Switching from weight watchers

Maybe save 100 calories per day for the weekend. Or don't eat back exercise calories but enjoy some extra calories on the weekend.

Welcome!!

I did WW years and years ago. It is pretty much the exact same thing as MFP, just wrapped up in nicer packaging.

Losing weight is all calories in vs. calories out. So do exactly what you did on WW. You saved some points for the weekends? Awesome - I personally love this approach. Then save some calories for the weekends.

For example, if you daily calorie goal is 1500 per day, that equals 10,500 per week.

You can eat exactly 1500 per day and do no exercise, OR
eat 1300 per day Monday - Friday, and 2000 each day on Saturdays and Sundays, OR
eat 1800 every single day with 300 calories worth of exercise every single day, net 1500 OR
Eat 1700 5 days per week. Have 2200 on weekends. Decide to take up running, weight lifting, (something fairly intense) 4 days exercise per week, burning 600 calories each day. You eat 12,900, have burnt 2,400 in the week.

In any of these 4 scenarios you still consume/net 10,500 per week. And so long as that is less than what your body requires (TDEE) in a week, then your weight will drop over time.

All WW did for you was assign a number to food and exercise. Now, you are assigning calories to your food and exercise. If WW gave you 24 points per day, MFP gives you (insert your own calorie target here) "points" per day, called calories. What you need to do with the numbers to lose weight, and how you manage that for your own journey is exactly the same.

Nice ideas posted!