Hi Newbe needing help with sugar on WW!

  • Hello, hope someone can clear this up for me....I cant get my head round the ww points for sugar....
    I weighed out 3 teaspoons full [ok,very full!], and it came in at 20g. So, by the booklet it is 2points. [5g = 0.5 so 20g = 2]
    But, by the ww calculator 100g = 5.5points so 20g is 1.1points.Obviously it should be rounded up to 1.5.
    So I am very confused! Is it the 2 points according to the booklet, or the 1.5 points according to the calculator? Really hope someone can help!
  • My leader always recommends the calculator as it's more accurate and therefore can save you points sometimes. Personally I would go with the calculator over the book any day. They are obviously rounding up to get the half a point for a teaspoon, but if you're having several it obviously gets less accurate the more it's rounded up, so by calculating based on the larger amount on the calculator you're likely to get a more accurate point count.
  • Welcome BTW! Feel free to join in our February challenge. I just checked on esource and according to the points tracker on there it's even better news. I checked it as both 4 teaspoons and 20g and it came up with 1 point. Thinking about it, 1.1 would be rounded down to 1 so it's not all that surprising. I think the general train of thought is that another time the points might get rounded up slightly, so not counting that 0.1 of a point will not make any difference.