Nothin' Says I Love You Like This

I thought we could all use a laugh. We all have a lot to learn about our shortcomings. Take one of mine, for example. Weight.

Well, I'm trying out this program in order to see what I can do to get a grip with myself. So far, things are going well. But when I first started, following this program was a little confusing. Someone I know talked to me about it, as this person was also on this program. There is a measuring system they use that you record what you eat every single time. It's assigned a value, and at the end of the day, you're done once you reached the goal.

Well, as an oversight, I neglected to see that the overall value was on a per day basis. I, however, thought it was per week. And what a BIG difference that made! For 3 days, and eating cardboard rice cakes, drinking gallons of water, eating 3 cashews, and a splash of orange juice, I went to work (after 3 days on the program) to ask my friend what they do to curb their appetite when they're hungry. By this point, I was about to eat my left arm, the valuable one as I am left-handed.

She proceded to tell me that she will eat a prescribed snack, or something else, and that that usually just works just fine. After lamenting about how hungry I was, and that I didn't know how I was going to make it for the week, she asked what my total value was. I told her, and she asked if I was using it all. My response, innocently, was that I wanted to save it for the end of the week, when I knew I'd probably fall off the wagon like a bad turnip. When she asked why, I said "well, I can't use all of the value in one day, can I?"

Laughing...she said it was daily, NOT weekly.

Needless to say, I lost about 5 pounds the first week.

What a way to start!

Things are going fine now. (And everyone around me is much happier now that I'm not the ugly hungry one anymore).

In honor of this misfire, my friend Dan sent me the following video that made me almost wet myself. I hope you like it.