Weight Watchers Weight Stages: Successfully Manage Your Weight Through Life's Ups and Downs [Paperback]

Weight Watchers (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0028637054 | ISBN-13: 978-0028637051 | Publication Date: February 15, 2000 | Edition: 1

Trust Weight Watchers to help get you through life's stressful situations

Every woman has experienced those times when gaining control over her weight can seem impossible. Fortunately, these stages--or diet danger zones--are avoidable. Now, Weight Watchers reveals the strategies that can help women of every age successfully navigate life's most treacherous weight-gain minefields. The experts at Weight Watchers address the bigger picture, providing easy techniques for losing or simply maintaining weight through some of life's most stressful stages, when women are more prone to weight gain. Included is information on:

• college years
• marriage
• pregnancy
• menopause
• relocation
• divorce
• quitting smoking

Weight Watchers explores the universal issues that women grapple with each day and, more importantly, gives solutions for coping with them. There's even a bonus chapter, Secrets to Staying Slim at Any Stage of Life, that lays out practical eating and exercise plans to help guide you step-by-step through those trying times.

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Weight Stages Successfully Manage Your Weight Through Life's Ups and Downs Have there been times in your life when circumstances seem to control your weight? If so, you've experienced a Weight Stage—a life-altering event or period of time that can greatly impact your weight and, ultimately, your self-esteem. Weight Watchers Weight Stages: Successfully Manage Your Weight Through Life's Ups and Downs can help you understand and successfully maneuver life's most common Weight Stages:

• The College Years
• Getting Married
• Pregnancy
• Job Stress
• Relocation
• Quitting Cigarettes
• Menopause

Use Weight Watchers Weight Stages throughout your lifetime: Share it with your daughter before she leaves for college, your best friend when she's pregnant for the first time, or your sister when she tries to quit smoking. Weight Watchers Weight Stages is for every woman who wants to get to the bottom of physical and psychological events that can affect her weight, offering practical solutions and a Survival Plan for dealing with each particular stage. Best of all, a final chapter lets you in on the ten secrets to losing weight at any time and includes a two-week menu plan. Read Weight Watchers Weight Stages: Successfully Manage Your Weight Through Life's Ups and Downs and set the stage for your success! Visit Weight Watchers on-line at www.weight-watchers.com and IDG Books on-line at www.idgbooks.com

Product Details

• Paperback: 181 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (February 15, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0028637054
• ISBN-13: 978-0028637051
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 1.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,003,204 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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98 of 102 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not What I Thought, June 17, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Weight Watchers Weight Stages: Successfully Manage Your Weight Through Life's Ups and Downs (Paperback)

I'm not sure what I expected when I bought this book, but I thought it would be along the line of weight management during stages- both when I had extra weight and when I was at goal, during different times of my life. I thought it would be detailed information (like you can now add this many points). But it actually did not contain any detail about when you're at goal. I suppose the universal concepts would help you at goal, but mostly I found the book to contain ways to not gain, or to lose, in concept only. It covers various women's weight stages, Pregnancy, Menopause, Job Stress, Marriage, College, Moving and Quitting Cigarettes. It's mostly just tips at each stage (which they call in the description as a survival plan). For example, 1. Exercise Regularly, 2. Stock your desk drawer with healthy snacks. I would say the book is a bunch of concepts that people following the 1-2-3 program would already know. For people not on the 1-2-3 program, this book does NOT tell you how to use it. In the back is a 14 day "Jump Start" to weight loss which is a menu plan for 14 days which lists points. New people could use it, or 1-2-3 people could. There is a couple of good snack or meal ideas. There is alot of sited surveys and tests throughout the book about weight loss, too much for interest- though a couple interesting facts were gained. The last chapter focuses on the basics - expend more energy than you eat, drink water, etc., I think if you knew nothing about losing weight it could be a good start, but I found the book to just contain knowledge I already knew, or would find out elsewhere. Example, if I was pregnant the part on eating right at pregnancy would be in my pregnancy book, such as "What to Expect When You're Expecting" by Eisenberg, Murkoff, and Hathaway.

24 of 41 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Weight Stages for WOMEN Only, January 9, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Weight Watchers Weight Stages: Successfully Manage Your Weight Through Life's Ups and Downs (Paperback)

Very disappointing. It's not until you get into the book and start reading do you find out that this book is geared for women only. Weight Watchers has always been geared towards women because that makes up the majority of their clientele, but there are many men who follow the program as well, and I find it at best thoughtless and at worst insulting to come out with gender-biased material, and to not even identify it as such!!