WW question

[RioG]

I actually like Ww better than mfp.  I'm pleased with it so far.  I just didn't understand the 0 thing.  But it makes sense and will help entrench new habits. 

[cgraz]

Does MFP use calories? I find the points easier to understand and guesstimate on the fly. And veggies & fruit being 0 (for the most part) is easy. Small numbers work best for me.

[all-smiles]

Yes MFP is calories and you can customize your goals and your macros, which is super useful when your insulin resistant and trying to keep your carbs down.

[RioG]

Does MFP use calories? I find the points easier to understand and guesstimate on the fly. And veggies & fruit being 0 (for the most part) is easy. Small numbers work best for me.

I found  always felt bad for going over calories on my fitness pal... it was defeating.  but with WW you get the weekly allowance, so it's easier for me.  Plus I like that some foods are more heavily weighted, even if cal content is the same.  So an apple is 0, but same calories in chocolate isn't 0, steering you towards apple over chocolate.  But if you desperately need the chocolate you can have it and still be w/in points. 

[Run Amok]

The thing that I don't like about things like my fitness pal is that it is so much easier to keep track if you eat packaged foods. You can just scan it in. But if you eat a lot of varied recipes of "real" food it is a lot more time consuming. Kind of defeats the purpose of trying to encourage you to eat well.

I didn't have this issue and don't eat a lot of packaged foods. But, a meal for me is often something like 1 egg, veggies, some oil, some spices. I track the oil, but not the spices. If I make soup, or a recipe, it goes in the tracker and then it's in my favorites and easy to drop into a meal. I do some estimating. It can only be so accurate. So, the lentil soup I make is around 90 calories/cup. I just find one in the database with a similar profile and use that.

[fancypants]

Yeah I ended up canceling WW under the 2 week guarantee; I just found the platform way too clunky compared to MFP.  And I think the recipe builder on MFP is super easy to use so I already have a good bit put in there.  Getting an actual food scale has been eye opening for sure

Ah yes, a food scale and a measuring cup, and all of a sudden I was losing weight!

[wherestheportojohn]

I recall in our first few weeks of WW, when measuring and weighing demos were done....to the dismay of the audience.

American portions are commonly 2-4x what should be served.

There were many peeps in our class who'd never read a food label.
Didnt have a clue that the soda or bag of chips with their lunch was actually NOT single portion. LOLz

[merigayle]

WW was where i learned portion control. I thought cereal, pasta, etc, one BOWL FULL was ONE portion. But in reality, that is 2-4 portions!

[Courtney]

Cheater.   

Ok.

It seems to be a common way to do stuff, because of the way the recipe builder works, tho.