The Weightloss Web

So now I am counting points. I can eat 24 medium plums, 6 tubs of 3% cottage cheese or 16 Tivol fake chicken schnitzels (only if they are 5% fat or less) as long as that was all I eat per day. I now measure all food by how much of it I could eat in a day, if that was all I was eating. The good news is all veggies are free, which is comforting because I can now always eat an infinite amount of salad until I am sick of it, which I am, after only three days.

This watching your weight has all sorts of web sites associated. Blackwifeo pointed me to the Sparkpeople site, who's catch phrase is no less pretentious than "Make Your Life an Adventure". On the sign up page there is a wonderful "How can this be Free?" blurb, that explains "my wife and I were very early eBay employees and are now using our earnings from its success to make the world a healthier place, as our way of giving back to society." Its true, you can go look.

This website and say, for example, the WeightWatcher's Men's site have everything I hate in websites. They are so complicated. They try so hard to blast you with earnest information that its almost impossible to find anything. They are also so full of advertising that is pretending to be healthy and diet conscious that my eye cannot find the real stuff Sparkpeople has "Musical Motivation" sponsored by SkinnyCow, and "Celebrate Your Moment..." sponsored by LeanCuisine. All I want to do is lose seven kilos, I don't need to find god or anything. It seems to me that the weight loss people have decided that all fat people are also stupid.