Decided to join WW

WW is great if you need to learn to eat better. It steers you towards lean proteins and fruits and vegetables with the free foods system. However, the flip side of that is that it penalizes carbs and sugars by inflating their points. I loved WW and lost weight on it but never understood why things like a slice of bread, or a water ice (slushie), would be so many points. Once I was already eating lean proteins and fruits and vegetables, I wanted a plan that would be more transparent, so MFP really helped me learn about calories without the filter of the point system. For me, after being successful on WW and crediting WW to teach me how to eat, MFP made much more sense because I just wanted the raw data so I could teach myself. To be honest, MFP and calorie counting, not weighted points, has worked for me in the long haul. But I needed WW to get me here, and whatever works for you is great.