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jestillman · Kenneth Cole

WW Points Question

laken1 · Hermes

Jess - when I get confused to be honest, I add up total of what I can have for the week - (20x7) + 35. The add up your total for the week that you used and subtract your activity. Whatever is left is what you can have for the rest of the week - you can eat that many points or eat more & do activity to reduce to that number. There was a plan like this that WW didn't actually endorse but it worked for a lot of people so it's out there on the internet (wendy plan). Does that makes sense at all?

The math for your week:
So at your weight you can have 175 points total for the 7 days.
Mon - thurs you have used 130.5 pts & have earned 13 activity points. (130.5-13=117.5)
So you have 57.5 (175-117.5) pts left for Frid-Sat-Sun

You can eat more points if you do more exercise. So you are really pretty close to being on the 20 pts a day track.

Clear as mud?

Just for the record, I don't do this all of the time but when I have some big days & get confused it helps me to look at it this way.

ETA: all that being said, again, WW doesn't support this theory - which is basically gorging for a few days & starving on others - but it did work for a lot of people. And on the old plan I was on you could "bank" points to be used within that week so to me it's that same thing.

-- Edited by laken1 at 11:56, 2006-08-18

jestillman · Kenneth Cole

THANK YOU!

I had to do the math on some ppr, but then it really does make sense.

The "Wendy" Plan sounds exactly like WW, unless it is just the way I view WW. I knew I had 2 huge dinners this week so I used all my flex points there(and fine, a few extra) but I knew I cld bc i'd worked out and therefore had "bonus" activity points.

Of course I realize the point is to work out bc it's healthy and NOT so that you can eat more. BUT, this week that was my plan.

So it works out that I have 19pts for each day of the weekend.

Better finish this 100 cal pack of peanut butter cookies and go get a salad for lunch!

I don't think i could official do the Wendy plan because if I starve on certain days I'll be to cranky to leave my house and then I'll be inside and eat all day...

laken1 · Hermes

Yeah, the way the old plan worked with banking it was very close to this but they still dispelled the theory that they supported x# of points for the week. I don't know how that's much different than flex points are banking though!

I know what you mean about the exercise part but really I think it's a good lesson in that - Uh, I want to eat that so I'd better go walk it off. I don't think there's a thing wrong with that!

Hey - join us over in the Beauty & Health area - several of us are on WW & we are trying to keep each other accountable......

-- Edited by laken1 at 13:40, 2006-08-18

ILoveChoo · Hermes

ok, I think you're confused obecause of what the online tracker is telling you?
basically there's a ww rule that says that you can only use APs the day that you earn them. SO for example you used 2.5 of the 7 that you earned on Monday. The rest of those are now gone- they won't carry over to the next day.

You tracket should say that you used around 41 flex points (or went 7 over)