Denise -- please clarify on the points calculation.
 

Hi Denise,

I wanted to ask what you meant when you said "- (dietary fiber-5, only if dietary fiber is greater than 6)."

Do you mean that you subtract 5 from the dietary fiber (if dietary fiber is greater than 6), and use that number in the calculation?

I am learning not to assume in my life (that's a lesson that's difficult to me), so just wanted to clarify.

Kinber, I think that we all need to learn the lesson not to assume things in our lives! I'm proud of you for learning that lesson...of course, I still need to learn it as well.

I'm not exactly sure of the calculation, that is just the way it was explained to me, so the WW points thing may be wrong, someone chime in if I am, please.

What I mean, is that dietary fiber is left completely out of the calculation if it is less than 7. I think that you are understanding what I meant. I'm not exactly too sure how to explain it.
Let's say that something has 200calories, 12 grams of fat, and 7 grams of dietary fiber. You would calculate like this:
200 calories/ 50 = 4
+ 12 grams of fat/12 = 1
- 7 dietary fiber-5 = 2
So: 4+1-2 = 3 points
but, if the product had only 6 grams of dietary fiber, the calculation would be: 4+1=5 points

I used this site to plug in the numbers for a women:

http://www.caloriecontrol.org/calcalcs.html

The same one you mentioned!

My own experience
 

Hello :)

I haven't posted to this site in a year or so, but speaking for myself, I eat around 1600-1800 calories a day. I'm 5'3", 28 years old, and started out at about 240, and am now down to under 220. I lose about two pounds a week with moderate exercise. If I ate less than 1500 calories a day I would start to eventually binge.

-Peekaboo-

I went to that caloriecounter.org and put in my GOAL weight and it says that I need 1800 with light activity to maintain my goal. Makes sense to me, that if I need that to maintain my goal, then that would be a good rate to stick with to get there. Jennelle - we are the same height, I put my goal as 140. Dana - at 130, you'd need 1730 to maintain. Very encouraging that I can just keep doing what I'm doing (should be doing) and do it for life.

Hi Guys -
popping in quickly to say that the formula for WW points is...

Calories + (fat*4) - (fiber*10) = points

There is a limit of 4 g of fiber per serving, so the maximum fiber # is 40.


Just wanted to make sure no one was confused.

Thanks BA, I was never sure that I had been told the correct formula. I was just going off of what someone had told me.