 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 Blue Plan. Today we are talking all about the brand new My WW Plus, which is the changes that Weight Watchers WW made to the app for the new year. Generally Weight Watchers WW will completely change the program or pieces of the program every year. We know that last November they made a huge switch into the three different color plans for the program, blue, green and purple. This year they didn't make any changes to those plans or the way that the program is set up and done. However, they did make a few changes to the app. Some of these changes I think are great. Some of them I'm kind of on the fence about, but there are also things that didn't happen as far as changes went, that I was really hoping that WW would have incorporated. So I'm here today to talk to you all about the new WW Plus and then I'll share with you my thoughts and my honest feelings and opinions on these minor changes to the app and again what I think maybe should have changed or been added that wasn't. So if you are excited for today's video give it a big huge thumbs up. It really helps out my channel and shows me that you like these types of videos. Also if you are new to my channel stick around and subscribe. We'd love to have you. I have a ton of content coming your way. Lots of great ideas for rolling into 2021 and my traditional what I eat in a day's meal prep, weigh-ins, all of those are still coming your way. So definitely make sure that you're subscribed. Check out that description box down below for my nutrition coaching website. I do offer macro and calorie calculation along with one-on-one coaching in both 30 minute and 60 minute sessions. So definitely check that out. Take advantage of calories and macros. Really, really important to kinda know where you fall every day as far as calories go. Also you'll find links and discount codes to all of my very favorite things. And lastly the link to head over and join my Facebook group. You don't wanna miss out on this Facebook group. There is a ton of great things coming just specifically for this group in the new year. So make sure you head on over and join us. We would love to have you. So let's jump in and let's talk all about the new MyWW Plus. Let's talk about the changes that were made to the WW app. Like I mentioned, there were no changes made to the programs, the blue, the green, or the purple. Nothing that changes with smart points or smart point configuration or zero point foods. All that changed this year were a few minor app changes. So I wanna go over what changed on the app. We'll kind of dive into those. I'm going to show you here on the screen what they look like in the app and we'll talk about where you can find them and what the benefits are of those. So the first new feature in the app, and I'm actually pretty excited about this, is called What's In Your Fridge. This portion of the app will suggest dishes that you can make with what you have in your fridge. So let's say that all you have in your refrigerator is some ground beef, some mushrooms, and cheese. And you wanna know what can you make for lunch or dinner with just those ingredients. So this portion of the app will actually recommend a ton of recipes and give you the smart points for the program that you're on with the ingredients that you have in your fridge. So I definitely like this feature of the app. This is probably one of the ones that I will utilize the most. There is also a new in-depth progress report and weekly check-in portion of the app. So normally we would log in and we would track our weight or if we went to in studio they would track our weight in the app. And that's really all that we could see. So WW bumped up what we can now see under our weekly progress. It even asks us how we were feeling that week. We can talk about what we would change, what we would keep going moving forward. I like this portion of the app. I don't see myself using it very often. For me it's really just a place for me to track my weight. If you want to see your success on and off the scale this portion of the app is going to be great for you. It includes a new way to view what fit points you've earned and how to incorporate new activity. So it looks like they updated a lot of the different workouts that are free as a part of the WW app using what is called fit on. I'll put that right here for you. Now this is free with your app. So take advantage of this especially when we are at home and we're not able to go to the gym to work out and the weather is getting cold and snowy and rainy for a lot of us. Take advantage of this free workout portion of your app. And now this new dashboard basically allows you to just track that activity a little bit more effectively. There is also now new five minute coaching. So what these are is little blurbs about different things that happen in our life that maybe we would seek a little bit of coaching from a WW coach or maybe we would utilize the online coaching for. It's little bite-sized behavior techniques that we can use when we're stressed out, when we find ourselves bored eating, when we find ourselves choosing the wrong food. They're little blurbs that are available for us and little five minute coaching sessions to kind of help us move and navigate through the feelings that we're having when it relates to our healthy lifestyle journey. The next section is new personalized recipes. So I like this as well. Basically you can put into this section how many smart points you have left and what types of foods you like to use in recipes, what you like, what you dislike and the app will populate some personalized recipes for you. You can also use the already figured recipes on the app. You can actually edit those by hitting the edit button and then you can go in and edit the ingredients, remove things you don't like, add in additional ingredients and it'll recalculate the smart points for you. And we all know that we can create a recipe or build a recipe within the app as well. So I like that there's a lot of options to find recipes that are already existing, create our own recipes and build recipes that are personalized to us with our likes and our dislikes and of course, the number of points we have. And lastly, there are new science backed sleep tools. So they have made sleep kind of the fourth pillar of the program and they really want you to concentrate on getting good quality sleep because sleep affects so many areas in our life and weight loss is one of those areas. Generally when we're sleep deprived, we immediately want to select food items that give us instant energy. That's generally sugar or processed foods. So we generally make less healthy food choices when we lack sleep, not to mention all of the other physical characteristics that come along with the lack of sleep. So they are really focusing on adding sleep as kind of the fourth leg or the fourth pillar of the program. They did keep the wellness wins on the app but where you can redeem your points for items, they also of course still have Connect, which is like Facebook for WW where you can go and connect with other like-minded individuals on the program. And lastly, they still have the 24 seven live coaching and also where you can chat and ask your questions. So they kept the fundamental pieces of the app and then they just added in these new things. So I wanna know from you guys, what do you think about the changes that they made when it comes to the app? Do you think that you'll find yourself utilizing these new tools or do you think that you'll just utilize the staples or the pillars that the app had prior to introducing them my WW plus? So let me know down in the comments what your thoughts are on that. Now I wanna share my personal thoughts and my personal opinions on the new features on the app and some of the things that I wish WW would have incorporated into the app. So first of all, I think that a lot of the new features on the app are great. Now, do I see myself using all of these features? No, probably not. There are a couple, like I mentioned, that I see myself utilizing in the future. I think the changes were great because we're all different and we all have different goals and different needs when it comes to our weight loss journey. So some people may use every single new component on the app and some people may not use a single one. So I like that WW is trying to encompass everybody by adding these new features to the app. Now the rest of what I have to say may be an unpopular opinion. So don't come for me. Like I said, this is my personal opinion on what I would have like to see as far as changes from WW for 2021. There are actually three things that I'm bummed out about that they didn't implement or change with the program. Number one is calories. Now I know WW is a business and actually when you're counting points, you're counting calories in a sense because a calorie makes up a point's value. So of course they're not going to want you to count calories because then that takes away from their points program which is why you're on WW. But just be mindful that when you count points you're essentially counting calories and the points that you're given by WW put you in a calorie deficit and that's partially why the program works. I just would have liked to see calories a little more available to us in the app. Now when you enter a food item in your tracker, say an egg, if you click on the egg, it does tell you the calories. It tells you the macronutrients so that you can see how many calories, how much fiber, fat, carbohydrates were in that egg. But what I wish that I could have seen was at the end of the day, a total tally of how many calories I consumed and maybe even how many macros I had. How much fat did I eat? How much sugar, carbohydrates, protein, healthy fats? How much did I consume every day? I just wish that there was an overall daily tally of calories and macronutrients. Now again, I get why they didn't do this because it would take away from what they're branded on which is their point system. But on the flip side, knowledge is power and I think it's important that even though we stay within our points, that we still eat enough calories to lose weight and lose weight sustainably and healthy. So that's why I wish that they would have implemented a total tally of calories and macronutrients. The next thing that I wish that they would have implemented is putting a cap on zero point foods, putting a limit on how much of a food that you can eat before it turns into points. So an example of this would be fat-free cheese. You can have up to a certain amount of fat-free cheese for zero smart points. Once you surpass that amount, it starts counting as points and I wish that they would have done this for the other zero point foods. Things like chicken breast, potatoes, fruit, maybe not so much vegetables, but the zero point foods that are calorically dense. People seem to fall into one of two camps. One, they don't eat enough calories on WW because they're not utilizing the zero point foods and then there's the other camp where you can overeat your calories on WW because you eat so many zero point foods. A serving of chicken breast is three to four ounces. Now if you're eating five, six, seven, eight ounces, you're into the three, four, 500 calorie range on that chicken. So in my opinion, you should be able to have a serving of chicken for zero points and anything above that would start counting as points, maybe along the lines of the points that are part of chicken on the green program. Now I see both sides of this situation. I see why WW does not do that and that's because the whole point of zero point foods is for WW to navigate you towards selecting those foods versus processed foods, foods loaded with sugar or high point foods. But I also think that even if chicken breast was zero points up to a certain amount, that we would still choose chicken breast because it's zero points up to a certain amount. But I just think that in the event that you fall in the camp that you eat a lot of zero point foods and a lot of calories from those zero point foods, then putting you out of a deficit and now you're not losing weight and you're blaming the program is it because you did what Weight Watchers told you to do and choose zero point foods but are you just eating too much calorie wise to remain in a deficit? So that's my other opinion is that I think there should have been a cap or points value assigned to zero point foods past a certain amount. And the third thing, which is again, my opinion is I wish that Weight Watchers would not have penalized us so much on healthy foods. Things like avocados, nut butter, full fat dairy. The foods that we should be choosing are really, really high in points. So most people, now I'm saying most because not everybody but most people on Weight Watchers when it comes to yogurt are less likely to choose the full fat yogurt because it's a lot higher in points than the non-fat yogurt. But the issue especially with yogurt is the nutrients are stripped when they process that down to be low fat or non-fat. So it's better health wise to choose the full fat yogurt but it's better points wise to choose the non-fat yogurt. I know that there are a lot of people who don't eat avocados because they're point heavy and there are even more people who don't eat real peanut butter or real almond butter because of the points and instead they lean towards PB2. Now there's nothing wrong with PB2 but there's a lot more healthy fats in the real peanut butter and the real almond butter not to mention it tastes so much better. So I just wish these weren't so heavily penalized with points that we would be more likely to choose the real whole food over the more processed food. So in a nutshell, I think WW made some great changes to the app but I also think that they missed the mark on some really good pieces of a healthy weight loss journey that WW is missing. And unfortunately I think this is going to turn off a lot of current users that are leaning more towards the whole food healthy approach and maybe not be as desirable for others to join WW that are looking for a way to count calories and to really focus on whole real foods and good healthy fats. So maybe they'll take a lot of the feedback that I know a lot of people have given them when it comes to these three areas and maybe we'll see them add that to the program this next year. But overall I think they made some great changes. I'm really grateful and glad that they didn't completely revamp the entire program because honestly we're just getting used to it from about a year ago. So I'm glad that they didn't do that because they tend to do that every year or every two years. So again, I think the changes are great. I just think they missed the mark on a few other additional changes. So I hope this helps you kind of understand a little bit more about my WW plus. Of course, leave down in the comments any additional questions you have and also share your feedback with others on what you think when it comes to the new my WW plus. If you enjoyed today's video please give it a big huge thumbs up. And if you're not yet subscribed make sure you are subscribed because I have a ton of fantastic content coming your way. Click the little bell next to the subscribe button so you're notified when I upload. I do upload most days of the week so you don't wanna miss out. 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