Is anyone doing WW now?

Could you be more specific on what you want to know about them? The main difference is basically just what your food allowance is going to be and which foods are "free" foods. I'm doing the blue plan right now. It's moderately successful because I am moderately compliant.

For me, the big thing is having to go to the meetings-- I tried to do it just online, and then offline just applying the same tools, but that doesn't work for me. Right now, the meetings are all virtual through zoom. It's okay, though I hate the format and only like three people from my regular meeting time are coming to the meetings, but I still go because I still need it.

Before coronavirus, you were welcome to sit in on a meeting. If you'd like, I can ask my leader how that works now with zoom (but I won't "see" her til Tuesday).

I started WW mid-Feb and I am on the blue plan. Down 25 pounds so far. I just know my plan, because everything I see is geared toward all my selections in the app. I haven’t been doing virtual meetings, but enjoy the articles they email me.

I’m not sure about your processed food statement. I don’t eat many and have only eaten take-out once since SIP. We eat a ton of fresh fruits and veggies (most are zero points on my plan). So much so, that DH and I order bulk fresh goods from Costco and have no waste. 

I don't feel like they're pushing processed foods.  Specifically, my group leader has mentioned multiple times that they've removed artificial sweeteners (sucralose) from their products (they use stevia now, I think), and the sucralose used to be one of my pet peeves with them.  I often felt like they thought artificial sweeteners would save us all except that sucralose is the one I can taste and so I won't eat anything with it, but so much of what they were promoting had sucralose as the sweetener. 

elaine is on the green plan; I do the @blue plan. 

Green has the most daily points and the fewest zero foods.
Blue has the middle amount of daily points and 200 zero foods.
Purple has the fewest daily points and 300 zero point foods. 

Probably when you were last on the plan, the only zero point foods were vegetables, maybe fruit if you got in on that version, and I think like skim milk.  That's basically the zero point list for green.

Blue's zero point list includes a bunch of zero point proteins, like boneless skinless chicken breast, shrimp, and eggs.  This is a big thing for me, mostly psychological.  I am one of those people who will use pretty much all their daily points and usually all the weeklies, so if I really overdo it, it's nice to be able to put together some low point meals that are more than just vegetables.  One I really like is fat free refried beans, plus a poached egg or two, plus pico de gallo, plus avocado. The only points in that are from the avocado (and I know that they are good fats, so it's a worthwhile choice).   

Purple's zero point list adds in a bunch of whole grains, but I don't even want to try that. Zero point foods are ones that are there because, among other reasons, they're supposed to be hard to overeat.  I don't think I could overeat eggs or shrimp, but I could totally overeat whole grain bread and pasta.

You're free to switch between plans at any time to find out what works best for you.

I've lost 39 pounds since September. I've sort of stalled out here because of quarantine (and I'm mad about it because I was just hitting my activity stride when it started), but I've basically been maintaining for the last two months which, frankly, is nothing short of a miracle for me.

I think that WW actively discourages processed foods.

If I eat store bought egg white frittatas for breakfast that have 75 calories a piece, they are 3 pts for 2. If I make them myself from scratch they are 0 points. That is just one example. Low calorie frozen foods - lean cuisine- have mega points, compared to eating a dinner made from scratch with the same, or even more, calories.

The only processed foods that are somewhat rewarded - in my experience at least - are the “thin/skinny” processed breads and halo top ice cream. I’m sure there are others, but they probably aren’t things that I like to eat.

I’ve been doing it since January. I started in green, but just switched to blue. I lost a little on green, don’t think I was eating enough in comparison to how much I was working out. Blue gives me the freedom to eat more healthy foods without sacrificing all my points.

The only thing I have ever not really liked about WW was not the push to eat processed foods, but they do suggest a lot of FF/SF things to keep your points low, and a lot of people take that very seriously. FF/SF foods are NOT the way to go, as most of them add fat, or fake sweeteners, which are not good for you, especially if eating a lot of them.

FF - fat free
SF - Sugar Free

I don’t know what FUF means. 

Maybe part of it depends on your location, but where I go, they really push 0 point items as snacks - non-fat yogurt and fruit, for example. 

I went and lost 35 pounds in 2016-2017 over 6 months. That was on the Smart Points program.  I had a friend who was doing it with me and then WW switched to another point system, closer to the blue plan with many more 0 point foods, and my friend stopped losing and quit. After my cancer and multiple major surgeries, I put 17 pounds back on. I was easily able to lose it in 3 months going back to the green plan that they have now which is most similar to the Smart Point program of 2016.

For people who haven’t been in a long time I think that the biggest switch is the introduction of 0 point foods. 0 point foods are a variety of whole mostly unprocessed foods (store-bought non-fat yogurt is processed).  So, when they encourage you to make the most of your points, they encourage snacking on yogurt, fruit, slices of turkey breast, fresh veggies. 

The way WW is set up now, it truly is a change of eating habits, not encouraging one to eat processed diet food.