How to Work out Weight Watchers Pro Points Allowance
Determine your baseline., Account for your age., Consider your level of activity or exercise., Add your height to your base and age points., Calculate points for your weight.
Step-by-Step Guide
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Step 1: Determine your baseline.
Weight Watchers calculates a base for you to begin with.
This base starts with your gender.
Males:
Allow yourself 8 points.
Females:
Allow yourself 2 points.
Nursing females:
Give yourself 10 points to account for the extra calories needed to sustain your child. -
Step 2: Account for your age.
As we get older, our metabolism slows down.
To account for this, Weight Watchers factors the age difference of clients into the total allowance.
Ages 17 to 26:
Add 4 points.
Ages 27 to 37:
Add 3 points.
Ages 38 to 47:
Add 2 points.
Ages 48 and 57:
Add 1 point.
Age 58 and older:
Add 0 points. , How much and with what intensity you exercise has a huge difference on how many calories we burn.
Factor your level of exercise into your ProPoints allowance.
Heavy exercise (such as working out more than 30 minutes per day or doing manual labor each day):
Add 6 points Moderately activity (such as walking throughout the workplace all day or doing 30 minutes of exercise daily):
Add 4 points.
Low activity (such as standing or moving throughout an office):
Add 2 points.
Inactivity:
Add 0 points. , Much like calculating BMI, this will allow you to reach your total points once weight is added as well. 155 cm (5 feet, 1 inch) and shorter:
Add 0 points. 155 cm (5 feet, 1 inch) to 178 cm (5 feet, 10 inches):
Add 1 point. 178 cm (5 feet, 10 inches) and taller:
Add 2 points. , These will be added to the base, activity, age and height calculations.
Take 10 percent of your body weight and add this number to your totals.
For example, someone who weighs 160 pounds takes 10% of 160, or 16, and adds that to their total.
Someone who weighs 200 pounds, for example, would take 20 and add that to their total. -
Step 3: Consider your level of activity or exercise.
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Step 4: Add your height to your base and age points.
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Step 5: Calculate points for your weight.
Detailed Guide
Weight Watchers calculates a base for you to begin with.
This base starts with your gender.
Males:
Allow yourself 8 points.
Females:
Allow yourself 2 points.
Nursing females:
Give yourself 10 points to account for the extra calories needed to sustain your child.
As we get older, our metabolism slows down.
To account for this, Weight Watchers factors the age difference of clients into the total allowance.
Ages 17 to 26:
Add 4 points.
Ages 27 to 37:
Add 3 points.
Ages 38 to 47:
Add 2 points.
Ages 48 and 57:
Add 1 point.
Age 58 and older:
Add 0 points. , How much and with what intensity you exercise has a huge difference on how many calories we burn.
Factor your level of exercise into your ProPoints allowance.
Heavy exercise (such as working out more than 30 minutes per day or doing manual labor each day):
Add 6 points Moderately activity (such as walking throughout the workplace all day or doing 30 minutes of exercise daily):
Add 4 points.
Low activity (such as standing or moving throughout an office):
Add 2 points.
Inactivity:
Add 0 points. , Much like calculating BMI, this will allow you to reach your total points once weight is added as well. 155 cm (5 feet, 1 inch) and shorter:
Add 0 points. 155 cm (5 feet, 1 inch) to 178 cm (5 feet, 10 inches):
Add 1 point. 178 cm (5 feet, 10 inches) and taller:
Add 2 points. , These will be added to the base, activity, age and height calculations.
Take 10 percent of your body weight and add this number to your totals.
For example, someone who weighs 160 pounds takes 10% of 160, or 16, and adds that to their total.
Someone who weighs 200 pounds, for example, would take 20 and add that to their total.
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