I joined weight watchers online and during the first week week I lost about 4 pounds which was at least 4 or 5 weeks ago. I am sticking to the plan, with hopes that my body will kick back in to loose more weight but I think I am doing something wrong and since I don't go to physical meetings I need some help from any long term weight watchers members or any leaders. Heres a little about me to help you figure out what I am doing wrong.
I am 20 years old, 5'4", 182lbs, Female, and I attend college 3 days a week where I walk around campus to my classes, I am constantly busy doing something but a lot of those activities involve sitting.
I calculatedd my points to be 27 but that could be the problem. I don't know whether I should calcuate it to be 25 for mostly sittiing or 27?
But I also make it a point to do around 10,000 steps a day either doing extra walking around the house, or taking a walk in the park and I know that earn some activity points but I don't know if I should use them or not? And I also don't know if my 10,000 should be included in my daily points or if it's something separate and considered exercise?
I eat a lot of fruits and vegetables during the week and whole grain is the only thing I eat. I also tend to try and fluctuate my points daily, but not go over my weekly total of 189 (27×7=189) and I will have maybe 23pts one day and like 32 pts another day because online someone posted that they did this and it helped. I might be doing it too much and should only fluctuate it by 1 or 2 pts rather than 4 or 5 but that goes back to my question of do I have too many point to start with?
I just would really like any help you can give me, you have my information. I paid to join online and I think if I could actually hear from a leader or a long term member on here that it might actually help because I know I should be losing weight constantly each week, easpecially in the first few weeks and I'm not.
Answer:OK. You are calculating your points wrong. According to your post, you should be eating 25 points as your daily allowance. Don't ever eat less than that. The point shifting thing isn't a WW method but that does actually work. It's called calorie shifting. You can look up the science online.
You can eat all of your daily points and all of the 35 extra points a week and still lose weight. I do suggest you eat most of your extra points. WW isn't supposed to be a diet but a lifestyle change. I personally only eat my daily points (21) every week day and will only go over if I earned activity points. So today I'll eat 21 points but since I ran four miles this morning, I'll have 3 points worth of ice cream for dessert for a daily total of 24 points. My bonus 35 points are usually saved for the weekend so I can eat pizza, drink beer, go out, etc.
It doesn't really matter how you spread out your points as long as you stay under 210 points a week (25*7 35).
If you need more clarification, feel free to e-mail me. I've been doing WW for two years and made lifetime in May so I know all the tricks.
Answer:I would give you 25 points also. The 35 bonus points are there to be used however you feel appropriate or not at all if you so wish. The only stipulation is that you cannot divide them up evenly among the days of the week giving yourself 5 extra points per day.
Stay within a point or 2 of your daily target.
I would only add activity points for actual exercise (like an hour at the gym, running on treadmill, biking, etc). The 10,000 steps a day is a great way to get moving but is not very aerobic. If you work up a sweat then count it.
The link below has a bunch of tips regarding WW along with lots of other information. Good luck with your goals!
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