How do I count my daily calories intake in WW points?

Sunnykaren
Sunnykaren Posts: 1
edited September 29 in Introduce Yourself
Hi everybody, I've heard a lot about myfitnesspal. Actually my fitness instructor and people at the gym told me about. Yesterday I came from the internist and my doctor told me despite I am a very healthy person with BEST blood results my metabolic rate is EXTREMELY slow. I gained 60 pounds since we've been living in the States (3 years now) but most of the pounds within my last year while working out a lot and eating heatlhy which is ridiculous. When I counted the caloric intake of myfitnesspal I could eat about 2.170 calories a day to lose weight. With my slow metabolism the doctor told me that my resting energy expenditure is 1.300 cal./day which is not a lot at all. All diets are based on people with much faster metabolism. That's the main reason why I constantly gain weight...How can I count WW-points with the new points system so I know how many points are 1.300 calories? Does anybody have any idea?

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  • glenna221
    glenna221 Posts: 46
    I recommend you use one or the other (WW points or myfitnesspal calories).
  • kamoira23
    kamoira23 Posts: 193
    WW points aren't really based on calories - they look at fat, carbs, protein, and fiber... so I'm not sure that there's a way to do this.
  • caf123
    caf123 Posts: 2
    I LOVE doing WW and I use their eTools, but I have recently started tracking here also because I want to capture how much sodium and calcium I'm consuming and I can't see that in the WW tool. I'm definately doing both, but my main online tool is WW. And the WW program is not based on calories, as was mentioned in a previous post, so if you don't use this site to supplement WW, then there really is no way to compute the conversion without actually using the WW tools.
  • daisymae9801
    daisymae9801 Posts: 208 Member
    Hi everybody, I've heard a lot about myfitnesspal. Actually my fitness instructor and people at the gym told me about. Yesterday I came from the internist and my doctor told me despite I am a very healthy person with BEST blood results my metabolic rate is EXTREMELY slow. I gained 60 pounds since we've been living in the States (3 years now) but most of the pounds within my last year while working out a lot and eating heatlhy which is ridiculous. When I counted the caloric intake of myfitnesspal I could eat about 2.170 calories a day to lose weight. With my slow metabolism the doctor told me that my resting energy expenditure is 1.300 cal./day which is not a lot at all. All diets are based on people with much faster metabolism. That's the main reason why I constantly gain weight...How can I count WW-points with the new points system so I know how many points are 1.300 calories? Does anybody have any idea?

    I have a BMR of around 1200-1300 calories, too. However, that's not what you burn in a day. That's what you burn if you lay in bed all day. What did you put for your activity level when you signed up for MFP?

    And I wouldn't do both...I don't know the formula they use to determine points and it's just easier to count calories.
  • ironband
    ironband Posts: 157 Member
    My wife is doing Weight Watchers, while I am doing MFP. Two totally different systems.

    For instance, at present, Weight Watchers considers most fruits and veggies to have a zero point value. For other foods, the points are calculated using the amount of fat, protein, carbs, and fiber in the food. Each of these translates into calories, but the calories are weighted differently.

    MyFitnessPal weights all calories the same. Granted, most fruits and veggies are low in calories, but they count just like any other calories.

    If you are in Weight Watchers, I would recommend that you talk to your Weight Watchers leader/counselor to see how to translate your unique dietary needs into the point system. If I had to hazard a guess, a percentage could be used where you take your BMR and divide it by the BMR of a typical person your age/size/gender to get a percentage, then multiply that percentage times the allotted points (and flex points, possibly) for the same "typical person" to get your allotted points.

    In any case, good luck!

    Andre
  • nuttyfamily
    nuttyfamily Posts: 3,394 Member
    With the new PP system...you won't be able to equate points to calories very much.

    On the old system, you could 'roughly' estimate about 50 cals depending on fat and fiber to be about one point.

    No longer with PP.

    That is why I switched to MFP.
  • caf123
    caf123 Posts: 2
    The problem with 'just counting calories' is that your body converts certain aspects of a calorie differently to energy, so you can count calories,stay within your caloric range, and lose or maintain your weight - but you could be eating junk that doesn't really make for a healthy lifestyle. And you can do both - this site seems to have a lot more items and restaurants in their database which is actually helping me figure my points better on the WW site.
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