Weight Watchers Family Power: 5 Simple Rules for a Healthy Weight Home

Weight Watchers has helped millions of people worldwide lose weight and keep it off. Now, as the global epidemic of adult and childhood obesity gets more and more serious, Weight Watchers turns its focus to the family. For the first time, Family Power provides proven, practical, real-world solutions for a healthy-weight home.

Family Power is a comprehensive guide to healthful weight management for all members of the family, including children and adolescents. Family Power answers parents' most common questions about family weight-management issues while clearly telling you what works and what doesn't. The latest scientific research has shown that children are strongly influenced by the food- and physical activity–related decisions made by parents and other family members, and this knowledge provides the basis for the advice in this breakthrough book. Karen Miller-Kovach, Chief Scientific Officer of Weight Watchers International, reveals the most effective family weight-management strategies while sharing the inspiring stories and experiences of families who have adopted them to show how everyone in your family can develop good lifestyle habits and achieve and maintain a healthy weight.

This friendly, practical guide outlines the basics of weight management and shows the important differences between children and adults when approaching weight management. Family Power then explores the 5 Simple Rules for optimal family health, explaining why they work and how to make them a positive and enjoyable part of family life. Family Power advocates that families make small, consistent changes in their lifestyles, and following the Rules is a realistic and healthy way to make these changes. You'll discover the roles parents play in reinforcing the Rules while keeping children active and involved. You'll see how to handle special situations and challenges—from untraditional family structures to unhelpful people—and you'll find out where to get extra help if you need it.

Filled with the motivational profiles of families who have achieved healthy-weight homes as well as expert advice from their coaches, Family Power will help coach you and your family so that you can live together in a healthy-weight home too. To find out the latest on creating a healthy-weight home, log on to WeightWatchers.com/family.

Follow the 5 Simple Rules for a healthy-weight home!

1. Focus on wholesome, nutritious foods.
2. Include treats.
3. Aim to keep nonhomework screen time at two hours (or less) per day.
4. Try to be active an hour per day.
5. The Rules apply to everyone in the home.

Living in a healthy-weight home—in which all family members share a lifestyle that supports nutritious eating and regular physical activity—can make a tremendous difference in stopping and reversing the pattern of weight gain that can lead to obesity for all members of the family, including children and adolescents. For the first time, Family Power provides a revolutionary program that gives you proven, practical solutions for achieving a healthy weight and maintaining it as a family.

Filled with the motivational stories of families who have achieved healthy-weight homes as well as expert advice from their coaches, Family Power gets your family up, moving, and improving health together as no other book ever has before.

For the first time, Family Power provides a revolutionary program that gives you proven, practical solutions for achieving a healthy weight and maintaining it as a family. Filled with the motivational stories of families who have achieved healthy-weight homes as well as expert advice from their coaches, Family Power gets your family up, moving, and improving health together as no other book ever has before.

KAREN MILLER-KOVACH is Chief Scientific Officer of Weight Watchers International, Inc. She is also the coauthor of Weight Loss That Lasts. With its mission of helping people reach and maintain a healthy weight through a comprehensive weight-management program that is based on the latest science, WEIGHT WATCHERS has meetings that provide the coaching and tools to help people make positive changes for lasting weight loss. Six-time Emmy Award–winning MEREDITH VIEIRA is the coanchor of NBC-TV's Today show. A board-certified pediatrician, MARC JACOBSON, M.D., is a Professor of Pediatrics, Epidemiology, and Social Medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Foreword by Marc S. Jacobson, M.D.

Acknowledgments.

Introduction by Meredith Vieira.

PART ONE: WHAT IS A HEALTHY-WEIGHT HOME?

Chapter 1. When Weight Is an Issue.

Chapter 2. Getting Ready for Change.

Chapter 3. Kids Are Not Little Adults.

Chapter 4. The 5 Simple Rules.

Chapter 5. The Roles Parents Play.

PART TWO: FAMILY POWER.

Chapter 6. The Kids Are Watching.

Chapter 7. Active Parents, Active Kids.

Chapter 8. Putting Food on the Table.

Chapter 9. Helping Kids Move.

Chapter 10. Setting Food Policy.

Chapter 11. Sit Less, Move More.

Chapter 12. Being on the Lookout.

Chapter 13. Taking It Outside the Home.

PART THREE: Special Circumstances.

Chapter 14. Few Families Are Traditional.

Chapter 15. When and Where to Get Extra Help.

Sources.

Index.