Noooo, not again!

I just, finally got in a groove with the Weight Watchers Purple plan. Got my foods in place, started to figure out how to balance the day so I'm never hungry....

and...

It's all going away.

The change that is due at WW in early November is going to be to eliminate the three custom plans for a supposedly 100% custom "for me" plan, that they will arrive at after a lengthy quiz.

They are desperately trying to hold on to their market, which is fleeing for KETO based plans, as well as noom. They've certainly alienated me with their bullshit focus on "wellness" and "wellness coaches" because fuck off, I'm hear to lose weight, not deal with wellness psychobabble. (*)

So blah.

Of course everyone who doesn't like the new plan will get a condescending pat on the head with a "change is hard!" sop, but it's not that. Change was hard when they went full-focus on low carb/high protein, and I was never able to make that plan work (whatever it was called? Freestyle? Now blue?). Moving from that horrid plan to the three plans helped me until, well, covid, lol. I dislike change when it narrows my possibilities and my flexibility.

The other big issue with Weight Watchers is that long term diets don't work, especially for the fattest among us, we will be back time and time again, having regained all/most of what we lost. So, no matter what they say, they gear their plans towards people who have 10-20 lbs to lose, and who need to pick up a few good habits. Those of us with a lot more to lose who need to be on a plan for a long time to lose the weight, and who need to be able to live on a plan for the rest of our lives need more flexibility than the plans designed for a 10-20lbs loss. It would sound like a "custom" plan would be a great thing, right? Well, usually not. Because those plans are designed for the lower weight loss. I need a plan that allows me the flexibility of living in the framework.

An example would be the Freestyle program. They lowered the number of points allocated, and made a whole bunch of foods 0 points. That's great if it you eat fish and boneless skinless chicken breast, but for someone who feels better on a lower protein/higher carb diet, it was very difficult, and I ultimately gained back a whole bunch of weight because I could not get that program to work for me. And then, predictably, I got discouraged at the weight gain and ditched it all, thereby gaining even more, LOL. When they went to the blue/green/purple plans, I was thrilled with the change and never even looked at 'blue', which is that Freestyle program, but instead used green and purple, which are at opposite ends of the spectrum in some ways, but in the end both gave me the ability to eat the foods I prefer to eat. I mean, I can have oatmeal for breakfast and a baked potato for lunch, LOL. Anyhow.

(*) Not all wellness is psychobabble, but by the time you've made is bland enough to fit everyone who might be listening, it's nothing but shined up bullshit.

Yay! --NM-- NOT Yay

Perry got into the biochemistry major, which is the one he was most hoping for, I think.

So yay! Major sigh of relief here, we were freaking out that he'd have to graduate with a BA rather than a BS.

Fuck. Nope. He got into the biochemistry BA program, which is pretty much for people who want to teach high school chemistry. He has already done most of the classes for that, and this will not gain him anything. Shit.

He needs the high level chem and biochem classes, and those are only available for the BS majors.

I am so fucking sick of competitive majors.

ETA Dh is pissed and is now planning on trying to find Perry a completely different university anywhere in the country. Because since they only do admissions to the majors twice a year, this sets him a full year behind. He -dh- understands that this moving him might not speed anything up, but he's pissed at the current sitch. All schools in Washington state have these, and they're admitting more and more students every year and not upping the number of seats in the majors.