Weight Watchers people--- activity points?

i just joined WW last week and I totally hate it.. It is going to be alot of work bu tI am goign to log my calories and poitnso n each..here and on WW! I don't like the activity thing and I dont like the extra points and I don't like the 0 points thing for fruits!

i do n;t understand why your acitity points would only be used after you have had 49 extra points! that makes no sense..
So in their way of looking at things.. one day I could eat my 29 points plus another 49 before the exercise I did helped.. I don't see that.

I really hated the new WW program when I visited earlier in the year - I never went back - it was way to complicated with the new point system - you have to put in everything and look up each thing in each food - it was just too much. This is so much easier.

Also - we all know - things are not free - so fruit is not "free" - it has calories -

I've been on WW for 7 1/2 years (lost over 110 pounds, but now I'm struggling the new Points Plus program) and I can understand the confusion the Activity Points.

It used to be you had to eat your Activity Points the day you earned them, but they changed that so now you have the opiton of saving them throughout the week (and you can use them before the Weekly points, either way is okay).

I was "saving" mine for my higher food intake days, but I thought that might be what was causing me to gain on the new program, so I switched back to just using them on the day I earn them.

I am avid WW because I love the meeting and online community support... and the old program helped me to the lose the weight (it took me so long to lose because I hadn't learned to deal with emotional eating) and get to the weight goal set by my doctor. But since the new program, I haven't been able to keep my weight within the goal range. Though I do admit, the first couple of months were because I wasn't following program as well as I could have been! But the last 5 weeks I have tracked every bite, worked out religously, and followed the program and even though I do lose on some weeks, I tend to gain more than lose.

Someone on the WW online community suggested I try counting calories and recommended this site... so here I am! Hoping I can find the cause of the weight gain and finally get back to goal... and maybe even to a healthy BMI! :-)

Hi! You need to eat your weekly points but I never ate my activity points and I lost 40 pounds doing it that way! I do like this sight so far! I am not a member of WW right now and it sounds like this works because I never counted calories before!

Go to settings in the upper right corner of the tracker. If you choose to use your activity points only on the day they are earned, they will automatically be used first.

If you choose to have your activity points banked for the week, you then have the option of using weekly pts. or activity pts. first.

Hope this helps.
I'm a lifetime weight watchers member. but just today cancelled my monthly etools subscription.
I'm finding that the new points plus system is way to complecated for me to do the math in my head.
for me, I need something pretty simple -
I also gained weight when I started the points plus program - Watch out for the "Free Fruit"
remember - "There is no such thing as a "Free' lunch" - almost everything we eat "costs" something.

Best of luck.
Joe

I am doing weight watchers and having alot of sucess with it. I am doing the momentum plan because i heard the new pointsplus is not as successful. On activity points, you do not have to eat the points. It's actually not reccommended to eat so you can boost your weight loss. i started weight watchers in february and my weight was 166. i paused WW for 1 week and did MFP and i actually gained 2 lbs on it. SO i got back on WW and lost the 2 lbs i gained while doing MFP. so i am currently at 139. i hope you have success with whatever weight loss plan your doing )

i too am on weight watchers but i wanted to start seeing how many calories i was taking in im doing pretty good i was down a pound but neww points plus is different from old program but im in it to lose it and ongraulations on your amazing weight loss keep in touch woll you send me a friends request.::blushing:

You don't have to use your extra 49 points first.

I did WW online the first three months of the year and online you can set it to pull your "overage" points either from that extra 49 or from Activity Points - it doesn't matter. They are both "freebies" either way, consider them the same.

I lost well on WW, but when my hubby wanted to do it too and was reluctant to pay for two memberships I went looking for an alternative and found MFP. For a couple months I did both programs side-by-side with identicle results -- like when I was out out of WW points for the day I was also out of calories on MFP -- so I dropped WW. Counting calories is easier to me than figuring out points and MFP is free.

this is interesting because mfp says you should eat back your activity calories burned, but ww don't. My friend also does ww and she never eats back her activity calories and is losing weight and feels really well, so this is why i am confused why on here they say eat back your calories .

I lost 57 lb with WW 23 years ago. They were the days when they weighed and measured everything we ate. I then fell pregnant with my second child and went back to WW with their Points system to lose the baby weight. I did not lose anything! In fact I gained. I really think the most efficient way to lose weight is to weigh and measure and count calories.

I used WW online about 5 years ago and loved it. I was totally motivated, tracked using the points program and went to the gym all the time. I lost 30 pounds and was feeling great. Fast forward to now, I've gained about 15 back. I tried to use it again but HATED the points plus program. Wish you had the option to change it back to the old points system because it totally worked for me. But I used it mostly for tracking food and exercise, which I can do here for free. I saved all my favorite WW recipes, and don't miss it at all.