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Making Weight Loss Personal
Article By: Zoe Hellman, Bsc, RD Weight Watchers Dietitian UK
One of the reasons Weight Watchers ProPoints® Plan is so effective for lasting weight loss is that within your ProPoints budget you have your own personal, daily ProPoints allowance specifically designed to give you a regular, healthy weight loss.
The daily ProPoints allowance is based on scientific calculations that use your weight, height, gender and age to work out your basic energy needs.
Putting the ProPoints Plan into Practise
Every food has a ProPoints value so that you can easily make choices about how many you want to use from your budget each time you eat. These values are based on the number of protein, fibre, fat and carbohydrates in any portion of food.
To lose weight you need to consume fewer calories than your body needs but with the ProPoints plan, there’s no need to focus too much on this as the plan works it out for you. All you need to do is keep track of the ProPoints values you’re using during the day and stay within your budget.
Finding the ProPoints Values in Everything You Eat and Drink
We put the relevant number of protein, fat, fibre and carbohydrates and its portion size through a special calculation which produces its ProPoints value. You never see this calculation as we’ve done it all for you but there are lots of ways you can access ProPoints value information:
· Use the online ProPoints Calculator to the left of your screen, to quickly and easily work out ProPoints values at a glance.
· Shop lists the ProPoints values of thousands of branded foods and is available to buy online or at your meeting
· Work out the ProPoints values yourself from the information on nutrition labels using the electronic, pocket ProPoints Calculator, which you can buy online or at your meeting.
Label Logic
If you’re working out the ProPoints values yourself, you’ll need five pieces of information that can be found on a food’s nutrition label: protein, fibre, fat and carbohydrates. If fibre isn't shown on the label, just enter 0.
Label Law
In the UK nutrition information is not required by law on labels, unless a claim is made about the nutritional content of the food. That is why you may pick up a packet of sweets for example that has no nutrition label on the packaging. However, many food manufacturers put nutrition labels on packages voluntarily to help consumers make informed choices about the food they eat.
If a claim is made about the nutritional content of the food or if nutritional information is displayed voluntarily, then the format of this information is prescribed by law. This law states that nutritional information must be provided as grams per 100g, but displaying the nutritional information per serving is voluntary.
Good Health Guidelines
Weight Watchers is committed to healthy, practical and sustainable weight loss. That’s why we recommend you follow our Good Health Guidelines alongside the ProPoints plan. In addition we have the Filling & Healthy foods that clearly show you which are the most effective choices for your healthy weight loss.
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