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It's the guiding principal behind weight watchers. If you get into the habit of at least noticing what you are eating, you'll give yourself the opportunity to
by restlessmedia 12y ago
It's the guiding principal behind weight watchers. If you get into the habit of at least noticing what you are eating, you'll give yourself the opportunity to accept/deny it. The points system for weight watchers is genius and removes the complexity around nutrition as long as you how many points that thing your eating contains.
- coroxout 12y agoI just started doing Slimming World, which I guess is much the same as WW but with a different points allocation scheme. (Rice/pasta/potatoes are basically "free" as long as they are not cooked in oil; a third of each meal should be fresh fruit/veg, to discourage you from overloading on the free carbs; bread is very bad on the points system; you get one free calcium-containing product and one free fibre-containing product from an approved list every day, which has bizarrely led to me eating more cheese than ever before. I mainly picked SW over WW because of when the sessions were, rather than because I liked their way of doing it; in fact, to be honest I wasn't sure it would work at all, but so far it is.) Anyway, I agree there are definitely "gamification" aspects which are true for these weight loss group sessions too. The point scoring; every week people get applauded for their weight loss and shiny stickers are handed out for the best that week or for reaching various milestones; and just turning up to group every week (which you have to to keep your membership current) means you can't chicken out of weighing yourself on a bad week, and sitting in a group provides your "encouragers" and "challengers" too, although possibly not as effectively as selecting one of each from your everyday friends.