mfp compared to weight watchers

I have done weight watchers in the past - I didn't do bad on it, but actually found counting the points a lot harder than just logging my food on MFP. I did not like our meeting leader either; all she did was talked about what she did on the weekends. I was looking for motivation and ideas and that is exactly what I find on MFP without the cost and I can do it from work or home and feel just as accountable to all of my support team on MFP as I did doing the weekly weigh-ins at weight watchers and actually feel like I get way more support with MFP!

Bottom line is, you get out of it what you put into it. If you are not going to keep your eating under your alloted points and/or calories AND workout at least some you are not going to lose the weight. I personally find MFP much more enjoyable.

Best of luck with your decision!!

I've tried weight watchers several times and always seem to be hungry all the time and can't stick with it. I've had more success just using MFP and since it's free that helps too. The last 2 weight watcher classes I tried I wasn't real thrilled with the instructors either.

I've done both. I had sucess with both. But MFP has lasted the longest so far.

I started on MFP November 2009 and used it for about the first 6 months without losing any weight. I was faithful to log every morsel in those months though. Looking back now Im glad I stuck with it because that is how I learned a lot about myself, about my emotions, my eating habits, and my personal demons!
I needed this time to see how my habits and choices affected my weight. I learned MUCH more about myself from those days, and from "bad" days and/or choices than anything else.

Be seeing those numbers in black and white on a daily basis, seeing the weekly/monthly reports of my nutrition it helped to bring me to my "ah ha" moment in May 2010.

I have lost just about 50 pounds since the end of May and have completely changed my lifestyle so I know I will never gain it back. The support and encouragment from my MFP friends, coworkers, and family was also instrumental in my sucess.

You have to do what works for you, but remember, as with anything else what you put into it is what you will get out of it. I actually made a challenge with my Mom and we lost weight together . . . all electronically as we live about 8 hours apart. If you need the "face to face" support and encouragement go with Weight Watchers, but if you have someone you can do it with to challenge and motivate you MFP is an amazing tool that DOES work.

Good luck!

I have done both. They both have worked somewhat. Problem is that weight watchers is harder to count . I didnt like the meetings and this is much better in my opinion.

I've done WW 2 times, lost 30, gained back 40 1st time, 2nd time the leader was just not that great and I stopped going. I find I like this style better, as i found out today, when you need help, just post on the boards and you will get a ton of support. I always felt that at the WW meetings I was just another person in a big room, not much personal attention or help. On here even though I haven't meet people face to face, I've friended them and we cheer each other on daily. Its the little motivations that sometimes add up to the best help!

Just wondering if anyone in the past has tried weight watchers. If so which was more helpful. I'm torn f I should try weight watchers again or stick with mfp. I tried mfp back n September and stuck with it for about six weeks but didn't lose any weight

I have stuck with WW for about 6 to eight months at a time and I always end up losing very little if any weight at all. A coulple of times I ended up. I have been struggling here also but at the end of 9 months I am down, so that is better than I have ever did at WW. I have never lost 24 pounds with WW.

MFP is good if you work it. I may be dead wrong but I always felt you ate too much food with WW also. I think it works for many and it is better than programs where you have to eat their products but it did not work for me. WW is good for sure if you work it but I guess I was never able to work it. For some reason it is easier for me to work MFP.

The other good thing about MFP is it is absolutely FREE......:-) And I get support and I am getting healthier. We support each other and we don't pay a dime for it.

So when I compare MFP to WW, I am sold on MFP for sure. See I know it is going to take me 2 to 3 years to reach my goals and then I want to maintain my goals also. At $10 a week vs $0 a week I say what is there to compare.......:-)

You know there are some members that do WW in conjunction with MFP. Not sure how they do it but I know they do it.. And one more thing and this is strictly my own opinion, I feel WW is designed for ones with 50 or 60 pounds to lose. Not sure it really works for Morbibly obese and for Super Morbibly obese.

I had a WW leader tell me that many years ago. She was the 1st person who introduced me to weight loss surgery and she persisted in recommending to to me when she saw me struggling at 600 pounds plus. She worked with a doctor in the Biartrics field. She beleived in WW and WLS. If it had not been for her I would have never researched WLS. I owe her a lot.

I did WW online for almost a year and went from 230 to 183 then really bottomed out. It got very tedious trying to guess the point value of items on the spot or that weren't listed on their site. I ended up stopping for Oct/Nov and when I went back everything had been changed so I would have had to start from scratch.

My choice is MPF because
-If someone enters a food it's available to EVERYONE
-GREAT support system
-Doesn't change everything overnight
-FREE

I recently gave up WW and decided to track only on here. I found that counting points was driving me mad - I hated that I couldn't just look at a package and know that it was X calories and therefore Y points. I also found that I wasn't losing consistently at all - even when I was well within my points. Since switching to here, I have been able to pinpoint why I didn't lose in a particular week with much more ease.

All that being said, WW can be good for teaching nutrition, giving you ideas for healthy low calorie meals, etc. I still think it is a great program - but it just isn't the program for me.