How Weight Watchers Flex works

EVERY item of food and drink has a SmartPoints value – one easy-to-use number based on four components: calories, saturated fat, sugar and protein.

Calories establish the baseline of how many SmartPoints values the food is worth; saturated fat and sugar increase the SmartPoints value; protein lowers the SmartPoints value – the more protein, the fewer the SmartPoints. Here is what you need to know…

3 You can roll over up to four unused daily SmartPoints into your weekly allowance and use them however you like. But you can’t roll over your weekly points – these reset every week.

Weight Watchers can give you a personalised daily and weekly SmartPoints allowance, based on your age, weight, height and gender. To get yours, join a Weight Watchers meeting, or become an online subscriber at weightwatchers.com/uk.

Now, read on to kick-start your action plan and learn how to feel fantastic on the beach this summer, whatever your body shape, with some inspirational advice from Weight Watchers member Helen Brown, who lost an incredible four stone on the programme…

1 If you stick to 23 daily SmartPoints, you will lose weight. This allowance resets every day.

2 If you do go over your daily 23 SmartPoints allowance, don’t worry. You also have a weekly SmartPoints allowance (average 28) to use on treats, bigger portions or nights out.