Weight Watchers is an internationally recognized diet program that promotes healthy, safe and long-term weight loss. Members are encouraged to prepare low-calorie and low-fat recipes at home, or they can purchase Weight Watchers frozen foods at local grocery stores. Foods are assigned points according to their nutritional content, fat grams, calories and sugars. Depending on your current weight and weight-loss goals, you may be allowed a certain number of "points" per day. Finding low-point foods helps you achieve your weight-loss goals and enables you to eat more of certain types of foods.
Low -or No-Point Foods
In the Weight Watcher's program, most fruits and vegetables are 3 points or less, making them a high-priority item on your grocery shopping list. For example, according to PeerTrainer.com, fruits and vegetables have low point values, while a single muffin from Starbucks carries 6 to 10 points, taking a big chunk out of your daily quota of food choices for the remainder of the day. An added benefit of fruits and veggies is that they are high in fiber, creating a longer and more satisfying sense of fullness.
Bread Products
Breads such as high-fiber and reduced-calorie selections offer 1 Weight Watchers points, according to HealthDiscovery.net, as do most types of reduced-calorie crackers, matzo farfel and Melba toast.
Protein
You can find many 1-point values in protein food choices, including low-fat or nonfat versions of cottage cheese, hard cheeses and milk products. Egg whites and egg substitutes are also included in the 1-point values, as are fat-free lunch meats, lean meats like skinless poultry and 1/2-cup serving sizes of most fish and shellfish varieties.
Snacks
Resisting temptation is especially difficult for many dieters, and Weight Watchers makes several snack and dessert products with 1 to 3 point values. Even so, you can find 1-point snacks in the form of light microwave popcorn, pretzel sticks and twists and fat-free crackers.
Sweets
Satisfying your sweet tooth is possible while on the Weight Watchers program, as long as you carefully regulate serving sizes. For example, you'll find several several 1-point servings of sweets in the diet program, such as two gingersnap cookies, or a Weight Watchers chocolate mousse bar, or 1 tbsp. of sugar on your breakfast cereal. Weight Watchers also offers frozen desserts like fudge bars, ice cream bars, sorbets and sherbet varieties.
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