I thought that with steps you could go online and record your total steps and WW would calculate the number of activity points you earned (this assumes you do it online). I can't check myself since I use Active Link so I can't see the normal stuff that would be on the Activity page. But, I thought you could put in your steps and tell it this was for the full day and that would give you your APs.
Shcirerf if about right. Yesterday I walked about 6000 steps (I am also using a Fitbit). I did not meet my WW baseline for the day so earned no points.
As far as the WW pedometer - I bought one awhile back when I was going on a 2 week vacation where I would be walking a lot. The pedometer was nice in that you could see steps and points. I always put it on the full day setting where it measured all of my steps. When we were on vacation this worked great for me because it allowed me easily calculate activity points in a situation where I was doing a lot of walking (I came back from the 2 week vacation with a 2 pound loss so it worked great).
The things I didn't like about it:
It only measured steps and not other types of activity. For other stuff I have used the WW active Link and now have a Fitbit. I prefer the Fitbit. I love that it counts steps and other forms of activity too. Anyway, back to the pedometer. It supposedly had a button where if you were going to be in a car you could turn it off so it didn't count extra steps. However, this often didn't work well and it would somehow turn itself back on. The WW pedometer is fairly bulky and its slip didn't stay clipped on very well. I used it with a pedometer leach so I never lost it but I often found it just dangling as it came unclipped. That said, I did find it helpful and motivating. I just find out of all 3 of them (pedometer, active link and Fitbit) that I get a lot more motivation through the Fitbit (but it is more costly than the pedometer).
Last edited by Koshka; 03-11-2013 at 02:36 AM.
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