Weight Watchers people

I started my weight loss w/ WW. I joined for 3 months at a low cost (around $60 I think). Having to pay makes you (me anyway) more accountable & I was more likely to follow it faithfully. It was a good jump start and I was successful - almost all fruit and vegis are free & I filled up. Towards the end of my trial period, I did hit a block & my weight showed no movement (up or down) for about 2-3 weeks. That's about the time I bought a Fitbit pedometer & also joined myfitnesspal. Slowing down my fruit intake was weird .... but but I broke through my block & am back on the right track. Good luck!!

I tried weight watchers before MFP and after coming to a hault on my own progress. Personally...it worked at first for roughly 5-10 lbs. Then I was stuck again. Weight watchers works for some people, but realistically it's much more short term in my opinion and the weight comes back. There is no such thing as free foods and everyBODY accepts foods differently. You don't learn as much about your body and diet as if you figure it out the hard way (with the help of MFP).

Personally I found myself overeating fruit and using it to fill me up (because i didnt have to count it) thus drenching my body with sugars that it didn't need. Among other issues.

I think you have to choose one or the other. Not MFP and WW. If you choose weight watchers and it doesnt work...MFP will always be here for you.

I have a few friends on WW and they haven't lost much weight. One friend is 200 lbs and has only lost 10lbs in 6 months. The other friend started at 250 and a year later is around 220. So, based on my experiences with the program, it doesn't work.

In my opinion, why would you pay money for something similar to MFP when MFP is free? If you want support and accountability, get a friend to weigh you in every week. Why waste your money? Use it to buy yourself a new wardrobe when you lose the weight using MFP.

I did weight watchers. I like MFP better because I feel like it is more "true to life". You count points in ww...which are based on calories. It's like trying to fool yourself into thinking that something doesn't have high calories when it does. Likewise with the free food....it's not really free now is it? If you're eating it, it has calories unless it's water...What you need to do is make life style changes that work for you...weight watchers was not it for me.

I started with weight watchers in January since I'd had success with it before; in 2002/03 I lost 60 lbs and kept it off until I had kids. However, I am a runner and found that I just couldn't eat enough on the WW program. It is, in essence, a low calorie diet. My daily points target was 28 and even after I'd run for an hour or so I'd only have about 40 points to eat for the day... a typical day following MFP for me to lose is about 58 points. So I just couldn't get enough to eat on WW and felt like I was failing even though I just need that much more food to fuel my running.

WW works. Our leader says not to call the fruits and veggies "free" but instead call them 0 points plus values. She goes on to say that you can eat too many. If you all use your points and then eat 6 big bananas you are going to have to count them. It's within reason. But if you are eating lots of power foods you aren't going to eat bunches of other high calorie foods. WW is easy to figure. I have compared them both since I am a WW and they come out about the same. I say go for it if that is what is going to help you. I like to go to the meeting I attend now, have met lots of great people, we socialize and keep each other going. There ae meetings and leaders out there that are bummers too. If one doesn't work then switch to a different. Good luck! Came back to say...They assume you are going to eat so many fruits and veggies and already calculate those into your points. I assume they go by averages.

In reality weight watchers is calorie counting. One point is 40 calories and there is some shaved off for fruits and veg to make them free. Both can work. I got my good eating habits from weight watchers. I did find once they added free fruit I stopped losing because I could live off fruit. As well there is a lot more info around about losing weight. I personally think both programs push you to under eat and slow your metabolism so I use Mfp but i set my own calories. I do worry about people I see on hear who under eat and have no one to guide them about the ong term effect of that ( muscle loss and eventually more weight gain) but then again that is what you pay for at weight watchers. I found at weight watchers some instructors are better than others - some give good advice and some don't. They don't all stick to the program, I got tired of listening to the same story over and over at weight watchers so I left. I also found that as a man the women there tend to ostracize you because they hate the fact you can eat more. All woman aren't like that but I did find it was a bone of contention that men got to eat more (like we have control of that?).

If you use Mfp you need to get a community- add friends that suppost you and encourage you- it will go a long way. Honestly people you don't know work best! I found the ww app was so poor I was using Mfp to track anyways as ww didn't have info info in it, good luck!

I also found that as a man the women there tend to ostracize you because they hate the fact you can eat more. All woman aren't like that but I did find it was a bone of contention that men got to eat more (like we have control of that?).

lol they were all bitter because they were undereating

I loved it when they used to give you menus, that is some while ago now. ....On the menus, food portioning, which was a good way of teaching you.....

WW works, but it's not cheap. MPF is free.

ww works ive lost 3 and half stone with them and still losing it doesnt feel like a diet like this as u do get a lot of 0 pp= weeklys you can have takeaways and wine and still lose its a liveable plan healthy eating plan for good not a diet

I actually logged here and in my PointsPlus spreadsheet for the past 7 days, just to see how many Points I was eating. I did the new program for 8 weeks last year and only lost 2 lbs. and gave up. But I really liked it and thought it was just too many points for me. I'm going to double log again this week and then pick.

It's really no big deal to double log because I have to use a foods database to look up the macros anyway to calc the points. And I batch-cook for the week so I have a lot of repeat meals all week.

I totally agree with what montana_girl said. It is like she took the words right out of my mouth!

I lost 108 lbs on Weight Watchers Momentum program which I loved. On that plan fruit had points to them but veggies were still mostly free. The new Points Plus program is good but when they told me fruits were free I honestly went a bit too far with that. Weight Watchers says that it is acceptable to eat 1 1/2 cups of strawberries and I was eating the whole container. It wasn't until I joined MFP that I realized actually how many extra calories my fruit "binges" were costing me. I know that no one ever got fat eating fruit but the calories still add up.

I have a ton of positive things to say about Weight Watchers and it was the structure that I needed when first starting my weight loss journey. But now I find that using MFP has been more helpful than Weight Watchers as I work on maintaining my loss. I have gained 19 lbs back and am slowly starting to get that back down and have found that counting calories at this point is working better.