Hey kids! Question from a WW member on his 3rd attempt...

Last time I was with WW, back in @ early 1998 (first few months of "1-2-3 Success," the first incarnation of the points system), the exercise/points rule was that the first 20 minutes of exercise every day was a "given" or "mandatory"... and that every 20 minutes after that was worth one point. Ergo, if you walk for an hour, you gain two more points.

Well, I'm about halfway through Week #4... got my little exercise guide, slide rule, etc. Nowhere in this book do I see any mention of the old "20-Minute Rule"; yet at my last meeting, when I was given these tools, the meeting leader told me, "Remember, the first 20 minutes belong to us!

So what gives? If I ride my bike for an hour... do I put 40 minutes into the slide rule, or 60 minutes?

I'm usually not that paranoid about my food points--but my wife made homemade veggie pizza last night... half the pie was worth 15 points, and that pizza's worth a three-hour bike ride to me!

I think I have the intensity stuff figured out. My bike rides are always at least "moderate," and I use a heart-rate monitor at the gym.

Thanks!

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I have not heard of that rule with the Winning Points System. I usually exercise 30 minutes 6 days a week, so if I gave up 20 minutes, I wouldn't have much.

Keep at it. MMMM Veggie pizza.

That rule was changed with the Winning Points program. Winning Points allows you to start counting exercise from the beginning BUT in return, Winning Points took away 2 points from each range. The idea was that most people would earn those 2 points back with the 20 minutes of exercise they were assumed to be doing under 1-2-3.