Tiff, you add your ActivityPoints to your minimum daily points if you choose to use them. For example if your TPs are 24 a day and you earned 3 APs you could eat up ot 27 points in that day without dipping into your FPs. You will get this information on Week 3 along with your ActivityPointsBooster slide.

i see what you are saying... I wish i could go back to more meetings, but I just don't have the cash. I only get paied once a month from all my jobs and I have to buget between food, bills, Dr.s and medications. ( I have a few health problems that need the money more then WW unfortunatly...lol) If I don't go for my secound week, can I still go back on my third week and get the APB Slide?

thanks!

-Tiff

Yes but you will have to pay for the meeting that you missed.

Darn! Thats not very fair...at least from my point of veiw it doesn't seem to be. Perhaps I can do this without the Activity points right now... i'll still do the exercise like i plan, I just won't put it down as points. Ooo! Which reminds me! Today, my husband and I went on a hike today for the first time in my life (my husband used to be a big hiker, mountain biker, and jogger before me...I am such a bad influence! lol) and we went 3 whole miles (with a few breaks in bewtween) up the side of a small mountain and I was still ready to go after that! I felt SO good! Sorry for the bragging but its one of my small triumphs... hehe...

-Tiffany

Tiff, Here use these formulas (they aren't official and were done by a math professor based on the ActivtyPointsFinder):

Light Activity (you can talk and sing):
Weight X Minutes X .000232 = Activity Points

Moderate Activity (you can talk but no sing):
Weight X Minutes X .000327 = Activity Points

High Activity (you need deep breaths to talk):
Weight X Minutes X .0008077 = Activity Points

To earn your APs.

Have you tried to see if you eligible for the 'at home' program? It is like $100 (but I think you can get it on a flex pay) and you get all the books and some extra stuff instead of going to meetings.

And like was stated to keep your membership current you have to pay for the missed meetings unless you are in a W/W International (not a franchise) area that offiers Liberty and Loyal membershops. Liberty would be you have to go at least 1 time every 3-4 weeks but you don't pay for any missed ones but it is a higher rate than the Loyalty one where you have to pay for each week.

Or maybe even look at the online program which is like $15 a month after you join (which you do have to pay a registration fee) and you can choose to have it taken out every 1 month or every 3 months.

trust me...i have looked into all that already. If I had a spear 15 a month, I would do that... The jobs I have are minimum wage and I borrow constantly from my husband just for tuition alone... I have bills that have to be paid, and I already am up to my neck in Dr. and medication bills. I am 17 and feel like i am 40 something with all this. I would love to ask my mother for some help, but she doesn't know who I am right now..(she has Boarderling Personality Disorder and when shes angry at someone, she forgets them all together or tells everyone they have died, then in her mind, that becomes reality.) So you see...its difficult to come up with cash for stuff like this...But, I keep a smile on my face through it all! Thanks for the ativity points formula..it will really help me out!

-Tiffany

oh, that's so sad about your mum :grouphug:

You are a very stong person for coping with all of that, and being married and going to school all at the same time. Keep your chin up and a positive attitude and things will find a way of getting worked out.

If you need any help or support don't hesitate to post. :)

Thanks so much mauvaisroux. Its really difficult sometimes with my mom. I miss her terribly and we used to be really close. The problem was she treated me like her best friend rather then her daughter... I never realized it was such a problem until I put the peices together. I suffer from Generalized Anxiety Disorder, which is something that all daughters of parents with BPD have. I hate the idea of drugs, so I see a therapist and she has helped me more then I ever thought possible! Anyways.... right now is the toughest because my brother also has BPD, plus hes a drug addict and an alcoholic...both my brothers are (they are ages 35 and 40) and we used to be close as well, but since my mom hates me, so do they. My father and I still have somewhat of a relationship, but he is to frightend of my mother to do anything. He has to sneak phone calls to me when he is at work or she has left for a few hours. It breaks my heart to think that he has to sneak around just to talk to his own daughter! I love my mom dearly...more then she will ever know...but I hate that I can't help her and all I can do is let her and the rest of my family go. :(

-Tiffany

That's really unfortunate Tiffy. But you have to realize that it has nothing to do with you and that you haven't done anything wrong but for your own sake you may have to let go. Obviously your dad really loves you so you should make the most of your talks with him and any time you get to spend with him and cherish those moments.

I don't have any family here in Canada besides my mum and dad and I am an only child. I basically have adopted my DH's Aunts as my own (hee! hee!) and have made my friends my extended family.