How to Calculate Exercise With Weight Watcher Points

When using Weight Watchers as a method of weight loss, you have the option of earning activity points to boost your weight loss efforts. Activity points also allow you to add food points to your daily menu, giving you a chance to add more filling foods to your diet to avoid hunger. Using the POINTSbooster that came with your new member packet, you can calculate how many points to add to your diet, depending on how much exercise you do.

Things You'll Need

• POINTSbooster slide from Weight Watchers

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Instructions

• 1

  Determine whether you have worked out at a low, moderate, or high intensity. With a low intensity workout, you will experience no sweating. If you are sweating after 10 minutes, you can consider your workout as moderate intensity, and a high intensity workout will leave you sweating after 3 to 5 minutes.

• 2

  Line up the number of minutes that you engaged in exercise with the line for either "low," "moderate" or "high" in the left-hand column of the POINTSbooster slide.

• 3

  Find your body weight in the right-hand column of the slide. Without moving the slide, find the number of points that your exercise has earned. The heavier your body weight, the more points you earn for exercise. As your weight goes down, be sure to make a note of whether your exercise points are also going down.

• 4

  Add that number of points to your total extra points available for the week. You may choose to eat foods containing your extra points on the same day that you earned them, or on another day during the week, but exercise points do not transfer over to the following week.