The Best Diet Fits Your Personality

Thursday, March 1, 2001

The BestDiet Fits Your Personality (NAPS)—Manydietersare find- ing the way to dieting successis to start out with an honest evaluation of themselves. “It’s far easier to fit a diet to a personality than to attempt to change the personality to fit the diet,” said Karen Miller-Kovach, MS, RD, Chief Scientist at Weight Watchers International. “Each dieting personality has its own unique strengths andfitting the diet to the individual helps har- ness those strengths while supporting their weaker areas.” A key step is to identify a dieting personality profile. When people are aware of their habits and needs, it is easier to personalize a healthy approachto dieting. Some profile examplesare: Dedicated Profile—for those wholike structure and would like to know exactly what they need to do to lose weight. Sarah, The Duchess of York and Weight Watchers member is an Individualist dieter. e Adapter Profile—some people like the structure of rules but also need the freedom to make choices that will keep them from getting bored. like by staying within my daily POINTS range. Now, with Weight those who don’t like lots of rules and want to make their own decisions. One person whofits the Indi- true to my Individualist Profile, and I like the fact that my entire Individualist Profile—fits vidualist Profile is Sarah, The Duchess of York. She says, “The Weight Watchers PoINnTS WeightLoss System lets me eat what I Watchers new Winning Points, mydiet fits me perfectly because it gives me the freedom to adapt to any given dayorsituation. I am Weight Watchers approach is based on my independent nature and the wayI live and behave.” To learn more about Weight Watchers, call 1-800-651-6000, or visit www.weightwatchers.com.

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