Weight Watchers® Weight Stages : Successfully Manage Your Weight Through Life's Ups and Downs

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Summary: Not What I Thought
Review: 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.

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Summary: Weight Stages for WOMEN Only
Review: 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!!