Welcome alternative to WW

It really is a great alternative! Plus I LOVE the whole community aspect - it has been a huge key to my success.

I also agree! I started on there lost 25 then switched to the new plan and gained 20 of it back. Now I'm on this and have lost 10 almost 10 already and can't wait to lose the rest!

Same here! I've done ww for years. Always did well on it, when I stuck to it. But, I've been struggling the last year with the new program. Started gaining weight while on it. A friend told me about this site. I cancelled my ww membership and am on my second week here. The weight is coming off MUCH faster than it ever did on WW. Plus, it's so much easier to add calories than have to calculate points! I'm a HUGE fan so far! Feel free to add me as a friend!

The recipe builder does have built-in ingredients; they're just in the food database. What the recipe builder really is is just a time-saver; you *could* enter all the ingredients that went into your pizza or sandwich or soup into your food diary separately, but it's much easier to calculate the calories/macronutrients for the whole pizza/sandwich/pot of soup, save that, and then enter a fraction of that amount into your diary. Especially if it's something you make often, it's just easier. The fact that you can share recipes with others is just a bonus, and it saves them time calculating nutrient values, too.

I lost successfully on WW however it was very, very slow. I got stuck trying to lose the last 3-4 pound, no matter what I did it would not shift. I upped my exercise substantially and even that didn't make the weight move. So I started tracking what I was eating with MFP alongside WW points. I was surprised at how many calories I was consuming in fruit and veg a day, which on WW is classed as free food which you do not count. I reckon I was easily eating an extra 200-300 calories a day in fruit and veg. There's no wonder the weight wasn't moving. So I switched to MFP a couple of weeks ago to try and move the stubborn last pounds.

The only thing I like WW tracker for over MFP is the fact that your activity points (exercise) add up over the week and if you have use your points for the day then the extras are taken from the activity points you have earned. What I don't like about MFP is that there is no weekly count of exercise. I like to save what I earn during the week and then 'spend' the extra calories at the weekend. It's harder to track this on MFP. Unless anyone has any suggestions?

YES! I like having the recipe builder. I could go in and type in turkey sandwich and get the MFP answer, but I use "diet" bread. Same for a lot of other things. I just made recipes of some of the things that I eat regularly and now can just go to recipes and click on them to add them to my dairy. It's great for your homemade creations.

So glad I saw this post. I am 6 weeks post partum and was getting ready to join WW in addition to tracking with MFP. I joined MFP quite a while ago and was using it regularly fall 2010 into spring 2011. When I got pregnant last summer, I stopped tracking all together and have just rejoined. This is my first time using the community- as I was had only used the phone app in the past. I am loving the community feature!!

When did WW change their point system? I did weight watchers about 8 years ago after my last dau and lost weight, but I became OBSESSED with points! Much more than I do with calories (not sure why). I think the point system became a game of how much food I can eat with the fewest point value, whereas calorie counting is what it is-- no game playing allowed!

I was WW online for two years. I have come to the conclusion that they are in it to make money. They give you just enough to maybe lose, but make you lose over a long period of time to make money. Every year, they redo their point system requiring you to either buy a new scale or calculator. I did not lose with them. As for MFP, they have the lowest allowance of any site I have seen. This is why we lose on here. Sparkpeople and Lose It! are higher.

Same experience and I agree with the gentleman that said they change it up so you have to buy the new scale, the new point tracker, etc (money making scheme). I sat at a 13 pound loss for three weeks there...and got so frustrated that I quit! I wasn't even moving in the inches lost area or I would have stuck it out. I have been doing a modified version of WW and just trying to figure out what my body is craving and/or needs. I love MFP! There are so many items you can log and track...best sight out there for that aspect. Feel free to add me and good luck! =0) I have lost 26 pounds since January....not slow, but a great pace to take off the weight and I plan on keeping it off!!

I do both MFP and WW. I log and track everything on MFP and I like WW for the meetings and "official" weigh in. It helps me stay accountable. As for my eating, I go to Diabetes Centers of America and I am doing what my doctor tells me to do for my calories and stuff. BTW if anyone is a diabetic and struggling with it and unhappy with the doctors you have been to, I highly reccommend them. I wish I had started going to them years ago!!