More food on weight watchers than my fitness pal?

amother

Tue, Nov 19 2019, 6:15 pm

I follow weight watchers. I’ve been cheating a lot over shabbos but during the week this keeps me on track (and I loose all the shabbos weight that way!)
I just entered my food that I’ve eaten today on my fitness pal and even though I’m still within limits for weight watchers today, according to my fitness pal I’ve gone over my allowed calories to loose.
Does anyone know if weight watchers is allowing too much food?
According to my fitness pal, if I continue eating like this I won’t loose any weight!

Odelyah

Tue, Nov 19 2019, 6:35 pm

I don't know if it allows more per se but I think MFP is more exact-- like if I'm not mistaken certain fruits and vegetables are free on WW, but really if you eat enough the calories could put you over your limit for the day.

Also you mentioned cheating on shabbos-- this is hard for everyone and could be the key-- you said you lose the shabbos weight each week, but that's why I mentioned in the other post that you need to average out at a deficit for the week. Like if your daily goal is 1700 net cals, and you net 2000 on shabbos day that means you would need to go a total of 300 under your goal the rest of the week in order to average at a deficit for that week and still lose. If you don't have an average deficit for the week including going over for shabbos, then you will either gain (if you go over your maintenance cals) or maintain, which is what it sounds like you've been doing recently.

I found it helpful in addition to calculating my daily goal (to stay at a deficit and lose weight) to also calculate what my daily maintenance calories would be. That way you can keep track better, and even when you go over your deficit goal you can try not to go over maintenance.

CatLady

Tue, Nov 19 2019, 6:46 pm

Which track are you doing on WW? I went Purple, because it pushes me to eat healthier, less-processed foods. It makes very little sense to be double-tracking when you're trying to balance points vs. calories. Choose one plan and commit to it as best you can. Pretracking Shabbos foods really helps me, because then I have a game plan. If you know you've budgeted for one slice of challah at dinner, you'll be less likely to have a second slice because you'll have to remember it and track it when Shabbos ends, when you have much better things to do! Also. set your weigh-in for Sunday so you can have a nice amount of points banked before Shabbos.