Weight Watchers

Everywhere I look someone is on a diet.......Weight Watchers, Slimming World, Atkins, The Zone, The Cabbage (?)................... I could be here a while.

Now everyone puts on a bit of weight over Christmas (we'll eliminate celebrities from that generalisation as they 'don't do food') but why the sudden desperation come January 1st to start eating lettuce leafs and regard all your food as 'points'?

I went out for dinner today, a Friday ritual with the girls that I look forward to all week, but as we sat down today and I ordered my large glass of red wine (It'd been a hard morning) one of the girls announced "I'm doing Weight Watchers" and brought out from her bag a little notebook with the calorie intake and points of all the foods ever in the world (well, maybe Turnips had been missed off but who eats them anyway?)

Now I like my food but thankfully I'm as happy eating a chicken salad as I am eating a 15oz steak. I don't however like to know how much calories, fat, salt, lard, is in my deep fried mars bar - it spoils the enjoyment.

So as we start looking through the menus and we've all made our choices, said friend is comparing the menu to her little book of calorie fun. I can hear her muttering "so if I just have a salad and a water now, I can save my points and have a couple of alcopops and a kebab on my way home tonight....hmmmm, what should I do"

THATS NOT A DIET!!!!

A diet is eating cuppa soups and celery isn't it? (and for all you dieters, you burn off more calories chewing celery than you do eating the damn thing!!!)

So it leads to me to wondering where all these diets came from - how did it all become so complicated - I'm very much of the 'eat less, exercise more' school of healthy eating? Now I realise I've got it all wrong.

So good luck to all you dieters - I've been told about one where you can eat as many Haribos as you like but you have to limit how much fruit you eat 'coz of the points' so guess which diet I'm going to be adopting this weekend?

Now I wonder how many points are in a bottle of red wine.....................?