Weight watchers Club

Im also on weight watchers and loves it! I have lost 12.4 in 8 weeks. Join me in still i can always need extra help! Good luck!

oops sorry! double post

i didnt pay for the book or anything i am lucky i know people who have the new book and i borrowed it and i use the calculator

To keep the free-deals coming, here is the old and new calculator online so you don't have to buy the hand-held one.

http://www.calculatorcat.com/free_calculators/weight_watchers_calculator.phtml

I am interested, tell me more!

To figure out the new points plus program and what you personally need to eat (op 29, me 19);

10% of your weight in pounds
PLUS
2 points for females
8 points for males
PLUS
4 points if you're between 17-26 years old
3 points if you're between 27-37 years old
2 points if you're between 38-47 years old
1 point if you're between 48-58 years old
0 points if you're over 58
PLUS
0 points if you're under 5' 1"
1 point if you're between 5' 1" and 5' 10"
2 points if you're over 5' 10"
PLUS
0 points if you spend most of your day sitting down
2 point if you spend most of your day standing
4 points if you are walking most of the time
6 points if you are doing physically hard work
PLUS
10 points for mothers who are solely breast feeding
5 points for supplementing breastfeeding with some solid foods or formula

The sum (bounded below by 18 and at the top by 44) is the daily target.

Eating activity points in WW goes against MFP’s suggestion of eating back all your calories so follow this as you see fit;
One point for activity is earned for approximately every 100 Calories of effort. Given that 1 Point could be approximated as 50 Calories, consuming activity points would still create a calorie deficit.

Also the extra points allotted is 35 NOT 49 – that’s an extra 5000 cals a week, yikes! This exact number does change so don’t bite my head off if you paid the WW fees and were told differently.

I've been in Weight Watchers since last September....under the old program (which changed November 28 last year in the US), the lowest you got for points per day was 18, highest of 44. weekly points were 35.

under the NEW program, the lowest anyone can go is 29--and the calculator no longer factors in your activity level. Weekly points allotted is now 49. This is because the way they calculate points has changed. It used to factor in calories, fat, and fiber. It now factors in fat, carbs, fiber, and protein.

The higher points targets are because most foods now have a higher points value. for example: most 100 calorie packs used to have a points value of 2 (with some having a value of 3, depending on fat content). Most are now 3, with some having a value of 4 if the fat/carb content is high.

I hope this clears up some confusion for you all.

Thanks PMaxim for clarifying. 29 pts still sounds crazy high to me but at least makes me feel better when I notice a 1300 calorie day = 27 points so I can avoid going absolutely bonkers like I did a few weeks ago. I've noticed that several times when I had planned on switching to pts plus and then said forget that If I was limited to 900 calories in order to only eat 20 pts a day. I eat on average 100g+ protein a day (only now cutting back to about 80) and 25-35g fiber and only about 15g of fat- yes I know that should increase b/c healthy fat is important so those 26 and 27 ww point days didn’t make any sense to me originally.

I was reading this thread and had to log in to point something out.

In the USA the Weight Watchers plan is called Points Plus

In the UK it is called ProPoints.

In other countries they probably have different names too.

However, each plan is a bit different and the daily/weekly points and the food points are calculated differently with different allowances. So I think that is where some of the confusion is coming from people on different plans depending on the country they live in.

In the UK ProPoints system the MINIMUM daily points anyone has is 29 (a rough work out is 40 calories to a point). This daily points value increases depending on your weight, age, height and gender so not everyone is on 29 points.

On top of this everyone gets 49 weekly points that you can use as you wish. You can use them all in one go on a meal out or split them up through the week.

Been doing WW in the UK for 10 weeks now and lost 27 1/2 lb.

This is JUST for the UK ProPoints pan though, the US one is different as could plans in other countries be different too.

I'm using WW still also, confused by the new points. Going to read up.............

5 of them would be free the rest would have to count as your points unfortionally ....

I've tried WW several times in the past, mostly on the Points program with different degrees of success based on my different levels of commitment. From all the chatter, it appears the new Points Plus plan is a little confusing (or maybe it's me because I haven't done WW for several years.) I'm impressed with the person that lost the 27 lbs in 10 weeks. While I never had that kind of loss, I'm glad someone else has. I think you are all winners for your weightrelease efforts and plan to join you as soon as I'm off the HCG next week. Want to continue releasing and since I have gotten my "jump start" with the HCG, I'm ready to go to the tried and true long term method. I will probably continue to utilize my "old points" tracker though. Hoping everyone has a "weight release" (so much better than "losing"-which implies you may find it again.) this week.
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