Anyone got a weightwatchers' pedometer?

[ajamore]

Got mine today. Can see that I have done at least 80000 steps but have earned no points. Surely that is not right? I should have earned a few points? It's now gone on to the next day so I have pressed the review button and can see for Day 1 I have earned o points? I am walking along busy main roads so can't hear the beep for each point you earn. What's happening? I had hoped that by having this thing pinned to my belt I would lose weight more easily - have I been duped??

do you really mean 80, 000 steps?

Or is it 8,000?

If only 8,000, you will not have earned extra points.
From memory ( I used to have one)
you need about 10,000 steps before you START to earn points.

Then it is about 1 point for each 3,000.

You need to knock your pan in with exercise for it to make a difference to your weight. It's mostly about diet

Oh gawd yes it was 8000 NOT 80,000 !!

Yes jasper, you're probably right about the 10000 mark. I never save up points and carry them over or deduct points for exercise anyway. I'm mainly just wanting to track how much I walk in a day and aim to walk as much as possible (easy when you don't drive!).

I lost a lot of weigh sticking just to the points, without doing so much as a step of exercise!

Thanks SGM. That makes sense but it does make a mockery of that slidey thing you get given in your first week - you know the one that lets you calculate your "activity" points. According to that thing if I do a LOW intensity activity for 30 minutes, at my weight of roughly 12 and a half stones I will earn 1 - 1.5 points.

On my pedometer, I have walked constantly for up to an hour or more, sometimes at quite a lick (working up a sweat and sometimes breathless), clocking up about 6000 steps and have barely earned a point. It doesn't really compute does it?!

As I said, I never offset my points so that I allow myself more because I've exercised - I just try and eat to my daily allowance and usually exceed it anyway!

The pedometer is great though for working out how many miles I walk in a day. If I do my usual run down to the main shopping part of town and add in the walk to school and back twice a day, I average nearly 3 miles and I KNOW that's a good thing however many points it is It's still not quite making it to 10000 steps (usually about 8000) but I do have housework to do too so can't spend my days constantly walking!

Yes I think that makes sense. At the moment I am concentrating on getting my weight down so that more serious exercise is not such torture (hopefully). Running in particular is something I don't want to start until I am officially Overweight rather than Obese which I was when I started at WW 7 weeks ago. Nearly there

Make sure you have your 'step' measurement input properly.

10,000 is about 4 miles.

Does anyone know about adjusting the sensitivity of the WW pedometer - I was having doubts that it was measuring the number of steps correctly so did a little test. I reset to zero and then walked to school counting EVERY step. I live very near (thank goodness) and counted a total of 500 steps (give or take a step or two) - when I looked at the pedometer it had only registered me as having taken 287 steps? That's hardly accurate is it?