Weight Watchers v MFP

Hey! I was doing WW right out of high school, and it did work pretty well. Its a really great program for teaching you the basics of being healthy and the support you get is unbelievably motivating. I have struggled with my weight my entire life, and have recently found that permanent "power from within" to do it right this time. I rejoined WW and started using MFP. Honestly, I like MFP way better. I am doing the online WW this time, which isnt all that different from the meetings. But WW and MFP are 2 very different programs. WW uses a points system and doesn't decrease your calories as much as necessary to lose more than half a pound to 2 pounds a week, which I know is very healthy, but you have to work so much harder I think. MFP has been amazing for me since I am in college and have 2 jobs. I don't have time to go to the meetings and WW makes it hard to track things because they don't have a lot of foods in the tracker so you have to make everything at home and enter each ingredient separately. So it really just depends on what you want out of a program. If you are looking for ease and convenience, I would stick with MFP. If you want to spend $6 a week for WW and think the group atmosphere would benefit you, then go for that! Either way, if you stick with the plan you WILL SEE RESULTS! Best of luck to you, don't give up!!!!

I am doing both and have just found success with both. With MFPs I stay connected with other people who are going through the same journey and share stories and tips and with weight watchers its just more of an accountability thing in addition to sharing in meetings things that work and don't work. I don't think its a lose lose situation. Just try it and see what works best for you. You can always cancel WW...maybe you can get connected with some different people and learn something new that you didn't know before. Hope this helps!

how do they figure out how many points you get? i had heard that 26 pints is equal to 1200 calories or something. how do they determine if you get more then 26 or not?

is it hard figuring out what you are eating is how many point? not sure if i should change myself up to that or stick with this? i have struggled my entire time to loose...

thx so much. and no you didn't come off that way... i am going to look into it/.

if WW works better for you , go for it. Good luck.

I've been doing both. I started them both about the same time and since January 5th I've lost 18.4 pounds. The ww is working for me and it is interesting to see the points vs. calories picture. There are time when I have used up my points but still have calories. I think that is due to the fact hat as you lose, you get fewer daily points but the calories here don't change. I chose to go to meetings with some friends from church, I am already isolated enough being mom and caregiver to my son with muscular dystrophy and getting out is helping. I think the calorie picture is of more long term help, I hope I am not counting points forever. I find that the money is an extra incentive. If I am going to fork out $42/month I had better give it my all. They are both just tools to use on this journey.

I rejoined WW last week. Sunday was my first weigh in and I lost 5.4lbs! With that being said I had a really hard time with the new points system. I am a carb lover. The points are so much higher on the carbs and even though I was getting 32 points a day that was going very quickly with the points being higher. So I decided I would do MFP and still attend the meetings as I very much need the accountability from it. I also listen to what the members are saying and take their suggestions on how to eat better. On top of being a carb lover, I am also a veggie hater. This is what is working for me. I know people are saying but why pay for it when you can do this for free? I tried for 2 months to just do MFP alone and I guess I just didn't have the support from the meetings like I needed.

I just rejoined weight watchers 3 weeks ago because I have been slowly gaining with MFP even though I'm always under my calorie goal! I don't know what it is but counting just calories doesn't work for me! I am down 5.6 lbs in 3 weeks and I really don't have much to lose that I was very happy with that! Good luck with whatever you decide to do!

I am currently doing WW. I love it. Having the accountability of the weekly meetings is what works for me. I don't think one is better than the other. It's just what works for you.

I have a WW membership until mid March. I thought joining a tthe beginning of the year would give me the push I needed again but it hasn't. I lost 40 lbs on the old plan but this new PointsPlus program doesn't seem to work for me. It has worked for a lot and maybe its just me and I'm not being dedicated enough or something but I can't seem to make it work for me. I came back to MFP on Wednesday so we'll see if I can have some success on here.

I did weight watchers and lost 39lbs a few years back. I tried it again a few years ago and it was different. I got tired of hearing at meetings "why are you even here". I'm 4'11 and weighed in at 156 thats why im here. Of course the people who said this to me had more weight to lose but it was annoying. So i tried weight watcehrs online which was good. It's a good program and i was successful but find that i learned everything there is to learn from meetings. Anytime i needed to lose weight i go back to what i learned from them and it seems to work with out spending the money or hearing stupid comments. The online program can get costly. MFP is great because it offers the message boards, food and exercise diaries like weight watchers online BUT it's free.

I have done WW before and honestly i hated that i had to pay for it, it didnt motivate me and i was in school so i didnt have the time to go to meetings or time to cook things at home since i was never there so i had to buy all ww frozen or premaid foods which were ok but never really filled me up. and even that got expensive. again, maybe its because i didnt have the time to do it the right way but honesly since day 1 on MFP i LOVE it. its free and soooo easy. i have learned so much and know how to eat correctly. i know how to eat normal and everday foods based on calories NOT POINTS, which i never understood how that worked. Also, the stuff on ww kept changing, like the box would have a certain amount of points on it then when i entered it into the system on the computer it would be a different amount than what they had on the box. it kept chaning to much so it wasnt consistant. for me its easier to just learn to eat nautral foods with calorie counting vs points because i would probably have a hard time figuring out points even after i would be off the program ... just seems like extra work. why worry about points when calories are so much easier to keep track of. my again, thats just me. different things work for different people. i like the freedom i have with my food and workout choices that MFP gives me.

I say if you are looking for something new and WW seems right for you then go for it. I LOVE WW! I did it a year ago (along with many other times) and it really got me off to a good start. After about 6 months I got burned out and found something new. It was great place for me to start to get my eating under control and then mentally I just needed something new. I have tried multiple different approaches and honestly they are all based on the same principle. You won't know until you try. Be sure to make yourself commit to at least doing it for a few weeks to a month before you decide it isn't for you to give your body time to adjust.

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