By Jody Worsham
All rights reserved for Splenda, Spanx, and stretch jeans!
"Hello, my name is Jody and I am F.F.A.A.T. (Fast Food Addicts Anonymous Tribunal). It has been one day, three hours, six minutes, and thirty-two…thirty-three….thirty-four seconds since I have been to McDonalds."
"Welcome, Jody. Have some seats. You can have the two chairs over here."
Yes, I admit I need help for my addiction. I recognized this when my husband opened our credit card statement and it was four pages long. Christmas took up a quarter of a page, Wal-Mart accounted for three-fourths of a page but the remaining three pages were to McDonald's. If McDonald's had not added their breakfast menu, free Wi-Fi, chocolate mocha frappes, and a store inside Wal-Mart, it would have only been two pages. If my addiction can be cured, our credit card balance will drop considerably along with my cholesterol levels and pants size.
So I have embraced the 366 steps (these are baby steps) toward being F.F.A.A.T. free. This is day one, or step one which is "Do not EAT in McDonald's." This morning I resisted and only ordered a diet coke. I could have not even gone into McDonald's but a dollar diet coke compared to $1.49 diet coke at the check-out stand made economic sense to me. Ok, I'm rationalizing. Back to step one. Baby steps, remember?
Now to make it through the next 365 steps and days. Why did this year have to be a leap year? I'll keep you posted. One day, three hours, seven minutes and fifteen…sixteen….seventeen seconds…
6 comments:
Good for you. I am on a similar program of trying not to eat out so much. This is day seven of eating all meals at home. Yikes. I'll cheer you on if you cheer me on.
Go Delores!!!! Next week will be the real challenge...I leave the house at 2:30 and don't return until 6 or 7 depending on whether it is ballet, violin, gymnastics, Scouts, and/or basketball practice with two hungry kids. It will be like packing a picnic supper every day!
You can do it and the kids will enjoy it. It will be fun.
So funny :) good luck!
Creative, funny, good job, Jody. Good luck with your 366 step program. I hope to see a thinner you at EBWW in April. I also hope you see a thinner me.
Great job. I also am there with you Jody. I have great hopes to eat healthy and I will bring my lunch to work and then the office staff will deluge me with bagels and cookies. Very hard to resist. I will try harder.
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