Tell me It's ok to keep it simple

I make healthier choices and stay within my calorie limit. I monitor my protein and fiber grams to make sure I'm getting enough. That's about it.

For losing weight, macros don't matter. You can 100 % ignore them. I do, and have lost close to 90 pounds. The only thing I look at is calories in and calories out, and there are many thousands of people here and elsewhere who do the same and have lost a lot of weight. There is no proof, evidence, or even strong anecdotal data that keto, diet shakes, grapefruit diets, or ANYTHING ELSE besides calorie control and exercise has any impact on weight loss. If you cut carbs, you'll temporarily lose a few pounds of water weight, but that's it, and it isn't fat loss. Now you have the received and PROVEN wisdom - go forth and prosper!

It's okay to keep it simple More than okay.

Simple absolutely works. Coming off WW, you may find it odd at first to count calories for fruits and veggies and other zero point foods (my friend did).

Get a food scale, weigh in grams, be careful when selecting database entries, pick a reasonable weight loss goal, eat back (accurate) exercise calories.

That's worked for loads of folks here!

Hey Donna, Welcome back to MFP. I am pretty certain that you are the Donna I chatted with yesterday in the facebook MFP group. I think you will see the difference in the depth of the responses here, onsite. Another note I'll add to that that I stated yesterday is that I recently convinced my WW following husband to convert to MFP. He did have some early conversion frustrations (less than me because I had dabbled in MFP from time to time over the years while a WW member). Then yesterday, he was on the phone with a longtime friend from WW and he was preaching MFP to her. Curious how things can change.

In the facebook group, you were talking about the difficulty of tracking to track WW point and track calories at the same time. The problem I have had with that, and main reason I gave up on WW points, is the overly punitive nature of eating certain things. Cases I can recount are the high point values given to reasonable fat consumption. Using a tsp of butter or a TB of olive oil is healthy and fine. A body does need fat too. But the WW point system had evolved to such that those selections were discouraged. Then at the other end, "fruits are free" (actually you get admonished for using the "free" term. There are "zero points" and not "free"). As I mentioned to you, I was staff 12 years and have way too many stories. I had a member eating whole "free" watermelons and angry about there lack of loss. Another case of punitive system was my single 210 calorie chocolate chip cookie which came back as 10 WW points. At the time, my daily WW points was in the 20's. That single reasonable to eat cookie over a third of my daily points. WW's response was to "eat the cookie but then eat zero point chicken breast to compensate". That was not a solution that worked for me. I want my healthy fats, I want me healthy treats. I don't want to be forced to eat chicken breast and beans when I might rather have grilled thighs, with salad, oil and balsamic vinegar.

Anyhow, I am rambling, but am glad you made it here into the community forums. As for WW vs MFP, if you want to attend WW for the accountability of the scale, there were plenty of time periods that I did this while tracking on MFP. But my meeting room answer to "what did you do this week" was "I don't think you want me to answer" :P. Tracking WW and MFP at the same time (which I have done as an interesting study) is a lot of work and not a lot of value if your goal is weigh loss and not data to analyze.