Weight Watchers drop out... are you ?

Yep I'm a WW drop out too!!... Was only allocated 25 pp a day & I was always hungry so cheated regularly!!! .. Had this app on my iphone for ages but didn't think to use it then I saw it mentioned on a WW forum.. Was scary at first eating whatever I wanted lol but I was soon seeing results!!... I'm now down 13lbs less than when I was with WW where I kept losing 1-2lbs & putting 1-2 back on!!.. Plus WW is damn expensive!!... I'll always have to watch what I eat so counting points just isn't realistic in the long term whereas everything has calories on it!!.. So glad I stopped wasting my money & came here.. The inky thing I've forked out on is a fitbit but I just like to see how much I move plus I like the additional calories I get given just for being at work or shopping..

I had it for about 4 months.

I just dont luke the point system....



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Yup, I'm a WW dropout too. The point counting was just so much harder than counting calories. I love that the database here is huge! Plus I can track other nutrients as well.

I lost 50 lbs with weight watchers! I was so happy with the program because of the leniency but that is what became my problem. After the 50 pounds I yo yod between the same 10 lbs for 10 months... or as I like to put it, 400 bucks. I don't think counting points on the WW app is any more difficult than counting calories on here. In fact I'm feeling like WW is simpler than MFP. But my problem with WW is psychological. You have weekly points, and activity points, and an ability to manipulate the points to eat more of an item due to it being a rounded system. I think WW is a great program it just didn't work for me past the first 50 lbs because I'm finding ways to cheat within the rules and I need that to be removed.

I'm a drop out as well. I lost around 60 lbs before getting pregnant with my daughter but gained it all back during pregnancy. I joined again (online, switched to meetings, back online) and lost only 10 lbs in over a year. It was very frustrating so I dropped out.

I was on WW a couple of years ago. I did lose 20 lbs using propoints using the online site. When they switched over, I just didn't like having to calculate everything. At the end of the day, I needed to know how many calories to eat every day and how many I expend. For me it just made sense.

I'm also a WW dropout. I attended 3 different times in my life. No long ago, I discovered my most recent weigh-in card while cleaning out some junk. Upon close inspection, I discovered that, over the time period the card covered (about 24 weeks), I was only 3 pounds less than the beginning weight recorded. I also found a bunch of pre-paid meeting tokens that are non-refundable. :grumble: I do remember deciding to quit just prior to the whole points program being introduced. It ticked me off because I had just bought an expensive electronic WW gismo, a "serving size"WW scale and a whole shelf full of cookbooks that would no longer be of use on their program. I am so happy I didn't decide to keep giving them my money!!

What had been used prior to the points was a simple check list... boxes you ticked off on a sheet of paper hanging in your kitchen. There were boxes for fruit, veggies, starchy foods (potatoes, pasta, rice, green peas, corn) meat, dairy and water and spaces to write in what foods you ate. There were a few things they had maximum numbers per week on and that was also represented with tick boxes. It was SIMPLE.

I found MFP just this June and I have lost more here than I ever did on weight watchers. I know I won't ever encourage anyone to become of member of WW! However, I have told many people about MFP and a lot of them have signed on and are now also loosing weight!

Forgot to mention that I did learn at the meetings but I did not like how the chapter I was in ran the meeting. They would ask people to stand who had lost 0-10 lbs, then 11-20 lbs etc. I hated being put on display to all others in the meeting by being asked to show my total losses. I refused to ever stand and that got me a stern lecture from the leader. I don't mind showing it off here on MFP though somehow... maybe its because I am more successful? Or maybe I just matured...

I joined WW but didn't last a month. Really liked the nutritional info MFP gives and its database is huge which makes logging fairly easy. So I continue on with MFP; it works for me!

Add me ex-WW's!! I'm loving MFP and I'm actually having fun losing weight. You can't beat that! I've got some very nice supportive friends who log on regularly and consistently track. It is so inspiring to have other members support and if you want to add me I would be happy to support your weight loss journey, also.

when you set up your goals, don't use the recommended route and you can st the percentage to what you like through the custom goal route. I just use the recommended though and adjust to my own measures anyway...that way I know what they recommend, vs what I am doing. (I do low fat)

I am so well versed in the Points Plus system that tracking calories instead seems kind of a burden to me. Yesterday I tracked all of my calories including the "0" point fruit, and it was kind of a pain. Granted I'm not used to tracking calories vs points, but still...

On Points Plus I have myself set to 40 points a day, plus all of my weekly.

Rather than a limit of say, 1600 calories, I'm thinking of setting up the MFP tracker to show only 40 calories. I already know the point values of all of the foods I eat as I am a creature of habit, so I can perhaps track it that way. Say, my usual breakfast was six points, so I will enter 6 calories into the MFP tracker.

The only thing that is missing is the weekly points, which I suppose I can track manually.

What do you guys think? Other suggestions?

Hi everyone, I did WW successfully 12 years ago. Then I quit smoking 7 years ago and gained 57 lbs. over 5 years. My husband is now retired and the cost for WW is ridiculous. A friend told me about my fitness pal and I love it. I have also turned two of my friends that did WW with me. I am very excited! This is a great website.

Loved weight watchers before the calculators. It got to be too much of a pain in the butt trying to put in some formula while grocery shopping with two kids. If they went back to the old way I would go back. Its not even the motivational meetings. I like the pressure of a total stranger weighing me (and in my warped mind judging me) once a week.