How to Use the Weight Watchers Flex Plan

The Weight Watchers Flex plan has proven to be a very effective way to lose weight, while changing the way you look at food as well as your eating habits for life. The Flex Plan is Weight Watchers' most popular plan available.

Difficulty: Moderately Challenging

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Weight Watchers POINTSlinder
• Weight Watchers POINTSbooster
• Weight Watchers reference materials

Calculate Your Food Points

1. Calculate the points of your food by using a POINTSlider that you purchase from Weight Watchers. To use the POINTSlider, you will have to know the amount of calories in your food, the total fat grams and the total dietary fiber grams.

2. Use the Weight Watchers calculator to make it a little easier to calculate the point value. You can also purchase this tool from Weight Watchers.

3. Look online or in Weight Watchers books to find point values if you do not have a nutritional label to work from or a way to calculate food. Some sites have a way to look up food items to determine their value and Weight Watchers also has a book with common foods in them with their point values as well as a book with common restaurant foods.

Follow the Flex Plan

4. Find the amount of points you are allowed according to the Weight Watchers plan. Weight Watchers has a table to follow that goes according to weight. For example, someone who weighs 175 to 199 lbs., is not nursing and is above the age of 16 for females and 19 for males will be allowed 24 points per day.

5. Understand that you will get a weekly point allowance of 35 that you can use any time in addition to your daily allowance. Spread it all throughout the week or use it all at once--it doesn't matter.

6. Keep track of every point you consume in food and beverages throughout the day.

7. Exercise everyday to boost weight loss and increase the amount of points you can consume. Use the POINTSbooster available from Weight Watchers to determine how many extra points you will get from however many minutes of exercise you did according to your weight.

Tips & Warnings

• Weight Watchers suggests that you exercise 30 minutes per day; eat at least five servings of vegetables and fruits per day and two servings of milk products; eat whole grain foods; have healthy oil everyday such as flaxseed, canola, olive or sunflower, among others; limit the amount of sugar and alcohol you consume; take a multivitamin every day and drink at least six glasses of water daily.

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