Weight Watchers - Weight Watchers 50th Anniversary Cookbook: 280 Delicious Recipes for Every Meal

Weight Watchers International, Inc. is the worlds leading provider of weight-management services, operating globally through a network of company-owned and franchise operations. Weight Watchers holds nearly 45,000 meetings each week worldwide, at which members receive group support and education about healthful eating patterns, behavior modification, and physical activity. Weight-loss and weight-management results vary by individual.

We recommend that you attend Weight Watchers meetings to benefit from the supportive environment and follow the comprehensive Weight Watchers program, which includes a food plan, an activity plan, and a behavioral component. WeightWatchers.com provides subscription weight-management products, such as eTools and Weight Watchers Mobile, and is the leading internet-based weight-management provider in the world. In addition, Weight Watchers offers a wide range of products, publications (including Weight Watchers Magazine, which is available on newsstands and in Weight Watchers meeting rooms), and programs for people interested in weight loss and control. For the Weight Watchers meeting nearest you, call 1-800-651-6000. For information about bringing Weight Watchers to your workplace, call 1-800-8AT-WORK. Nutrition Consultant
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Fifty, without question, is a milestone. Whether its five decades spent committed to the same partner, toiling away in the same profession, or simply living on earth, 50 warrants appreciationand respect. Frankly, in a world of instant everything (texts, tweets, gratification), anyone or anything that stays relevant for 50 years has earned the right to celebrate. Weve embraced that celebratory spirit with Weight Watchers 50th Anniversary Cookbook, a collection of favorite recipes that have been updated with two goals in mind: staying true to our past while reflecting how Americans are eating (and living) today. As we started compiling the recipes and information for this manuscript, the significance of this book representing one aspect of our golden anniversary became daunting, a task much more challenging than I had expected: How do you truly reflect (through food information and recipes) the role Weight Watchers has played in so many peoples lives? I needed a little historical perspective, so I turned to the numerous cookbooks that have been released under the Weight Watchers name since the company was founded in 1963. I spent time paging through those early books; many of them outlined the updates to the recipes as well as the stories of individuals who found success on the latest plan.

Those cookbooks truly captured the excitement that surrounded the organization in its earliest days. At the start I turned to them to be reminded of just how far weve come and how much things had changed, yet what I came away with was the opposite. Consider this introduction, written by one of the companys founders, Jean Nidetch, in the Weight Watchers Program Cookbook of 1972: The Weight Watchers Program, introduced in 1963, was a boon to the overweight, helping hundreds of thousands of people lose millions of unhealthy, unsightly pounds. In 1972 a revised program was introduced, which incorporated the latest findings in nutritional information We have branched out in other ways too. In 1968 we introduced the Weight Watchers Magazine Another innovation was the licensing of food companies to produce pre-portioned foods. Thus, you will find in your supermarket freezer fish luncheons and dinners galore, plus turkey, veal, chopped sirloin, and other foods For me, personally, there have been many changes too But above all, my life seems truly significant when I remember that through the Weight Watchers Program so many fat, unhappy people have been born again into thin, happy people.

Maybe, this time, it will happen to you Ultimately, while everything has changed since the 60s, so much has stayed the same. I recently spoke with a woman who began working at the company in the mid-1970s as a recipe developer, tester, and editor and stills works on various projects. She echoed Jeans words, describing how being a part of Weight Watchers was (and still is) magical. Thats when the mission of this new cookbook became clear to me: provide delicious recipes that will become tools to help people now, and perhaps in the future, find success. The magic now and then is also the same: Its about the peopleWeight Watchers Members, Leaders, and Receptionistsall committed to helping others lose weight and reach their goals.
Nancy Gagliardi VP,
Editorial Director