOU MAY EAT ANY FRUIT IN SEASON EXCEPT AVOCADOS, BANANAS, CHERRIES, DRIED FRUITS, GRAPES, PAPAYAS, MANGOS, WATERMELON. DO NOT EAT CANNED FRUIT.

6. MEATS, FISH AND POULTRY: Broil, pan broil, bake or roast meat, fish or poultry. Do not fry. Remove all visible fat before eating. Do not eat gravies or sauces. Eat at least 5 fish meals weekly. (Everyone is allowed 4 ounces of cooked meat, fish, or poultry at lunch. At dinner, women and youngsters are allowed 6 ounces; men, 8 ounces. When buying meats, fish, or poultry, allow 2 ounces of shrinkage plus 2 ounces for medium sized bone per portion. The following meats and fish are permitted. Abalone, bass, bluefish, bonito, brains, butterfish, carp (fresh), chicken (remove skin before eating) clams, cod, crab, eel, finnan haddie, flounder, haddock, halibut, liver, lobster, lungs, mackerel, mussels, oysters, pheasant, pike, rabbit, salmon (canned), scallops, shad roe, shrimp, sturgeon (fresh), sweetbreads (calf or lamb) swordfish, trout (brook or lake), tuna (fresh or canned), turkey (white meat only, remove skin before eating), veal, weakfish, whitefish (fresh). You may not eat the following fish: Anchovies, smoked fish, herring, sardines. Canned salmon and tuna do not have to be packed in water but must be thoroughly drained.

Eat any of the following three times a week, and do not pan broil: beef, frankfurters, lamb, salmon (fresh) turkey (dark meat only, remove skin before eating.)

7. LIVER: You must eat liver once a week (beef, calf, chicken, lamb, or turkey.)
8. BREAD: Eat enriched white or 100% whole wheat or cracked wheat packaged bread in the amount indicated. (For men, 2 slices for breakfast and 2 slices for lunch; for women, 1 slice at breakfast, 1 at lunch; for youngsters, 1 slice at breakfast, 2 at lunch, 1 a dinner.)
9. EGGS AND CHEESE: Cook eggs in shell, or poach or scrambled without fat. Eat at least 4 eggs and not more than 7 per week. Eat cheese as indicated. (Breakfast: 1 ounce hard cheese or 1/4 cup cottage or pot cheese, or 2 ounces farmer cheese. Lunch: 2/3 cup cottage or pot, or 4 ounces farmer cheese or 2 ounces hard cheese.) You must eat 4 and no more than 7 eggs per week. Cheese and eggs must only be eaten at breakfast or lunch.
10. MILK: Instant non fat dry milk, or buttermilk (made from skim milk) or commercially prepared liquied skim milk that is not a skimmed milk product not has milk solids added. Men and women have 16 ounces of milk daily. Youngsters have four 8-ounce glasses daily. If evaporated skimmed milk, 8 ounces for men and women, 16 ounces for children. You may use some of this mile requirment in your beverage,or you may drink it at mealtime or between meals.
11. PROHIBITED FOODS: Alcoholic beverages, avocado, bacon or fatback, beer, butter, cake, candy, catsup, cereals, chocolate, coconut, cookies, crackers,s cream cheese, corn, cream (sweet or sour), doughnuts, ethnic foods, French fries, fried foods, gravy, honey, ice cream, ices; jam, jelly, mayonnaise, muffins or biscuits, nuts, oil, olives, pancakes, peanut butter, pies, popcorn, potatoes, potato chips, pretzels, pudding; rice, rolls salad dressings, sardines, smoked fish or meat, soda, or ginger ale, or cola drinks, spaghetti, sugar and sayrups, waffles, zeppoles, zabaglione. These foods must never be eaten while on program.

DAILY FOOD REQUIREMENTS
FOODS MARKED WITH AN ASTERISK MUST BE EATEN AT SPECIFIED MEALS.
Breakfast
4 ounces of orange or grapefruit juice, or 1/2 grapefruit or other high vitamin C fruit (to be counted as one fruit)
*1 egg, or 1 ounce hard cheese, or 2 ounces fish or 1/4 cup cottage cheese, or pot cheese, or 2 ounces farmer cheese.
*1 slice of bread (2 for men)

Lunch
4 ounces fish (canned or fresh) or lean meat or poultry, or 2/3 cup cottage or pot cheese or 4 ounces farmber cheese or 2 ounes hard cheese or 2 eggs.
All you want of #3 vegetables.
*1 slice of bread (2 for men and youngsters)

Dinner
*6 ounces cooked lean meat or fish or poultry (8 ounces for men)
*1 portion #4 vegetables
All you want of #3 vegetables
*1 slice of bread (youngsters only)

Optional: bouillion, 12 ounces tomato juice, #3 vegetables.

1. Weigh your food. Where the weight of the food is given, it is for the COOKED food.
2. Eat as much of #3 vegetables you need to be satisfied.
3. Eat only the foods on this list.
4. Your fruits may be eaten any time of day.

No substitutions. You may only eat what is listed, you must not skip meals, ever, and you must get in all your fruits and milks.

Hope this helps!
Terri