Are you on a weight loss plan? or just watching calories?

EvetteM41
EvetteM41 Posts: 76 Member
in Food and Nutrition
I think I need more structure when it comes to eating. I am researching various weight loss eating plans.. Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig, Atkins etc..I find I do better when I have my food planned out like that. When I plan it myself I get calories and sodium and all that wrong. Even on here at MFP the numbers don't always add up right.

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  • ksy1969
    ksy1969 Posts: 700 Member
    My 2 cents!!!

    Part of being successful at weight loss is learning how to eat right to make it sustainable. My personal experience is WW does a good job of teaching that. I just left WW a month ago because I realized I am now only using it for tracking food and you can do the same thing with MFP but learn how to do it with calories instead of a magical point system. Calories are much easier to figure out. However WW did a good job of teaching me what better food choices are. I am sure though I would have eventually learned the same thing with MFP but it would have taken longer.

    Bottom line is, you need to learn how to plan your own food because as long as you rely on someone else to do it for you, your long term success will not be as good.
  • keepongoingnmw
    keepongoingnmw Posts: 371 Member
    You can count calories without WW or Jenny Craig. I find it helpful to plan in advance what I will eat for the day. Something about weight watchers that always set me back it the attitude others had toward food. Like substituting pizza for an English muffin with fat free cottage cheese and tomato sauce.Everyone would get so excited when others would mention something like that. Then I would get into a minset of eating only diet foods, which would leave me unsatisfied, and lead to quitting. That is my experience anyway. I like finding healthy foods I like and fitting it into my calorie count.
  • gteachey
    gteachey Posts: 37 Member
    Listen to what Keepongoingnmw said! I was definitely like you EvetteM41 when I joined. I watched all my numbers like a hawk and didn't like it at ALL when I went over any of them by even 1. You may want to follow a structured plan to get started, but my opionion, and what is finally working for me, is to portion control what you already eat. I don't like completely changing my diet because I know when I hit my goal weight I'm not going to want to stay eating English muffins with fat-free mozzarella and low sodium tomato sauce. I want my slice of pizza! So instead of three slices at a time(on top of the other junk I had that day) I'll have one or two, depending on how many calories I have left in the day. It may work if you do plan out the day for your food intake and stick to only eating that. I will sometimes do that when I have leftovers to eat since I already know I'll be eating it for the next two or three days.

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