help with long plateau
 

i have been doing WW for over a year. i have lost 110#s. i have not lost anything for 7 weeks. i go up and down the same 2#s. i exercise daily. some days very heavy. i strength train, classes, run daily. i gauge my AP by the calories burned divided by 80. i have been given 26 pts. when i eat that low i gain weight. so i set myself at 30 pts. sometimes i eat back my AP, most days not.
so my question is should i go up in my points and see what happens or drop them? i know when counting calories you increase. i want point information. that's what i do. i don't deal with calories, carbs, etc. i was thinking of upping my pts to 34 for 2 weeks. i have heard of the wendy plan. so maybe someone has an idea of how to work that into the pts. plus.
i have two trainers, but, they don't do pts. one tells me to cut grains, the other tells me he thinks my body is at it's set point. i haven't weighed this much since i was 16/17 yrs old. i am now 54. i want to loose another 30#s. trainers don't think i need to. seeing doctor in april to see what he says. yes, i am loosing inches.
thanks for any insight into this. so frustrating. i haven't hit a plateau in all my years of loosing weight. this is so new to me. i will stick it through. i will win this.

What confuses me is the way you are tracking AP's. Are you an online or meeting member? Either way, the info is there as to how to calculate your AP's pretty accurately, and there is also the ActiveLink to give you the most accuracy.

I don't think you need to up your daily point target, but I do think that since you are very active that you need to eat some of your AP's and/or weeklies. (This is in essence what you are doing by raising your dailies anyway, but my opinion is that keeping your DPT at 26 and then using your AP's and WP's would make tracking easier.)

Originally Posted by chipper15173:
i gauge my AP by the calories burned divided by 80.

I'm interested in how you came up with this formula.

I don't have the Active Link yet, but when I use the information that WW provides in figuring out APs versus your formula, WW gives me more APs. It's possible you're actually underestimating how many APs you've earned and if you are working out that much you may need to be eating more, either by using weeklies or eating some of your APs.

I have an ActiveLink and love love love it! They actually say that most people OVER estimate their APs.

Regardless, how spot on is your tracking? Is it EVERY single bite? How many fruits are you eating?

Here is the Wendie Plan!

i am an olline and meeting member. i workout too much for the active link. already discussed it with WW members, leaders, etc. i always over estimated my APs doing it their way. i searched online and found the formula for the calories/points. 80 calories = 1 AP.
i am getting the why up instead of us what i already have in "storage". i will be doing that for the next 2 weeks. i am staying at my given 26 and using "storage" points.
thanks for the advice.

I am not certain where you got your info, but you cannot "workout too much for the ActiveLink". Just because the lights all light up (150%) it DOES NOT stop calculating your AP's. It is above and beyond the most accurate measure for keeping track of all of your activities.

You can't "overestimate" with the Active Link. It does the work for you, no estimation or guesswork needed.

chipper15173 - I work out 5-7 days a week, do triathlons, 5ks, 10ks, 30+ mile bike rides and use the ActiveLink. When I'm in training for triathlons I'm working out over 2 hours a day sometimes. I have no issues with the ActiveLink not accurately reflecting my work.

My WW leader is also an endurance athlete and she has no issues either.

Originally Posted by chipper15173:
i workout too much for the active link.

That doesn't make any sense. The activelink can be used for any level of activity. Your baseline is based upon age, weight and gender. Your personal goal is based upon what you do during the assessment phase. You can also change your personal goal making it higher or lower.

Based upon what you have posted I suspect your are overcounting your activity points.

What about weekly points? Do you eat them?

I just realized you mentioned strength training. I know things like that get very low APs, if they get them at all, no matter how many calories you burn (I don't know how they are treated with the Active Link). So, yes, using your formula I suspect you are probably overestimating your earned APs.