What was supposedly the Mayo Clinic Diet is a fad or crash diet. It is based around grapefruit, lots of salad and protein, and little carbohydrates. Weight loss was supposed to be in the region of 50-55 pounds in 10 weeks.
The daily points allowed on Weight Watchers vary according to sex,weight, height and activity level. A woman who weighs under 150 pound would be allowed between 18 and 23 points, according to Watcherspoints.com, whereas a man who weighs 300 pounds would get around 35 points a day. Keep Learning.
Since this is below the min daily points plus allowance, then this simplified formula would not work. In this case the points would be set to 26 so as not to be below the minimum allowed. The other example is for when the results are outside the min/max range. Let's say a person's target came out to 85 points.