Points® in the GLP1 Companion Program: Explained

There’s plenty of data at your fingertips on the GLP1 Companion Program: daily nutrition targets for protein, fruits and vegetables, and water, as well as your exercise/activity log. These are critical to helping you stay nourished, minimize side effects, and feel your best. But with the swipe of your dashboard, there’s also…Points. Yes, Points. We gathered five common questions about Points in the GLP1 Companion Program, then turned to our experts for advice. Here’s what they said:

Q: Are Points really optional?

A: Yes! Points are there for you if you want more insight into your overall eating pattern, but they aren’t critical to your experience. The main focus of the GLP1 Companion Program and My Day in the app are still the daily nutrition targets of protein, fruits and veggies, and water, and you can choose to just pay attention to those targets. But if you want more information about your eating habits and whether you’re eating in a way to support healthy weight loss, you can see the Points dashboard (just swipe left in the app). It’s completely up to you!

Q: When might Points be helpful?

A: Because Points can guide you towards foods higher in protein, fiber, and unsaturated fat — and lower in saturated fat and added sugar — you can use Points to make food choices within a category (like if you can’t decide between two different cereals). They’re also helpful if you want a fuller picture of your overall eating pattern, since Points track all the foods you eat, not just those that contribute to your protein, fruit and veggie, or water targets. And if you’re concerned that you’re over- or under-eating (or if you haven’t lost weight in a few weeks), Points can help clue you in to what’s going on.

Q: How does my Points Budget work?

A: Your Budget takes into account your metabolic rate (calculated from your age, height, weight, and sex assigned at birth) and helps ensure healthy weight loss. You can spend it any way you want.

Your Budget includes:

Daily Points: they reset every day. If you go a little over or under, that’s OK!

Weekly Points: along with your daily Points, you also get weekly Points! As you track activity, Points are added to your weekly Budget. You can dip into your weeklies at any time.

Rollover Points: up to 4 unused daily Points will be rolled over to your weeklies, so you can use them on another day when you do want them. You don’t have to keep track - the WW app does it for you.

Q: Are the Points values the same in all of the WeightWatchers Programs?

A: Yes, the same calculation is used for Points values in our Points Program, GLP1 Companion Program, and Diabetes Program. It’s calculated from a food’s calories and nutritional information, with saturated fat and added sugar raising the Points value and unsaturated fat, protein, and fiber driving it down.

Q: When choosing a food, what is most important from the GLP-1 Nutrition information: the grams of protein, fruit and veggie servings, or Points values?

A: There isn’t one single piece of information that’s most important, but both the protein and fruits and vegetable servings are key to meeting your daily nutrition targets, so those should be prioritized. The Points value, on the other hand, is an optional feature of the GLP1 Companion Program and should be used to help guide your decisions towards foods higher in protein, fiber, and unsaturated fat and lower in saturated fat and added sugar.