Capping Fiber at 4 grams?

[Katppucino]

Can someone tell me why the New Weight Watcher's Program caps the fiber at 4 g? I am not familiar with the Older Version of WW, but I need to understand about the fiber issue a little more. I try to count up points for recipes that have more than 4 g. of fiber, and I don't know where to place them on my Pocket Point Guide.
Thanks in advance!
Kat

[jlrose]

The cap is to keep our points down. I think a lot of members were pigging out on very high fiber foods thinking they were "free." High fiber or not they still have calories.

[sunnyinslc]

Kat, there is a very good thread in the Daily category that discusses this question - look for the thread "My Doctor's Opinion about WW." smile.gif

Sue

[nancyny]

Kat, the 4 gram per serving "fiber cap" was added a couple years after the Points system was introduced - when 1-2-3 Success became Winning Points.

It seems a lot of people who ate a lot of fiber-rich foods were not accounting for the calories, and so were having trouble losing weight. I know there was a man in one of my classes who found a vegetarian chili he claimed was free! Likewise, there are several very high-fiber cereals out there.

With the 4-gram fiber cap, that is less of a problem.

What you do to figure points for a food with more than 4 grams of fiber per serving is just use 4.

[judyo53]

People were adding fiber to things like ice cream to bring the true point value down on the old, no holds barred fiber deduction, and eating way too much of this fiber enhanced stuff.

[brdwygurl]

You know I always wondered if I could actually reduce the point value of food by ADDING fiber. If I add some kashi go lean to my yogurt can I make it 1pt instead of 2. I never did it, because something about it felt like cheating.

I also learned that because of the cap on fiber 3/4 cup of Puffins is 1pt. But 1 1/2 cups is 3.5 :eek:

[WWCarol]

But when you're making a recipe, Kat, you cap the fiber at 4 g. "per serving".

So if your dish will be serving 4, and the dish has lots of fiber, you can have each serving cap at 4 grams.

However, if you eat TWO servings at once you double the calories, double the fat, but keep the fiber capped at 4.

If I, however, eat one serving at lunch and one serving at dinner I would figure points for each individual serving.

I meant to be clear; I hope I was! tongue.gif ;) Carol

[williang]

However, if you eat TWO servings at once you double the calories, double the fat, but keep the fiber capped at 4. Thanks for explaining that! For some reason my little brain has trouble with that concept. So... if each serving had 1g of fiber, and I had 2 servings... I would still only count 1g of fiber?? But double the fat and calories?? I think I'm gettin' it! LOL

~Ang

[WWCarol]

Nope!

If each serving had 1 gram of fiber, and you had two servings at once, you would count TWO grams of fiber.

Let's try it this way: Your meal has 20 calories, 20 g. fat, and 2 g. of fiber.

If you had TWO serving at one time you double the calories (40), double the fat (40) and double the fiber (4).

If you had THREE servings at one time, you would triple the calories (60), triple the fat (60), and triple the fiber (which should be 6, however the CAP AT 4 grams keeps it 4).

If you had FOUR servings at once time, you would quadruple the calories (80), quadruple the fat (80), and quadruple the fiber (which should be 8, but with the fiber capped at 4, keeps it 4).

Does that explain it better?! graemlins/bcbsalute.gif graemlins/wave.gif Carol

[williang]

Ahhhhh!

*light bulb clicks on*

I get it!!!! Finally!!!!

Thank you! I think I've been cheating myself out of some points! Er... or maybe not... I dunno!! But at least I have it figured out now!

Thanks! :D

[WWCarol]

You are welcome, Buddy! graemlins/bcbsalute.gif :D Carol

[TexasMom]

Brainteaser:

When does
1 + 1 = 1 and
0 + 0 = 2 ???

With WW math!