How many Weight Watchers points in ... ?-PLEASE USE MAIN STICKY THREAD

2 still works out as 1 point. If you are having 2 of something and it only gives you the information for 2, then double the calories and sat fat before putting them into the WW calculator as WW rounds up so you could think you were having 1.5 points but really only having 1 - so says rubadub!

http://www.nutracheck.co.uk/calories/calories_in_alcohol/calories_in_vodka.html
20cl of Smirnoff vodka = 44cals
A naggin is 200cl so that's 440 cals = 6.5 WW points.

http://www.nutracheck.co.uk/calories/calories_in_alcohol/calories_in_rum.html
20cl of Bacardi Rum = 58cals
Naggin = 580cals = 8.5 WW points

Don't know if these are accurate or not - just what the site says!

rubadub wrote: »

Half a naggin is roughly 3 pub measures, a pub measure is 35.5ml

I would have expected bacardi & smirnoff to be pretty much the same calories. Both are 37.5% over here and neither would have sugar in them so all the calories should be the alcohol.

They might be quoting info from other countries, e.g. smirnoff is 40% in many other countries, and barcardi is higher too. This is almost 7% more calories than 37.5%.

Some people calculate wrongly since they work in grams, and wrongly presume 1ml of alcohol is a gram. This is roughly the case for water, but not alcohol.

Thanks for that. It's all so confusing!

watna wrote: »

It's 48KJ (NZ values are given in KJ not Kcal which confused me a lot when I first got here!)

You can type various phrases in to google

like 48kilojoules in kcal
it cops on what you want
http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en#hl=en&complete=1&q=48kilojoules+in+kcal&aq=f&aqi=h1&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&fp=e42e4d1ca0de56d6

48 kilojoules = 11.4722753 kilocalories

you can try others like
13 stone in pounds
13 stone in kg
etc

Are you using a WW calculator? I just checked using my mother's one and they're definitely coming up at six points each using the figures you gave.

You can check here either.

I need to loose 4 stone wrote: »

I weighed two quarter pounder burgers on the WW digital Points scales.

Under heading of Mincement it gave me 10 Points. Happy Days I think! Then I found the damn wrapper and when I went off the Cal, Sat Fat method it gives me 32 Points?

I need to loose 4 stone wrote: »

It's something oddball about the WW Electronic scales. I am quiet happy to go along with the link you provided - 12 points it is then...certainly better than the 32 it was showing on the scales!

I don't understand, do you put food on and press mincemeat and it says 10points, and then can you also enter kcal & sat fat figures in the same scale? could you have entered them in wrongly? I would check it again.

chatterpillar wrote: »

I made dinner using 400g of chicken (four fillets.)

I would have said 120kcal per 100g which is 7 points if there is no sat fat in it. Values can vary online as some will include skin, also if 400g of fresh chicken is baked it will weigh less when it comes out. Just check packs in supermarkets, at least one brand will have kcal values written on it per 100g

Chicken is very low in cals, it surprises lots of people, the roll of a chicken fillet burger can have twice the calories as the chicken. I often eat half a large chicken or even a full small chicken at lunch in work. Many remark on it like sarcastically say "ahh, off your food are ye", but the reality is their cheese & chicken baguette & bag of crisps is packing FAR more calories, yet they think I am the pig.

You can spice chicken up with stuff like garlic & chilli which has only trace calories, I used to cut it finely and add it to shredded iceberg lettuce to bulk it out.

Hi - I've just come back from eating what I thought was a relatively light/healthy lunch, eating at a cafe here in the west called 'The Stuffed Sandwich.' Instead of going for my usual 'Lite and Low' option (ham or turkey with low-fat mayo), I instead got a bagel with cream cheese and fresh sliced red bell pepper (no sauce or dressing), and cofee.

I only had half the bagel (gave the other half to my hubby) and scraped off pretty much all the cream cheese that was dolloped onto either/both halves of the bagel.

I was delighted with myself and my willpower, and thought, probably a bit too smugly for my own good - and actually believed - I was keeping well within my allotted points value for lunch (I like to keep it between 4 and 5 points, no more than that, including the meal with lighter-fat crisps or small side salad with low fat dressing on the side and coffee with teaspoon of sugar).

Well, was I in for a shock and a half when I got home later on in the day and looked up the Points value for cream cheese - according the huge shopping guide book that you can buy at the meeting, which I realise is UK based, but am assuming it's the same for Ireland - it read (at the front of the guidebook, under Basic Foods, Dairy' 'cream cheese - 40g: 5 1/2 points. :eek:

Then I thought to myself, 'Well, you scraped off at least 80 percent if not more of what was originally on the bagel, so surely that has to be much, much less than 40g, right?'

To confuse matters, I then looked further on in the shopping guide, under 'Kraft' and then 'Philadelphia, full fat cream cheese' and it read: 1 tablespooon: 2 1/2 points.

Now here's the part where I can definitely see the difference between the US and the UK/Ireland points value systems/calculation. But when I went to a WW blog based in the US, it read: cream cheese, any brand, tablsepoon: 1 point!

So...deep breath...after all that, how many points do you reckon I ate? There's absolutely no way in hell that I had 40g worth of cream cheese, Philadelphia brand or otherwise. I'd say I had even less than a heaped tablespoon. Would I be kidding myself to say that it totalled 3 1/2 points - I'm figuring in the half a bagel and the less than full tablespoon of cream cheese?

My meeting's not till Wednesday, but I'm stressing a bit about how much I actually ate, points-wise. Can any wise WWer out there help me?

Hi Watna and thanks for replying.

I'm going to ring the 'Stuffed Sandwich' cafe tomorrow and ask them if they use regular cream cheese or Philadelphia brand (probably standard restaurant supply cream cheese, I'd imagine).

While I don't have any cream cheese in the fridge to find out what 40 grams worth looks like, I did put 40 grams' worth of a spreadable Laughing Cow cheese triangle (17.5 grams per triangle) on my scale - just to see or 'eyeball' what 40 grams worth of a spreadable cheese of any sort would actually look like, and there's no way that I had even a fraction of that much cream cheese (Philly brand or otherwise) on my half-bagel. I'd be amazed if it was even 20 grams' worth, but, like you, I tend to round up and overestimate a wee bit, rather than downgrade the points values of something I'm not sure about, just to be on the safe side.

I was chatting to my hubby about this (he's sick to death of this whole subject by this stage, and I've probably put him off bagels with cream cheese for life, LOL). but he reckons that Philadelphia brand cream cheese is probably lighter because it's air-whipped or some such, whereas regular cream cheese, like you'd get in a New York style cheese cake, is very heavy, very dense (and very delicious...but let's not go there), so yeah, I can see why the UK shopping guide has two different/separate listings, even though they're both cream cheeses.

What I've put on my tracker sheet - for better or for worse - is 2 points for the half bagel and 2 points for the cream cheese/spread thingie, and 1/2 point for the coffee. Now I'm thinking I should just round it up to an even 5 points, and not think any more about it until I have to, come Wednesday at the weigh-in.

Thanks for your help. This is a great thread, by the way. I think it's a great supplement/addition to the WW message boards, as well.

filmifan wrote: »

I'm going to ring the 'Stuffed Sandwich' cafe tomorrow and ask them if they use regular cream cheese or Philadelphia brand.

Wayyy too much worrying. I expect the stress you are giving yourself is a lot worse for you than a few miserable calories here and there. If you saw what I eat in the local "all you can eat" chinese buffet you would probably faint!