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What is Weight Watchers system?

Weight Watchers is the name of the world-wide working corporation offering lose weight services and products. Interestingly, the term itself was created long before the company was established in 1963. Nowadays, about 45,000 hard working employees work for that big company. The offered fat loss service is devided into two strategies. On The One Hand, Weight watcher offers a variety of low fat diet products that help to lose weight. On other hand, that company also provides a membership based program. The entire program consists of regular meetings and seminars. In This way the positive group effect has made Weight Watchers program much more successful than most other diets. The entire program is based on a point system, depending on the individual conditions. Every client has a decided amount of points each day that he/she can spend on food, and every type of food has a special value (of points).

The founder of the company?

Weight Watcher company was founded by the over-weight housewife Jean Nidetch. After several unsuccessful experiments with different diet plans, she discovered a diet program that finally helped her to loose some weight successfully. Inluenced by the success, she founded a support group. That’s how the first weight loss group was established. Lastly, the continuous success of the weekly seminars has lead to incorporation of the company.

How to join Weight Watchers?

You can find Weight watchers offices in many US cities and in 30 other countries. There you can gather info and apply for membership. A second type of membership in the system is using online account at their Internet platform. You can easily monitor your success with your own PC from home. However, for the best results you can combine both, the online and offline account.