Weightwatchers - Changing ??

Julia, I think what you're saying is that, if you compared the change in Points values to the exchange rate between the Canadian dollar and the pound, the numbers would change but the overall standard of living would be approximately the same. I can happily live with that, because the end result will be a healthier and slimmer me.
 
Rachel217 said:
Julia, I think what you're saying is that, if you compared the change in Points values to the exchange rate between the Canadian dollar and the pound, the numbers would change but the overall standard of living would be approximately the same. I can happily live with that, because the end result will be a healthier and slimmer me.
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very nice way of putting it. Yes, I totally agree!
 
kagome75 said:
Another difference is that you don't have half points. So while normally you could fit certain things in because they were 0.5 point and you would think "well, only 0.5 point over my allowance is not too bad!", now you can't. The WW fruities are 1 propoints per pack. You CANNOT put down 0.5 point for half a pack :D. In the end, you'll find that your 29 propoints allowance is not as much as you think!:cry:
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WOW really?!
Thats weird. Sometimes I even used 0.25 of a point on things! :rolleyes:
Im really tempted to try it (as much as I can) before I go to a meeting (argh!:confused:) just so that Ive got some idea of what it will be like...
 
7-ish, from what I can piece together. It would be a freebie on The Artist formerly Known As Core (Simply Filling, in the Momentum plan)
 
Me too! We used to get ginormous potatoes from the farmer's market. They must have been the size of an NFL football! That'd be dinner - a baked potato stuffed with cheese and butter. [/food porn] But mashed cauliflower is surprisingly good, and it's 0 Points.
 
Hi All

Well, I have just carried out an interesting experiment.

I have "acquired" a new propoints calculator, and have used it to work out my daily allowance/weekly allowance (I'm not going to say what it came out as, due to the current discussion restrictions).

I have just worked out what I'm going to eat tomorrow, exactly as normal, but pointed it on the "new" propoints calculator, and in tandem on the "old" calculator.

Now admittedly I am not a big fruit eater (not having any tomorrow), but my comparison showed that by the end of the day tomorrow I would have had 2 points left on the old points system, but on the new "propoints" system I have 0 points left. However, I haven't had to dip into any of my weekly propoints allowance, so I could still eat something else if I wanted to, not to mention the zero point fruit that I haven't taken advantage of.

I did notice that bread seems to point quite high compared to now, and potato croquettes also seemed high. However some things like yoghurt and cereal bars seemed quite good value.

Overall though, not a huge difference either way if you don't eat much fruit - but if you are big fruit eater I'd say the new plan will mean you get to eat more.

I hope that I've been vague enough in this post but mods feel free to amend/delete if not.
 
Just been to our weekly WI and personally speaking I'm not looking forward to the new system now...

Wish I was though and I truely hope that I am wrong and that I do like it but....

my leader kinda put me off it, without meaning too as she was going on about things she would have had in the old system and now with the new system she won't.

Before / now if I want a treat I have to be good and save points for it. But with the new system I got the point from our leader (who could not say to much) that with the system I could use all my points every day and still have a treat on the weekend, or could kinda have an extra 7 points a day if I wanted, hu?

She also made note about the Mail newspaper article that someone on here posted a link too about how a curry would use up all your extra allowance of 49 points, or you could use it for a some extra wine and have some points left over, but then she said she didn't have a drink this week when she wanted one because on the new system its 3points a glass instead of 1 which I don't get as she could have used some of the extra 49points allwance for it.. This is where it comes a cropper for me...

Still trying to see how this is a good thing. Fingers crossed it is good, not throwing old books away yet just in case...

Sorry to seem to always be on a downer bout this, but its just not looking good. (Again do hope I am wrong, but as others have said, if it ain't broke why fix it?)
 
Pinksparklybirdy said:
Hi All
Overall though, not a huge difference either way if you don't eat much fruit - but if you are big fruit eater I'd say the new plan will mean you get to eat more.
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that's exactly what I was trying to explain, thank you. As a fruit eater, I can say that yes, you would get to eat more, but of stuff that is good for you and that makes you feel satisfied for longer. I have never seen anyone be fat because they love snacking on fruit, but I have seen 100% of people I know who are fat that love to snack on chocolate bars...
 
I didnt stay for class last night (I had a job interview yesterday and barely ate all day through nerves so decided to go home and have some tea instead coz at 7pm, my stomach was almost eating my Liver lol)wish I had now....just a question....What propoints value does veg like carrots, brocolli, cauli that were all 0 points in the current plan have?
 
zebredy said:
Before / now if I want a treat I have to be good and save points for it. But with the new system I got the point from our leader (who could not say to much) that with the system I could use all my points every day and still have a treat on the weekend, or could kinda have an extra 7 points a day if I wanted, hu?
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how many points are you on in the old system, zebredy? let's say you're on 20 points. If you're good and save points (so let's say you have 6 days at 16 points rather than 20), you can have a treat in the week end (you can use the 4 points a day you have saved up to then plus the extra 4 points of the seventh day, for your treat). Fair enough.

If I was going to tell you that the daily propoints allowance you're going to be on from next week is comparable to 16 of your old 20 points per day and that your 49 weekly allowance compares with the 28 points that you would have saved if you had been good every day and had only 16 of your 20 every day, how would that make you feel?

Basically what I'm trying to say is that if you are on 20 points per day, with the new plan you would be told: you are now on 16 points per day and you MUST eat all of them, but you have a slushpot of 28 points you can use as treats, either 4 every day or all together, or here and then when and if you need them, but you cannot carry forward any for the following week, what you don't use is lost.

Sounds better?
 
I'm feeling quite demotivated about the new plan. I've only been doing ww for 11 weeks but im really into the plan and im very happy with my progress so far. I've got a lot to loose but i have a target date of 8th May 2011 (my wedding) that i want to look the best i can. I am going to give the new plan a try for 2 weeks but if my loses arent as good as they have been i will be going straight back to old plan because i really dont have time not to!

I'm really bad with change i like things to stay the same! I hope im proven wrong tho!
 
lildanni said:
I didnt stay for class last night (I had a job interview yesterday and barely ate all day through nerves so decided to go home and have some tea instead coz at 7pm, my stomach was almost eating my Liver lol)wish I had now....just a question....What propoints value does veg like carrots, brocolli, cauli that were all 0 points in the current plan have?
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you haven't missed on anything the new plan is launched next week! Here it's just people speculating!
 
Laura_b_05 said:
I'm feeling quite demotivated about the new plan. I've only been doing ww for 11 weeks but im really into the plan and im very happy with my progress so far. I've got a lot to loose but i have a target date of 8th May 2011 (my wedding) that i want to look the best i can. I am going to give the new plan a try for 2 weeks but if my loses arent as good as they have been i will be going straight back to old plan because i really dont have time not to!

I'm really bad with change i like things to stay the same! I hope im proven wrong tho!
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laura, from what I have heard from people that have started the new plan last week (other helpers that had been given the plan one week before me), the new plan actually works better than the old one. One of my friends on the Weight Watchers official board is a helper in another meeting and got the new plan on Thursday 2 weeks ago. last week she lost 3 lbs and this week she lost 2 lbs. She had plateaued on the old plan for a very long time, losing 1 lb and putting it back on.

As for me, I have started the new plan on Monday (I mean, I have calculated what I have had on Sunday too after receiving the new plan, so I have actually started using it from Sunday). On Sunday I went out as usual to the Chinese and I have converted what I had into propoints the best I could, noticing I have used probably 28 propoints of my 49 weekly allowance. Monday Tuesday and today I have used only my daily points allowance, but I HAVE indeed used it all and I haven't cut on anything, I also had a lot of fruit which I normally never had. I feel nice and full every day. I step on the scales every day also (which I know is not advised by WW but I like it, my personal choice) and the scales have had the EXACT same reaction that they usually have on a normal week on the other plan. on Monday I was 3 lbs heavier than Sunday (because of the Chinese meal), on Tuesday I had lost 1.5 lbs of that and this morning I was back to the weight of Sunday, like it usually happens. BUT while normally I'm hungry in the end of the day and just fill myself with water, now I feel nice and full!:D

I'm sure you'll be able to lose the weight for your wedding. And by the way: you get married 1 week before me! :D
 
I thought I posted but maybe not?
Anyway i think as a veggie i wont be doing the plan as carbs are very high in points now and potato is now 4 points per 100g (i worked it out as this, but might be wrong!)
Which is alot i think! even with the extra points, I dont know. Im not sure I like it after having a wuick play with the points values of a few things I eat regularly.
 
CupcakeKatie said:
I thought I posted but maybe not?
Anyway i think as a veggie i wont be doing the plan as carbs are very high in points now and potato is now 4 points per 100g (i worked it out as this, but might be wrong!)
Which is alot i think! even with the extra points, I dont know. Im not sure I like it after having a wuick play with the points values of a few things I eat regularly.
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the reason of the new points system is to highlight to you which foods are worst for your weight-loss and which ones are better. potatoes are not that bad: they're 1 propoint per 50g, so 100g is 2 pp and 150g is 3 pp. I normally cook roasted potatoes to my fiancé, cut very thin 200g look quite big and they're filling foods.

pasta is 1 pp per 10g dried. So 40g (medium portion) is 4 pp. 60g (large portion) is 6 pp. 60g of pasta is very filling... have a simple tomato sauce with it, 1 tsp of oil (1pp) and some fruit & veg, and you had a 7pp only dinner! Have 50g of pasta (5pp) with ragu sauce made with passata, basil 1tsp oil and 60g of lean beef mince (3pp), a tsp of parmesan (1pp) and your dinner becomes 10pp, which is reasonable when you have a daily allowance of 29, and is VERY filling... plus, you had all the nutritions that you need, complex and simple carbs, proteins, fat and fibre.
 
kagome75 said:
the reason of the new points system is to highlight to you which foods are worst for your weight-loss and which ones are better. potatoes are not that bad: they're 1 propoint per 50g, so 100g is 2 pp and 150g is 3 pp. I normally cook roasted potatoes to my fiancé, cut very thin 200g look quite big and they're filling foods.

pasta is 1 pp per 10g dried. So 40g (medium portion) is 4 pp. 60g (large portion) is 6 pp. 60g of pasta is very filling... have a simple tomato sauce with it, 1 tsp of oil (1pp) and some fruit & veg, and you had a 7pp only dinner! Have 50g of pasta (5pp) with ragu sauce made with passata, basil 1tsp oil and 60g of lean beef mince (3pp), a tsp of parmesan (1pp) and your dinner becomes 10pp, which is reasonable when you have a daily allowance of 29, and is VERY filling... plus, you had all the nutritions that you need, complex and simple carbs, proteins, fat and fibre.
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Thanks for all that info! :D
 
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