weight watcher after RNY

The design of SmartPoints is one that punishes saturated fats and both natural and added sugars while rewarding protein consumption. When you consider that Chicken and Turkey breast, all fish and shellfish, and all beans are declared to be zero points, it would seem to be a plan that would be benificial to you.

The big caution is that the points can be highly skewed from calorie consumption depending on choices. Choose a lot of "favored" food for zero points and you could rack up a bunch of calories while still having a lot of points to consume before running out of your budget. But with that caution, many people are successfully following SmartPoints.

Have you ever done Weight Watchers before under an earlier program? The PointsPlus era (2010-2014) provided a lot of education and guidance about healthy eating and included the Good Health Guidelines as targets to be met every day. Some of us around her still use the GHGs no matter how we track our intake. Personally, I track total nutrition (calories, fat, carbs, protein) because it is what I need to do to control diabetes; I still plug in total points at WW for each meal, but I do not itemize my meal items using their tracker. Some others here double-track on the WW tracker and My Fitness Pal or other free tracking site/app.

If you have been given specific targets for daily grams of protein, carbs, etc., you might want to look at the many sites that track traditional nutrition. Many of them allow you to plug in personal targets and show you on a dashboard how you're doing against your goals right on the app or web page. Some give you that for free, others want an annual subscription. But subscriptions to other sites/apps are all way cheaper than WW's monthly membership fee.

Whatever you decide to do, I wish you luck. And feel free to join these boards and get and give some support.

Are you considering doing an online program or meetings? I think WW meetings can be very beneficial to a lot of people. Agree with zazzles, comments overall about the program. If you are going to be online only, I am not really sure that WW is worth it.