I hate the new Weight Watchers points system

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OK it's me the crazy middle age lady who decided to join ww based on this thread. I must tell you now that I am an expert (sarcasm) after 2.5 days...I really like it. This is the most full I have felt on a ww program.

They seem to discourage even "healthy..ish" processed food (I know it's an oxymoron) with higher points. Sugar and saturated fats seem to bring points up while fiber (as usual), protein and lack of sugar-other than natural sugar brings it down.

The 0 points foods are delightful and filling and not something I could binge on (beans, eggs). It has been a looong time since I have had several eggs scrambled in just a wee bit of cooking spray. I used to do one egg and some whites. The unlimited fruit scares me because I can eat A LOT of fruit, but we'll see how this goes. It has forced me to turn to fage yogurt instead of my usual flavored siggis because I use up points too fast with the flavored stuff.

Hi I’m another crazy middle aged lady who decided to try WW based on this thread, it wasn’t really on my radar before. I’m a few days in and really like it too. There are a few things that bug me, like having low fat milk in my coffee takes up a whole point. I drink two cups of coffee a day so this 2/23 points for relatively healthy coffee! But I can make a meal out of zero point food relatively easily so I guess it’s ok. Today is the first day I feel hungry and I think it’s because I ran. The points from activity add to the weekly budget not the daily for some reason and I feel weird dipping into the daily budget but I don’t feel like I ate enough carbs today. Maybe I will have a piece of fruit. It’s very interesting- I wonder how strict people are in their tracking. I am tempted to not log one cup of coffee but I’m afraid it’s a slippery slope to making the whole thing useless so I’m trying to be really strict for the first couple weeks at least.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OK it's me the crazy middle age lady who decided to join ww based on this thread. I must tell you now that I am an expert (sarcasm) after 2.5 days...I really like it. This is the most full I have felt on a ww program.

They seem to discourage even "healthy..ish" processed food (I know it's an oxymoron) with higher points. Sugar and saturated fats seem to bring points up while fiber (as usual), protein and lack of sugar-other than natural sugar brings it down.

The 0 points foods are delightful and filling and not something I could binge on (beans, eggs). It has been a looong time since I have had several eggs scrambled in just a wee bit of cooking spray. I used to do one egg and some whites. The unlimited fruit scares me because I can eat A LOT of fruit, but we'll see how this goes. It has forced me to turn to fage yogurt instead of my usual flavored siggis because I use up points too fast with the flavored stuff.

Hi I’m another crazy middle aged lady who decided to try WW based on this thread, it wasn’t really on my radar before. I’m a few days in and really like it too. There are a few things that bug me, like having low fat milk in my coffee takes up a whole point. I drink two cups of coffee a day so this 2/23 points for relatively healthy coffee! But I can make a meal out of zero point food relatively easily so I guess it’s ok. Today is the first day I feel hungry and I think it’s because I ran. The points from activity add to the weekly budget not the daily for some reason and I feel weird dipping into the daily budget but I don’t feel like I ate enough carbs today. Maybe I will have a piece of fruit. It’s very interesting- I wonder how strict people are in their tracking. I am tempted to not log one cup of coffee but I’m afraid it’s a slippery slope to making the whole thing useless so I’m trying to be really strict for the first couple weeks at least.

Can you please share some of them? I'm starting over after not doing WW for several years and I would love some suggestions for 0-point meals.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OK it's me the crazy middle age lady who decided to join ww based on this thread. I must tell you now that I am an expert (sarcasm) after 2.5 days...I really like it. This is the most full I have felt on a ww program.

They seem to discourage even "healthy..ish" processed food (I know it's an oxymoron) with higher points. Sugar and saturated fats seem to bring points up while fiber (as usual), protein and lack of sugar-other than natural sugar brings it down.

The 0 points foods are delightful and filling and not something I could binge on (beans, eggs). It has been a looong time since I have had several eggs scrambled in just a wee bit of cooking spray. I used to do one egg and some whites. The unlimited fruit scares me because I can eat A LOT of fruit, but we'll see how this goes. It has forced me to turn to fage yogurt instead of my usual flavored siggis because I use up points too fast with the flavored stuff.

Hi I’m another crazy middle aged lady who decided to try WW based on this thread, it wasn’t really on my radar before. I’m a few days in and really like it too. There are a few things that bug me, like having low fat milk in my coffee takes up a whole point. I drink two cups of coffee a day so this 2/23 points for relatively healthy coffee! But I can make a meal out of zero point food relatively easily so I guess it’s ok. Today is the first day I feel hungry and I think it’s because I ran. The points from activity add to the weekly budget not the daily for some reason and I feel weird dipping into the daily budget but I don’t feel like I ate enough carbs today. Maybe I will have a piece of fruit. It’s very interesting- I wonder how strict people are in their tracking. I am tempted to not log one cup of coffee but I’m afraid it’s a slippery slope to making the whole thing useless so I’m trying to be really strict for the first couple weeks at least.

Can you please share some of them? I'm starting over after not doing WW for several years and I would love some suggestions for 0-point meals.

Like I said it’s only been a few days so I am not an expert! Breakfast is the easiest- I have had two hard boiled eggs and a banana twice. I also had deli meat and a banana once. I find those combinations really filling (much more filling than oatmeal, so I guess I’m different than OP in that regard). I had salmon with a homemade slaw based loosely on a Pinch of yum recipe that uses Greek yogurt instead of mayo. I did use a teaspoon of oil on the salmon so that was a point. I was trying to keep lunch very low point because I had to eat really late and had had a serving of crackers during the morning to get me to lunch.

I think the issue is a lot of these combos are pretty boring so I don’t know if I will be able to make myself eat like this long term. But I used to eat a Chobani flip pretty regularly because even though they have sugar they had some protein so it didn’t seem so bad. But those are a ton of points so I haven’t had one in days. That’s just an example really- it’s making me realize how many of these not terrible but not great choices I was making each day.

[Anonymous]

You can do chili or soups for zero points