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1980s Weight Watchers Exchange Plan?

Can anyone out there help me find a copy of the old 1980s Weight Watchers Exchange plan? I need information on food exchanges, amount of a serving, the breakdown of allowed exchanges per day, etc. In other words just about everything concerning this plan. Thank you very much.

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By victoriapenny

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May 20, 20113 found this helpful

I have a copy of the Weight Watchers Quick Start Plus Cookbook from 1986. The daily exchanges for a women are as follows:
Week l
3 fruits, at least 2 veggies, 2 milk, 2 bread, 3 fat, and 6 proteins.
Week 2
add 1 protein
Weeks 3 and 4
add 1 bread and 2 proteins

You should always eat breakfast. Don;'t eat more than 4 eggs in a week.
Eat a minimum of 3 fish meals. eat 3 to 4 oz. liver in Weeks 12 and 3. Week 4, eat 4 t0 6 oz. liver. I hope this helps. This book is full of info.

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November 1, 20190 found this helpful

I know this is way past when the OP posted, but I figure others, besides me, stumble onto this 8 years later!

The 1960 WWs wanted you to eat 7 eggs/week. This only changed to 4/week after the governments claimed eggs were bad for you because of cholesterol. Since they now say eggs aren't so bad for you, one could probably eat as many as desired to fulfill your protein portions. Personally, I hate eggs, but .... for the rest of you.

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I went on WWs in 1972, about the time I started nursing school. There have been so many changes in what the government says is "good" and "bad" in the areas of nutrition and what people with ulcers and intestinal diseases should eat, that I have thrown my hands up and I just eat basically a mid-late 80s WW plan, adding a few portions here and there if I'm not trying to lose a few plans. The extremes people go to will be treated like the grapefruit or Scarsdale diets by the next generation but people have survived on all kinds of food for thousands of years. I do think present day wheat can be bad for people, because it is different than in the past but a bit doesn't hurt. Ditto on corn - no non-GMO corn exists, but I rarely eat it so if I want it, I have it. Sugar, of course, was okay when you only had it at Christmas and maybe your birthday, but it is in everything now and what used to be a luxury food in an everyday thing.

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