Hi,
It's more then support, as 2Quills suggested...They have a converter for your food on the site. You can also purchase a WW calculator. You put in the amount of the total fat...carbs...fiber and protein, and it puts out a number. So instead of counting calories, you count points.
Example:
For my weight I need to use no more then 38 points each day. I can eat whatever I want, even cookies, but everything has to be calculated and given a points value. The site has a place to register the food points, and what it was I ate. There is also a favorites, so I can save foods I eat all the time, and load it to my daily tally with a simple click, and not have to calculate it again each time.
Mornings
Midday
Evening
Anytime (snack)
If my breakfast has 8 points with my toast, turkey bacon and eggs, then I have 30 points more. At lunch time lets say I ate 11 points value with a sandwich, that leaves me 18 more points for dinner...but before dinner I ate 3 cookies which had 4 points (serving size 3 cookies)...I add that number to the anytime area...and for dinner I ate some chicken with rice that added up to 14 points.
Most veggies, and fruit are free foods, I can eat all I want of those, and not need to worry about the points. it's the end of the evening and I still have 10 points unused...but I don't want anything else, but if wanted... I have points for a snack.
I also have cheater points...I have 10 points remaining tonight, but if my snack is 14 points, the 4 extra, are taken from the cheater points (I get 49 cheater points a week). I will still lose weight, but not as fast, if I used up
all the cheater points each week. The goal is 2 pounds a week to lose, that's about 10 pounds a month...it's slow but steady, and it's easy to stay on it because it's geared for folks who like to eat.
There is also an app that lets me scan a food in the grocery store, so I don't have to stand there with the WW calculator, and it will tell me how many points is in a serving of that food.
As the body grows smaller, the points are reduced, only a few each time, so it isn't really noticed.
Oh...and tons of recipes and ideas from other members, chat groups to join...it's really a nice way to stay on target and lose weight, without feeling starved and deprived.
Yep, my wife had done it a while back before we came to Texas and did pretty well with it. But for some reason I remember it being a whole lot more expensive but I think she was purchasing meals or something. She's actually been on a pretty big kick for this last year and has dropped over a third of her weight. I'm proud of her.
When I say support I mean it's actually educational.
