Weight Watchers gives results
to dieters -- and top nutritionist too
February 08, 2005
A recent study totes that Weight Watchers is the easiest
diet to follow out of two other popular diets. Karen
Miller-Kovach, vice president of program development
for Weight Watchers International, aided in the development
of the companies most successful programs: the flex
plan and core plan. She uses Weight Watchers not just
as a career but as a way of life- she has lost 30 lbs
and kept it off for five years.
Summary
- Weight Watchers' top nutrition expert has this New
Year's advice for dieters: When it comes to weight
loss, look for progress, not perfection.
- Weight Watchers executive Karen Miller-Kovach is
the company's leading weight-loss tactician.
- As chief scientific officer and vice president of
program development for Weight Watchers International,
Miller-Kovach, 49, is the company's leading weight-loss
tactician.
- She's in charge of creating programs worldwide,
and millions of dieters have lost millions of pounds
following her prescriptions.
- The newer no-counting Core Plan, in which participants
choose from a list of nutritious foods, but they don't
tally points.
- The plans are designed to produce a weight loss
of up to 2 pounds a week.
- The programs also involve weekly meetings, group
support, weigh-ins and tips on how to eat well and
exercise.
- Miller-Kovach and colleagues developed the Core
Plan after studying why people were flocking to plans
like the low-carb Atkins diet.
- A former spokeswoman for the American Dietetic Association,
Miller-Kovach conducted nutrition research for the
Cleveland Clinic Foundation before joining Weight
Watchers in 1993.
- Height: 5-foot-2 Weight: 120 pounds Daily points
and calories: 37 points or 2,000 calories Exercise
schedule: Walks 2 to 3 miles a day Biggest food weakness:
Chocolate chip cookies.
- Still, she understands what members are going through,
having struggled with her own weight for years.
- There have been periods of her life in which she
was more "vulnerable" and got "really
pudgy," she says.
- As a result, she has trimmed down several times
--- including after graduate school, after both of
her two sons were born (they're young adults now)
and five years ago when she lost 30 pounds.
- And because she's in charge of program development
for the company, she has studied the competition and
tried many other diets, including Atkins and South
Beach.
- Dietary restraint refers to how tightly a person
regulates her or his food intake.
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