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I am here today with another spin-off informational video for you on the new Weight Watchers my WW plan on Monday I filmed a video where I really deep dove into the new plan talked about the different color options and what those colors Involved so if you are new to the changes on WW or you just want to make sure you have a little knowledge under your belt before choosing your plan Make sure that you head over to my video posted this last Monday where I talk all about the new my WW plans I will link this video down in the description box as well for you guys So definitely check that out before you watch this video It'll all come full circle and make a little bit more sense for you So today I want to even deep dive a little further into each of the colors I want to share with you the pros and the cons of each of the new my WW plans We have the blue plan the green plan and the purple plan And I want to share with you the pros and cons of each plan I also want to share with you a little bit of food for thought or some things that you should think about Before you commit to or select the plan on my WW that you want to follow So let's get right into the blue the green and the purple plans So before I get into the different colors I want to share something with you guys that I've been getting a ton of questions about I think it is still something that we're not a hundred percent sure about So I want to make sure that I'm sharing this with you first before we talk a little bit deeper into the different colors So I want to make sure that you are aware that the only difference the only difference Between the old freestyle plan old as within a few days ago Freestyle plan and the new my WW plans is the zero point foods Everything else stays exactly the same the smart points for all of the foods have not changed The only thing that has changed are the zero point foods So white rice on blue or green or purple is all going to be the exact same number of smart points Literally nothing has changed the only thing that you're going to find different are the zero point foods So I think that that will help answer a lot of the questions that I know I've been getting as far as well How do I know what the smart points are of my favorite foods? They're the same guys They're the same as they were on freestyle other than the zero point foods. So first let's get into the blue program Let's start there now the blue program is freestyle It is exactly what freestyle was just a few days ago. Nothing's changed. It is the freestyle program They've only changed the name to blue So that makes that super easy for you to remember if you are one of the people that thrives on the freestyle program You enjoy the freedom the flexibility the freestyle of freestyle Then you may just want to stay on the blue program. You don't have to do anything different You literally go about your life just like you did when it was called freestyle So that may be something to consider if you were definitely someone that enjoyed the freestyle program So let's talk a little bit about the pros of being on the blue plan There are quite a few things that I would consider a pro now Remember everything that I'm going to share with you is my opinion as far as what I deem to be a pro or a con on Each of the colors of programs. So on the blue program the fact that you have 200 zero point foods is a definite pro those zero point foods can prize of fruits and vegetables And that even includes your starchy vegetables your corn your peas. That's amazing Also, all of your beans and legumes lean protein such as chicken 99% fat-free turkey breast 93 or above chicken breast that also includes non-fat Greek yogurt So all of those things are zero points in fall on that 200 plus zero point food list on the blue program So you can't beat the fact that you have 200 zero point foods to choose from another pro on the blue plan is the freedom of having to weigh in measure WW says that you don't have to weigh in measure the zero point foods Now I want to preface that with a little bit of my opinion on that I think it is important to be mindful not necessarily weigh your measure But be mindful of the amount of the zero point foods that you're eating Don't go to Costco you guys and buy an entire rotisserie chicken and eat the whole thing because chicken is zero points Make sure that you are still mindful of your portion sizes Because even though these foods are zero points does not mean that they are zero calories So just be mindful of the amount of these zero point foods that you're eating eat until you are satisfied Try not to overeat those zero point foods Another pro on the blue plan is the freedom of eating out it is very very simple to go to most restaurants and Choose a meal off of the menu that you can easily determine the points you can steer yourself towards grilled chicken Vegetables anything that has a bean so black beans pinto beans any of those things and know that what you're eating is zero points So it makes it really simple to go out to eat Versus some of the other plans There's a little more planning and calculating before you can actually just go out to eat You could even stop by your local McDonald's get a grilled chicken sandwich Take the bun off and you know that you have a zero point lunch So in my opinion the blue plan makes it really easy to eat out So if you are someone that travels a lot for work or maybe you're someone that really depends on eating out for the majority of Your meals the blue plan may be a good option for you And in my opinion the last pro on the blue program, there are several pros I'm sure that I'm not even mentioning but the last pro that I thought of is the blue plan Definitely steers you towards healthy food options all of the foods on the zero point list are healthy options You should be basing all of your meals around those zero point foods So you are geared towards choosing a better option You're eating your lean meats such as your boneless skinless chicken breast your 99% ground turkey You're choosing non-fat Greek yogurt as the base of your dishes. You're eating more fruits more vegetables So in my opinion the blue plan definitely steers you towards making healthier food choices So if you struggle in that area the blue plan may be perfect for you So now let's talk about some of the cons in my opinion of the blue plan So the first con is that you can very very easily overeat the zero point foods and I talked about this as a pro as well that there are so many Zero point foods, but I know that there were a lot of you that struggled on freestyle because you were overeating the zero point foods We seem to forget that they still have calories or it doesn't enter our mind that we should be mindful of our portion of The zero point foods. So even though chicken is zero points. There are still calories in chicken So you have to be really careful that you're not Overdoing the zero point foods therefore eating more calories than you should which will make you not lose weight Even potentially gain weight on the flip side of that You can very easily under eat on the blue plan if you are not someone that loves the zero point foods And you are eating more of the red meats and some of the foods that don't fall on that list You only have a certain number of daily smart points a day. I'll get to that next That way you can easily under eat on the blue program Because you're now under a thousand calories because you chose not to eat off of the free or zero point list Because they're just not your favorite foods So there are two sides to the coin on the blue plan You can very easily overeat the zero point foods and you can very easily Under eat the zero point foods both of which are not going to be good for your weight loss and speaking of points That is another what could be considered a con of the blue program And that is the number of daily smart points that you are given the minimum number of points on the blue plan is 23 now keep in mind that your daily smart points are not the same for everybody Not everybody gets 23 smart points points are based on your height your weight your sex and Your gender so those points are going to vary so I get 33 Smart points on the blue plan there are people that get 23 there are people that get 43 It depends on those four things whether or not you receive 23 33 43 daily smart points But that can be considered a con because 23 or even 33 smart points a day is not very much If you're not choosing to eat the zero point foods So the limited number of daily smart points is also considered a con on the blue plan now Let's talk about whether or not the blue plan may be the right decision for you So some things to think about if you are currently on the blue plan or you're considering the blue plan There are three things that I think that you should consider before making that your choice of the plan to follow And the first one is are you somebody who struggles to eat healthy foods? If you are reaching in your fridge freezer or pantry are you reaching for things such as chips crackers cookies? Full fat cheeses and milk if you are somebody that those are your go-to those are the foods that you reach for The blue plan may be a great option for you because the items on the zero point food list are not those items that you Typically would reach for you're going to have to fit those items into the number of daily smart points that you get So if you struggle with making healthy food choices The blue plan may be a great one for you because it is going to definitely Gear you towards choosing off the two hundred zero point foods Which are all considered a healthy food choice another thing to think about for the blue plan is are you on maintenance? Or close to maintenance now if you are someone who is on the maintenance and you've met your goal Congratulations, or if you are someone who is close to goal the blue plan may be a good option for you That was another thing that we heard a lot is that freestyle was more geared towards being a maintenance program And since the blue plan is the old version of freestyle Maybe if you are close to maintenance or on maintenance, this would be the best decision for you People in this arena seem to thrive on the blue plan And the third thing to consider when selecting the blue plan is are you just not the biggest fan of tracking? Do you really want to track as minimum as possible? Then the blue plan may be the option for you if you choose to eat off of the zero point food list You don't have to weigh major or track those items So the tracking is a limited on the blue plan you only have to track the things that fall within your daily smart points So if tracking is not your forte if tracking is not your favorite thing in the world Then I would definitely take a moment and consider the blue plan So I hope that all of those pros cons and three little tips and tricks for choosing your plan Leads you to the blue plan or away from the blue plan I hope that that definitely helped you learn a little bit more about my WWs blue plan so now let's get into the green plan and those of you that follow my channel Know that I have chosen to follow the green plan and let me just tell you I am loving it so far It seems to be a great fit for me personally so on the green plan Let's talk about what it is versus the blue plan So the green plan is a very reminiscent of the old Smart points program or beyond the scale program that was WWs program before freestyle So a little bit over two years ago. This was the program we followed. It was smart points It was beyond the scale the green plan is a very very similar to that plan So if that helps you kind of remember back in the day what the old smart points plan was That is basically what the green plan is So let's talk about the pros and the cons on the green plan The first pro on the green plan is the hundred plus zero point foods Now it is only 100 foods and these foods can prize mostly of fruits and vegetables With the exception of starchy vegetables So your corn and your peas are no longer on the zero points list If you are following the green plan you will need to track those items, but you still have 100 100 foods to choose from on the zero point food list when following the green plan I consider that a huge pro another pro for the green plan is recipe building When you're building a recipe and you don't have a lot of zero point foods in that recipe It makes it very easy to come up with a very accurate Number of smart points per serving you're having to count the chicken in your recipe the eggs in your recipe the things That you didn't count or don't count on the blue plan You're now having to add those into the recipe builder So I find that not only building the recipe is easier But I also find that your points of the recipe are much more accurate Versus points versus calories So I find that building and creating recipes on the green plan is a little bit easier than on some of the other my WW plans another pro of the green plan is it absolutely helps you with portion control you have to weigh Measure and track pretty much everything on the green plan the only things we don't weigh in measure and track our fruits and vegetables So anything else that you put into your mouth you have to track And you have to weigh and measure those items because the number of ounces of chicken You're eating is going to have different smart points that need to be tracked So you absolutely have to have portion control on the green plan You can't just eat all of the chicken that your little heart desires You actually have to weigh measure and track the exact number of ounces so you're within your points of that chicken So that could be a pro work on depending on how you look at it But I look at that as a pro because again, you're tracking everything that goes into your mouth Which they say is what leads to weight loss So in my opinion that is a pro on the green plan and the other pro is you get a larger bank of daily smart points So on the green plan the minimum number of points now Remember not everyone only gets the minimum but the minimum number of smart points that you get daily on the green plan is 30 So you're actually getting seven smart points more than you did on the blue plan But remember you have a hundred less zero point foods so it all kind of balances out So that is a pro though is the fact that you get seven additional daily smart points to use as you choose Definitely considered a pro in my book So one of the cons of the green plan is you literally have to weigh measure and track everything Like I said, you have to know what is going into your mouth so that you can track it Accurately so you can't just put a breast of chicken on your plate and eat it You actually need to weigh and measure that so you know the number of ounces so that you can accurately track that number of ounces So again, that could be a pro or con depending on how you look at it And we'll talk more about that when we're talking about what to think about when selecting the green plan is the plan you want to follow So depending on how you look at it the fact that you have to weigh measure and track could be a pro or a con So I'm going to actually put that on both of my list another con on the green plan is It's a little bit harder to eat out because when we're going out to dinner and let's use Mexican food as an example And we're ordering chicken fajitas with a side of beans and a side of rice now we can Somewhat eyeball the portion size of the rice using our fists using our finger point our thumb all of those help us determine Portion sizes, but we don't know the number of ounces of chicken that are used in our chicken fajitas And we don't know necessarily how many black beans cut half a cup three-quarters of a cup are on our plate So it makes eating out a little bit more of a challenge You just have to do your absolute best to estimate your portion sizes again using your hands and your fingertips That is really going to help you determine Portion sizes and I love that WW brought back that visual in the new my WW book It's on the very back page. It talks about using your hands for portion control I think it's a great thing to have right here in your mind for when you do go out to dinner or go somewhere else to Eat your dinner So that could be considered a con because you don't necessarily know exactly how many points you're eating when you're eating out And the last con or what could be considered a con on the green plant is you have limited zero point foods So now you only have a hundred zero point foods to choose from versus the 200 that you had on the blue plan So that could be considered a con because there's less options that cost you zero points So it all depends of course on how you look at it But only having a hundred zero point foods could definitely be considered a con on the green plan So let's talk about what you may want to consider when you are on the green plan or Choosing the green plan is the plan that you're going to follow if you are somebody who needs portion control The green plan may be an excellent option for you because again Everything has to be weighed and measured in order to be tracked accurately So you're going to have to limit your portions of everything that you eat in order to stay within your daily smart points So if portion control is an issue for you the green plan may be the right plan for you in addition to that If you struggle with remembering to weigh and measure things the green plan may be great for you because again You have to weigh and measure everything on this plan in order to track Accurate to think about when you're choosing or potentially choosing the green plan is are you someone that needs the accountability of tracking everything once again Me I need the accountability of tracking everything It is what works for me. I need to know what I am eating I need to put it in my tracker and I need to be accurate in what I am putting in my plan for the day So if you need that accountability of tracking all of your food weighing and measuring all of your food Then again, the green plan may just be the perfect plan for you So now let's talk about the third option the purple plan Now the purple plan is similar, but not exactly to the old core Simply filling plan now again, it is not an exact duplicate of their plan There are definitely some changes, but it is reminiscent of the old core or simply filling plan So if you enjoyed the plan you were successful on that plan Then you may want to take a deeper look into the new purple plan So let's talk about some of the pros of the purple plan. The first one is there are over 300 Yes 300 Zero point foods to choose from that's a huge pro in my opinion you get more options for zero point foods Now those zero point foods can price of a lot of the same as the blue and the green plan You have your fruits you have your vegetables and on the purple plan starty vegetables are also zero points But it also now incorporates whole grains such as oatmeal brown rice barley quinoa It also includes all of your vegetable pastas such as your lentil pastas your chickpea pastas And it also includes all of your potatoes red white regular potato sweet potato You name it. Those are all included on the zero point food list So all of those point all of those foods you do not have to track They are zero points on the purple plan Another pro of the purple plan is you have a lot less to track in fact You only have to track your daily smart points that you receive on the purple plan You don't have to track any of the foods on the 300 zero point food list So the need to track on the purple plan is a lot less than the blue or the green plan So again, if you struggle with the tracking and the weighing and the measuring WW says you don't have to weigh major or track anything on the zero point food list So on the purple plan you have 300 foods that you don't have to worry about weighing measuring or tracking And the third pro of the purple plan is it absolutely 100 percent Steers you towards healthy food choices all of those foods on that zero point list are your whole grains Natural whole foods. There is nothing really processed on the 300 zero point food list So it definitely gears you towards making healthier food choices So again, if you are someone that struggles with what you're spending your points on The purple plan may be great for you. Are you having a pint of halotop for 10 smart points every day? And is that what is really consuming a lot of the points that you're eating? Then maybe being on the purple plan would be good for you because you're going to have to choose from that 300 point list Of zero points because you have such a limited number of dailies that you're going to have to make healthier food choices So let's talk about some of the cons of the purple plan The first con and the biggest con of the purple plan is the limited number of daily smart points The minimum that you will receive on the purple plan and again, not everyone only gets the minimum is 16 So you will only have 16 smart points a day to use on any food that is not on the 300 zero point food list So if you want to make a sandwich you're going to have to count your condiment and your bread out of those 16 smart points So only having a very minimum amount of smart points daily can be a bit of a challenge for someone And actually could be considered one of the main cons of the purple plan Another con of the purple plan could be the fact that the majority of what you are eating Is off of the zero point food list You're going to have to choose the majority of your foods off of that list because you just don't have The bank of smart points to eat really much of anything else that isn't on that list So that could be considered a con especially if a lot of the foods on that list are not your favorites You could consider that one of the reasons why you may not choose the purple plan And the last con of the purple plan in my opinion is there is a lot less tracking Which means that you have to watch your portion control So if you are not someone that does well with portions, this could be really the number one con of the purple plan for you You have to because potatoes are free not eat a bag of potatoes You still have to eat a portion or what is a reasonable amount of potatoes or you're overeating that zero point food Which means that you're not going to see success on the scale So if you struggle with your portion sizes, the purple plan may not be right for you Especially if some of your favorite foods fall on that 300 zero pointless If you love some potatoes and you have a tendency to be triggered to overeat potatoes That would be a huge con for the purple plan for you It may not be the right decision because overeating those potatoes could definitely put a detriment in your success on the purple plan So let's talk about a few things to consider if you're on the purple plan Or you're looking at possibly selecting that as the plan that you want to follow The purple plan is absolutely fantastic for somebody who wants to eat whole healthy foods Because all of the foods on that 300 zero point food list are healthy their whole grains their fruits their vegetables Their potatoes their oatmeal. They're all the things that we consider a healthy food choice So if you struggle with making if grabbing and gravitating towards those foods Is not your forte then maybe being on the purple plan would be a good choice for you Because you're going to have to start incorporating those foods a lot more into your daily diet Another thing to consider are you someone that doesn't have an issue with portion control? Are you someone that does very well at eating until you're satisfied? And you don't tend to overeat or eat too much Then this would be a great plan for you because you don't have to weigh measure and track a lot of the foods that you're eating And if you are really good at eating until you're full Then this would be a great choice for you Especially if you love all of the foods that fall on that zero point food list And the last thing to consider if you are not a tracker If you are not a fan of tracking or maybe you want to track But you don't and there are a lot of people that do that Then the zero point food list and the purple plan would be great for you because you don't have to track any of those foods So you're tracking the bare minimum You are tracking just the daily smart points that you're consuming the rest of the food that you're eating You don't have to worry about tracking those so if you struggle with consistently tracking again Look at the zero point food list. Look at the purple plan and see if that would be beneficial for you So that's everything you guys I hope by taking a closer look at the pros and the cons and some things to think about when you're selecting The right color of plan for you really helped you out Again, if you have not seen my video that I posted on monday where we really took a deep dive into the new My w w it is linked down in the description box below Highly recommend you check out that video I promise the majority of your questions will be answered there and it will tie this video in and make it a little bit More clear for you. So hopefully this helped you out Really think about the pros and cons of the plan really take a good hard look at yourself And what you know you are successful with and what you know that you struggle with and choose the right plan for you And on that note, you guys don't choose a plan because your friends on it your sisters on it Your co-workers on it your favorite youtubers on it choose the plan that is right for you Just because the green plan may be the plan that's right for me And you want to follow what I follow it may not be the right plan for you And the good news is Especially for those of you that follow me if you are part of my facebook group If you're not we would love to have you we have over 10 000 members I'm going to put it right here for you guys head on over join my facebook group All of my recipes are put into the files of my facebook group every time I post a video by my admins Since I am following the green plan. I will be talking about and posting the points for the green plan on my recipes Unfortunately, I won't be able to convert those into the blue and the purple plan But my admins have saved the day and they are going to convert all of my recipes moving forward Into both blue and purple points. So when they're posted on my facebook group They are going to be posted for green blue and purple. So you don't even have to recalculate the recipes We are doing all of the work for you. So no matter what plan you follow You can continue to join me here on youtube and take my recipes and recreate them and make them for your family And have the points for all three of the plans. So thank you so much to my admins for doing that I am here to help you guys. I am here to serve you. That is why I have a youtube channel So I am trying to make it as easy for you as humanly possible by putting all of my recipes Into all three plans. That way you don't have to do the legwork. It is done for you So make sure you head over and join my facebook group I will continue to show a ton of recipes here on my youtube channel Also, if you are new, I would love it if you would take a moment and subscribe Hit the bell and join my youtube friends and family We're all about Weight Watchers on this channel and we have a ton of fun along the way So make sure you're subscribed and notified whenever I upload Please take a moment and thumbs up this video. It means a lot to me and it really really helps out my channel And comment down below. Please you guys ask your questions. I'm here to help you Leave your comments. Let me know if maybe this video shifted you to a different plan than you originally thought that you were going to follow Hey guys, so I am editing this video and realize I'm not sure what happened with the last Like 10 seconds of my footage. It was not there. So Boy, I had some struggles filming this video, but it was something I absolutely wanted to film for everybody So it all worked itself out. So I want to end my video here and thank you guys so much for watching I really appreciated. Please let me know if you have any questions. And of course, I'll see you next time