Jean Nidetch created Watchers in the early 1960s. Weight Watchers is a "points counting" diet system. Points are attached to each food you can eat based on fat, fibre and calorie content.

Depending on your goals each person is set a daily target that corresponds tot their overall goal. Each dieter is responsible for their personal progress but there is group support that is found by going to weekly meetings where other dieters mutually support themselves in there fight against obesity.

I am a great believer in support and Weight Watchers overwhelming success is a testament to its following who have lost enormous amounts of weight. Invariably I found that these persons pile the weight back on and are caught in a yo-yo diet vicious cycle that they cannot seem to break. As the education of Weight Watchers falls short of teaching their dieters how to stay slim instead of how to lose weight only.

In my diet I do both. I help you lose weight and then I help you stay slim. This is the the best type of diet education you can give to yourself.. Not only how to lose weight but how to keep it off.