- Weight Watchers need a new

DEAR Weigh
Watchers ae
Honcho:

Since becoming a member
of Weight Watchers I've
spent a lot of time learning
about good nutrition
through your point system.
fm proud to say Pve lost
eighe pounds on your pro-
gram, but I'ma little disap-
pointed in some of the point
values you've assigned to cer-
tain foods.

Personally P’'m having
some difficulry believing that
one measly Dairy Queen
Blizzard constitutes the total
number of points I’m
allowed in an entire day.
After all, it’s only ground-up
cookies and a little ice cream.

Anyway, now that ’'m a
seasoned Weight Watcher
with well over a month under
my belt I thought I would
write to offer you a few sug-
gestions for the program.

First of all, get a new
spokesperson ‘immediately.
Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of
York (Duchess of Pork to
most of us), is completely
inappropriate as a role model
for we fat folk fer a few.
important reasons.

The fact is, she’s royalty.

- Just because she’s fought a
weight problem all her life
doesn’t make her anything at
all like we ordinary porky
plebeians.

Take, for example, her

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cravings. In the Weight
Watchers ads, which seem to
be everywhere, she claims
that “if you really must have
that croissant, you may have
ir.”

Well, it ain’t a croissant
Pm craving : as I feel those old

“eat em up” urges coming
on, it’s a good half dozen
Tim Horton doughnuts, or a
big greasy cheeseburger and
fries, I’ve had a few croissants
in my time, and I think
they"re totally overrated. All
air and a wee bit of iard.

Then there’s the little
black suit that she boasts
about fitting into now that
she’s achieved her weight
goal.

I’ve asked around at my
Weight Watchers mectings,
and no one there owns a suit
anything like that. Most of us
are simply and desperately
trying to nee back into
our “big

And quite ‘frankly, I'd just
like to be able ro walk from
my local swimming pool to
the changing room once
without hearing comments

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like, “Wow, look at the big
old sack of cats on the back
of her.”

Yup, the Duchess of Pork
has got to go. She's far too
haughty.

Another thing I recom-
mend is that you give Weight
Watchers members some kind
of visible ication, so
that when we are out at
restaurants or at the groc
store, people will recognize
us and support our efforts.

1 could have used a little
help the other day when |
happened to be at
Northlands. My friends and I
went to the restaurant there
after we got rained off the
golf course.

I had packed my fat-free
turkey sandwich for the
round, good Weight Watcher
that I am, and I took it,
along with my apple into the
restaurant.

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I had barely unwrapped
my meagre repast when an
oificious Manageress
informed me that it is illegal
to eat a homemade sandwich
in the restaurant. (My God,
had T taken but one
bite T would have bro!
Jaw!)

T explained that I was
going to Weight Watchers,
and that this particular iunch
was part of my diet program,
bur she jusc rolled her eves
and putting her hands on her
dony hips, snapped: “Pm
sorry, Vou cannot eat that
sandwich in here ma'am.”

And so, despite the fact
that my friends were all
ordering lunch from the
menu, F had to eat my far-
free turkey sandwich in the
washroom, either there or go
outside into the cold and
bie ing rainstorm.

You don’t know what low

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feels like until you've eaten a
fat-tree turkey sandwich in
the can at your municipal
golf course,

And about those Weight
Watchers scales.

Thev aren't ¢
enough, One wi
went for a weigh-in J discov-
ered that | had gained a
poun

ere must be some

kind of mistake,” I said to
the lady on the other side of
the counter as I stepped off
the scale. I took off my
watch, earrings, and socks
and then spat out my gum.

Climbing onto the scaic
again, | leaned heavily onto
my left foot (on my old scale
1 used to be abie to lean a lit-
te to the left to squeak off an
extra pound or two).

“Still up a pound,” the
lady said.

PH tell you what. When a

ook

gal has worked hard all week
to cat properly and only
blown it once (the day Thad
chocolate cake for breakfast,
lunch and dinner, then as an
evening snack), a gal should
have the option to Iean to
the left on the scale and
thereby lose a pound if that’s
what her fragile psyche needs.
by the way, I don’t
think people should be
allow ed ta stip right down
to their underwear for their
weigh-ins, It’s just plain
gross.

So, just a few changes
should tidy things up nicely
at Weight Watchers.

Oh yeah, and if you're
looking for somcone to
replace the Duchess of Pork,
keep me in mind.

Only 12 pounds to go
and I qualify.

Sincerely,
Shannon Humphreys

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