Starlight, you're absolutely spot on. I too think that WW does promote healthy eating. In fact, if you follow the rules WW has written in bold even on esource, you MUST eat at least 5 portions of fruit and veg a day, 2 portions of milk/yogurt/cheese, 1 portion of wholemeal, 2 tsp of oil and 8 glasses of water every day. Then, any other point can be used as we want to use it. Unfortunately, because they were guidelines and not rules, people just let these healthy guides come in one ear and come out of the other without stay any time in the middle. Hence, people have been there preferring not to have a banana to have a packet of crisps or a chocolate bar. The new plan focuses on this mental process and gives you a daily allowance which is actually less than you think (most food has doubled in points value. There's very little things that have stayed the same or just slighly increased. Some foods have actually gone three or four times up! hence, if you divide 29 by half, it becomes 14.5! This means that potentially, you could be just having 14 old points by having 29 propoints per day! Since 29 points is the budget for much more people than those who were on 18 points to lose weight (counting 14 compulsory points and 4 points to save every day), this means you would eat LESS rather than more, if you keep on focusing on the wrong food and you don't eat fruit. The zero point fruit will only compensate the amount of points you're losing not only with the increase in value of the food but also with the fact that no half points exist any more, so foor that once would have been counted as 14.5 for example would now be 15!
I really don't understand why people keep on comparing the PP plan with SW! Except for the free fruit, there's no other similarity with SW. Yes, you have the weekly allowance, but you had that already with the other plan, because you could save up to 4 points a day to have the reserve on a special occasion! What's the difference?
