10 reasons why Weight Watchers is bad for your health

I’m not a fan of Weight Watchers…at all. Weight Watchers is the popular diet program that helps people lose weight and supposedly maintain good health. As someone who has done Weight Watchers, and later transitioned into a real food, traditional diet I can tell you that following the Weight Watchers diet will not make you healthy, and can damage your health if you follow some of their diet suggestions.

Weight Watchers helps people lose weight by restricting calories, and healthy fats. They promote a starvation diet with an insane amount of low-fat processed foods that contain toxic ingredients like aspartame, canola oil, and butter alternatives like smart balance (and much more). Restricting (starving) your calories will damage your metabolism and deplete your hormones. You can’t starve yourself forever, so your very likely to gain it all back.

Following the Weight Watchers plan can help you lose weight, but you you will pay the ultimate price with poor health. And your skin and hair will suffer too.

1. Weight Watchers promotes sugar-free diet drinks made of chemical concoctions of aspartame, and artificial flavors.
2. Calorie restricting/low-fat dieting damages your metabolism and depletes your hormones
3. Weight Watchers promotes & sells their own brand of processed junk food that is full of toxic, disease causing ingredients.
4. Weight Watchers encourages you to snack on processed foods (think low-fat yoplait, and 100 calorie snack packs) instead of healthy, whole foods.
5. Weight Watchers promotes junk food like candy, pizza, and fries – as long as they are with in your daily points, eat as much as you like.
6. Weight Watchers endorses some of the most unhealthy food on this planet like microwave Jolly brand popcorn, Progresso light soups in aluminum, BPA cans, Green Giant microwave veggies in a toxic “cheese” sauce, and more.
7. Weight Watchers tells you that healthy, traditional foods like butter are bad for you
8. A sample meal from Weight Watchers.com: reduced calorie white bread pb&j sandwich and fried potato chips. Only 11 points! (that’s just wrong)
9. Weight Watchers promotes lean meats, but the most nutrition is in the juicy, fatty cuts.
10. Weight Watchers has an entire book dedicated on what to eat at fast food joints like McDonald’s, and Taco Bell – as long as they are with in your daily points…

Although Weight Watchers is successful at helping people lose weight, they lack real, healthy food knowledge a lot of the time. Recommending a salad, or some fruit and then allowing you to eat pizza and fries just won’t cut it when it comes to ones health. Plus who wants to carry around a Weight Watchers calorie counter, and food journal everyday? (Imagine if WW only promoted real, whole foods and discouraged junk foods – that would be cool).

Eating a real food diet will help you release unwanted pounds, regain your health, and have glowing skin and hair. Feed your body healthy, whole foods and never count calories again.

Things you can eat on a real food diet and still lose weight:

• Butter, coconut oil, lard
• Full fat milk and cream
• Steak, roasts, and dark meat chicken
• Yummy treats baked with coconut and/or almond flour instead of grain flours.
• Unlimited fruits and veggies
• Homemade soda (water kefir, kombucha)
• And more…

Make sure you watch this video and learn about the damaging effects of low calorie, fat restricting dieting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWfvq2K8h6Q&feature=relmfu