Myfitnesspal vs Weight Watchers

I lost about 90 pounds on WW but could only keep about 60 of it off. Lots of yoyo dieting the last 2 years. I find the MFP tracker to be much better because I can actually see my macronutirents, where I screwed up and how I can improve, etc. It so much easier to control yourself knowing you will have to post junk food on your tracker and your friends will see it. I didn't really have any accountability on WW.

The WW message boards (especially the men's boards) were extremely negative IMO. Lots of trolling by people who had already hit goal weight. I found a lot of people just had to disagree with something in every thread no matter what. I've only been doing MFP for 5 days and I can already tell the people on these boards are much nicer. I can't believe this site is free!

I did WW and it worked, but I like MFP better. The points system is kinda like using Monopoly money, it's not "real" but calories are. Just sayin.

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I just joined Weight Watchers online and already i'm kinda miffed. I went to track my calories and couldn't find 4 of the foods already. I'm used to MFP having just about everything! This is really inconvenient because I really don't want to spend time having to log in nutritional values. For the price, they should have a highly updated database.

Inclined to agree! Lost around 4 stone using WW and exercise over the first 5 years and have roughly maintained for the last 2 (although still need to lose over another stone). Thought I would properly start tracking again and was irritated with some of the foods not being on the WW site - for some reason also looked at MFP and the database is LOADS better - and the scanning is brilliant too. Might download all my weight info from the WW site and just cancel as this seems much better!

The Points Plus program tends to nudge people into eating more fruits and vegetables. In my opinion, this is all good. In fact, it is the healthiest thing that WW subtly teaches, without giving you a score card and telling you how much vitamin C you have to eat every day.

I belong to WW. I know that there are people there who probably succeed at weight loss without becoming nutrition experts. However, there's so much emphasis on simplifying food preparation that I can't imagine the benefits of that escape the members who try to cook the way they used to.

If you go to blogs or websites that seek to 'educate' you about nutrition, they are all over the place. Many actually tell you that x, y, or z food groups or food items are harmful and you must never eat them. WW doesn't do that, plus they put emphasis on getting up out of your seat and moving your body. There are actually websites and blogs that brush exercise away and intimate that it is going to hurt your dieting efforts, rather than help! It boggles the mind how much mis-information is spread through various trendy diets. WW hasn't changed all that much, basically. It's calories in, calories out. Drink water. Watch how much of something you eat, and count it so you KNOW WHAT YOUR DIET IS COSTING YOU IN CALORIES.

I tried weight watchers a long time ago and lost weight quite rapidly but sadly it went back on even quicker, I have been using MFP and lost 34 lb so far and it is staying off!! MFP all the way for me :-)

Hi, I left ww this week after loosing 5 lbd. I didn't enjoy the classes. The best thing about the ww points plan for me was being able to calculate and record all my meals and exercise. I am really pleased to be able to do all of this here and it's free!

I agree wtih the above. I tried WW a few years ago and did but found it limiting in the food choices and had to do too much work to figure out the points/calories etc. I quit about the time I hurt my hip and I have found this much more flexible. The input and support from everyone is so much better - and friendlier. I dont feel lik MFP is a competition.

I don't have personal experience of ww but from observations of friends and family members using it. The majority have problems staying at a healthy weight they seem to yoyo a lot. If that's the fault if the person or the ww system I don't know. What I will say is ww does work for some people. Everyone is different, it would be a dull world if we weren't so different things work for different people. All I would add is remember ww is a business and the purpose of a business is to make money.

I feel like I am the minority in saying that I am a WW member and just joined MFP, and the first thing I thought was I really prefer the points system. For example, the over-eating protein. I eat way more protein than MFP says I should but I do intense cardio every day and was told by a nutritionist and other people who have lost a lot of weight that the excess protein doesn't hurt? MFP is good because I get to track and see how many calories I am actually consuming but at the same time so far I definitely prefer WW.

I saw a co-worker for the 1st time in about a year and when I saw him I did not recognize him. I asked how he lost so much weight and he said he uses the myfitness pal app. I was totally sold. I'm currently a member with weigh watcher.. I like them but the past week I went in I had gained 4 pounds and 2 the week before and the leader that weighed me in did not mention a word to me..I thought this was strange, on the other hand; members that lost weight was complimented which they should be. I'm thinking that if a member has gained 6 pounds in 2 weeks and nothing was said, now I'm wondering, are you really for me? Also to me, I feel that people on WW loses weight much slower than any plan that I've heard of.. really 40 pounds lost and it took 10 months.. seems to me someone is wasting a lot of money.