Do you have it set up where you pull from activity points first or weeklies?

Right now I take from weeklies and usually eat at least half of them and have had success, but I also feel my momentum slipping just a little bit and wonder if I should switch it up for a few weeks just to see what happens. I was just curious about everyone else

I usually use my activity points first. Very seldom do I use many weeklys. But you have to find what works for you.

I was using my weeklies first and then trying to eat half of my activity points as well (only when earning 20+ tho)

I'll use the AP if and get some during the day. If it's a day without exercising, I'll use the weeklies.

I use Weeklies. I do not touch my Activity Points.

This is purely a mental thing with me. I don't like to "eat back" my hard work.

And that was where I've been for the past eight months or so since starting Points Plus. But now, I think I need to try something new for awhile and actually EARN the extra points I eat instead of treating the weeklies like a free pass.

I don't normally touch my weeklies during the week, it's just the weekend, and the past few weekends I've barely tracked, as I keep thinking "Oh, well, I have all those weeklies and I did all that exercise." I need to track, though, so I am hoping this will keep me more accountable.

I eat the APs (or at least try to) and do not touch the weeklies. For me it is also a mental thing, but more of an "I earned those APs through hard work and those WPs are just given to me for nothing, so I can use the APs and not the WPs."

It's all about what keeps us going forward! I fully agree. And I've seen some people who've followed that principle of "earn the extra points" and it's worked perfectly well for them!

I hear what you mean about the Weeklies being hard to resist on the weekends. So, whatever keeps us accountable is 100% best

I'm the opposite of Lovely. I would rather eat to compensate the calories I burned while working out then eat calories/points I didn't earn. That being said, I generally don't use my AP or Weeklies unless we're going out to a restuarant not on plan or we're having friends over for drinks, etc.

I eat my activity points first but I also eat most of my weeklies! I'm a runner so if I didn't eat back at least half of the calories I burned, I'd see a gain. It all comes down to what YOU feel comfortable doing and what works for your body =)

And that's the other thing -- over the past few weeks I've started exercising A LOT more, which is fantastic, but I know I may need to tweak my eating habits a bit and I'm still trying to figure that out. I've never before been in a place where I've needed to eat more to make up for all the calories I've burned!

Me neither! I'm starting to run more and more but I did not change anything on the diet yet... It's a whole new world opening to me right now LOL


On another subject, Somni, for the fitocracy website, the invite lifehacker did not work

Turbomammoth, it worked for me! If you PM me your email address I can invite you.

i eat my activity points first, and then a few of my weeklies. i usually eat all my activity points and maybe 10 of my weeklies.