Weight Watchers Daily Point Quiz
The first step to a healthier you when doing Weight Watchers is to calculate how many points you are allowed each day. To find your daily point allowance simply take the short quiz below and calculate your totals. Remember that 18 is the least amount of points allowed in a day and 44 is the most. If you are new to Weight Watchers and are not sure how the program works, you can find an article here that explains the basics of how to do it.
Please note: This quiz is for the old POINTS plan (prior to December 2010). The new PointsPlus plan makes it a little more difficult to calculate your daily PointsPlus Target. At this time, to calculate your target you basically have 3 options – they will give it to you at your meeting, get it online using E-Tools or purchase a new PointsPlus Calculator
Here is the old POINTS quiz: (Prior to December 2010)
1. Sex:
Female — 2pts
Male — 8pts
2. Age:
17-26 — 4pts
27-37 — 3pts
38-47 –2pts
48-58 — 1pt
Over 58 — 0pt
3. First two 2 digits of your current weight:
(Example: Weight 165 = 16pt or Weight 230 = 23pt)
4. Height
Under 5’1″: 0pts
5’1″ to 5’10”: 1pt
5’10” and over: 2pts
5. Daily Activity Levels:
Sitting: 0pts
Some Sitting, Mostly Standing: 2pts
Walking most of the time: 4pts
Doing physically hard work most of the time: 6pts
6. Nursing Mom?
Solely Nursing: 10 pts
Supplementing with solid food or formula: 5 pts
Keep in mind that as you lose weight you will also start to lose points. Whenever the 2nd digit of your weight changes so does your daily point allowance. For example, if you weighed 170 pounds one week and then 168 pounds the next week, the second digit changed from a 7 to a 6 so you lose 1 point from your daily total. This is to insure that the weight loss continues until you reach your goal weight.
In addition to your daily points you are also allowed 35 bonus points each week. It is recommended that you use these points for special occaisions such as a holiday dinner, birthday celebration, or other event. It is NOT recommended to divide the 35 points up among the days of the week giving yourself 5 extra points each day. Remember, the goal here is to lose weight.
I love the laughing cow cheeses! For a long time I was having the bagels thins for breakfast with a slice of canadian bacon and some laughing cow cheese…they were awesome but it was getting to be too much.
When I was actively losing I was only having like a fiber one or some oatmeal for breakfast. The bagels were good but I cut them out of my daily line up just because they were too many points for my breakfast.
As for exercising, have you tried an exercise DVD? Most of them don’t require anything more than a couple of light dumbbells and a little bit of room to move around in. They can be done at your convenience and in the privacy of your own home…the biggest loser ones are really good. You should give one a try…
Hello everyone! Thanks so much for this helpful site. I am interested in the WW program but right now i cant afford the fee so im going to try it on my own, until i can budget the meetings in. :/ I am considered obese, i have gained a good bit since i gave birth to my daughter which is 1 y/o now. I havent worked fulltime since i was pregnant so im basically a stay at home mom which is another reason for my weight gain because i was always on my feet at work moving around. I have too much time at home now, and im not feeling it at all! i downloaded a WWdiary into my phone(i hope its accurate) it was a free download ! it also keeps track of my food intake and the points used.
Is there any advice you can give me as to me doing this WW on my own at home? Do you think it works? i really think the support at the meetings would help, but thats not possible right now! WW should be FREE! 🙂
Well good luck to everyone and hope for many pounds lost! WE CAN DO IT 🙂
Hey Nichole, welcome to the site!
You can definitely do this at home on your own, just takes a little bit of motivation. Eating the right things is a big part of doing WW but the key to your success will be your activity levels, be as active as possible even when doing nothing but watching TV (do some sit-ups, jumping jacks…whatever gets ya moving). If you are active you will find that even on days where you were a little off on your points you can still have a good day.
Thanks for visiting and give us an update once in awhile 🙂
Thank you Dan! One question, Do i count Sat.Fat or Total fat??
NP, Nichole. Go with the amount listed under ‘Total Fat’
Thanks again for visiting 🙂
Hello!
Need a support group! lost 100 lbs….when my husband was diagnosed with cancer….i lost him…and lost 100 lbs from stress….got remarried….and now I’m fat and happy again….and found the 100 lbs. I really just want to be happy sans the fat part. i need help. I’m doing a Jillian cleanse thing and I’m on day 3….
This is an awesome site! I’m doing WW PointsPlus to lose baby weight (he’s 4 months now) and I have a question about the points they gave me (again, the new PointsPlus). They calculated me at 29 even though I checked the box that says I’m a nursing mom. Does that seem right? If so, I’m happy to do it, but somewhere I read that 29 is the newest “lowest” target, so how can that account for nursing my little one? Thanks so much and, again, very motivating site!
Hi MJ, thanks for visiting. Were you doing weight watchers the first time that you lost the 100 pounds or did you follow a different plan? If you are planning on starting weight watchers I think that a cleanse like the Jillian one might be a good way to get started. You’ll have to let us know how that works out for ya, as well as letting us know how the weight loss is going once in awhile. Hope to hear from you soon 🙂
Hi Dawn, I’m not really that familiar with the specifics of PointsPlus but that does seem a little weird that they don’t account for nursing moms…I do know that when you use one of the new PointsPlus calculators to determine your daily point allowance it does not ask about that either, only sex, age, height and weight. Maybe since the new minimum is a lot higher than the old it is safe either way, but I’m really not sure. Maybe one of the other readers can jump in with some help
Greetings and Salutations!
First I’d like to say great job to those who have pressed on with ww! Especially the moms out there! It’s encouraging :)……Ok so I started WW on my own as well on June 10 & have only lost 4lbs. :(. I started adding exercise (about 45mins). I had a baby 9mos ago and I was only 10lbs over what I weighed before I got pregnant. My father-in-law suffered a stroke in May and I had lost 4lbs within 4 days due to the horrible time in the family.. I noticed I looked different but gained the 4lbs back. I’m a very petite person, just under 5ft. So any kind of weight gain can be noticeable to a short person like me. :(….Could it be that it is taking me longer to lose the extra pounds because I didn’t ‘weigh a lot’ before starting ww? I wanted to lose only 8lbs within a month and I’ve only lost about half of it.
OK.
You all have motivated me to begin WW. I have calculated my points (24). I will start the program tomorrow.
From what I know, it’s just going to take a few moments of planning on my part.
I’m glad the calculator is over there on the side.
And, I will add a WW Points Tracker App on my phone tonight.
I will check back for KitKatt’s progress.
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[…] for it. This is what I use… Here is the Flex Points quiz (what they used before Points Plus) https://onemorepound.com/2009/07/15/daily-point-quiz/ and Here is a points calculator for your food… http://www.webmilhouse.com/pointcalc.php […]