you will drive yourself crazy if you do both at the same time. it's got to be one or the other. i follow points plus. every once in awhile i will log food on here just to see. but, you can't do both. i have always "over think" things. don't over think it.

I should add that I seem to lose weight better when doing points instead of calories. Not sure why.

I've discovered that you canNOT follow both plans at the same time.

Right now I'm following WW, and only tracking sometimes on MFP. On the days that I use a lot of weeklies and activity points, I will go WAY over my MFP calories. That's what's different about the two plans. WW has those "extra" points (calories) and MFP does not (but allows for you to eat your exercise calories).

Both plans are great and will help you to lose weight if you follow them, but they really can't be followed perfectly at the same time.

I like to see both. Points & Calories. I go by Points though. For me the calories is informational only. I don't fuss over them.

I do much better counting points rather than calories. I've tried just doing MFP and I just can't make it work for me but I like points even is does cost me $18 a month. I figure those $18 are going towards my health and not towards mcdonalds or ice cream or whatever.

Counting points wasn't working for me at this point in time, especially with doing quite a bit of exercise. I now use the "olivia method" by counting calories (deficit points to better calculate weight loss) on MFP.

I still go by points but I like to see exactly what I am eating in calories, fat, fiber and protein for my points. I realized I was not getting enough fiber. MFP as a supplement to WW has helped me balance my eating.

I've used PP for 3 weeks. For the 1st week I stopped counting calories, but I became concerned that I wasn't eating enough protein and fiber. So now I do both. With exercise, I eat my 29 points everyday, rarely dipping into weekly or activity points. I still track what I eat because keeping up with macros is important to me.

I decided to try weight watcher for 3 months because I thought it might be "easier" than calorie counting, but I feel that WW alone isn't complete enough for my health goals.

I do both...I keep track of my points (26 per day) and count calories. Yes, there are some days when I go over my points, but I found I was eating WAY TOO MUCH fruit on WW alone. Since starting MFP and counting my calories I am back to losing weight, I had plateaued BIG time. For some both works, for others it doesn't. Just like we are all different!

I do both WW and MFP. I found the calories to be about 1100-1200 if I converted the points over to MFP calories. That was using no weeklys or activity points. MFP gave me 1300 a day including fruits and veggies. I was told by WW leader to use the weeklies but I am stuck at 26 lbs lost and cannot move it. 2lbs up 2 lbs down for weeks. I am trying to add back some good fats and suck up the points. I was eating a lot of fat-free and sugar-free foods on WW which are full of chemicals. We will see what happens. I do feel better, not as sluggish and skin and hair look better. Good luck.

I find this topic so interesting. .I have been doing WW since last November and did very well thru April and then slipped a bit. As of the last few weeks, I am back on track, but someone told me about MFP and now I am trying to play around with both.

Intersting that you all say that 26 points is approx 1100-1200 calories. My WW leader told me that each point is approx 50 calories - so I am figure I am eating way more on WW than I appear to on MFP. As a matter of fact, I can always be within my points, but be over my suggested calories of 1200 (to lose 1 pound a week).

Basically, the way I figure, before you do a stitch of exercise on either site, MFP gives me 1200 calories and WW gives me 1300 calories at 50 calories per point. .then if you add in the 49 extra points, which I need to because I always eat at least 3-4 extra points a day - I can never seem to stay within the 26 points - so that is an extra 75-100 calories a day. ..

Anyways - I am still torn and for the moment track on both. ..