Seafood Is a Weight Watchers ZeroPoint™ Food

People who lose weight through Weight Watchers are able to do so in part because of the program's flexibility. With SmartPoints®, dieters do not need to deprive themselves of "unhealthy" foods and can plan a healthy, adaptable diet that works for them.

Weight Watchers, or WW, is one of the most well-known diet plans in the US. It uses points ("SmartPoints®") to keep track of how many calories a dieter has consumed that day. Instead of counting calories or banning higher-calorie foods altogether, dieters get a "budget" of daily SmartPoints® that they can deduct from as they see fit (pun intended). To calculate this budget, Weight Watchers assigns a number to every food and drink out there. Just keep track of your points, and try not to go over. There's even a bit of wiggle room: dieters get weekly points in addition to daily points as a cushion, and unused weekday points can be rolled over into the weekend. The addition of ZeroPoint™ foods in recent years, Weight Watchers opted to add quite a bit of flexibility to its program by changing the way it assesses certain foods. Now, under Weight Watchers’ Freestyle™ plan, more than 200 foods are no longer assigned points, thus reaching “ZeroPoint™” status. The idea is that, since Weight Watchers ZeroPoint™ foods are high in protein, relatively low in calories, and naturally filling, dieters can fill up on them without consuming too many calories or depleting their SmartPoints® budget. The best part? In addition to fruits, vegetables, and some meats, Weight Watchers ZeroPoint™ list includes seafood. Salmon has zero points, lobster has zero points, and crab has zero points -- oh my!!

Seafood: Weight Watchers Zero Points Foods

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