Anyone coming from Weight Watchers to here???

I was doing WW and if you set up MFP with your goals and follow it, it works wonderfully!! The food data base here has everything and it has the barcode scanner also with the phone app. I love it and there is a lot of great support here as well!!

I am on Weight Watches as well. Just started here recently. I still track the ww way, but it is nice to see how much cholesterol, sodium, etc I use on a daily basis.Also with the new ww point plus, all fresh fruit is free. With this I can still keep and eye on my calories for the day. I may switch completely to MFP after a while. I do find they have more food in database than ww does, which is helpful as well.

I am still doing WW at first I was tracking both and the points and calories matched up if I was below in points I was also below in calories. I have found it easier to track the calories because I am a creature of habit and it's nice to be able to check mark multiple foods instead of one at a time on WW point tracker. I now only track activity and weight on WW and MFP I track food, activity and the weight. I do attend the weekly meetings and weigh in mostly for accountability and the more things I participate involving my journey the easier it is to stay focused..which is what I need at this time. good luck on your journey.

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I did WW for a year. Lost 80ish pounds and decided to switch in January of this year when my husband started doing WW online. I didn't want to pay for both of us. Now he's switched to MFP as well, so we're both losing for free!

I came straight over from WW and have never looked back~ its actually alot easier than points and you can count every single calorie including fruits and veggies.

I was not losing on WW - but doing well with MFP- feel free to add me as a friend if you need any support along your journey- and welcome

I have done WW before and found this a very easy to use site...... easy to follow the principals you learned in WW here

I was doing WW since Feb. and joined this site a few months ago. This has more of a food data base-which helps alot, especially if you go by brand names. I love that I can keep checking on my sodium and calories especially. With WW, you are only going by how many points you are allowed. I just stopped going to the meetings a few weeks ago. My leader and the group just don't seem to be very motivating to me anymore. Maybe it's just me, but I don't think so. My sister feels the same way.

Anyhow, I was tracking with the points for quite a bit, but this past week, I have only using MFP to see how I do without tracking points. WW did get me started in the right direction (for the 4-5th time in 20+ years) and it is a good program. Guess you've got to find the right people to inspire you, and I find more inspiration here lately than I do at the meetings. The thing I like the most is, I don't stress anymore on weigh in day.

Good luck in your journey to better health:)

I came here from WW, I had lost almost 70 lbs with WW and had plateaud for a month, it just wasnt working any more. I had my resting metabolism rate done, set that as my low calorie goal and then I eat back any calories I earn from exercise. I track calories burned with a Fitbit and it feeds its data into MFP. I think you will like it and it sure is cheaper. But, by all means, keep with WW if you need the accountability and motivation from meetings.

I did weight watchers in the past, but I stopped when I was in college. It was too hard to count points when I lived in the dorms and was required to have a meal plan for the cafeteria. You never knew how anything was cooked and then there were the "mystery foods." Now that I've graduated and have a job with a normal schedule (and enough money to buy more than ramen noodles), I'm trying to lose weight again. I didn't want to do weight watchers again (mainly because I'm too cheap), but I needed some kind of a support system other than my parents and decided to try this instead.

I have done Weight Watchers Online several times, but found calculating points to be extremely time consuming and a major pain. I have been on MFP for about 2 months and have had much more success with this program. I primarily use the iphone app and love the scanner - it makes tracking calories effortless. Plus the support on this site is fantastic! I think you will find this site to be excellent - the database is much better than Weight Watchers and its much easier to track on the run. I find that Weight Watchers never keeps their "competitors" in their database, so forget about find any Lean Cuisine or even any recipes from other weight loss plans in there. Good luck!!

I did WW for a while and after doing MFP for about 2 months, I'm upset that I wasted so much money. I love MFP and it's just so simple, a really great way to see exactly what your putting into your body, how exercise works with what you eat and IT"S FREE!!! You'll love it here.

It's my second day here after 3 months of Weight Watchers and I am just in love with it! The tracking seems to go a lot smoother, with both a larger database and much more information than point totals. My favorite part is that MFP takes into account the amount of calories you burned working out, and adjusts your total as a result.

I joined WW last Friday and still log on here, too (for now anyway). The database is bigger and WW online is being a little pain in the butt. I like the points program, being I was an old school WW in the 80's. Lots of people like MFP better and I can see why. I guess I really do need or want the program and it helps me stay focused. It certainly lit a fire up my tail!