Points Plus vs Smart Points, with a small rant..

First week of tracking has gone very well.  Even with the couple of splurges I used my weekly points for with the new smart points I have found I can feel satisfied using only my daily points.  Which I feel was never the case on the points plus plan.  On points plus I lived for my activity points and my weekly points. I never seemed to have enough to go around.  On the points plus program I got 26 daily points and 49 weekly and there was never a day where I didn't have to dip into my weekly points.  And with points plus it was cheaper points wise to eat a Hershey bar than to have a steak.  I would succeed for the first couple weeks and then my loss would go down to less than a pound a week, and that is when I'd start saying stuff like I am tracking everything and staying with in my points why am I not losing more weight.  Sure I knew what I was eating wasn't the best choice but gosh darn it, I tracked it and didn't go over my points so what the heck!  With the points plus plan there was also a simply filling plan, they still have this now.  When you would hit a plateau on Points Plus they would recommend you do Simply Filling for a week. Simply Filling is eating whole foods until you are satisfied, not full or stuffed.  There is no points tracking with simply filling but you still got your weekly points that you could spend on non Simply Filling foods.  Everyone got the same amount of extra weekly points for both SF & PP. Smart Points is basically encouraging eating like Simply Filling, those foods cost much less points and are much healthier for you to eat. And they are giving your individual weekly point allowance based on questions about your activity and I think that makes so much more sense.

Now let me go on a little rant.....(if you would like to skip this rant, scroll down to rant over)

While Fruits and Veggies stayed free with the change to SP the cost for treats, processed food, comfort foods have double or even tripled. That made allot of people angry.  I've been seeing post on WW Facebook wall that say they have ruined the program!! "My pizza went from 18 PP to 29 SP. " Then there are the group of people who hate Oprah. LOL! Oprah is the new spokeswomen  for WW and people are saying how they will not join because of Oprah is now involved.  Really people?? Saying that you will not eat healthy because of a famous person chose to eat healthy using the same program, is possibly the stupidest thing I've ever heard.  While I am not an Oprah super fan by any means you better believe if I made a product and she ordered it from me I would shout it from the roof tops because of the amount of people that would bring into my business. This is just smart business. WW used to have Jennifer Hudson now they have Oprah. Another complaint that people are posting every day it seems  is: WW is just out to make a buck by changing their plan and making us buy all new materials. Let me shine some light on to this for ya'll.  If you were a paying monthly pass member with Points Plus you should still be with Smart Points, this price did not change. This gives you access to all the info you need. But what about our cook books!?! All our cook book have PP values, they want us to buy new stuff. Well no, the online tools we get with our monthly pass includes the ability to enter your favorite recipes and get the SP value. Simply load your favorite ones from previous WW cookbooks and BAM you have the new point value with out spending a single penny more than you are for your membership.

Another post stated that PP was the only plan she could lose on because it taught her how to keep her sweet tooth.  While I agree learning moderation is key, you can still use your weekly points for that but it is going to cost you more points.  For example I got a mini oreo blizzard tonight and found it was 18 points with PP it was a 9 points. Needless to say that wasn't worth 18 points to me.  But let me ask you this? If you are making sure you get your sugar fix sure you may be losing weight but are you healthy?   There is a common misconception out there that Skinny=Healthy, it doesn't!!  There are many very unhealthy skinny people out there. I saw a documentary about a woman who was not over weight and had a good BMI according to the number on the scale but they put her in one of those machines that actually measure the percentage of fat on your body and she was over 50% fat, her muscles were practically non existent.

                          

In conclusion did Points Plus work?  Yes! Was it a good program? Yes! Was there more wiggle room in what we ate? Yes!  BUT... Will the new Smart Point system work? Yes!  Are we eating better with the Smart Points vs Points Plus?  Yes!! We will all probably be healthier over all?  I believe we will.

Rant over......

Tomorrow is weigh in and I am not sure what the scale is going to say I am hoping for 2 lbs. I did very well this week but I did have those splurges I talked about, so we will see. See you tomorrow on Weight in Wednesday.