 Hi friends, welcome back to my channel and welcome if you're new here. My name is Jen. I'm a certified weight loss and nutrition coach and I'm on the WW personal points plan. I have to change my entire intro because today is the first day of the brand new WW personal points. I promised you in my video about a week ago that as soon as I knew anything about the new plan things that were concrete confirmed information on the new plan I would be here to share all of that with you. It is Monday the plan officially launches today the new personal points plan and I'm here to give you all of the information plus I have a pretty special announcement so make sure that you stay until the end of today's video. But before we jump in if you're excited for information on the new personal points plan give this video a big huge thumbs up and of course if you're new or you haven't yet subscribed to my channel hit the subscribe button and click the bell next to it so you never miss any videos. We do everything WW on this channel and I have some really fun videos coming your way with the new personal points plan check out that description box down below for my four recipe ebooks as well as nutrition coaching I offer personalized macros and calories and one-on-one coaching if you want to talk with me directly whether it's about WW or just nutrition in general I'm happy to help links discounts to all my favorite things and the WW program I'll make sure that is linked in the description box with the free month if you are not yet a member and don't forget to join me on Facebook I do have a Facebook group and it is very important to be a part of that group if you want up-to-date information because that is where I am the most often that is where you will get information the fastest so head on over join me on Facebook so I'm excited to tell you guys all about personal points so throughout today's video I'm going to be inserting screenshots and information from WW directly as well as questions that were asked in virtual workshops and the answers that were given from the WW coaches and their support staff so I'll be inserting a lot of information in today's video for you as well so first I mentioned that the new plan is called personal points there is no more blue plan green plan or purple plan those plans have been eliminated and one singular plan called personal points is now what we follow on WW and because it's called personal points it's personal it's going to vary from person to person now there are some things that will remain the same amongst everybody but the majority of the plan including your zero point foods how many points you get in a day all of that is going to be personalized to you so as of this morning your app should have automatically updated to the new personal points program if you log into your app and it looks the same as it did before one of two things need to happen number one you need to update your app in your app play store or worst case scenario you may need to delete the current app and reinstall for the app changes to take place so first let's talk about what is staying the same we know that the blue plan the green plan the purple plan those are all changing but what is staying the same first of all we will still have the option to earn a blue dot that blue dot of course is going to be based on your personal plan but you will have the option to still earn a blue dot the parameters of the blue dot remain the same there will still be weekly points for everyone there is a difference with the weekly points and that is that that number of points that you receive on a weekly basis is going to change throughout the week and also may be different from others based on your zero point foods and your daily points target we're going to deep dive into that here shortly there will still be rollover points you have the option to earn for rollover points every day and those points will be added to your weekly points budget and we know that you don't have to use your weekly points budget you do not have to use your rollovers however I highly highly encourage you to eat all of your points including your weekly so that you make sure that you're eating enough calories on your program we still do not have to track zero point foods so from the start we have not had to track way or measure our zero point foods that remains the same with personal points just keep in mind with zero point foods to stick with a survey just because rice could potentially be zero points for you doesn't mean that you should eat three or four cups of rice with your meal try to stick with a serving or close to one serving size non-starchy vegetables will be zero points for everyone just like they were when we followed the different colored plan so any non-starchy vegetable is zero points across the board we still have the barcode scanner that will continue to remain the same on the new personal points program you'll be able to scan all of your favorite foods and the points value personalized to you of those foods will pop up on your barcode scanner and you'll be able to track them as always in your app we will continue to have wellness wins so if you have wins stacked up you have points earned you will be able to continue to earn those and redeem those for the wellness wins products any tools that you've purchased from your ww workshop will still work with the new personal points plan so you'll be able to continue to use any types of food scales weighing and measuring devices or whatever tools you've picked up from your ww workshop so now let's talk a little bit about the new personal points program some of the things that will be changing some of the things that you should be expecting when it comes to the new plan before we jump in to the nitty-gritty or all of the details let's talk a little bit about why we have zero point foods how are zero point foods determined and why exactly does ww give us foods because all food has calories and calls it zero points so first of all why are zero point foods actually zero points they're wholesome nutritional powerhouses aka zero heroes you can think of as your grocery shopping go-tos because they form the foundation of a healthy pattern of eating these foods ranging from fruits and vegetables lean chicken and turkey breast fish shellfish and wholemeal pasta and potatoes encourage variety they're also regular everyday foods that are easy to have on hand so why would ww choose certain foods as zero points and not others these foods are recommended by national and international guidelines including the world health organization as a part of a healthy pattern of eating and of course they're delicious that's how we landed on fruits starchy vegetables chicken and turkey breast fish and shellfish beans peas and lentils tofu and tempa 99 fat free yogurt and cottage cheese potatoes and sweet potatoes corn and popcorn wholemeal pasta brown rice quinoa and other whole grains oats eggs and avocado that makes my heart so happy i'm so excited that they've chosen to make avocado zero points for those of us that it decide to have avocado be zero points for us a lot of the zero point foods are staying the same as what they were on the previous colored plants but there have been some new and exciting zero point foods added to the list avocado tofu and tempa and 99 non-fat cottage cheese has been added to the list of zero points as you guys know i'm really excited about avocado being on that list but i'm glad that they've incorporated some vegetarian options and cottage cheese because it's such a big protein bang for the calories that are in cottage cheese that it's nice that that's been added to the zero points list as well so now let's talk a little bit about exactly what personal points is like i mentioned it is a program that is personal to you which basically means everybody's plan is going to look a little bit different so my plan is going to look different than your plan and that comes in every facet of personal point not everybody's points are going to be the same not everybody's zero point foods are going to be the same they are going to vary based on us personally which i have to say that i really like and that i'm really excited about so what is taken into account when we are assigned a daily points budget as always age height weight and gender have always been taken into account that's why you'll see that not everybody had 23 points on blue or 30 points on green because those four factors were taken into account now the food preferences the foods that we choose the foods we eat the foods that are zero points those are now going to play a factor in how many daily points we receive so basically what that means again is that my daily points and your daily points even though we may be the same age the same height the same weight are going to vary your daily points your weekly points are going to be based around the foods that you choose to be zero points now you're probably wondering how do i choose my zero point foods when the app is updated and you first log in you'll be taking a questionnaire based on that questionnaire you will be signed a list of zero point foods you'll be able to go in and modify those zero point foods you get to essentially select the foods that you want to be zero points i would suggest that you stick with whatever plan whatever configuration of the plan that you choose whatever zero point foods you choose for at least one to two weeks before going in and switching your zero point foods so you do have the option to go in and switch what foods are zero points for you but i recommend giving it a solid try and sticking with it for at least one to two weeks before making any changes we don't really know if it's working until we've given it the old college try another thing to keep in mind is that points values of foods have changed so points go up when the food contains added sugar and saturated fat now the points will go down in some foods based on its fiber content its protein content and its unsaturated fats i'm really excited that they've reintroduced fiber into the calculation because fiber in your food is so important not only to keep you regular but also to keep you full and satisfied and fiber should be taken into consideration when determining point values of foods so pretend like you're brand new to w w like this is day one and you have to scan everything you have to look everything up because essentially that's what we have to do now because some of the foods that we eat all the time some of our favorite foods the points values are very likely different based on the factors of saturated fat and added sugar so make sure that you are looking up all of your favorite foods that you are tracking accurately and making sure that the points that you're tracking are the points on the personal points plan because they very likely could have changed one example of where we're seeing a change is in pasta so you'll notice that traditional white pasta is four points where whole wheat pasta is three points now of course this is if you have not chosen pasta as a zero point food this is if pasta actually counts for points for you you'll see that the amount of points varies based on white pasta versus whole wheat pasta because guess what whole wheat pasta has more fiber than traditional white pasta so the points are going to be lower and that's just one example of some of the foods points values that have potentially changed another really exciting change with personal points is being able to earn back points based on healthy habits and in my original video where we talked about some of these changes coming down the pipe for WW I wasn't so sure how I felt about earning back points for eating your vegetables drinking your water and getting in your activity I wasn't sure if people would take those points that they earned back and maybe use them for non-healthy options now that's still a possibility but I want to share with you the reasoning and the nitty gritty behind earning back points for eating your vegetables drinking your water and doing your activity so first let's chat a little bit about veggies for every one cup of vegetables that you track so these are going to be non-starchy vegetables you are going to earn one point back into your daily budget and this is unlimited so if you eat three four five six cups of vegetables every day then you have the option to earn back three four five six points into your daily budget and remember we still have rollovers so if you don't end up eating all of those points that day they'll roll over into your overall weekly points when you drink 60 ounces of water and you track that in your app you're going to earn back one daily point now this is limited to one point so this is not unlimited so if you drink a gallon of water every day or two gallons of water every day you still can only earn back one point this isn't an unlimited earn back of points it's simply one point for drinking 60 ounces or more of water every day and then I want to talk about activity fit points is going away fit points is no longer and you will have the opportunity to earn back daily points based on activity when you go to track your activity manually or using an activity tracker you decide whether you want to track minutes or steps so if you're someone like myself that works out in our two three times a week I may choose to track minutes versus steps or maybe I'm somebody that doesn't have a formal workout plan but I just get in a lot of steps every day because I have a job that I'm walking around a lot I may choose to track steps what happens is you will earn points based on the minutes that you work out or the steps that you take the amount of points that you earn for activity is totally personalized and determined again by your height your weight your age your sex and the type and duration of the activity so let's look at a couple of examples let's say that you are a man who is 6'1 and you weigh 300 pounds for doing say 30 minutes of yoga you're going to earn more points than a woman who is 5 feet tall and weighs 125 pounds so everything about this plan is personal your gender your age your height your weight all play a part in the number of points that you earn for activity because let's be honest it's harder to move a heavier body so when we are exercising or taking daily steps we're burning more calories than someone who's at a lesser weight and somebody who's younger is going to burn more calories doing day-to-day things than somebody who's older so the points that you earn back for activity is 100% personal to you which I really really appreciate from the standpoint of a weight loss and nutrition coach I know that the number of calories that I burn during jazz or size is going to be very different than somebody who weighs substantially less than me who's younger than me taller or shorter than me so I like that ww is again making the activity that we earn personal so again the activity that you're doing is going to determine the number of activity points that you earn now again your fitness tracker will automatically sync with your app and those points will be put into your budget if you don't have a fitness tracker then you will go in and manually enter your activity just like you did on the different colored plans now one question that I had was do you have to eat those activity points because anybody who has a fitness device automatically going to be added to your points I would say that that would be personal preference everything is personal again if you are someone who heavily works out you probably need to eat those points that you earn to make sure that you have enough fuel to make it through your day that you're eating enough calories because remember there's a high possibility that your number of daily points is going to be lower to substantially lower than it was on the blue green and purple plan based on your zero point food preferences so maybe you got 23 points on the blue plan and maybe now you only get 17 points on the new personal points plan so eating back your exercise eating your points for you the water that you consume the vegetables that you're eating is really important to make sure that of course you're eating enough every single day and in the event that you don't eat all of your points don't forget that you do have those four rollovers that will roll over at the end of the day into your weeklies you will never ever ever earn more points than you actually burn so the app is smart enough to not give you more points for exercise than you actually burn based on your information your height your weight your gender and the activity that you're doing like i mentioned the app automatically updated today it doesn't really matter what day you weigh in or what day you attend your workshop the app updated today for everybody you just keep doing what you're doing if your weigh in day is Friday the app knows that and is going to continue to keep your weigh in day is Friday just the personal points plan takes effect today it really is irrelevant what day of the week that you weigh in nothing will change when it comes to that if you are a lifetime member you will just need to make sure that you go into your settings and you adjust them to being a lifetime member or being into weight loss mode and again the app is designed to automatically update points for being a lifetime member so no fear if you are lifetime the personal points plan will automatically do the work to make sure that you're eating enough app maintenance i do want to touch a little bit on the rumor of having a diabetic plan it looks like there isn't a specific plan for diabetes however the very first question on the questionnaire that you answer is going to ask you if you have diabetes or if you're pre-diabetic and if the answer to that question is yes then fruit whole grains pasta potatoes etc will be points for you based on your health needs they're not going to give you foods that could potentially be a detriment to your health as zero points so that's where the diabetic plan plan comes into place is based on that questionnaire so if you're diabetic or pre-diabetic or concerned about eating fruits starchy pastas and potatoes make sure you answer that questionnaire accordingly be honest www wants to make sure that you're eating foods that benefit your health not that are a detriment to your health i also want to talk a little bit about again the zero point foods there are 14 categories of zero point foods and there's hundreds of foods that fall into these 14 zero point categories so i wanted to share with you again what the categories are that you'll be able to choose zero point foods from non-starchy vegetables which are zero points again for everybody fruit eggs yogurt and cottage cheese this is plain non-fat yogurt and non-fat cottage cheese fish and shellfish chicken and turkey breast beans peas and lentils tofu and temper oats and oatmeal brown rice and other whole grains potatoes and sweet potatoes whole grain pasta and noodles corn and popcorn and then of course new with the personal points program is avocados which as we already know this girl is really excited about i know this is a lot of information and i know that it can be really overwhelming especially if you're somebody who just doesn't like change and i have so many people from my previous video that have reached out to me via my facebook group or message or left comments on that video saying that they don't want to change they want to stay on the blue plan the green plan the purple plan give it a chance you guys give the new plan a chance and coming from my perspective i love this new plan i think it is well rounded it's personal which i think is really really important if you take the example of somebody who's diabetic or pre-diabetic or vegetarian vegan gluten-free the ww plan should be personal to them they should be able to follow a plan that meets their health needs and now ww is giving us that option which i think is absolutely incredible change is hard you guys change is hard for everybody but embrace it give it a chance and it may actually end up being the best program that ww has put out so far in spoiler alert it's already looking to be the best program so far i have some concerns still i have some reservations i'm my big big concern is making sure that you're eating enough calories every day no matter what your zero point foods are no matter how many points you get every day my concern is making sure that we're eating enough to lose weight in a healthy sustainable way we don't want to do damage to our metabolism by not eating enough and that's why i've stressed that it's important to eat your points that you earn for activity the points that you earn for vegetables the point that you earn for water but it's even more important to take the quality of the foods that you're choosing for those extra points into consideration just because you earned three points for vegetables doesn't mean that you should eat a candy bar you should make healthy food choices now there's nothing wrong with candy bars and there's nothing wrong with having a splurge here and there but my concern with earning back those points was the foods that we're choosing my other concern comes from the zero point foods and that again is portion control i had someone on my previous video make a comment about avocados just saying that her concern was is that people will take avocados as zero points and eat a whole avocado two or three times a day like we discussed when we were talking about zero point foods that is not how they're designed they are designed for you to not have to weigh measure or track them but also to watch your portion to eat a serving of a zero point food not three four five six servings of zero point foods because what happens with that is now you're no longer in a calorie deficit and you're not going to lose weight even though you're staying in your points so it's a little bit of a tricky situation it's a hill to climb it's a balancing act but zero point foods are designed for you to eat a portion and not have to weigh measure or track them guiding you towards making healthier food choices so those are my main concerns about the program i'm interested to see how they play out one question that i've been asked over and over when we first talked about the personal points plan is how is this going to affect what we share here on youtube our recipes the points of our recipes the points i share in my grocery hauls how is that all going to affect you when it comes to youtube content i can't speak for other content creators but my plan is is to keep doing what i've been doing i'm going to be sharing the points on my grocery hauls i'm going to be sharing the points in my what i eat in a days i'm going to be sharing the points on all of my recipes based on my app which basically means that if there's avocado in my recipe for me it's going to be zero points if you chose not to have avocado then you would need to make sure that you are adding in the points for avocado i plan on doing most of the work for you by giving you the points of the recipe and a lot of the ingredients and the pieces of the recipes aren't going to change amongst us it's really just going to be a lot of those zero point foods and based on the point based on the zero point foods that we've chosen that could affect the overall points of the recipe so my recommendation for you would be to take the recipe of course you can take the step-by-step ingredients all of the ingredients that are used and just double check it in your app enter it into your recipe builder to make sure that it's the same for you now if the ingredients that i'm using are also your zero point foods then it's going to remain the same you're just going to have to take i guess that little bit of personal accountability to make sure that the points are the same for you as they are for me nothing's changing here i'm going to continue to share recipes in fact i'm going to be sharing more recipes and more things when it comes to ideas for food healthy recipes great ways to use those points that we earn from water and vegetables so nothing's changing here so i'm excited to be able to still continue to bring you recipes grocery hauls what i eat in a days all the videos that you guys truly love and of course the videos that i love recording as well i definitely want to know from you guys what your thoughts are on new on the new personal points plan and kind of what your thoughts are on these options of having things like avocados be zero points like i mentioned there's a lot of information in this video this video could be an hour long there are so many questions that you're going to have there's questions that i have there's more information that i want to share so what i'm going to do is today monday the day that the personal points program launches i'm going to be having a live here on youtube where i'm going to be answering any additional questions that you have to the best of my ability so that we can make sure that you get your questions answered and that we all start off personal point points on the best foot possible so i'm going to go ahead and put here on the screen the time of the live so make sure you come back check out the live later today if you want to make sure that your questions are answered and if you want to just chat a little bit more about the personal points plan in general also i would recommend again joining my facebook group so that i can answer your questions there people are all of us sharing all the information that they're learning about personal points and that's going to be a great resource for you to get information to ask your questions and of course to have support and lastly i am going to be filming a what i eat in a week new personal points versus calories so what i'm going to do is follow the personal points plan and i'm going to vlog it i'm going to share what i'm eating for an entire week we're going to compare that day to day on the number of points that i'm eating versus the number of calories that i'm consuming and i'll be able to give you at the end of that what i eat in a week a really good synopsis of my thoughts on personal points so stay tuned for that video in order to not miss that make sure that you're subscribed and hit the bell that way you're notified when that video or really any videos are uploaded if you enjoyed today's video and you found it helpful which i really really hope that you did please give it a big huge huge thumbs up and of course subscribe hit the bell check out the description box down below for the recipe ebooks as well as nutrition coaching links discounts to my favorite healthy things and my facebook group come on over join us there and i would recommend following me over on instagram as well i'm on there every single day so you'll be up to date as well between facebook instagram and here on youtube thank you guys again so much for watching i'm excited for the new plan let's go at this plan give it our whole heart and we'll see success on the scale thank you guys again so much for watching and i'll see you next time bye