Activity Points
 

Hi Everyone!

I know I've asked this question before but do any of you count 1 AP for every 100 calories burned?

I've been working out a LOT lately and burning anywhere from 1000 to 2000 calories per session at the gym. I weigh myself daily and my home scale is bouncing back and forth between 165/166. Usually I'll only eat 4 AP's max but I think I need to start eating more because my body is being stubborn at the moment.

I looked up my w/o yesterday to see how it works for me. I burned 900 cal running 11.5km. I earned 14 AP for that. I ate them all and used a bunch of weeklies yesterday. I was down .4 this morning.

i was thinking about it Kim, and i was going to say something on your facebook - but by much you're burning, i think you do need to be eating more or pull back the exercise a bit. Give it a week or two before you change it, and if it doesnt work, you can go back to how you were doing it.

as for counting AP, if i cant find the exercise i did, i just put it in the way they tell you to. Low moderate or vigorous and for how long

I definately think that's the issue, I need to be eating more. I just want to make sure I calculate my AP's correctly, I'd hate to have a gain because I ate too many of them! I'm still following Momentum so I calculate my AP's a bit different than for those on P+.

For some reason, specifically last Tuesday, I've been on this exercise kick! I think it's because I challenged myself to burn over 1200 calories and I actually exceeded that pretty much everyday. I love feeling fantastic after a great workout and I think that's why I'm so addicted right now. BUT too much exercise can be a bad thing if it's turns into something compulsive.

Congrats on .4!!!! That's awesome :D

I'm still following Momentum so my AP's are different. I heard before that we could count 1 AP for every 100 calories burned on Momentum. I also heard we could not exceed 4 AP's per day, not sure which is true.

before i joined WW i think i used to work out too often/much. To the point of exhaustion. weight train, cardio, then i'd take my daughter for a walk, and do another video of walking, and then still feel like i hadnt done enough during the day... and i never lost weight. I stayed at the same number - unbudging.
I'd finally decided to take a 3 day break (so tired), that on the last day i pulled a muscle in my neck/back and ended up taking 2 1/2 weeks off... i couldnt move my left arm, or neck and kept getting migraines...
After this happened, i decided to take a step back from doing so much, i was hurting myself more than doing good.

(just an example of compulsion)

The amount that you are excersising right now Kim, is that maintainable? as in... 6 months from now will you be doing the same amount of activity? I wonder about this for myself. I dont want to be excersising my butt off right now and then not go as much when i get closer to target and my body be used to what i have been doing and then gain weight back since i am not at the same activity levels. Does that make any sense? lol.

WI is in 30 min, dont mind me. Im going insane. will report my results when i get back :carrot:

Maybe I should take a step back, last month I didn't workout this much and I had actually skipped a week. I think I'm trying so hard to get to goal that I want to give it everything I have. The hours I'm putting in at the gym are wearing me out, I'm exhausted. I also think the main reason I've been exercising so much is to help the depression and anxiety I've been going through. After leaving the gym, I feel fantastic from the 'Runners High' I get!

I know once I get to maintenance I'll cut my workouts down to 3 days per week.

Today I burned a little over 1000 calories (10 AP's) and decided to grab a Southwest Chicken Salad from McDonald's which is 9 points (Momentum) and that also includes the dressing. I'm going to start eating my AP's and see what happens =D

i dont think you have to eat ALL of them, maybe some... thats a personal opinion i havent been on WW long enough to know what works or doesnt (and even then it may be different for you).

I really want to go back to the gym this evening.. I have this urge to run. Now I'm feeling discouraged again and I've pretty much eaten my DP's for the day and it's only 3pm. I have the 10 extra I earned and my weeklies but I'm feeling so hopeless at the moment!

lol its 4pm and i have 5 points left, and im going to cut into my weekly allowance. I dont feel bad about it. I ate 1/2 a publix sub this afternoon cos i was having severe low blood suagr (feeling depressed, bad mood) - i dont have diabetes O_O ... i dont feel bad about it. Even half-assed my exercise lol

if you want to run, then i say run :) just dont deprive your body of the fuel :)

Thankfully my scale is down today! I decided to eat more than I usually would and when I say more, I mean I consumed 42 points yesterday. When I went back and took a look at how many calories I had burned each day, I realized I had racked up well over 30 ap's and was barely eating anything! No wonder I wasn't losing!

I think the "don't eat more than 4 APs per day" is for people who are rather sedentary. If you are burning 1200 per day, you'll need to up your cal intake.

Maybe add a yoga class, that helps me a lot with depression and anxiety.

I am burning between 1000 and 2000 calories a day at the gym! I thought if I worked out more and didn't touch my AP's the scale would move. I ate so much yesterday I seriously thought my scale would be up but that's just goes to show that eating AP's and weeklies can be a good thing.

I really want to try Yoga but was scared because the poses look difficult! I didn't want to be the newbie who had no clue what she was doing. I may give it a shot next week :D

I was wondering about the 100 calories burned = 1 pt question, too. I exercise on WII FIT daily, and the gym several times a week. I use machines that calculate my weight, heart rate, time, pace, and then calories burned. How do I count those in the WW program?