[debbiealberta]

Hi Everyone,

I'm confused... I'm following the WW Flex plan and I'm supposed to be eating 20 POINTS per day. But I've also been reading a lot of diet books and I keep reading over and over again that I shouldn't eat less than 1200 calories a day because that's what my body needs. Well... if I'm eating 20 POINTS a day, I'm usually eating between 950 and 1150 calories a day. Is that okay? Or should I just start aiming for 1200 calories a day??

Thanks!

Debbie

[nelie]

Are you using your flex points? Are you eating lots of veggies and other 0 point foods? I thought I had heard that there is a 250 calorie 'buffer' for 0 point foods. I know I generally eat a lot of them myself. I also use my flex points on the weekend although sometimes during the week as well.

[HiHoHiHo]

Agreed - although your goal may be set at 20 pts per day, you also get flex points to use - maybe another 25 ? per week - it depends on your profile.
AND, you get more points - activity points - for exersize. AND, a lot of foods don't "count" like most vegetables. But those foods do have calories. If you eat a lot of vagetables, which you should and which the program advises, your intake will be more than 1000/1200 calories.

Which is why I supplement my WW pt tracking with fitday - if you enter the foods you can see the eact number of calories (and nutrition). I was surprised how many calories I was eating with vegetables that registerd zer points in WW.

[Kelly_S]

W/W points do not include the 250 calories a day they built in to the program for zero point veggies (which is why we don't count points for them) or the freebies you can get during the day (1 serving sugar free jello, 1 serving cool whip light, 1 serving Fiber One, etc).

Also remember that fiber decreased the points only by .8 max and fat increases the points but here is an AVERAGE chart that W/W put out:

18 = 1050
20 = 1150
21 = 1200
22 = 1250
23 = 1300
24 = 1350
25 = 1400
26 = 1450
27 = 1500
28 = 1550
29 = 1600
30 = 1650
31 = 1700
32 = 1750
33 = 1800
34 = 1850
35 = 1900

But remember this can be up or down based on fat and fiber and DOES NOT include the 250 calories a day that W/W built into the program for free veggies.

[Kelly_S]

Originally Posted by HiHoHiHo

you also get flex points to use - maybe another 25 ? per week - it depends on your profile.

This is not true it is always 35 no matter what your profile is.