Wednesday, April 2, 2008

How to figure your weight watchers daily points!

You have to add the numbers in order to get your points. Ready?
Are you:Female?-----2pts
Male?-------8pts
A Nursing Mom*?-----12pts
How Old Are You?17*-26---------4pts
27-37---------3pts
38-47---------2pts
48-58---------1pts
Over 58-------0pts
What do you weigh?
Enter the first two digits of your weight in pounds.
For example, if you weigh 175, enter 17.
If you weigh less than 100 pounds, enter the first digit of your weight in pounds. i.e. for 98, enter 9.
How tall are you?Under 5'1"----0pts
5'1"-5'10"----1pts
Over 5'10"----2pts
Do you spend most of your day:
Sitting down?------------------0pts(e.g. as a receptionist, bus driver, cab driver)Occasionally sitting, but mainly standing?---2pts(e.g. sales person, housewife, cook, teacher)
Walking most of the time?-------4pts(e.g. waiter, mailman)
Doing physically hard work most of the time?---6pts(e.g. nurse, gardener, construction worker)
The total is your daily points target.
*Nursing moms and young people under 17 should talk with a WW leader before beginning the program.
**If your total is less than 18, your daily points target is 18; if your total is more than 44, your daily points target is 44.
***Retake the quiz as your weight goes down, as you get older or if you change the way you spend you day.
Remember that you have 35 allowance points each week as well. You can save them to eat out once a week, or however you choose. You don't even have to use them if you don't want to. Keep in mind that they start over each week.
You also earn more points when you exercise.
You have to have a points calculator to help determine how many points you've earned.
Source(s):
BTW, if you want to know the points value of foods, you will have to go to the Weight Watchers website, or just buy the books that tell you what the points are. They are not expensive and you can use them w/o attending
meetings.

3 comments:

Wilson Family said...

Hey Jen, Just a thought. Maybe you can give each of us access to the log-in for the biggest loser sight so we can add things as we go. Like things we find etc. Or how our progress is going. Just a thought.

Dave and Britt said...

Man oh man I'm loving breastfeeding now that I know how many extra pts. I get. Hehe, yeah right, I'm obviously still going over though if Im not losing!

Dave and Britt said...

So while I was at the gym yesterday, doin my thing on the eliptical, they had a healthy cooking segment on the news. Get this if you are making a box of brownies and use only the egg whites and use applesauce instead of oil you cut out 900, yes 900 calories!!! Anyway just thought I would share. I'm going to start experimenting with healthier, lower cal, lower fat options in cooking. I'll let ya know how it goes!