Sunday, May 2, 2010

How to figure out your daily point value

If you can’t join weight watchers, but want to follow along, this is how you figure out how many points you can have each day:

First, take the first two numbers of your weight. I weight 229, so my starting number is 22.

Add 2 points if you’re female, 8 points if you’re male.

Now, for your age.
17-26………….. 4 points
27-37………….. 3 points
38-47………….. 2 points
48-58………….. 1 point
no points if you’re older than 58.

I’m 36, so I add 3 points.

Now, add in your Height:
Under 5’1” ………….. No points
5’1”- 5”10………….. 1 point
Over 5’10” ………….. 2 points

I’m 5’11”, so I add 2 points.

And now for your work day. Do you spend your day….
Mostly sitting ………….. No points
Mostly standing, but sitting sometimes ………….. 2 points
Mostly walking………….. 4 points
Hard manual labor ………….. 6 points

I work in an office, sitting at a desk all day. No points for me.

So, if your math skills are as bad as mine, you’ll have to break out your calculator and see that I am allowed 29 points a day. Of course, as you lose weight or get older or if you get a different job, your daily point value will change.

Every food has a point value. Some foods are 0 points. Yea for broccoli! Some foods are high in points, like pizza or potato chips. Boo to those foods. But if you want to eat those, rock on with your bad self, as long as you stay within your points total. That means if you want to have two slices of pizza and a beer at dinner, you’re not going to be able to eat anything all day before then, or else you’ll go over your points. Who wants to do that? Not fun!

You’re also allowed 35 “bonus points” each week. That means if you want to eat a piece of cake at a birthday party, or go out to a nice dinner for your anniversary, you can. You just dip into your special going out reserve points. The Weight Watchers people say that you will still lose weight even if you dip into your reserve, just not as quickly as if you don’t.

I prefer quicker, thank you.

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