My Articles on Weight Watcher Info
How Do I Begin?
What Did You Eat?
Tips for Staying On Track
Links to Weight Watcher Info
http://www.waynewatcher.com/
http://tinyurl.com/mlkzo - This has ideas and recipes for dinners that are points friendly and Core friendly. Most of these recipes can be frozen and packed for a lunch the next day, too.
http://www.stormpc.com/ww/ - a list of websites someone else researched of their own favorite WW sites.
My Advice on How to Use Points When You Are ACTIVE
Always start your program with dividing your 35 weekly points and adding it to your daily total (DPA). Your points equal about 55-65 each so if you are active you need to eat more than someone who isn't going to exercise while they diet.
So, add in the five each day to start. Save your AP's for the days you need it or use THOSE as a weekly splurge. This way you know you earned your extra meal. If you don't have them you know you had a less active week and don't need to boost your metabolism.
Essentially I encourage fairly active people to eat a little more than WW starts you with and then you use the AP's as needed throughout the week or all at one time. Say you are training for a marathon. You will rack up mega points each week in training. You probably don't want to eat much through the week but do want a good meal the night of the long run. Have it. The weeks your long run is smaller you earned less points and don't get as much food.
I like people to always start eating all they can. There is plenty of time to take those calories away as you get closer to your goal. It's much easier to lose weight taking calories out that aren't needed than to get a short-term drop then nothing and have to add in calories to find the number that makes you lose weight. It's my way of keeping you out of starvation mode when active.
Attention: if you are using one of my training programs and following Weight Watchers, the above advice will help you lose the most fat and inches. Strength training is critical and a foundation of my fat loss programs. You need food to make your program work HARD and FAST. Be sure to use those points!