The Gold Star

This was an amazing week where I really tested my theory of dieting on week days only since during the week I wasn’t perfect either. The week started off at 1 minute past midnight on Sunday morning at White Castle, continued to an all day non stop eating festival on Mother’s Day and ended with crackers all week long. I am doing well with my daily bars for breakfast, turkey salad for lunch and chicken burgers and vegetables at night. The only bad part about it is the part where everyone, who could lose a pound or two themselves, tells me that eating the same thing every day is boring. Apparently what they eat is exciting. I want to tell them that I know so many boring people in this world that I have been conditioned to accept boredom in the same way that I accept air, involuntarily, but I don’t want to hurt their feelings since boring people are usually insecure as well. Now you might say that by blogging about this here I am telling that to them indirectly, but by reading my blog you automatically remove yourself from the valley of the boring, so none of this applies to any of you (with just a couple of exceptions).

But I digress. The problem I had this week (besides an amazing half sandwich from Farmer Joel’s) was crackers. Dinner, while decent, was not filling enough so I went hunting for something extra in the house. Something like my mother used to do before Passover. Again I digress. Since I got rid of all the potato chips, ice cream and pretzels, I had to find something and I came across the always boring Keebler’s crackers. On Tuesday I had five, Wednesday 10 and on Thursday I had so many that I dropped half the pack since I couldn’t carry them all. Roland ended up having 15, (By the way is anyone interested in a cracker eating dog?). Since my weigh in was Saturday and almost certain ridicule from my exciting friends awaited me on Monday I avoided the crackers like a plague Friday night. It was pure torture. Well Saturday did come finally and I actually lost 1.2 pounds with my boring work week food and crackers. All told I lost five pounds in two weeks and WeightWatchers gave me a gold star. Some people crack themselves up, it looks like I cracked myself down. And next week I am going to get real serious. But that will only happen if I find some serious exciting snack food for the evening.