Weight Watchers at Work Progam

 The Weight Watchers At Work® program is a weight management program that encourages healthy eating and physical activity. To make participation easier, sessions are offered at work.

 Weight Watchers At Work offers weekly meetings that last about 30 minutes with time before and after for weigh-in. The meetings are held at King County worksites and are conducted by Weight Watchers group leaders. Group leaders teach you about good nutrition, physical activity, and healthy weight management behaviors.

 Yes, this is the same program and includes all the same materials that are provided at other programs provided by Weight Watchers North America. The only difference is that meetings are held at your worksite.

 For more information about meeting dates, times, and locations, see the Find A Meeting page, send an email to Health.Matters@kingcounty.gov, or call 206-684-1556.

 The program is purchased as a package of consecutive weekly meetings. The minimum purchase is for a 13 week series at a cost of $11.95 per week for a total cost of $155.35. Cash, checks, credit cards and debit cards are accepted.

 You are responsible for full payment of the program. King County does not subsidize any portion of the Weight Watchers At Work® program.

 Yes, a three-part payment option is available when paying by check. Three checks, each in the amount of $51.78 post-marked one month apart are accepted at the time of registration.

 If a physician recommends weight loss to treat an existing illness, Weight Watchers At Work® qualifies as an allowable health reimbursement under the King County Flexible Spending Account (Health Care Spending Account) guidelines. If you sign up for a Flexible Spending Account, you can use FSA pre-tax dollars to pay for the program. For more information about the Flexible Spending Account for King County employees, visit the Benefits & Retirement Operations Web site.

 To sign up for a program, attend a free information meeting and register. Information meetings are held one-week before each 13-week session. For a list of information meetings, vsee the Find A Meeting page, send an email to Health.Matters@kingcounty.gov, or call 206-684-1556.

 Your commitment is to attend one-hour weekly meetings and to weigh-in at every meeting.

 Yes, contact the site organizer for that meeting and get the details from them or the group leader of the meeting you want to join. Space may be a limitation so it is always wise to check and confirm. The free information meeting is held before each NEW series. For the ongoing series, employees are invited to attend the last meeting of a current series, called the open house meeting.

 Weight Watchers® leaders who have completed training program facilitate all Weight Watchers At Work meetings. All leaders are lifetime members who have lost weight and maintained their weight loss on the Weight Watchers program. If you are interested in becoming either a leader or organizer contact send an email to Health.Matters@kingcounty.gov, or call 206-684-1556.

 If you want to start a meeting, visit the Getting Started page, or contact the Health Matters program by sending an email to Health.Matters@kingcounty.gov. Keep in mind that starting a meeting requires a minimum of 15 people and a designated meeting room which can be reserved for at least 90 minutes, and the availability of a leader.

 For more information about the Weight Watchers® program, visit www.metrokc.gov/employees/weight_watchers/ or www.weightwatchers.com.

 Yes. Participation in the program is completely confidential. Your personal information, your enrollment, participation, or your weight or weight loss progress will not be shared with anyone in King County, with your health care provider, or your supervisor.

 Yes, Weight Watchers At Work® is part of the overall strategy to control increasing employee health care cost by supporting employee efforts to get healthy and stay healthy.

 If weight loss, improving your nutrition habits or physical activity is part of your individual action plan, then the Weight Watchers® program can assist in reaching your goals. However, you will still have to complete the log of your activities (low risk individuals) or accept phone calls from your health coach (moderate/high risk individuals) to earn the gold out-of-pocket expense level.

 No. You must attend all meetings on your own time, such as lunch or before or after work. Meetings are scheduled before work, during lunch time or immediately after work to support this requirement.

 If you are absent or unable to get away from your desk, you may attend any other Weight Watchers® meeting of your choice that week. Another benefit of the Weight Watchers is that you may also attend as many additional meetings as you'd like—just be sure to bring your Weight Watchers membership book.

 Yes. Please contact the leader of the meeting you would like to transfer to and provide your current membership book to the first meeting so the group leader can record your membership number and weight loss progress. There is no registration fee.

 Yes, you may apply your pre-payment coupons to the cost of the one series only and you must pay the rate difference. At the first meeting, you need to turn in one coupon for each week of the series and the payment for the difference. If you do not have enough coupons to cover the full series, you must pay the balance on week one using a check, cash, debit card or credit card. Paid participants may always transfer from one Weight Watchers At Work® meetings to another.

 Yes. Your series fee is determined as follows:

— If you are within 2 pounds of your goal, you weigh in for free, but do not count towards your group's membership minimum.

— If you are 3-7 pounds over your goal, you pay weekly until you are back to goal weight. You do not count towards your group's membership minimum.

— If you are more than 7 pounds over your goal, you pay for the entire series.

— If you reach your goal weight before the series is completed, you are entitled to a pro-rated refund for the remaining weeks in the series. You do not need to repeat the maintenance program and you will count towards your group's membership minimum.

 The Weight Watchers At Work® Program is planned and designed for county employees. Eligible dependents will not be turned away. However the emphasis is on employees and not dependents because in some cases access to worksites is restricted for physical and operational security reasons. Weight Watchers At Work® Program meetings are limited in the number of participants. Meetings are limited in the number of members because of the need to ensure all are given an opportunity to participate and by the size of the conference room. Meeting membership will be on a first come first served basis.