Former weight watchers?

i did try ww after having my 2nd child - i couldnt understand the weekly points along with also your daily points.. i losta bit but not much - im also a slimming world member.. this is only so i try and make healthier choices between food..
i count the calories on here and after 6 months of stalling the scales are going down again...
so before in my head i had 1600 calories for the day - its very easy to incorporate a hot cross bun into that allowance for 180 cals.. with sw, its 9 sysn - totally not worth it, im only allowed 15 a day!, so i opt for fruit and yogurt instead.
there. a healthier better choice.
same with the meals - all sw meals are cooked from scratch again a much healthier way.
i lost my way a bit with free foods too, so its why i still count calories here, the way i see it, is i could have 10 free yogurts a day but wait.. thats 1000 calories???? so in some things sw doesnt teach you..

Hi I am in the same boat with you. I have done both my fitness pal and WW and have lost weight successfully with both in my past. I was just starting to get serious about my WW effort then they switched programs and I feel the exact same way you do. So I just switched to MFP on Sat. I have 2 neighbors losing weight also -one who is on WW and the other using MFP. We checkin once a week with our progress which has kicked my butt into gear because I had not been as disciplined, but don't want to be left behind now that they are down 10-13lbs compared to my 3. I am also 45 with a 13 and 6 yo so losing weight is much harder for me now that I am officially in menopause so I think seeing the calories and nutrition composition of what I eat will help me more. I was not happy with the new point system ---I was failing every week. So if you want someone to Ck in with I am more than happy to add another person to the list of people I have to be accountable to and for.

I've done WW. I started going to meetings and absolutely hated them - lining up to be weighed felt like a cattle market, so I did it online. I lost weight but it cost me money! I do MFP online for FREE and have lost 33lbs since last September. I also eat more nutritionally doing CICO because I can see how the food is made up, whereas with WW all you know is how many points you are eating.

I used to do WW and lost my first 20 with them, but I did not like how your success was only measured by the scale, and that if I was PMSing or had eaten something with high sodium, my weight would be up for that weigh-in and would feel like a complete failure.

I also did not like the Points thing, because it did not teach me about basic calorie control. Once I quit WW (because it was just too expensive and I didn't like running out to those stupid meetings every week), and got hooked up with MFP, got a food scale, etc., is when I really started to lose the weight.

Hi, I'm a former WW member. I lost weight with WW 3 years ago, and the only thing I really liked was that accountability of weighing in at the meetings once a week, and the accountability of tracking everything I ate.
The actual meetings were useless. I didn't like the emphasis on non-fat dairy, processed sugary/high carb snacks. Also you are completely unaware of your nutrition. As someone mentioned above, the points hide where you calories are coming from in terms of macros. I struggled with fruit being free as well. Biggest pet peeve was how many points were in alcohol. I would use 11 points on TWO glasses of wine, and that was almost half my day's worth of points. This led to a lot of binging on weekends, because I felt deprived of food.

I like MFP much better. I have created my own ways to be accountable. I have to clear jars sitting in my bedroom, one full of marbles representing pounds left to lose, and I put a marble in the other jar representing pounds lost every time I lose weight. Also I diligently track my weight in both MFP and another app called Libra.

I also have a select group of friends that know I'm trying to lose weight, and I tell them when I've lost. It's good to have that support.

Lastly, my Fitbit keeps me accountable. It tells me when I am over budget on calories in/calories out for the day, or under budget. I like the feeling of ending a day having hit all of my fitbit goals and balancing calories in/calories out.

I lost almost 80 pounds on WW OVER 10 years ago. I became a lifetime member and even a leader. I've never put all of it back on but this summer I was getting a little bit too close. I'd gone back to WW last fall, and although I like the program, it wasn't working for me this time.
Due to medical issues I have to eat differently, and finding MFP was great. I can still track my foods, my exercise and have the support I need. I see a dr and dietitian regularly as well and although I lose slowly, I'm losing. It is different to measure the "free" or "0 point" foods, but for my particular situation, I can't eat all the anything I want.

I don't pay for the 'premium'. I have MFP friends who have upgraded and said they wish they had stayed 'free'.

I don't pay for anything that I don't have to and this free site works just fine for me.

My job offered WW free for the year to all employee's. I tried it for 4 weeks and I hated it!!!! I did not like the point system. There were days I would use all my points but only ate about 700-800 calories. Back on MFP so far I have lost 16lb with MFP.

I did WW for about 9 months. My company reimbursed us for 2 out of 3 at work sessions, and the meetings were also at our office around lunch time once a week. I did it for the social aspect of it. I found the points to be too simplistic of a view of food. I also stopped losing because if I was hungry I'd eat fruit which was zero points but could quickly add up in actual calories. I rather look at the composition of the food and macros to decide the best thing to eat rather than points.

MFP is a good way to track and I found I don't need the accountability of other people. I have my daily weigh in here and a weekly weigh in I track off line and it works for me.