Weight watcher friends

Are you following pp+ or the old plan? I am considering doing both, if mfp alone doesnt work for me. I used to follow the momentum plan, several yrs ago. Good luck!

Hi everyone!

I'm doing both. I've been doing PPV since october, and just started entering my foods into MFP and Weight Watchers. Did some quick calculations.... here are some of my findings

A weight watchers PPV is roughly 40 calories, depending slightly on nutrition. The produce I ate was about 45 calories/PPV, and the rest of the food I ate averaged to 38 calories/PPV.

When I calculate the PPV of my total nutrition form the day as totaled by MFP, leaving out all zero-point fresh fruit and vegetables, it comes within 2 points of what the PPV summary is of calculating all items' PPV individually. Adding in those fruits and vegetables adds more points (today it was about 10 points).

Using the 40 cals/PPV, my daily calorie intake before zero-point fruits and veggies is about 1280. That's too low for me, (my MFP goal is 1570) so that leaves room for more calories from fruits and veggies.

So, if I eat about 300 calories worth of zero-point fruits and veggies each day, the two plans are roughly equivalent. Tadaa!

I also have my fitbit pedometer connected, and MFP gives you way more credit! Today I got 12k steps, and MFP called that 623 calories. I know there is a lot of debate whether you should eat those calories back or whatever, but weight watchers converted 12k steps into 6 PPV. Multiply that by 40 calories and that is 240 calories earned back from exercise. That seems more reasonable to me as an amount of calories I should add to my diet. Don't eat everything I burned, but eat a little more to account for the exercise.

Maybe I will do a more complete study... but I've always wondered how WW really breaks down...

Also I'd love to be friends with other WW-ers! I promise not to annoy you with more math