At the picture show
Dave and I made plans to go to the movies after work yesterday. We’ve got a great little arthouse cinema in the city centre that has two screens. Dave and his friends went to see Antichrist—-a film I had no desire to see (no thanks to female genital self-mutilation!). Instead my girlfriends and I went to see a Swedish film about a woman who discovered her passion for photography. Lovely film.
Why do I bring this up? I love going to the cinema—I love the production of it. Looking up show times, buying tickets, waiting in line at the snack counter, watching the previews, etc…
It’s the snack counter that always gets me. Especially if we go to an early evening showing and I’ve not had a chance to have dinner yet. I was determined to not stray from what had been a great eating day so far. So in the morning when I packed my lunch, I also made two little mini-sandwich things. I had these mini-pitta breads and filled them with light garlic & herb cream cheese, cucumber, and turkey. I sat and ate my snack and drank my diet coke during the previews. It was great! And my friend Elora picked up these fantastic bars made by wheetabix—only 67 calories and a whopping 6grams of fiber!
That brings me to another point—weight watchers in England is different from weight watchers in America. This is one of the main things that threw me from the program during one of the last several times I’ve attempted the programme. I had such a hard time with the fact that here they only calculate the calories and saturated fat into the point value. I used to rely so much in the states on the amount of fiber being important to a food because it brought the point value down.
Anyways, I seem to have finally come to grips with the English way of calculating points. But I do still love my fiber. Fills me up!
