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Making healthy choices and healthy changes can be challenging. But the WW app makes it a little bit easier, and a lot more fun. It’s an excellent weight-loss ally: Research has found that members who use the WW app and/or weightwatchers.ca lose more weight than those who don’t. Check out your WW FreestyleTM Weekly for loads of information and tips about the app and Connect, its warm, welcoming community. Connect delivers inspiration, information, and peer support—and it can also help you succeed: People who have social support networks are more likely to eat healthfully and move more.

If you haven't yet downloaded the app, it's available on Android and iOS.

Here’s a closer look at some of the features and how to use them.

The app opens to a sort of “dashboard,” officially called “My Day.” Here’s your home base for searching for and tracking what you eat and drink, and how you move. The default screen shows you your daily and weekly remaining SmartPoints® values and gives you a look at your week as a whole.

Food: enter terms into the search bar to quickly call up all related words; most popular foods come up on top to streamline your search. Tap the food and a tracking screen pops up so you can enter serving size, mealtime, and date (you can track foods for any date up to a year in the past and the future).

That little grid icon to the right of the search bar is super-handy. It’s a nifty scanner that reads the barcode on almost any packaged food to give you SmartPoints® values; you can track it instantly if you like.

Activity: Tap Activity at the top of your My Day screen to search for options—hula hooping anyone?—and track them afterward. If you have a FitBit or other fitness tracker, you can sync it easily with the WW app, which will do the tracking for you! Have an iPhone 5S or newer? You can also sync Apple Health (that white app icon with the heart in it) to the app. As with your food and drink, your activity screen will show you your current status and an overview of your week.

And more: Tap the calendar icon at the bottom left of the screen to return to My Day. Scroll down to see recipe roundups, helpful articles on wellness, and tips for making the most of WW FreestyleTM. You can Share the Love and invite a friend to join WW right from the app—for each friend who joins, you’ll both get a free month of WW!

To the right of the calendar icon is a zigzag icon; tap it to see your progress, not just with weight loss, but with your healthy food choices.

Weight loss: Tap the arrow at the right of your weight loss progress for a deeper dive, including milestones earned and weight tracked. Tap the crossed arrows at top right to get the long view, from one month to a year to even longer. Check this overview whenever you’re feeling discouraged—getting a bird’s eye view over time can show you that things are moving in the right direction.

Healthy eating: Tap the arrow to the right of "Days in the Healthy Eating Zone" to see how you've done for the current month. Days where you've tracked either 10 SmartPoints below or 5 SmartPoints above your daily Budget are highlighted in blue. See how many "blue-dot" days you can rack up, and share your success on Connect with the hashtag #bluedotchallenge.

Messages: We're here for you with greetings, helpful tips related to your journey, and celebrations! Weight-loss milestones, healthy behaviours, tracking achievements—all are worthy of cheers, and we deliver!