About users following Weight Watchers program

Hello! I’ve become addicted to Gyminee and I’ve been using it religiously for the last week.

I’m currently doing the Weight Watchers program, and I’ve found this website to be useful for keeping track of my nutrition, I’m considering becoming a pro user soon.

Also, I’ve been adding to the description field of some foods I eat the number of Weight Watchers points for that specific item.

I am in no manner associated to Weight Watchers at all, and I don’t want to “contaminate” the food database by doing this.

What is your position about openly referencing privately owned nutrition or exercise programs?

Thanks!

I’m not using Weight Watchers, but as a regular user, I can tell you this doesn’t bother me at all. If it makes Gyminee more usable for more people, have at it.

Can you link us to some examples. I’m also using weight watchers and would like to see how you’re recording this.

The way Im adding this information is in the description field. I add to the end something like this:

[ 3 Weight Watchers points ]

I wonder if there’s any copyright infringement by doing this, I hope not! because it’s really helpful for me to keep track of my points, and I hope for anyone else who is doing WW like you, sawolf01.

I would like to hear what the admins have to say about this, or I could just start a new thread in the Diet and Nutrition section.

I am no lawyer, but from what I have seen in cookbook sites, etc… , since the WW point calculation is public knowledge (on file with the US Patent Office), the only time infringments come into play if there is money involved. Since there is money involved with this site, there is a little concern, however, as long as the admins of the site don’t provide anything related to weight watchers, I don’t think there can be an infringement. What you are doing is just telling people what the weight watchers points are for a food item. Now if the admins of the site decided to provide these values (or recipes) themselves and charge any money for it, then they would have a problem. But as it stands, they have just provided a database with some basic entry, search, and reporting abilities.

This is also why I feel it would not be in violation if gyminee allowed users to track custom nutritional values. Currently, users are able to track common preset nutrional values such as carbs, protein etc.. but it would be nice if they were able to define a custom attribute to track (such as is available to PRO gyminee users in the bodytracker) such as calcium, weight watchers points, whatever. Then I could easily see, in graph format how well I was going over a month period.

I agree sawolf01, so I think it should be ok to keep doing this. And I’m going to post that suggestion for a custom field! I think it’s a great idea, thanks for your input guys.

I love the idea of a custom field or field(s). I use a similar system where I get a certain number of color coded cards for what I can eat. So, say, 6oz of fish is two red cards (each red card is 3oz of protein). Every day, I allocate the cards in one side of a business card holder that has two pocket/sides. As I eat, I move them to the other pocket/side of the business card holder. When the cards are all on one side, no more food for the day. I would love to be able to calculate this on Gyminee as well. I am thinking of going Pro also.