WW peas.. teach me to count points :/

When you first join WW, they want you to try Simply Filling before you start counting points. With Simply Filling, you just eat Power Foods. Click here for a list: Power Foods You don't have to measure or count any points for power foods. Just eat reasonable portion sizes. When you are satisfied, stop eating. On Simply Filling, you get 7 points plus per day. These points are for NON-power foods. Like, if you cook your veggies in olive oil, you measure your oil and count those points plus. If you put butter on your baked potato, you measure/count the points plus for the butter.

AFter trying this for a week or so, they will teach you to incorporate other foods (NON-power foods) and how to track the points plus values. If you have other questions, please ask! I'll be happy to help if I can!

@pink_Mochas - The online tools are pretty awesome! They have a recipe builder, where you can enter your recipe and calculate the points plus value per serving. There is a list of brand name items with Pts + values. There is a list of restaurant menus with pts + values. It is a really good tool!  

You would probably start out with 26 pts + per day.  That is the average of most of the people in my group.  Lean meats are about 1 pt + per ounce.  Like a 3 oz boneless, skinless chicken breast baked/broiled/grilled with no oil would be 3 pts +.  Almost all fruits and veggies are 0 pts +.

freebird - did you get the e-tools with your membership? Your Pts + daily allowance will change as you lose weight. If you have E-tools, you can look up the pts + values, or they should have given you a guide in your meeting.

The sticker in your book should tell you how many points you are allotted on a daily basis.

Are you doing the monthly pass?  If so, you have access to eTools as well - which will have a bar code scanner and a point calculator to help figure out points.

If you are paying week to week, you'll need to buy the little hand held calculator that's like $5 or something.  That way you can calculate points from the food labels (Fat, Carbs, Fiber and Protien).

If you choose not to buy that, you'll have to use the little green book that came in your welcome kit and use "generic" points.

But please don't think you aren't "really doing WW" because you aren't counting points.  The Simple Start/Simply Filling program IS Weight Watchers.  It's for people who don't want to count foods - and is more about eating less processed foods - more whole foods, fruits, veggies, etc.

If you really want to count points, corner your leader and force her to help you.  That's what you're paying for!  Do you have options on meetings? Maybe try to change, if you can, and find a different leader.   Sometimes it's not possible - but I will be honest, the Leader makes ALL THE DIFFERENCE in meetings to me!  If you don't relate to the meeting, or the group, you won't stick most likely.  I finally found a Leader (actually 3) that I really like, and the main meeting I go to has a core group of people who come every week!  It's fun!

Good luck, and hang in there - it does work (I'm down 50+ lbs).

That is a definitely a bummer about the snacks.  I have my go-to snacks as well, so I completely understand!! Good luck, you can do this!

The WW android app is so easy! You can scan barcode and it will tell you how many points it is, and you can add it to your log from there.

The leader should have explained all this to you when you asked. Sounds like she is not all the great at her job.  Did you get the monthly pass where you subscribe to etools? Etools is an excellent resource! But if you didn't, here are a few websites that might help explain it better for you:
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If the points haven't changed on your weigh in sticker then you haven't gone down any points level.  My points on the sticker last week was off by one compared to etools last week, but it corrected itself this week.