How to Track Weight Watchers Points on MFP!!

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  • midsummer174627
    midsummer174627 Posts: 386 Member
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    Okay, so I got it working in Chrome. I pasted in the script into Tampermonkey as described above. Then I restarted Chrome Windows 7. I ran into a couple of problems.

    First, I had to go to Settings > Diary Settings and set it to the following order exactly: Calories, carbs, fat, fiber, protein, none. (I wanted iron to be one of the things I track, but it didn't work).

    Second, it seems like it doesn't always work if you just navigate to your diary using the MFP buttons. I had to paste the URL http://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/diary/ in and hit enter. No big deal, I can just make a favorite to that.

    Finally, it seems like it takes a few minutes for the extra column to appear after the page loads so watch out for that.

    Hope it helps. I don't want to use WWs software, but I also want to have some idea of what points I'm eating for when I go to meetings.

  • svavra1
    svavra1 Posts: 1 Member
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    I've been tracking WW through MFP on Chrome and love it! I have the Chrome app on my phone. Does anyone know if there is a Greasemonkey, Tampermonkey, something I can add to the Chrome app to make it show the WW points on my phone?
  • sh3llbell
    sh3llbell Posts: 14 Member
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    mine only works if I use the link http://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/diary/ as per midsummer1 instructions but I can only view points for the same day. If I go back to previous day no points are shown... any thoughts?
  • Tattooz305
    Tattooz305 Posts: 4 Member
    edited October 2015
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    Thanks for this awesome script. I tweaked it a bit and figured out how to make it show the points if you go to previous days.

    At the top of the script you will see: 
    // @include http://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/diary/

    Put this under directly under: 
    // @include http://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/diary?*
  • Tattooz305
    Tattooz305 Posts: 4 Member
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    Add this as well so that the points will show when you click the "FOOD" tab on the website: 
    // @include http://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/diary
  • belb1275
    belb1275 Posts: 2 Member
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    Does this work with the phone app???
  • lms43101
    lms43101 Posts: 4 Member
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    bump
  • klliopatra
    klliopatra Posts: 1 Member
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    Thank you, thank you, thank you! All you smart coders just made my day! I was able to get this to work in both Firefox and Chrome! I am so grateful! o:)
  • malimal99
    malimal99 Posts: 1 Member
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    Thanks. Works well. Switched back to MFP because they changed the points system again..
  • HitGirl
    HitGirl Posts: 5 Member
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    Hi,

    I hope someone is still following this thread because I need help. I'm on a Macbook and using Chrome. I copied the script at the top of this page and pasted in the Tampermonkey editor and saved it (as suggested). I've changed the values in lines 9 & 10 to "true" (var pointsPlus=true;).

    I have the WW points column on my "food" tab but no values show up at all. I also followed Tatooz305 regarding the tweaks (a few posts earlier). Nothing has worked. I've gone through this thread from top to bottom and had no success.

    Can someone please talk me through everything step by step? Or is there an obvious step missing? I've spent hours on this already. Lol

    Also, would it be difficult to rework this algorithm to reflect the newest changes to WW (ie. Smart Points)?

    Thanks so much for your help.

  • kadmommy
    kadmommy Posts: 6 Member
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    I'm stuck with this add-on, too. I used to use this on my windows laptop with firefox no problem. Now I have a Macbook and I'm using Chrome and I can't even get the points column to show up. I've closed the browser, cleared the cache, rebooted... nothing is working. On my Tampermonkey, it won't even show that a script is running. I click "enable" but then it constantly shows that nothing is running. Didn't have this much trouble before. Ideas, anyone?
  • kadmommy
    kadmommy Posts: 6 Member
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    kadmommy wrote: »
    I'm stuck with this add-on, too. I used to use this on my windows laptop with firefox no problem. Now I have a Macbook and I'm using Chrome and I can't even get the points column to show up. I've closed the browser, cleared the cache, rebooted... nothing is working. On my Tampermonkey, it won't even show that a script is running. I click "enable" but then it constantly shows that nothing is running. Didn't have this much trouble before. Ideas, anyone?

    OK, I tried again and now the script will run, and I see a points column but no points will populate. Both lines are set to "false"... I've tried switching those. I don't want to fiddle with the code too much as I don't want to mess it all up. Any suggestions are appreciated.
  • Kittyglo145
    Kittyglo145 Posts: 10 Member
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    sakthorp wrote: »
    When I joined MFP I tracked both points AND calories. It was time consuming and I didn't think I'd like tracking calories, it seemed like soooo much more work!

    BUT! I much prefer tracking calories because of the feedback on nutrition I'm getting and I no longer want to be tethered to weight watchers. I don't like the recent plan at all, I had the 'old' points memorized and then they went and changed it.

    Either way, tracking works, it keeps me accountable and I'm more likely to succeed when I track. There are many options out there, use the one you like most :-) Just a few decades ago, we didn't have all these wonderful options, gotta' love technology!!!!!

    I too liked the old WW points plan, I lost 98 lbs using it. I left WW and tried going back but the new plan didn't work for me. I am going to pull out my old WW guide and start using it. It's gotta be better than doing nothing at all. Tracking is the key, regardless of the plan we choose.
  • kittydale9
    kittydale9 Posts: 7 Member
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    I cannot get this script to work. Do I paste the code starting at the top of tampermonkey or where it says Add your script here... I dont even see the points column.
  • robinalexis
    robinalexis Posts: 50 Member
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    Do you use the same script for the new WW smart points plan?
  • Justmj77
    Justmj77 Posts: 13 Member
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    I would think that you could just change the calculations to reflect the new "smart point" values in the script and it would calculate the smart points. I tried but it didn't give me the right points. However, I know nothing about writing scripts. :smiley:
  • msk3001
    msk3001 Posts: 11 Member
    edited January 2016
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    Took me hours but I made it work (Mac OsX on Chrome and FF) :) I had to change the lines 5 and 6 to

    // @include http://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/diary*
    // @include https://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/diary*

    since in the original script it said
    // @include http://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/diary/*
    // @include https://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/diary/*

    and the address does not include the /

    Hope it helps some of you guys :)

    PS: Thank you, thank you, thank you for the script :)

    PPS: I also added another "meal" for all my fruits and veggies since its counting the points for that as well. Now I can substract these points "easier" of the total value and have my real points
  • msk3001
    msk3001 Posts: 11 Member
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    Justmj77 wrote: »
    I would think that you could just change the calculations to reflect the new "smart point" values in the script and it would calculate the smart points. I tried but it didn't give me the right points. However, I know nothing about writing scripts. :smiley:

    It should work though- I decided to go back to the FlexPoints since I had great success with that system. And I kinda prefer it since I can just calculate the Points in my head when I'm grocery shopping. I just changed the settings in the script and it works just perfectly.
  • robinalexis
    robinalexis Posts: 50 Member
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    I'll have to see if my son can figure it out. Thanks
  • wilsjay
    wilsjay Posts: 4 Member
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    Used this script in the past and it worked great, but no longer seems to work on my Windows 10 Chrome system. Tamper Monkey says the script is still in stalled. Any ideas?

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