I started WW at home last April, 2007. My fiance and I are doing it free by borrowing a friends materials and using a WW cookbook (we are each other's support system). I too, at first, thought it would be incredibly time consuming and confusing trying to figure out the points for foods I eat, and the first couple of days were like that. But, I can truly say that after doing it consistently for about 2 weeks and tracking all of my food for each day and writing down the points value for everything, it got really easy to keep track of points. I'm not sure about you, but I really do tend to eat a lot of the same things during the week (fruit, cereal, yogurt, different kinds of sandwich meat, etc.) and after writing down the points values for all of this food for a couple of weeks, I was able to memorize what the points values were for most of the common foods I eat. As far as recipes go, there are a lot of great books out there (including a WW cookbook) that will give you all of the nutritional info and all you need to do is grab your trusty points calc and figure out the points once, and write the points value down next to the recipe so you have it in the future.
Writing down what you eat each day can be a little boresom (I would say no more than 5 minutes a day) and I do get tired of it sometimes, but it is a great way to track how much you are eating, your eating patterns, etc. I do see how WW can seem time consuming and confusing at first, but after a few weeks it becomes just like any other habit like brushing your teeth. Good luck!
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