POLL: WW membership?
lilybbbbb
Posts: 88 Member
Are you a currently a member?
Has the SmartPoints program affected your membership status decision?
Has the elimination of message boards affected your membership status decision? (Yes, I know you could access without being a member.)
Has the SmartPoints program affected your membership status decision?
Has the elimination of message boards affected your membership status decision? (Yes, I know you could access without being a member.)
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- No, haven't been for over a year.
- Yes, greatly. Just kidding.
- Sad to see them go, but I like this new home just fine!
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Yes, I'm a meeting member.
No, but it took me a few months to get the hang of the SP program.
No, and it's actually given me a KITA. I got reconnected with GoaD and am more solidly OP today then I have been in months. It's 5 weeks and still going strong.
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Yes. Because I'm a lifetimer. So my 'free' participation online lasts until 2021 right now.
No. Because I mostly intuit. So I really haven't bothered to learn it.
No. Because it's largely irrelevant to my membership status.
I do go to at least one meeting monthly. For now. Continuing that is independent of how I manage my weight. But if I completely unlatch from WWonline, I may find less interest in the meetings. We shall see.0 -
Like Steve, I'm Lifetime so my membership continues as long as I WI each month, which is my only tie to WW at this point. I never switched to SmartPoints.0
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Technically I am a lifetime member, but I don't pay the monthly fees. I attend a monthly lifetimers meeting and pay as I go until I am back to goal. I find that meeting helpful and worth the $151
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Not a member.
But not because of SmartPoints.
And not really because of the message boards, either. Sad to lose some of the functions, but happy with MFP as a substitute.0 -
1. Yes.
2. Well, it moved me from "heck, yeah" to "yeah". It's the first WW program for me that's mostly a diet. In other words, they no longer say "eat what you want; here's the bill." Now it's more "eat this; don't eat that." There's still enough flexility that I can ignore them - but I'm not sure I'd have succeeded originally on thus program.
3. No; it really just confirmed a lot of what I thought about WW as a business.0 -
1. I dropped my membership a few months ago.
2. Purely financial.
3. No.0 -
Yes. No. No.0
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Yes because I'm a freeloader lifetimer
No. I go my own way.
No. I go to my meeting & WI monthly. Intend to keep it up.0 -
1. Yes and plan to STAY a member b/c every other time I quit after losing weight I gained it all back plus more.
2. I embraced SP and BTS and have lost weight consistently the last 7 months.
3. I liked the BBs but change/progress is inevitable DEAL WITH IT!
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No, not for at least 6 months
Never tried SP
My favorite thing about WW was the GoaD board.
Now I'm tracking using MFP and it is easy enough that I don't mind it at all. I used to do Simply Filling because I didn't want to track. But I'm finding that tracking here is keeping me more mindful.0 -
I have been lifetime and at goal for seven years, but I didn't weigh in in July.
Haven't counted points in almost seven years.
The elimination of the message boards drove my severing relations with WW. They closed the meeting I attended to lose weight, so my only WW friends were those I had made online. When they closed down the boards, I had no more reason to associate with the company. The GOAD and Men's Health boards on MFP are filling the void just fine.0 -
No, not for a long time.
No. I honestly can't remember if I was ever a paying member during the SmartPoints era.
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I joined WW in 2009, and dropped 30+ pounds pretty easily. Then, life got in the way in 2010, or rather the loss of my son, and I put it all back on, plus. If I had not been running, I would have gained 100 pounds.
Once they changed the point system, I really lost interest. By that time, I had discovered Fitbit, and was tracking my food there. Now, I'm tracking my food here.
I dropped my membership due to money when I changed jobs. Then I realized how much I missed my friends on the boards. I had not ever tried the free way in, and I thought I'd give WW a 2nd try. Just after I did that, they took away the boards. I cancelled my membership, and now I'm here. Frankly, since all of my friends are here, I don't see how I'll miss WW at all.
PS: I've dropped 5 pounds since coming here!
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I'm a free Lifetime member. I check in once a month to weigh-in at a WW center. I have free etools until May 2021.
I don't use the free etools because the smartpoints plan drove me to tracking here, after a really good 3 month try to make it work. It's the first time in 45 years that I've used a system other than WW for weight management.
So far neither the elimination of the boards nor the change in plan has kept me from keeping up my free Lifetime membership. I'll see how that goes in the future.0 -
Yes, WW lifetime member and weigh-in monthly.
No, thankfully I made lifetime long before SP.
And no, I occasionally visit the MB, but no real attachment.0 -
Yes Lifetimer
No the SP program took to many pts. away plus all the pt. increases.
No I also have good support here.0 -
1) Yes.
2) No. The SP program works well for me, when I follow it.
3) No.0 -
1-NO
2-NO, left WW when they were using PP+
3-I find this board an apt replacement0 -
myallforjcbill wrote: »Technically I am a lifetime member, but I don't pay the monthly fees. I attend a monthly lifetimers meeting and pay as I go until I am back to goal. I find that meeting helpful and worth the $15
Same with me.0 -
1. Yes.
2. Well, it moved me from "heck, yeah" to "yeah". It's the first WW program for me that's mostly a diet. In other words, they no longer say "eat what you want; here's the bill." Now it's more "eat this; don't eat that." There's still enough flexility that I can ignore them - but I'm not sure I'd have succeeded originally on thus program.
3. No; it really just confirmed a lot of what I thought about WW as a business.
And this is same with me too.0 -
1.Yes Online only and have been since I joined over 5 years ago.
2. I'm still out to lunch on the new Sprint because it seems to be so restrictive with the sugar.
3. Not just yet but I have always been partial to the calorie approach MVP however losing 100 lbs on WW gives me thought to pause leaving. At this point the roles of these two companies have taken on a flip in their roles. I'm finding myself now just posting in WW and coming back to GoaD board for connectivity and accountability also being a part of something which helps me.
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I'm a LT member for almost a year now. SP hasn't affected my status.
Over the course of changing my eating behavior, by the time SP rolled out, I was pretty much eating consistent with that plan anyway so it was not a major impact.
Though I was POd about WW discontinuing the message board, that in itself was not going to affect my membership. More important to that aspect is my weekly meeting, which most weeks I still attend. I have a fabulous leader! If she were to leave, THEN I would seriously consider leaving WW. Realistically though, assuming they continue to honor the LT status benefits, I have no reason to leave and only incentive to keep doing what I've been doing.0 -
Are you a currently a member?
Yes, Lifetime member so it's free.
Has the SmartPoints program affected your membership status decision?
Not really, I like the changes SmartPoints has brought. My plan is to remain a member as long as WW is in business.
Has the elimination of message boards affected your membership status decision? (Yes, I know you could access without being a member.)
I wish the boards were still part of the website features, but I adopt change pretty easily and removing the boards was not enough to walk away from all the rest.0 -
I'm a lifetimer, but haven't been back to WW in years. I wouldn't pay for a weigh-in just to attend a meeting at this point.
I guess, however, if I really felt like I needed WW again, I would cough up the $$$, weigh-in, and get the new materials to learn the SmartPoints system. Thankfully, at the moment, I feel as though MFP is actually perfectly fine for my needs.
Again, if I really felt like I needed WW, I guess the loss of the boards wouldn't matter to me. The presence of the boards didn't impact on my initial decision to join, so the loss of the boards wouldn't matter either.0 -
Like Steve, I'm Lifetime so my membership continues as long as I WI each month, which is my only tie to WW at this point. I never switched to SmartPoints.
Just to be clear (for those who might be confused), your lifetime status doesn't change if you don't WI once a month. I've been a lifetime member since 1993. I've never done a monthly weigh-in for an extended period of time. From 1997 until 2002 I never attended a meeting. When I rejoined in 2002 (WAY over goal), I was still re-registered as a lifetime member (didn't have to pay a registration fee). I had to pay for any meeting I attended until I was back to no more than 2 pounds over goal. As soon as I reached that point, I no longer had to pay for meetings.
You can go for YEARS without attending a meeting and, if you attend a meeting and you're no more than 2 pounds over goal, you pay for ONE missed meeting.
Once a lifetimer, always a lifetimer.0 -
Are you a currently a member? -- I'm a lifetime member but haven't attended a meeting in over 18 months.
Has the SmartPoints program affected your membership status decision? -- No -- because I never used the program.
Has the elimination of message boards affected your membership status decision? (Yes, I know you could access without being a member.) -- No. But you can't access the message boards whether you're a member or not, because they no longer exist.0 -
beachwoman2006 wrote: »your lifetime status doesn't change if you don't WI once a month.
Once a lifetimer, always a lifetimer.
Better said. I use the term 'Lifetime' loosely, as in free.0 -
beachwoman2006 wrote: »But you can't access the message boards whether you're a member or not, because they no longer exist.
I can still get there, but nobody is posting to GOAD anymore. Even when I am not logged in as a member, I can get there using: https://weightwatchers.com/community/mbd/threads.aspx?board_id=15&forum_id=1
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