sounds like doing double the work! hope you sort it out.
KATELJM11/21/2009 10:04AM
Yes, there are several threads on W8Watchers Friends.
You can go crazy trying to meet both sets of criteria simultaneously, so most people pick the one that suits them better.
It comes down to a personal choice of which gives you the simplicity or additional information you seek. Even before SP, I didn't do WW points like everyone else. I made 25 g of fiber a daily goal, and had to build my own database to track that. I counted any fraction of a point in an Excel worksheet, so I never played the game, "you can eat this much of this before it becomes a point."
Personally, I was always frustrated by the lack of nutri- tional information in WW points. But for some people, the less thinking involved, all the better.
What I like about WW points was that if I had been very, very bad during the day, I could still eat a pile of veggies and stay within my points. I also need that mental checkoff that I have had 2 teaspoons of HEALTHY fat. The flex points allowed an easy way to see if daily variations in eating ended up with a balanced mix over the course of a week.
In the SP W8Watcher Friends board,http://www.sparkpeople.com/my spark/team_ messageboard_thr ead.asp?board=0x865x2149201x24, in the 9/15/06 11:50 AM post by KALYPSO97, this example was given:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I think the difference in tracking the calories versus the WW points is the fiber and fat grams. For instance:
Mini bag of 100 cal potato chips = 100 cal, 0 fiber, 8g fat, 3 pts
Mini bag of smartpop popcorn = 100 cal, 2.5g fat, 3g fiber, 1 pt.
They are all 100 calories, but different points because of the fiber and fat. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~
My concern, especially when I reduced caloric intake to stay at a healthy weight, was that the limited food I took in needed to maximize its contribution to nourishing my body. We're fooling ourselves if we think it doesn't matter whether we have balanced meals. It will show up in the health of our insides, whether it is our skin (internal and external), kidneys, liver, heart, pancreas, gall bladder, thyroid, bones, nervous system, etc.
I'm at the stage of my life where cancer, diabetes and heart disease will take over if I don't take responsibility for my eating and exercise. Nutrition is my primary concern; I am becoming more reliant on good nutritional information, so I am biased toward SP's nutrition tracking.
Comment edited on: 11/21/2009 10:25:31 AM
IAJOEB11/21/2009 9:25AM
Well is it worth it to go to any length to achieve your goals? But just a guess do one or the other. Have a blessed day. Maria
IXCHEL2311/21/2009 8:39AM
Have you posted this on your WW team, starting a new topic? Maybe you can get more feedback from them? Hope you had a nice time last night!
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