I successfully lost weight with WW in the past but their new plan is really not good. If you have a lot to lose and are eating a lot of unhealthy food it will work for you up to a certain point. However any plan that tells you fruit and vegetables are 'free' and uses a complicated method of basically calculating calories is probably not sustainable in the long run. WW has been very keen to promote itself to the NHS. Personally think you would be better using this site for free and restricting your calories and eating fruit, veg, lean protein and wholemeal carbs. There are some very useful aids on the internet in the form of plates with portion sizes on.

im following the old plan the one before points plus and im losing successfully. i think its personally wat works for you x

I tried WeightWatchers and did lose some weight but I just found that it seemed to take ages tracking points etc. If you just have WeightWatchers products it's quick and easy because the ProPoints value is already worked out for you, but there are a lot of foods that aren't in their books or on their online database, so then you have to work the points value out and unless you add it as a favourite item it doesn't store it in the database for future use like it does here. Plus the other thing is that you have to pay for Weightwatchers.

I've been using MFP for just over two months and I absolutely love it and won't be changing to anything else. I use the app for Blackberry so it makes it so quick and even if your out and don't have access to MFP because you know your daily calorie limit, you can pick up practically any food or drink and just look on the back at the calories, where as with Weightwatchers you'd have to stand there with the ProPoints calculator trying to work out the points value.

I help out at the weight watcher meetings. If you have the NHS vouchers, it is worth signing up to weightwatchers, I think you get 12 weeks of vouchers for free. I love the fitness pal plan, because you can track more easily with the phone app. You can only get the weight watchers app on the I phone, but you have to be an online member. If you have a blackberry you can only download the calculator app.

The ww diet is good, as long as you go easy on the fruit. Although fruits are 0, only limit yourself to 1 banana a day and dont go over your 5 fruits and veg a day. I hope this helps.

Like others the old plan helped me lose over 1 stone but as soon as it swapped to the new plan I started to gain weight and it just was not working for me and didnt get much help or support from my leader. I decided to stop going and try and do the old plan at home on my own and then came across this site and it has helped me a lot more then WW ever did (with support and motivation) The weight is starting to go down again yey :-)

I have been on WW for 6 weeks (online). Then 3 weeks ago I found this site.

Personally I find it hard to follow the number of points I'm on already which is 31, this works out at 1240 calories a day. There's only so many days I can go being so so hungry I just wanna give up.

The first 2 weeks I lost barely 2lbs. This past week I have upped my calories to 1400, and I track on here and on WW. I'm well into minus points on the WW and yet just about every day this week I have been under calories on here. I feel better in myself and I've not been hungry at all this week. Now just gotta wait and see what the WI results are tmrow morning....

Also the forums...its really not for me. Very 'cliquey' is all I will say.

But, if you like/need alot of structure in your eating and want to go with a low carb diet then it will probably work better for you than it does me. My diary is open so you can see that I still eat and drink WW foods and still will even when I cancel my subscription next month

in 2004 i lost 7lbs over a few months, on the old points system. its the same as any other diet really, ur just counting points instead of cals, but they have a good support system if u go to meetings x