Fairly new still and transitioning from WW to MFP

I'm the same way. I haven't cancelled my WW yet but I am seriously considering it. I like the MFP food data base and online forums so much better than WW.

I did this in January. Since transitioning I have been losing consistently. My average is 1.1 pounds per week, and I'm not paying weight watchers anymore to do it. Plus, my calories have increased greatly so I'm no longer cranky and irritable. I've also been sleeping much better and I no longer dream about food. You can do this!

Good morning. It's realistic to think that there are flaws in every tool. MFP won't be perfect but it's what you make of it. I have lost 25 lbs then lost some of my commitment and then gained back 17 lbs. Now I'm re-losing that. I have tweeked my MFP action plan a few times and will probably do so again. I'm working to identify what the issue was that got me off track. I have lost weight the last 2 weeks but I haven't been logging my food as devotedly as I should. The moral of this story is...take the tools that you gather and develop a plan that works for you--right now, in your world as it is. Tweek things as you go for the more exacting fit. Let others cheer you on and gather friends that will do that unconditionally and with rational thought. I hope you have great success. Friend me if you would like. Best wishes.

Hi! I am also leaving WW to follow this program. I liked WW but found it just to costly. Like the fact this is free. The food database is so up to date. Hope to meet some new people here.
daggett2266

1. This is free!. 2. E A S Y. I love it! You go at your own pace...People support you and give you great ideas!!! I had given up losing weight because I was over 50....Now I have lost almost 18 pounds and I'm really excited!!! It works!

Happy to see you on MFP. I'm also a WW fan. Until MFP I thought WW was the only place I could successfully lose weight, but never quite made it to maintenance in the 20 years I had gone off and on to WW to lose the same weight over and over again.

I'm also a chocoholic.

Some of my frustratiosn with WW is that I would be working the plan well and than in January they changed it up and it always threw me off kilter. I also felt the pressure to be in the standard weight categories they promoted over the years. I found it difficult to maintain 155 and it always seemed impossible to get down to 130 or 145 as I aged. I finally lost 45 pounds when I was 48 at WW and loved that I wore a size 12 but could not get myself to go to the doctor to get a note to tell WW that I wanted my goal weight at 165 so I started to flounder at WW. Than I had a health issue that required me to have a hysterectomy and the weight started piling on. I stayed at WW another year, paying a lot of money, and gaining weight. I have been very discouraged the last five years about ever being able to lose weight. I stumbled onto MFP when a local health club recommended this free weight loss site. I am so happy. I started losing the weight right away. Logging my food in is easy and I am consistently losing one pound a week.

some of the things I love about this site is that I am in total control of my goals. I want to get back to 165 and a size 12 and than I can easily go to maintenance by changing my goal setting from losing one pound a week to maintaining my weight. I'm also more motivated to exercise. If I want to eat a littly more, than I go for a quick 20 mintue walk. It's that simple. And there is also support if you want it. The best part is that it is free. I've spent a fortune over the years at WW. Before I found MFP I had debated for 4 months about going back to WW and I just couldn't justify the expense given the current economy.

Hope you find MFP equally helpful and supportive. Feel free to friend me

I made lifetime on WW and have nothing but respect for that program and what I learned there. I returned to MFP becasue I recognize the importance and the value of WW but I have nothing but good things to say about WW. congrats.

i LOVED ww, cause it taught me how to eat normal portions again. so i thank them tremendously for that. but after i relearned how to eat, ive cancelled my ww membership and have been here logging foods everyday.

I've never like ww points and so many foods don't count... With points. That's always set wrong with me.. and
So mfp has no weekly dues all food counts and I get as much support here from my fl as you get from we online..

Well I am a fellow chocolate addict and I love my chocolate and eat it daily. Being on a eating plan of any type is no reason to give up the dark stuff. Here is my advice to you try switching to dark chocolate it can be done I am a perfect example of that and allow yourself 1 giradilli dark chocolate square a day not only are you satisfying your chocolate craving but switching to the dark chocolate you are reaping the health benefits. By the way down 14 pounds since January and pretty much at goal. Good luck and don't give up chocolate it I called it my healthy antidepressant.

I have done Weight Watchers, each time successfully losing weight, in the 1970s, the 1990s and the 2000s. I heartily recommend WW for those who need to learn the basics and to become, perhaps for the first time, aware of different food values and the discipline of weighing and measuring portions. I am now using many things I learned at Weight Watchers and other things I have learned over the years to maintain what is a healthy weight loss plan.

If you want to learn a healthy way to lose weight for the first time and do not want to or cannot spend the individual time it takes to learn the basics of planning a healthy way of eating independently, then Weight Watchers meetings, materials, and weekly weigh ins are a great way to get started.

On the other hand, Weight Watchers also markets a great many products. You do not need to buy any of them to be successful using their program. The only one that is very useful is their points calculator. The food and other things are not at all necessary and may get you off track for learning how to maintain healthy eating habits without crutches.

I couldn't agree more with you than the way you worded this!! I think I learned a lot from when I did WW that I can apply here now. I know that WW is in the business to make $$$, but some of their stuff seemed to cost a little too much to me.

i worked for ww for over 15 years and life happened... so i got tired of the bs as with any job and well no longer work for ww!!! i think its a personal preference on what u like and what works we all know in order to be successful at losing weight and keeping it off is a life style change and creating good healthy habits everyone needs to be accountable, u eat less move more and ta----dummm u loose the weight!!! this is wonderful web site!!! it feels all new to me so im excited!!! and its working!!! so happy loosing everybody!!!! if u bite it write it just be good to urself set your mind to it and get off the booty and MOVE!!!

I did WW 4 times over the years. I always got to 30-35 pounds and stopped. I was always eating points that were points but didn't go with the category. I'd get frustrated, stop and gain back 45. This site has been the best thing that has happened to me in a long time. It's easy to log in and if you have the chocolate cake at the restaurant it doesn't sugar coat the value. It' will tell you it's 1057 calories. Then it's up to you whether you eat a taste, 1/3 or all of it.
My anniversary was two weeks ago and we went to Chris Ruth's steakhouse. I had the steak, asparagus and mushrooms, but they wanted to give up a piece of cake to celebrate. The cheesecake was 1057 calories and the chocolate cake was over 1300 for A SLICE!!! I told them to give us the cheesecake. I had 300 calories left after logging for the day, so I cut the cake in four pieces. My husband ate two of them and I had one that night and one the next night that was still inside my calorie count. I felt rewarded for the 33 years and in control of myself to only eat the small piece but I was fully satisfied.
This is a wonderful site and the folks I have friended are the absolute best in the world. They have given me such encouragement and during this past week, I have had such stress, but knowing there was a little corner I could go to, log my food in and someone would send me that little hug from afar kept me on track. I never got that with WW and here it is free.
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