At what point do I add AP
 

Hi!

I am not using Activelink, so I am trying to figure out at what point I have hit my daily minimum and are able to add AP. I have worked out the past 2 days, but not sure what to add, etc.?!?

THANKS

Are you planning on eating your aps? Or just stick to your wps?

I add all my aps, no worrying about daily minimum activity, but I do not eat my aps. I just like seeing a high number. I do not have an activlink.

I'll be curious to hear what others have to say about this... But here is what I'm doing... I'm currently training with a Suunto that has HRM functioning among other things... So I use the calories burned during those workouts as my AP's... So for every 100 calories I burn I give myself 1 AP... And I have to burn 400 calories or 4 AP's for my baseline each day.... And anything I burn above that I count as well... But I don't eat back any AP's until after I've gone through all my daily's, all my weekly's... And have earned ABOVE 28 AP's for the week..

So basically the calorie deficit from eating 26 pts a day + the weekly's + 400 calorie defict a day of AP's...

Well, I guess I am not sure because this week I ate a few of my WP, so really, does it matter which ones I use? Just good to see!

I track online... And it goes through weekly's first... Before it dips into AP's.... So I don't count my first 28 AP's since that's my baseline... And I'll only eat AP's above that 28 earned...

It does not really matter which ones you use first, except wps everyone gets and are fixed in the plan. There is a lot of debate over how aps are calculated- (after daily minimum, using activlink, no activlink, potential of over esstimating your aps). So not eating aps and just eating wps, is just easier for me. Just love seeing that high number for aps!

I agree, but I just want to know how to calculate, like today, according to the Fitbit, I have walked 13000 steps and burned 2500 calories....thoughts on points for that?

http://www.bmi-calculator.net/bmr-calculator/

Try this link. It will tell you your basic metabolic rate. Then whatever calories you burned above it calculate your aps as 100 calories = 1p.

So mine is 1500. If I burned 2500. That would be 1000 calories or 10p.

Just one method, I am sure there are others.

While I am a lifetime, maintaining member of WW, I do not post over here a lot, but anyway.......

I DO NOT worry about how to factor in the AP's.

Loss and maintaining, is done in the kitchen.

Fitness, and my goal is functional fitness, is done working out!

Two totally different subjects, with two totally different goals in mind!

I do have the AL and a WW pedometer, which I do check daily, but not for loss or maintaining, but to make sure, I'm getting in at least a 5k a day, not counting my lifting workouts.

There are no good gadgets, that will account for lifting! However, men are beginning to fear me at he gym!:carrot:

I think what I will do is, WHEN I work out and I have meet the 10000 steps, I will add them.

THANKS

That sounds like a great plan!

HA HA!!!!!!! THANKS!

I have a Fitbit. I just count the APs for dedicated workouts. So if I walk, or use the elliptical for 45 minutes, I calculate the PPs for that. I might get 12,000 steps in a day but the only ones that I count in terms of APs are the 6,000 or so I get in that workout.

If you use a Fitbit, can't you just tell WW to count all your steps and then put in all steps and in that mode WW won't give you AP until you meet your base line?

I use a Fitbit and an Active Link. Today I earned 1 AP per my active link. I burned 2147 calories according to my Fitbit and I walked 10273 steps and climbed 6 flights of stairs (not really stairs - I walked in my neighborhood which is hilly).

That said I've sometimes met baseline (per my Active Link) when I've burned about 1850 calories (per Fitbit) and then other times I've burned same calories on Fitbit and didn't reach baseline.

I'm not as tall as you (I'm 5'4") and probably much older so don't burn as many calories as you burn.

All of that said -- from looking at the WW patent and based upon the info I get from my AL and my Fitbit - I think that WW calculates the baseline around the point where you will have burned about 1000 calories more than you would eat that day following the plan (ie you have a 1000 calorie deficit). I don't know this to be true but it seems to work that way for me.

I'm sorry... This has me a bit confused... Does this mean you have to have 1000 calorie deficit before you earn any AP's that you can eat back if you need to? Because if that's the case than it's no wonder I've only lose about a half pound a week or so... :?: