Weight Watchers vs. My Fitness Pal

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  • laurensgettingfit
    laurensgettingfit Posts: 41 Member
    I joined WW a fortnight ago. I used to do the MFP thing and did awesome on it, got hooked on exercise and unfortunately hurt my knee in the meantime. I got depressed about the lack of control (I used to exercise more than 1.5 hours a day so I could eat heaps) and stopped logging. Gained 15kg. I just could not shake myself out of the rut, my hip had joined the pity party with my knee pain. Dr said hip pain was caused from gaining so much weight so fast and that should be motivation for me to snap out of it. It wasn't so a month later and I was still in a lot of pain so I joined WW a fornight ago for motivation. That was the motivation I needed to come back here and start logging again.

    I tried tracking using their online tools and I could hardly find any of the foods I eat. On here, anything I can think of eating - someone has already added to the database. I was so confused with the points thing, I tracked at the end of the day and realised I had eaten 45 points when I'm only supposed to eat 26 (I'm only 1kg from the top end of the healthy weight range).

    I am doing so much better this last week eating wise since re-tracking on MFP. I may not have control over my exercise with my injury but I have control over my food. I wish I realised this 15kg ago and wasn't so stupid. I'm happy to be back and in the meantime I'm going to stay with WW for the face-to-face support because I love the social side of things. Its like being surrounded by people who love food as much as me, we all have something in common hahahhaa :)

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