Weight Watchers Online

[Hotsauce]

Anyone use this?

Basic concept from what I gather is that you are given a total amount of points you can consume per day (Points = different types of food). The nice thing about this diet, is you can eat whatever you want, but there are limitations to how much you can eat.

So if you are told you can only have 20 points a day you have to choose 20 pts worth of food/drink and cannot exceed that number.

i.e.

salad 3 pts

grilled chicken 5 pts

milkshake 10 pts

...etc

I had an old manager who did this, dropped 20 lbs. My issue is that it costs $20 a month. You can use an app on your phone to help keep track of the number of points.

Anyone ever used this? If so, do you recommend it?

Or has anyone done another diet they would recommend?

Thanks!

Fatty McGhee

[Hotsauce]

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[CarolinaAllDay]

Never used it myself, but in light of saving money...

Couldnt you just find out how many points the foods you eat most often and do the calculations yourself?

[CarolinaNCSU]

Yeah I've had a couple family members use it and it worked, but the whole thing behind it IMO is it just makes you more conscious of what you're eating and so you don't overeat. Just find out the point system, it's online somewhere I'm sure, and save your money.

[Mrs Pantherfan]

I log my food at livestrong.com and stay with in a set caloric number as well as work out...It's not rocket science really...why pay someone when it's common sense

burn more than you consume

when I was a big fat fatty..I didn't work out...once I started to and really paid attention to what I ate..the weight fell off

[Guest]

you were never a big fatty mpf. ;)

[Mrs Pantherfan]

lol.....on my way to being a big fat fatty?

and besides...this about TexasPete not me ...he's the one in need :)

[Hawk]

lots of apps out there that will do the same thing for you...for free.

[Kettle]

I'm on it. My wife joined to get rid of the last of her pregnancy weight. I found a site that told me how to determine my points, and just use her app to calculate point values of food. In six weeks I've dropped almost 20 pounds, and two of those weeks I traveled for interviews which caused me to cheat big. I'm well on my way to being less than 200 for the first time in about seven years.

[Kettle]

Also I've noticed carbs are the worst. I can avoid them and cheat on points and still lose weight that day. On the flip side I can eat carbs while not cheating and gain.

[Montsta]

I agree with other huddlers in that it makes you more aware of what you eat. I used to use the free Lose It! app on the iphone. It's amazing how well you eat when you actually write down the calorie count for everything you eat during the day, and how little calories get burned while excersing.

Reese Cups = 3 miles of running at a fast pace. No thanks.

Nike has a new thing called Nike+ (http://nikeplus.nike.com/plus/products/fuelband). Because it's expensive a lot of people won't use it but my good buddy works for Nike and is getting me a fuelband for free, so I'm gonna try it out.

[Panthro]

all i saw was nomnomnomnomnomnomnom im fat nomnomnomnomnomnomnom

[Hawk]

hook a brotha up man...I can be the Canadian trial guy!

[Montsta]

hook a brotha up man...I can be the Canadian trial guy!

I can actually ask if he can get more. They're already sold out at Nike's site. I guess a lot of people are really interested in it.