Why Smartpoints?
In my journey of exploration in food, you will often find me noting how many "smartpoints" (sp) a recipe comes out to. For those who are not familiar with the system, smartpoints are Weight Watcher's current method for tracking what one is eating. On a given plan, you are allowed a certain number of smartpoints per day, and a certain amount of overflow for the week that you can use however you like. Some foods, like vegetables or beans, are usually point-free, so technically you can have as much as you want of those. Other items, like milk and butter, can be 5 to 7 points, and a Dairy Queen ice cream cake is well over thirty. I started using WW in December of 2017. When I started college in 2012, I ranged between 130 and 140 pounds. But slowly I added on the pounds until, by that December, after a year and a half of a desk job where I sat literally all day, I had reached 172 pounds. My body felt heavy just to move in it, I was exhausted all the time, short of brea
