Is anyone doing WW currently? Or in the recent past?

My sister did great on WW, she lost 30-35 lbs. I started at the same time and flunked. lol

I lost 60# on WW back in 1996. Been on maintenance ever since. Followed all the different plans as I was losing. Loved Simply Filling. Following the Purple plan now but like Supersoda just said, I don't use fake foods either, So I modify it to fit how I want to eat.
No weight loss plan is perfect. It's all about your motivation and how you work the program and how motivated you are.
Good luck!!

I lost 47LBS on Noom last year I have never done WW

I use WW exactly to force me to eat lower carb. So, yes, the green program especially encourages a low carb approach. Carbs - starch and sugar - have the highest number of points. 

My sister is doing this. She has done it maybe 3 times over the years. She says it's much better now. Lots of zero point foods (fruits, chicken) and she gets a lot of points and has a hard time using them. It's mostly a different way of cooking. She said the points are so different now she had a hard time figuring it out and then WW sent her daily video and told her to stop worrying about that early on. Just focus on eating healthfully.

I gained a speedy 25 lbs in the past few months. I had been great in Covid until I had my gallbladder out. I was so excited not to have tummy aches, I am afraid I overindulged. I do Keto and IF. I think IF has changed my life. I really, really love it. I eat during 6 hours and not during 18. The weight is dropping off quickly.

I have never done WW but I'd recommend checking with your health insurance to see if they offer a free program.

Mine uses Real Appeal which I started in October. I've lost 15lb surpassing my (easy) goal weight. I'm working on another 5 and then will just maintain.

Honestly the only thing the program gives me that I couldn't do on my own is weekly accountability. I go to weekly virtual meetings with a coach and log my weight.

I have purely focused on using MFP (which syncs with their app) to log all my food and staying in my calorie range. No foods are off limits as long as I can stay in my calorie limit. I've always had a hard time keeping portions small so measuring my food has helped a ton. But it really sucks in the beginning to make that a habit as it can feel very tedious, especially when you are hungry. I have used MFP before but having those weekly meetings has made a huge difference in keep with it, especially through the holidays.

Another thing I have done on my own is IF, kind of, but I don't worry about watching the clock. I started noticing a couple of years ago that I'm not really hungry in the morning and even less so if I excercise. So I no longer eat breakfast and wait to eat until 11:30 at the earliest. If I get busy I may not get hungry until 2 or 3. This works for me because I can eat more for lunch and dinner or snacks, all of which I prefer over breakfast. Also I found that if I ate breakfast I would want snacks all day and be hungrier at lunch. I know makes no sense!
Obviously YMMV but thought I'd share another option.

This is my fourth time trying WW in six years. The three times before I despised the app and I was on the BLUE plan.

I started this fourth attempts on 12/27/2020 and went with the GREEN plan after seeing a friend lose 95lbs last year. So far I have lost 10 lbs in three weeks. YES! You get more points on GREEN with a smaller free foods list which is working out better for me. The app has been improved quite a bit since mid-2019 and I like the fact I can do digital meetings via ZOOM versus having to go to a location with people. I also like the WW Connect area which is WW's version of Instagram where people share their progress, challenges, photos, tips, trick and such. We are also doing a book study on the Beck Diet Solution which it like cognitive therapy for changing food habits; I like what I have read so far. Everyone I have spoken with (about 12 different acquaintances) who have successfully lost weight and kept it off did so through WW. I'm feeling really good about this time around.

What I eat may not work for you, but a typical day for me - I get 30 daily points (on my green plan) and then 30 “extra” points to use throughout the week if I want to.

Breakfast (which I have never been hungry for in my life) - 3 pts (sometimes 5 pts)
- 1/2 cup milk latte with 1 shot decaf and 1 shot caffeine espresso made in our espresso maker - 3 pts
- 2 scoops of Vital proteins Unflavored Collagen - 0 points (yes, collagen is free)

Collagen makes my large latte filling enough for me to go until lunch.

If I need breakfast for some reason, I will eat 3/4 cup (1 container) of non-fat yogurt - 2 pts + blueberries - 0 pts. Or I sometimes have Starbucks egg white bites - 5 pts. I also sometimes have them for lunch - I find them filling. If you make your own egg white bites, you can really cut the points on those - egg whites are 1 pts. for 3 whites. 

Lunch - 7 pts
- 2 cups vegetable beef soup- 3pts
- 1 slice whole wheat toast 2 pts
    with 1 tablespoon Land o Lakes light butter - 2 pts

Snack - 4 pts
    1 cup baby carrots - 0 pts
    1 container Hummus single - 4 pts


Dinner -12 points
    1/2 cup rice- 3 pts
    5 oz salmon - 7 pts
    Roasted asparagus (tossed with olive oil and sprinkled with Penzey’s sandwich sprinkle) - 1 pt
    salad - 0 pts
    Greek vinaigrette salad dressing (1 tablespoon) - 1 point
    
Glass of wine - 5 pts

Snack - 2 pts
    light butter flavored - 2 cups - 2 pts 
    


On days I don’t have a glass of wine, I can eat more food.  I usually use those extra weekly points on a day where I splurge and eat pizza or wings or onion rings.

I don’t eat the heavily processed WW snacks, preferring to just eat lower calorie whole foods. 


    

I am doing the Purple plan. This is the first time I have ever done an official weight loss plan. I was always able to keep my weight in check but a few years ago life through me for a loop and I gained 20 lbs. I was starting to get a handle on it and then the pandemic hit. Lots of bread and cookie baking. Gained another 5. This is the most I have ever weighed other than being pregnant. I started last July by counting my calories and really watching what I was eating but I could not lose a pound. Not one. I even gained! It was so frustrating. So I decided to give WW a try in September. I have now lost 20 lbs. I even lost a lb. through the holidays when I wasn't really tracking myself. I'm back to be more strict on myself to lose the last 5 lbs before summer. I highly recommend WW.

I just joined WW yesterday, and am doing the Blue plan for now, as it seems to be the middle of the road approach in terms of 0 point foods. I had success with WW years ago after my first child was born, but the plan was much different then. I never eat the WW branded foods, or any “fake” foods, but I really need carb accountability—bread and salty snacks are my downfall. If my weight doesn’t budge on the Blue plan, I will switch to the Green plan with fewer 0 point foods. I tried My Fitness Pal and just counting calories, but I didn’t stick with tracking during the first months of lockdown, and then gave up on the app. I am making a commitment to stick with tracking and staying within my points, so along with IF I am hoping this approach works for me.

I wanted to add that WW also tracks your exercise using FitPoints. You can use FitPoints for extra food, but I never do. I do like tracking my exercise in the program. They assign you a weekly goal based on your age/activity level. I easily meet mine. In fact, I usually get 15-17 FltPoints per day.

A HUGE plus for me is that they have made it so that the app can/will import your steps and exercise activities from your Apple Watch. So, I run 2 miles with the dogs, and then take a 1 mile walk with them, followed by a .75 mile walk with them at night. I use the exercise app to track my exercise and those activities show up in my WW app. So, for the 2 mile run I just took, I got 7 FitPoints for the run and 3 points for the 5,000 steps. 10,000 steps is 7 points, which I strive for daily, even on the days I don’t run.

The app used to only download steps from FitBits and you had to manually enter the type and time of various activities. It is much easier to have my data all seamlessly downloaded from my watch/Apple health app.

For me, the accountability of tracking physical activity is one more benefit of the WW program. I appreciate having the tracking of my food and my activities in one place helpful.