Watching It

Any of you Weight Watchers out there? How're you holding up?

I actually quite like the online version of the program. There's something about the counting and earning and tracking of POINTS™ with slick charts and quick calculators that keeps me motivated. Checking off little glasses of water and veggies and "healthy oils" appeals to the geeky little rule-follower in me. We'll see how long that lasts.

I've also discovered a new guilty pleasure. No, it's not the faux Frosty recipe (1c skim milk, 1T FF/SF Choc pudding, 2T FF Cool Whip, 6 ice cubes, blend until smooth=3 you-know-whats) or those teeny tiny Weight Watchers cakes. It's the Weight Watchers Community message boards. Want to read some drama? Just log on to the Flex Plan message board and read the debates over the benefits and drawbacks of PB2. By the way, did you know that such a thing existed? Living a Life of POINTS™ will make even 85% fat free powdered peanut butter sound downright delectable. So I ordered some.

Believe me, shaving those calories off of my peanut butter portions will make a difference. Today, I exceeded my weekly POINTS™ allotment by 0.5 point and the tracker displayed "EXCEEDED" in big red glowy letters above the overage. It was probably snorting at me too, but thankfully I keep my speakers on mute.

I will weigh in for the week in about 12 hours, so in order to prevent any further damage to my very delicate POINTS™ situation, I have decided to go to bed, where sweet dreams of PB2 and Cool Whip Free surely await me.