McDonald's Partners With Weight Watchers

Well this is a serious joke. I should know because I do Weight Watchers. It's this great little program where you spend every day of your life writing down every morsel and crumb of food you eat. Then you weigh yourself once a week, which usually includes starving the night before to maintain your goal weight. Weight Watchers loves to tout how it's not a diet! Yeah right. It's a diet for the rest of your life.

I'm in the lowest weight category on the Weight Watchers scale, which is amusing to me. Weight Watchers weight standards were clearly developed by healthy minded people and not Hollywood anorexics. In my weight category, the least I'm supposed to eat is twenty points a day and the most I'm supposed to eat to maintain my weight is twenty-five points a day. (Without frequent exercise, there is no way on Earth I can maintain my weight eating twenty-five points a day.)

I like to eat doughnuts in my fantasies. A doughut is six points. Has anyone ever eaten just one? I. Don't. Think. So. If you eat three doughnuts that's eighteen points, which leaves you anywhere from two to seven points to eat the rest of the day. Hence, the whole starving thing. Of course there are free vegetables that are zero points like asparagus, broccoli, green beans, mushrooms, tomatoes and squash, which are all personal favorites of mine.

But really, who is going to eat three doughnuts and then load up on squash and tomatoes the rest of the day. Not exactly a balanced and healthy eating plan.

Here's a perfect example of how being on Weight Watchers will never allow you to be able to eat anything at McDonald's unless you plan on starving the rest of the day.

I don't eat at McDonald's because the last I read they fry their french fries in some sort of meat batter, which would defy my holier-than-thou Vegan lifestyle. So I head over to Jack-in-the-Box where they fry them in good 'ol fashioned vegetable oil.

A large fry and a small Sprite are nine and three points respectively. I do eat this meal sometimes, but it's always a bit of a struggle as I have to eat really healthy the rest of the day to not go over my points. A junk food connoisseur at this point should be squawking about where the massive cholesterol-raising heart attack-inducing hamburger is to go with those mountain of fries and small Sprite. Um, no where to be found is the answer. If you ate a hamburger on top of the fries and the drink you would most certainly use every single point allotted for the entire day. So yeah, Weight Watchers has totally sold out because no one wants to eat healthy. They just want to eat healthy at McDonald's because really, as long as we're all staring at a picture of a salad while ordering a Big Mac, our pants shouldn't be splitting anytime soon.

The bottom line is this - if you don't want to be a fat girl don't eat at McDonald's. The best way to maintain weight is by eating vegetables, whole grains and low fat protein. BORING! It's healthy, but your taste buds aren't going to be doing back flips. And pretty much those three food columns along with fruit are your only hope of staying within your points on Weight Watchers. I should know. I've tested Weight Watchers with french fries, soft drinks, chocolate chip cookies, potato chips and chocolate. My waistline has lost the battle every single time.