My Thoughts on Weight Watchers Last Monday, after several false starts, I decided to recommit to Weight Watchers. There have been some changes since the last time I used the program. The main one is they’re now calling themselves WW, kind of like KFC. The second one is late last year they debuted one of their most flexible plans. Weight Watchers relies on a point system. You are allotted a certain amount of points a day. Each food is assigned a point value based on an algorithm which calculates the nutritional value. The more nutritious the food, the lower it is in points. Many fruits and vegetables are assigned zero points, to encourage you to eat more of them. Lean meats such as chicken and fish are low in points. Empty calorie foods such as candy are extremely high in points to discourage you from eating them. For instance, a small mini York peppermint patty clocks in at three points, which seems astronomic
Thursday, August 29 th ,2019. This date had significance for me. It was the day I planned to release my seventh book, Sins of the Child. It was also the day for my office’s summer outing. We were going on a sunset sail and my boyfriend, who is disabled due to MS and doesn’t leave the apartment often, was excited to attend. I awoke at 6:38, before my alarm went off at 6:45 AM. I lay in bed contemplating staying there until it was time to get up, but I thought, “you have a very busy day ahead of you,” and heaved myself up. Eight minutes later, at 6:53 AM, (this was the time recorded by our door camera) I was sitting on the toilet completely naked (yes, really) with my phone in my hand. I was messaging with a writer Twitter acquaintance about the massive troll problem independent authors deal with when I heard a crash in the vicinity of the kitchen. I figured it was my cats. I usually feed them shortl