Sounds likes good old TOM is the culprit then.

Wendie plan success over here today! My scale was 187 this morning, a number I have never seen (and was probably in grade school the last time I was that) and I'm pretty pleased!

Yay I'm glad. May have to try this next week myself if I don't show a loss on Monday.

I followed the Wendie Plan successfully on the old WW program. I'm keeping this info in my back pocket for when I hit a plateau or when I just need to shake things up. Thanks!

I don't think the plan is for everyone. It just confuses your body and boosts metabolism if followed.

This is pretty much what I have been doing since I started WW last month. My WI is on Saturday so I use my WP on the weekend and the rest of the week I try to stick with my 26 points and if I go over a few points for a few days its ok cause I usually have about 15-20 of my weeklies left after the weekend. Usually on Thursday & Friday I drink alot more water all day since I know that WI is Saturday morning.

That's wonderful. I have never thought of weighing in other then at first of the week. I did Mondays and also Tuesdays. Now just Mondays, maybe I should move my weigh in to Friday. I think I will keep it where it is now, but reevaluate later.

Back on the Wendie plan after a few rough days. Hoping to see something low tomorrow, but weigh in isn't until Sat.

I basically agree with this. I tried the Wendie plan a few years ago. I did not get any significant results from it. Also, I hated the lack of flexibility in it. My life doesn't always happen on pre-determined dates. Also, some days I'm hungrier than others.

I tend to follow what is referred to here as the Maggie plan. I weigh in on Friday mornings then usually go out for lunch. Then I usually eat out again on Saturday or Sunday. By the end of Sunday I usually have 20 to 25 weekly point left over. My goal is to use no more than 4 WP on Monday - Wednesday then to use no WP on Thursday. So that leaves me some unused WP so that if have to eat out unexpectedly on Mon-Thurs I have points available to do it. (usually I don't). So some weeks I end up with 15 unused WP, other weeks less or even none.

Oh, I don't believe that you have to drink milk every night. Yes, you need to meet your GHG but you can do that a variety of ways.

This week, I will either try the Maggie Plan OR I will go back to shunning my WP altogether. The latter scares me because I feel, in doing so, I have been eating only 1000-1200 calories and may be why my body has stopped losing (I have nowhere else to go and my body expects 1200 calories.)

I don't agree with the Wendie plan. It's just calorie shifting with a name slapped on it. :) If you want to calorie shift, I suggest counting calories and not putting the $$ or effort in to WW, because it's a completely different plan.

The WW plan is made to be flexible, so you don't need to add in other plans. You have weeklies to use or pass, activity points to either use or pass, and with WW you can make a big day if you need it. Those bumps in the road aren't planned for, so if you have the available points, you can use them and not feel bad about it. If you use them up on the Wendie plan, then when those 'accidents' happen, you don't have the available points to take care of it.

I agree with the overall point you are making about the Wendie plan. I think the idea of varying your calorie intake during the week (within your allowed daily and weekly points) is a good one. However, for most people, if you are using WW correctly you naturally do that. I don't like the rigidity of the Wendie plan and want my eating to be tied to my actual life.

All of that said - I don't think that if someone is counting calories they don't need to join WW. Again - I understand the point ... to a point. That is, I don't find any real magic in the WW food plan. I get just as much benefit from counting calories as I do counting points (I do both). So, from a food plan standpoint, I agree that I could easily skip doing WW, count calories, record food on My Fitness Pal and track activity on Fitbit. All of this is why WW income is down and why they suspended their dividend.

But the important thing for me is that I don't belong to WW for the food plan or for the tracker or for their online tools. I can get all of that free just fine. I belong to WW for the accountability of the weekly weigh in. It gives me a specific short term goal for each week (stay within my points until I weigh in so I will - hopefully - see a loss). I structure my week around the weigh in. Also, the meeting helps me continue to focus motivation on losing weight.

So, for even someone who counts calories, WW can still be a great program.

Wendie plan is points plus tweaked in such a way to surprise ones body. I would not discourage it, because it's not "not on plan"

going to look into this but some of the comments made are making me skeptical, good points!

I found that if I eat most to all of my WPs in 2-3 days say In the weekend, the stayed within my DPs for the other 4-5 days it kept my metabolism high and I lost consistently.