Hi Lynella,
welcome to miniminis!
Yes, the WW plan changed before Christmas and now there are propoints rather than normal points. The points are calculated completely differently, with Discover you were looking at the calories and sat fat intake, with propoints you look only at proteins, carbs, fat and fibre. Not any more to the calories (in fact, the calories are made by the proteins, carbs and fat of the food, so in a way you're still looking at calories!) and sat fat (it's the WHOLE fat that you need to consider.
This new diet gives you all fruit at 0 points, which is handy to fill yourself up. yes, even bananas are 0pp.
You have two different sets of points you can use:
- dailies: they are a number that depends on your age, height, sex and weight and you must eat them on the day or lose them. You CANNOT carry them forward to another day.
- weeklies: they are 49 propoints that you can have during the week or not have, it's entirely up to you. You can have all of them on the same day, 7 of them every day, or whatever you prefer. They give you some flexibility and allow for things like meals out and booze
. However, they are not just to be had for boozes, sweets or meals out: if at the end of a day you're still hungry even after having had your daily allowance in full and you want an extra sandwich with cheese and ham, you would be taking the points of that off your weekly allowance
as easy as that.
As others have told you, there's also the simply filling technique that works very similarly to the old core plan, only you have 49 propoints to use for non-core food and not 21 old points. You will see that it's basically the same
let us know which option you will go for and how are you doing every week! You CAN still do the old plan you know, but 1) you won't receive any help at meetings 2) in my personal opinion propoints is a much better, more liveable plan... and if you gave up last time maybe trying with propoints could help you stick to the diet?
A big kiss and good luck!
