How to Track Weight Watchers Points on MFP!!

I'm stuck with this add-on, too. I used to use this on my windows laptop with firefox no problem. Now I have a Macbook and I'm using Chrome and I can't even get the points column to show up. I've closed the browser, cleared the cache, rebooted... nothing is working. On my Tampermonkey, it won't even show that a script is running. I click "enable" but then it constantly shows that nothing is running. Didn't have this much trouble before. Ideas, anyone?

sakthorp wrote: »

When I joined MFP I tracked both points AND calories. It was time consuming and I didn't think I'd like tracking calories, it seemed like soooo much more work!

BUT! I much prefer tracking calories because of the feedback on nutrition I'm getting and I no longer want to be tethered to weight watchers. I don't like the recent plan at all, I had the 'old' points memorized and then they went and changed it.

Either way, tracking works, it keeps me accountable and I'm more likely to succeed when I track. There are many options out there, use the one you like most :-) Just a few decades ago, we didn't have all these wonderful options, gotta' love technology!!!!!

I too liked the old WW points plan, I lost 98 lbs using it. I left WW and tried going back but the new plan didn't work for me. I am going to pull out my old WW guide and start using it. It's gotta be better than doing nothing at all. Tracking is the key, regardless of the plan we choose.

Do you use the same script for the new WW smart points plan?

Took me hours but I made it work (Mac OsX on Chrome and FF) I had to change the lines 5 and 6 to

// @include http://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/diary*
// @include https://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/diary*

since in the original script it said
// @include http://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/diary/*
// @include https://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/diary/*

and the address does not include the /

Hope it helps some of you guys

PS: Thank you, thank you, thank you for the script

PPS: I also added another "meal" for all my fruits and veggies since its counting the points for that as well. Now I can substract these points "easier" of the total value and have my real points

I'll have to see if my son can figure it out. Thanks

I would love to know how to use with SmartPoints!

No matter what I do, I can't get points to show up in MFP. I'm new to WW and have used MFP for a while. I installed tamper monkey, used the script you provided and tried changing the lines above. I enabled it and ran it, but nothing happened. What am I doing wrong?

If there is no script for the WW Smart points, can someone post the script for the old one. I set it up based on older posts and it isn't working.

If anyone feels inclined to update the script with Smart Points, this blogger has done a LOT of the work on the new calculations.
http://weightwatchergeek.blogspot.com.au/2015/12/a-comparison-of-weight-watchers-points.html

All credit to Thomas Mills Hinkle
https://plus.google.com/+ThomasMillsHinkle/posts
From the website.
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0.24*Sugar + 0.55*Saturated Fat + 0.27 * (Fat-Sat Fat) + 0.12 * (Carb - Sugar) + 0.024 * Protein + Alcohol * 0.18

The following formula is, in my tests, slightly less accurate but perfectly serviceable:

(0.0305 * calories) - (0.098*protein) + (0.12*sugar)+(0.275*sat fat)

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MFP limits the number of nutrients being tracked on the website to 5 plus calories, so using the more complex and accurate calculation of 6 nutrients, as above, may not be helpful with the script.
There is the simpler calculation but not as accurate.

gidget2208 wrote: »

Thank you msk3001!
As you suggested, removing the forward slash / at the end of "diary" in the above 2 lines fixed the issue for me.

Yeah- I'm glad it worked for you

hi, where are you seeing the points? I have added the script, with the mentioned adjustments in Tampermonkey and still do not see point on my fitness pal account.....

can I add my scripting code in this text box, and can someone confirm that it is correct...not a programmer, just really want points to show...

Thanks so much for your help. I followed your steps, precisely and it still does not show...I am giving up..might have to purchase the WW etools after all...

Hey glad it works for you

If you can check the points calculation and give me some feedback would be great.
I did it on some foods and recipes and it was fine compared to the original WW tool on an ipad.

Cheers

Hi Joanna,

I think for SP its Satureated Fat and sugar - but nur sure about it. If one is missing the calculation is not correct but should show up as a additional column.
Make sure your browser end with your MFP "username" as mentioned in my post

"http://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/diary/username" with username your name on MFP

If thats not in it it will not show up in my browser as well.

Try it and please report

Cheers
Axel

I tried the script posted on Github above, but many of the values (for non-fruit and vegetable foods) didn't match up with the current Weight Watchers website. I you want to use that one, you have to have sugar as your last nutrient dropdown.

I tweaked the original script so that I could have another nutrient column of anything I wanted. (FYI I'm not a programmer, but I had fun fiddling around with it.) This worked on Chrome. The script is hard coded so that the different nutrients have to be in a specific order and the WW points come at the end after protein. BUT you can easily add one additional column between calories and carbs if you change the column numbers. This is still the older version of Weight Watchers points, so your fruits and veggies won't show up as 0 points. (I'm planning on just subtracting them in my head for now, but I'll ask my programmer husband if he can figure out a way to rewrite the script to make it actually work.) I also added the code that someone else mentioned to make it so that it works when you click on the diary button or switch to different days.

Here are the steps to make it work:
1) I went to the diary settings and changed the drop downs to the following order: Sugar (you can sub for whatever nutrient you want to track), Carbs, Fat, Fiber, Protein.
2) Installed Tampermonkey, clicked on the new Tampermonkey symbol on my browser bar and went to Add New Script
3) Erase everything in the box and paste in the code below and hit the save button. Refresh your diary and hopefully it should work for you.


(function () {

// ==UserScript==
// @name MyFitnessPal Weight Watchers Points
// @version 1.1.4
// @description Adds display of Weightwatcher points to any daily food diary page. Also adds "Real Calories" calcalation based off 4/4/9 algorithm.
// @include http://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/diary/*
// @include https://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/diary/*
// @include http://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/diary?*
// @include http://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/diary

// ==/UserScript==


var pointsPlus=true;
var precisonWW=true;

if (window.top !== window.self) {
return; /* do not run in frames */
}

if (typeof unsafeWindow != 'undefined')
{
(function page_scope_runner() {
// If we're _not_ already running in the page, grab the full source
// of this script.
var my_src = "(" + page_scope_runner.caller.toString() + ")();";

// Create a script node holding this script, plus a marker that lets us
// know we are running in the page scope (not the Greasemonkey sandbox).
// Note that we are intentionally *not* scope-wrapping here.
var script = document.createElement('script');
script.setAttribute("type", "application/javascript");
script.textContent = my_src;
document.body.appendChild(script);
})();

return;
}

function startRun() {
var script = document.createElement("script");
script.setAttribute("src", "http://www.google.com/jsapi");
script.addEventListener('load', function() {
loadscripts_1();
}, false);
document.body.appendChild(script);
}

var points, totalPoints=0;
function getPointOld(cal1, fat1, fiber1, carbs, protein)
{
points=0;
if (fiber1>4 && !pointsPlus)
fiber1=4;
points = cal1/50;
points += fat1/12;
points -= fiber1/5;
if (pointsPlus)
points = (protein / 10.94) + (carbs / 9.17) + (fat1/3.89)- (fiber1 / 12.49);
//alert(points);
if (precisonWW)
{
points=Math.round(points)
}
else
{
var intPoints = Math.floor(points);
fraction = points - intPoints;
if (fraction<0.25)
points = intPoints + 0.0;
else if (fraction>=0.25 && fraction<0.75)
points = intPoints +0.5;
else
points = intPoints+1;
}
}

function main()
{
//$("tr:first").append('<col class="col-2" />');
$("tr:first").append('<th >');
$("tr:not(:first)").append("<td>");

var found=false;
var totalFound=false;
var table1 = jQuery('.table0');
var totalPoints=0;
//alert($(table1[12]).text());
var rowInd=-1;
table1.find('tr').each(function()
{
rowInd++;
var index=0;
found=false;
if ($(this).hasClass('meal_header') && rowInd==0)
$(this).append('<td class="alt">Weight Watcher Points+</td>');
if (!totalFound && $(this).hasClass('total'))
{
totalFound=true;
$(this).find('td').eq(7).html(totalPoints);
}
var cols=$(this).find('td').each(function()
{
if (index==0)
;
else if (index==1)
{
cal11=($(this).text());
}
else if (index==2)
carbs=($(this).text());
else if (index==3)
fat11=$(this).text();
else if (index==4)
fiber11=$(this).text();
else if (index==5)
protein=($(this).text());
else if (index==6 && $(this).hasClass('delete'))
{
found=true;
getPointOld(cal11, fat11, fiber11, carbs, protein);
totalPoints+=points;
//$(this).append(points);
}
else
{
if (found)
$(this).append(points);
/*if (totalFound)
{
totalFound=false;
$(this).append('<td/><td/><td/>'+totalPoints);
}*/
}
index +=1;
}
);
});
}

function loadscripts_1()
{
var script = document.createElement("script");
script.setAttribute("src", "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.6.1/jquery.min.js");
script.addEventListener('load', function() {
loadscripts_2();
}, false);
document.body.appendChild(script);
}

function loadscripts_2()
{
jQuery.noConflict();

/* fix for old prototype conflict with google viz api */
/* retrieves the Array reduce native function using cleverness */
var ifr = document.createElement('iframe');
document.body.appendChild(ifr);
Array.prototype.reduce = ifr.contentWindow.Array.prototype.reduce;
document.body.removeChild(ifr);

google.load( "visualization", "1", {packages:["corechart"],"callback":main} );
}



startRun();
})();