fun with eTools

The "new math" that WW eTools seems to be doing with my points tracker is starting to piss me off.

Case in point: This morning, I ate 1 Hershey miniature. A serving is 5 miniatures for 5 points. The Points tracker correctly assessed my 1 miniature as 1 point.

5 hours later, (right before I threw all the remaining minis in the trash) I ate the remainder of the 5-piece serving. When I plugged 4 Hershey's miniatures into eTools, it came up with 4.5 points. So let's see...if I eat the serving all at once, it's 5 points, but if I eat one in the morning and 4 in the afternoon, it's 5.5? No sense.

Now, before you get to talking about the formulas and the rounding and whatnot, I am well-acquainted with mathematical formulas and rounding to the nearest whatever. I understand such things. There's probably just enough fat in four of the little buggers to set off that extra half-point. Still, it's annoying, and it's not the only food that has discrepancies.

A 1 oz piece of sirloin is 1 point, but an 8-oz steak is 11 points.

One kiwi is 1 point, but 2 are 1.5 points (that one's actually in my favor, but illustrates the same phenomenon).

There's dozens of others, enough that I've taken to entering things into the tool in the most point-friendly combinations. You'd think they'd make it more uniform...

Other than that, though, I love eTools.

I would assume that if you ate 5 Mr. Goodbars rather than 5 Special Darks, you'd get more calories as well..?

probably true...but the tool (and the nutritional label on the bag of candy) doesn't make a distinction. it's just listed as "assorted miniatures". But I imagine the goodbars are more, with the peanuts.

But if you're talking about 50 calories per bar, whether it's 52 or 49 really doesn't make a huge difference.