How to Convert Recipes to Weight Watchers Points

Weight Watchers is a popular membership diet program that helps people lose weight by assigning point values to foods based on the amounts of calories, fat and fiber in a serving. Members are given daily point limits according to their age, gender, weight, height and level of exercise. Point values for many foods and restaurant meals can be found in Weight Watchers food books. Members are given slide calculators to figure out the point value of foods not listed in the books. The current Weight Watchers point formula is proprietary, but a previous version can be used to convert recipes to points using the nutrition information on food packages, labels or menus.

Things You'll Need

• Nutrition information Calculator

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Instructions

• 1

  Find the calories, total fat in grams and total dietary fiber in grams for one serving using the nutrition information on the package, label or menu. For example, one serving of a certain cereal contains 110 calories, 1.5 grams of fat and 2 grams of fiber.

• 2

  Divide the number of calories by 50. In the example, 110 divided by 50 is 2.2.

• 3

  Divide the total grams of fat by 12. In the example, 1.5 divided by 12 is 0.125.

• 4

  Divide the total grams of fiber by 5. If the total grams of fiber is more than 4, use 4 in your calculation. In the example, 2 divided by 5 is 0.4.

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  Add the three results together. If there's a fraction left over, round it to the nearest number. In the example, 2.2 + 0.125 + 0.4 is 2.725. Rounding this to the nearest number gives the serving of cereal a Weight Watchers point value of 3.