Weight Watchers

[dragonflies 7]

Good morning everyone! I'm wondering if anyone incorporates Weight Watchers along with the band? If so, how long have you used it and how is it working out for you? I'm already paying for the online tracker already, but I'm pretty sure I won't be able to eat as many points as allowed for my weight. (unless I make some super wrong choices! lol)

Thanks!

[reverie 49]

Why not just track your calories on your own? I couldn't imagine paying anymore than I already have to lose weight with the band.

[dragonflies 7]

I have been paying for months, but I'm wanting to know if anyone else uses it? I'm debating whether or not to cancel it. I would like to hear if anyone does use it.

[tnt21705 8]

When I go to solid foods for good I am thinking about using WW. I really like it. I think that the points will be too much to eat but I like all the other stuff about WW.

[Jess55 97]

My original plan was to continue to use WW, but while I was doing the 6 month supervised diet, I decided this is stupid and decided to just count calories and have done fine with that.

[jenn79co 13]

If you like their point system do it. If not count your calories. I count calories but I have a friend who does WW. I sometimes eat what she does with no problem. You just have to figure out whats right for you.

[lilhoot 0]

I use WW as another tool to get the most nutrition for the calories, etc and find it is helpful. I won't pay online or go to meetings, but the ability to use their new Points Plus method for calculating calories, fats, Fiber, carbs, and Protein to make for a balanced plan ... just don't use the full number of points suggested. The food is good, the nutrition has been proven over and over the years, and ANY food can be converted to points plus. The frozen dinners etc are convenient and already calculated....nobody said you have to eat everything all the time. Good luck.

[MollyRN 28]

Let me first say, if it works for you do it. That said, I got the band to lose weight - but I also got the band to FREE MYSELF from dieting. God, I dieted and tracked and counted points for 2 decades. I keep a count in my head of Protein intake, and that's it. I refuse to go back to the obsessing about food. I just cannot. I want to be free. Plus, I would argue that there is NO WAY POSSIBLE I consume the points that WW would give me. No way. So it would be a moot point for me. My rule is enough protein and that's it. I saw a quote on some blog once that said the goal of the band is not to see how much you can eat, but how little. WW's whole focus is to eat as much as you can of good things - and if you overeat, you still have the flex points, right? I am not bashing them, I had some success through the years with them. But I have choosen to adopt a whole new mentality. And my method has worked for me so far, 98 lbs down in 9 months. AND NO DIETING

[JerseyGirl80 12]

I've always liked the Weight Watchers point system, it's always worked for me, while I stuck to it. Once you stray from the program the weight comes back. Those that get frustrated with that have to realize, once you stop eating healthy, which is what WW teaches you to do, you WILL gain the weight back. And for me, from doing it through the years ALOT of good habits stuck permanently, like 8 glasses of Water, reading labels, never drinking my calories, having balanced meals ect.

Alot of us have no clue as to how to eat the right way, and in my experience with nurtionists telling me to eat this and not that, I've learned nothing I didn't already know. $75 a session for them to tell me what is common sense, they didn't teach me how to do it or how to read labels or how to count anything other than calories, but WW did. Eating right isn't just about counting calories, theres so much more to it. People think calculating points is annoying and too much of a hassle, but it really isn't, at first it may seem overwhelming but after a while you don't even think about it.

WW is not for everyone, I love it because it keeps me on track and helps me stay accountable, focused and I enjoy the support at the meetings. To me it isn't dieting, it's eating healthy, it's just another tool or a guide or a helpful suggestion, or whatever you want to call it, and it works if you put your all into it. Just like the band it's not a magic overnight fix but the combination of the 2 can offer wonderful results. The alloted points will probably be way to much for us to eat but it's ok, they won't take us out back for a beating if we don't get all our points in lol. It's the learning part and the accountablity part that, I think, makes WW work.

The problem I've always had was over eating, I would just eventually tire of smaller portions and just want to stuff myself, which is why I failed WW the 6 times I did it, pre-banding. But now, thanks to my band I can't do that anymore. I like to think that "I have had Portion Control installed". My feeling on WW is that it teaches you how to eat the right way, the healthy way. If anyone is considering doing it for the first or the 10th time, do it, it doesn't hurt.

I'm going back myself tonight and I'm so excited to learn the new plan as it now incorporates carbs and Proteins to determine point value! Good luck everyone!

[IROCK09 2]

My surgeon recommended that I go to Weight Watchers.

I've always liked the Weight Watchers point system, it's always worked for me, while I stuck to it. Once you stray from the program the weight comes back. Those that get frustrated with that have to realize, once you stop eating healthy, which is what WW teaches you to do, you WILL gain the weight back. And for me, from doing it through the years ALOT of good habits stuck permanently, like 8 glasses of Water, reading labels, never drinking my calories, having balanced meals ect.

Alot of us have no clue as to how to eat the right way, and in my experience with nurtionists telling me to eat this and not that, I've learned nothing I didn't already know. $75 a session for them to tell me what is common sense, they didn't teach me how to do it or how to read labels or how to count anything other than calories, but WW did. Eating right isn't just about counting calories, theres so much more to it. People think calculating points is annoying and too much of a hassle, but it really isn't, at first it may seem overwhelming but after a while you don't even think about it.

WW is not for everyone, I love it because it keeps me on track and helps me stay accountable, focused and I enjoy the support at the meetings. To me it isn't dieting, it's eating healthy, it's just another tool or a guide or a helpful suggestion, or whatever you want to call it, and it works if you put your all into it. Just like the band it's not a magic overnight fix but the combination of the 2 can offer wonderful results. The alloted points will probably be way to much for us to eat but it's ok, they won't take us out back for a beating if we don't get all our points in lol. It's the learning part and the accountablity part that, I think, makes WW work.

The problem I've always had was over eating, I would just eventually tire of smaller portions and just want to stuff myself, which is why I failed WW the 6 times I did it, pre-banding. But now, thanks to my band I can't do that anymore. I like to think that "I have had Portion Control installed". My feeling on WW is that it teaches you how to eat the right way, the healthy way. If anyone is considering doing it for the first or the 10th time, do it, it doesn't hurt.

I'm going back myself tonight and I'm so excited to learn the new plan as it now incorporates carbs and Proteins to determine point value! Good luck everyone!