Weight Watchers??

I have a friend who is doing it and she has lost weight. I have also known people who have not lost weight doing it. I think that if your in it to loose it, have a focused mind to succeed you will be fine. I dont know how much it costs. I do P90X myself and use the included website for nutritional meal planning. Been doing that for a month and have lost 10lbs. Been using my fitness pal for two weeks now so my total lost does not reflect my beginning weight.

Morning, you have to do what motivates you and helps you in your weight loss.... but honestly,... You can do everything you do on WW, on here..... for free. I actually think MFP is easier and more motiving because you see actual numbers rather than points. WW in my opinion, is highly over-priced.

Hi,

I'm doing both MFP and WW. I lost my first stone on here and then started doing WW at home.

I quite like WW, but to be honest, I think most people can achieve the same results here by sticking to the targets this give you.

I agree with tokays72 - it all depends on whether you have the right frame of mind

C

Having found MFP I can't get my head round why you would want to pay? I have used WW in the past with varying success. I often found it difficult to stick to the points allocation, I found it a pain to have to convert foods to points and was always more likely to eat processed food.
With WW you need to know the calories, the sat fat, the weight of the food & you need access to some kind of device to work out the points (ie you need their branded calculator, the website or the cardboard thing they give you on week one). With MFP you only need to know the weight of the food & the calories. I find WW meetings very demotivating. They tend to be full of overweight women who make degrading self deprecating comments about themselves whether they lose weight or not (I say that from my experience of 4 different clubs).
I've recommended this MFP site to 6 people (who told me they were looking to lose weight) and sadly 4 of them said they'd NEED to go to WW because they need the humiliation to lose weight. I don't think WW plans to be humiliating, but at 3 out of the 4 clubs I've been to, sadly it was and I think it speaks volumes that so many of my friends (who don't know one another btw) accept that WW will provide them with the humiliation they need to lose weight. Personally I think losing weight should be about feeling good and being positive, I get that atmosphere here, I've never had it at WW.

Why I like MFP, there's no mysterious magical protected formula, it's just calorie counting and exercise, there's a great forum, it's full of positive people I can 'surround' myself with, I love the app, the extensive database makes it easy & I can add my own stuff, it's FREEeeeeeeeeeeee!!

each to their, but I've been there and done it with all of them .. ... always feel hungry on weight watchers for some reason .. to be honest we all know what we have to do, less calories in, eat more healthily and more exercise .. eat less than we spend so to speak ... and that's for free xxx

What the other members say is right, it's expensive and you have the same thing here at MFP for free. I am a life member(free now) and still go weigh in ounce a month for more support.Lost about 70 pound, but the meetings got boring after a year or so. You are doing great, but if you want more support try it out. It is 40 dollars a month, then 13 dollars a month for their web site. You eat regular food, but they do have WW frozen foods, bread, cookies, snacks, etc. MFP is for free and that is why I'm here and have met nice, beautiful friends like you. Your doing fabulous, just keep the right mind set as someone else said on your post. It a good program that teaches you how to live your eating life, and not dieting the rest of your life. Eat and live healthy, not over indulge as we tend to do, once in a while is okay, treat yourself once a week sound go to me. It all depends on you and how your body reacts. Your great girl. keep up the good work.

I did weight watchers. I lost 45 lbs and regained every darn bit of it back and then some! WW doesnt teach you to have new behaviors. They teach you how to eat differently. You lose your weight but didnt gain any knowledge on why you over ate.... yadda yadda yadda. Save your money. Count your calories. Watch your portions. Change your behaviors. Thats all you need!! READ LABELS!

Friends and family I know that have done Weight Watchers say it works and is one of the healthiest diets around. However, when I researched doing WW, I realized that you have to learn a new system of counting food items (points), and I decided that learning to count calories was more applicable and beneficial in the long term of life. In either diet, the key is knowing and monitoring exactly what you are eating. Good luck with your decision.

WW i don't feel is worth the money you pay for it. I did a 12 week program and i lost weight but put it back on just as fast. And this seems to be more people friendly. WW just started a new program and the food is more points and you didn't go up in points ! It is your choice but if you have just started this on here I would give this a try before you start paying for a diet program! Plus you have support here on WW you don't get that on thier online site! Best of luck to you with the weight loss!

Everything works if you sick to it.

Friends and family I know that have done Weight Watchers say it works and is one of the healthiest diets around. However, when I researched doing WW, I realized that you have to learn a new system of counting food items (points), and I decided that learning to count calories was more applicable and beneficial in the long term of life. In either diet, the key is knowing and monitoring exactly what you are eating. Good luck with your decision.

the point thing is no different from counting calories..1 point equals approx 50 cals. if you do the core program it is basically high protien with veggies and your allowed x amount of points each day so you can eat grains..

Like alot of people on the forum i've done everything - personally i found the classes very time consuming. By the time i got ome from work - went to weigh in and class - came home made dinner - what a drag!!
I was in a similar situation as yourself two weeks ago and now --- i'm addicted to myfitnesspal! I never facebook anymore - i think why spend the money on weight watcher when this is free? I went out and bought a couple of dietry magazines and i can cook from that, i've a few weightwatchers readymeals in the oven.. ...i have big long weight loss journey to go on and i think can do it on MFP - i need to learn myself and make my own choices etc - for now and the future. WHEN i loose the weight i dont think i could follow a weightwatchers way of eating and i would be too scared to put it all back on!!!

here's my brief summary of the others weight watcher quite similar to MFP and slimming world - good amounts to eat but not much long term learning.

GOOD LUCK!!

I agree with kidtechnical, it's painful converting everything into points, then having to log. I find just putting the calories into MFP much much easier. I also ate more processed foods because unlike MFP, WW doesn't make you track sodium intake etc. I don't see why anyone would want to pay for WW when you have MFP, it's utterly fantastic. But like everyone said it's up to you and you should do what you feel is best. I've had success years and years ago with WW when I was about 21 I lost 25 lbs back then there was no points system it was just eating 3 heatlhy meals a day and a couple of snacks and cutting out crap. I tried it again years later, but it just didn't work as well as it did before. I think that's my MFP is working for me, because it is very like the old WW and I've lost 23lbs.

Good luck on your decision :-)

I have a friend on facebook is posted today she was so excited that she has lost 10 lbs. in a month, but I feel sorry for her because she thinks she will continue to lose 10 every month from now on, if it doesn't happen for her that way she will probably be pretty disappointed, I have seen alot of food in the list with the ww points added so I figured you could basically do it on here also??? Good luck!