Calculating points?
 

I'm 5"7 and 115 pounds....
I know I don't need to lose a LOT of weight,
but for ballet I have to lose 5 pounds.
Nothing major, and I want to do it sensibly....
WW seems to be the answer,
but how many points should I be eating a day???

PS- I'm doing this very carefully and making sure
I have a balanced diet and that my health is good

It would be 18-23 points, but you are already so slim, you don't fit the bottom of the profile for 5'7" which is 127 pounds. Why would you have to lose 5 pounds?

I know that Weight Watchers would not accept you into the program.

Just be careful. I would think a good ballet workout would take care of any weight.

Domina, thanks for your reply....

To be honest, I battled an eating disorder for 2 years because of ballet... there is a lot of pressure to look a certain way, while still maintaining a high athletic perfomance schedual....

Unfortunately, I also love it.....

So now I'm back and healthy and have started up ballet again, I do have to lose 5 pounds, BUT this time, i've learned my lesson and want to do it very slowly and carefully and all that...
so i decided to try weight watchers...

my OTHER problem is i'm a vegetarian and don't know the points for tofu, so i'm kinda going by my "eyeball" points on a lot of items..

I don't know if this is going to work for me though, any suggestions?

Good Luk with your ballet. Are you with a major company? As for WW. Here is another site for some more information that may help you.

http://dottisweightlosszone.com/

LF,

1/3 cup (1/5 block) of low-fat tofu is 1 point. If it's regular, count 2 points. If it's soft, count 1 point.

You be careful there. An eating disorder is nothing to mess around with, as you know. There are a lot of issues associated with that. Just remember that your health is most important.

By the way, what is your favorite ballet?

Domina: hands down: THE NUTCRACKER

that's what got me started in ballet, when i was 6 my dad took me Christmas Eve and i fell in looooooooooove......

One day I hope to be the sugar plum fairy ;)
I'm at the National Ballet School in Toronto, so i guess you could say it's a major company but i'm certainly not their top dancer!
(.....yet..... lol)

PS - Thank you SO much for the tofu points!!!!!!!!!

You're welcome
 

LF,

You're welcome for the points information.

Nutcracker is one of my favorites, too.

Good luck on being the prima ballerina!!

LF,

I still remember being the biggest ballerina in the Nutcracker, the Waltz of the Flowers. I was tall, big shouldered, and they put me in the back so that everyone could see the cute, little girls in the front. Ended my career right then and there. I looked like a muskox dancing in a field of butterflies.