Replicate WW with MFP?

katharmonic

Daisychain65 wrote: »

If I understand correctly the problem is that you don't want to fiddle about logging individual veg and fruit. I'm the same. My solution was to add three a new foods which I didn't make for public use but I can pick up easily, mixed veg, mixed salad and mixed fruit. I just added together the calories etc for the things I generally eat and got an average number. That way if I have a salad etc all I have to do is measure the total weight. It's obviously not as accurate as doing them individually but I'm 60lbs down so it's been good enough

Yes, this is what I would do. Just log one thing for the salad as a whole if you don't want to log individual veggies.

stephaniemarie2

Weight Watchers has increased point values in some foods to account for your "free" fruit and vegetables. I agree with counting everything. I think MFP has salad or the like in 2 cup measurements. I dont' think anyone ever got truly fat eating vegetables, but it gives you a ball park and accountability. Plus a cup of cucumbers is less than a cup or carrots or snap peas. WW doesn't force you to count for bananas either, but they can easily be 75-90 calories. Just some things to think about.

kshama2001

goodchapman wrote: »

These are all really good points. I'm going to try it anyhow, setting MFP to 350 cals lower than it tells me to, and then allowing the resulting negative/red amount to reach 2500 for the week and not tracking my fruit/veg. If this doesn't allow for some weight loss, I'll do MFP strictly speaking. It'll be an experiment.

Yes, I think this will work. I would personally start from the other end - log my fruits and veggies for a week or two, get the average daily calories, subtract that from my MFP calorie budget, eat those fruits and veggies and not log them.

goodchapman

I'm having a long time MFP user friend help me with a "get started" routine. She told me that in order to prevent milk loss, I could set my goals to be a 1/2 lb per week loss, sedentary, with 40% protein and 30% carbs & fats, plus 500 for nursing. That puts me at 2080 calories per day, and she says track EVERYTHING, like so many of you have said, if only to benefit from seeing proteins, carbs, fats, fibers etc.

But I'm going to save up my activity calories for a rainy day.

Janice4945

There is a great app that is based on WW calculations. It gives you 3 choices of plans; New Bites is equal to PP, Classic is equal to old Points, and Calorie counting. It is called iTrackbites and is at the Ap Store. A small fee to purchase and no monthly fee at all. I recently DL it and am tracking there and here. My 27 points is equal to 1200 calories. Working great for me.