I think that the seafood has higher points for an equal weight when cooked because so much water goes away. The cooked 16 oz. will be all solid material. That doesn’t explain the shrimp, though.
Hmmm…now I need to figure out what I’ve been eating. The Week 1 book really does say they’re 1 point per 1/2 cup. I assumed that was 1/2 cooked, because they say all their points are based on the cooked weight. Maybe I was wrong. It’s a good thing I’ve been eating at the bottom of my points range.
Do you find eTools to be worth it? My meetings are expensive enough ($13 per week in Rhode Island), and I didn’t want to sign up for anything else.
Here’s what I got back from customer service:
"The discrepancy in POINTS you are experiencing is known as rounding. On our site, we are able to use exact calculations. For example (and this is just an example), a slice of high-fiber bread might actually have .75 POINTS, but for simplicity Weight Watchers rounds up to 1. If you ate 2 slices and calculated without the help of the database, you’d get 2 POINTS. However using the database, you’d get the more accurate 1.5.
The same is used in reverse. For example, 2 oz of cooked shrimp has 1.17 POINTS and WW rounds it down to 1 POINT. When it is doubled, the POINTS are more accurately rounded up to 2.5 POINTS. "
Does this even answer my question?
My leader says the same thing you do. All points in the week one book are cooked weights. scout1222 is a leader; I’ll alert her to this thread…
I like eTools. Graphing my weight loss is very helpful, having a ready source for point calculation is nice and if I just need to get some boosting, it’s always there.
Thanks for emailing me this, Gazelle.
I don’t have my week 1 materials here at work with me, but I do have my Food Companion.
I looked up scallops (which took me forever to find, incidentally - they are found under “shellfish” not under “scallops”) and indeed, they provide the cooked weight.
Most everything meat/fish related in the companion is cooked weight, not raw. If memory serves it is the same in the Week 1 food list (though like I said, I don’t have it in front of me to prove it, but shoot, I’ve looked through it enough!) [as an aside, if you look under “Chicken” you’ll also see that they give you the points (after cooking and draining) of a pound of raw chicken - too bad they didn’t do that for scallops, because then we wouldn’t have to have this conversation]
This kind of situation drives me nuts. For me, it’s rice and oatmeal. When the raw/uncooked weight/size is different from the end result, it’s always a bit confusing to figure out how much input to get how much output.
And don’t get me started on microwave freakin’ popcorn. :mad:
My WW leader told us that a bag of microwave popcorn that is at least 94% fat free is 2 points. We should just trust her. She also brought in a bag and a measuring cup and had us confirm it for ourselves.
My problem is that the scallops in Week 1 are pointed based on volume, not weight. From trial and error, I have found that 1/2 pound raw equals 1 cup cooked for bay scallops.
For oatmeal, I just eat a package of it and do the points calculations myself. It’s been 3 points per for every kind I’ve tried.
Have you measured out how many cups a bag makes? (I never have)
I’m comfortable with how to count them, I was just ranting that they were more complex to figure out.
I didn’t measure it, but somebody in the class did. Unfortunately, I don’t remember how many cups it was. Maybe six or seven?
My leader also brought in a pound of cow fat just to show us how much we had lost, after some people complained about only losing a pound a week.
I love my leader 
Um… Yick!
I love my leader, too. Today she told us that our meeting (Wed., 11 AM, downtown Minneapolis) got an award for longevity at some annual leader meeting. w00t! Most members attending for the longest periods of time. It’s all her fault, really. She’s amazing.
Yick, but effective. Some of the people spend more time whining than trying to learn about healthy eating. She doesn’t put up with it.