How does Weight Watcher points convert into calories?

I tried WW earlier and when I logged my food,it was usually around 1000-1200 calories.....my points allowed were 27.You might Google it......wish I could have been more help

I did WW and MFP for awhile, I'm not sure how well you'll be able to meet both goals. With 31 points you may have a tough time meeting your calorie goal. I found WW wasn't giving me enough to eat, so I'm only on here now. But, many have had success with WW as well. Best of luck!

Its ok the question can be helpful to someone else

I use MFP to log my foods and count my calories, but I also eat a weight watchers diet, without the "program". I don't see the point in paying for the membership when all the information is available online. I found a website that converts whatever food I am eating into points and just keep track of my points. But use the MFP diary to log daily meals. So far, doing both is working out great for me.

For those that say WW didn't provide enough food, maybe you didn't eat to the WW point advantage. I eat three meals a day, with two snacks. About 2-4 points for breakfast, 6-10 points for lunch, and about a 12-15 point dinner. I am allowed 32 points. If I ate at the max amounts I give myself, that would be 29 points. A snack is easily 3 points, and fruits and vegetables don't count, so you could have grapes or something as a second snack. Also, you are given a weekly allowance for extra points, 35 for the week. You could split them up into 5 extra points a day, or save them for a fun carefree weekend. You can also GAIN points with exercise. I usually do a short 10 minute work out atleast twice a day, and that gives me an extra 3 points a day. I don't tap into my weekly points, just workout for the goodies I want. I look at it like my reward for the fitness.

in Feb 2012 I started doing 26 Weight Watchers points on the Points Plus diet and lost 50 pounds very easily and quickly in 3 months and have kept it off. On Jan 1st of this year I started the WWPP again at the 26 points and have only lost 5 pounds and I am going on 24 days witout any cheating and sticking to the daily points and sometimes going under by 1 or 2. I started the MFP along with the WW log sheet to see actually how many calories some items were because a friend was using MFP and turned me onto it. MFP says I should be eating 1800 calories a day and if I have done the calculations correctly according to the info given here then WW points at 40 each for 26 pointes is 1040 calories. How can they be that different??? I haven't had the same weight loss experience that I did last year and want to know if I should reduce the points plus values to get some results but 1040 calories doesn't seem like much at all. Any ideas?:grumble:

But think of the savings if you use fitnesspal, its free and still has the same information, and more or less the same simple message, do more, eat less rubbish and keep a good balance.Why put money into a profit making organisation like ww when my fitness pal does exactly te same, for FREE!!

I was doing WW but, MFP works better for me. I like the app on my phone. WW is a rip off & plus they advised me to eat to few calories, I was alwayyysssssssss hungry.

Weight loss is all math. 1 lb - 3500 calories. So, you need to create a deficit in your calorie count in order to lose weight. 1800 calories per day for me, would result in very slow weight loss. MFP has me at 1310 calories and weight watchers has me at 27 points. WW will probably result in a faster weight loss if I stuck to only those daily points. I find the 1310 calories much more easy to stick to, but I love my weight watcher leader and the support you get from the meetings, so I'm doing both, in a way. I work out 3 - 4 times per week burning at least 300 calories each workout. I'm down 10 lbs and need to start tracking on MFP again. I like that better. Plus the food database is so extensive. I find it funny that weight watchers foods are easier to fin in MFP than on the weight watchers site.

Try this:

http://www.easycalculation.com/health/weight-watchers-points-plus.php

The old plan I did (I think Points Plus?) around 2005-2007 was :

1 point = 50 calories OR 12grams of fat. And you would subtract 1 point for 5 grams of fiber. So if something was 300 calories & 12 grams of fat, it would be 7 points. If it had 5 grams of fiber, 6 points.

The new 360 program, when I was using it in March, the point value varied by the make up. If it was a high protein / fiber food the point value was lower than if it was a higher carb / fat food. The calories could be the same, but one product would be 5 points and the other would be 3.

I am struggling with the same thing lost a lot of weight on WW but it has stopped! I am training for a half marathon and work out every day! I am having trouble with the amount of calories it says I need, bc on WW I was only eating 1200 calories and not eating exercise calories

I am thinking that one of the reasons the calories on WW are lower than what you get on MFP is because of all of the "free" and 0 point foods. All of them have calories even if not very many so they do add up. So the points converting to being a few hundred less calories is probably to give a cushion for all of the "free" foods

Hi everyone!

I'm doing both MFP and weight watchers PPV. I've been doing PPV since october, and just started entering my foods into MFP on top of Weight Watchers. Did some quick calculations.... here are some of my findings on how calorie counting converts to PPV.

A weight watchers PPV is roughly 40 calories, depending slightly on nutrition. The produce I ate was about 45 calories/PPV, and the rest of the food I ate averaged to 38 calories/PPV.

When I calculate the PPV of my total nutrition form the day as totaled by MFP, leaving out all zero-point fresh fruit and vegetables, it comes within 2 points of what the PPV summary is of calculating all items' PPV individually. Adding in those fruits and vegetables adds more points (today it was about 10 points).

Using the 40 cals/PPV, my daily calorie intake before zero-point fruits and veggies is about 1280. That's too low for me, (my MFP goal is 1570) so that leaves room for more calories from fruits and veggies.

So, if I eat about 300 calories worth of zero-point fruits and veggies each day, the two plans are roughly equivalent. Tadaa!

I also have my fitbit pedometer connected, and MFP gives you way more credit! Today I got 12k steps, and MFP called that 623 calories. I know there is a lot of debate whether you should eat those calories back or whatever, but weight watchers converted 12k steps into 6 PPV. Multiply that by 40 calories and that is 240 calories earned back from exercise. That seems more reasonable to me as an amount of calories I should add to my diet. Don't eat everything I burned, but eat a little more to account for the exercise.

Maybe I will do a more complete study... but I've always wondered how WW really breaks down...

I'd love to be friends with other WW-ers! I promise not to annoy you with more math