Weight Loss For Real

Tuesday mornings are my favorite days of the week. I don’t like to discriminate, but Tuesdays are my favorite for a number of reasons.

First, I have seven favorite shows on Mondays, which, for reasons I won’t reveal here *cough*, I get to watch on Tuesday. Lets call it TiVO, for the sake of this article.

Secondly, people are more alive and active on Tuesdays. The Monday hangovers are gone. The first day of the work week is over. People, in general, are more amenable on Tuesdays. (yes amenable, dammit, I get to use those big words I learned in Scrabble here.

Lastly Tuesdays are the days which I do not have to do strength training. Personally I can’t understand how its fun to do strength training at all. While I admire Navy Seals, thinking of them do push-ups and sit-ups just makes me want to throw up. Or eat a package of Oreos. Unless the Seals are on the beach, with sweat and.. er moving on.

So all day Tuesday I was bouncing around the house happy with myself. I got my shows ready to watch, ate my breakfast, took my pain meds, made dinner and I got my workout over with early. I had a hard time with decisions about lunch going back and forth between oatmeal and making a giant cake and eating all, with butter-cream frosting, and then I saw the raisins. I thought they would be a great idea. Raisins are great right? I get my sugar fix, they’re a sorta fruit, they have fiber (more on that later), and they’re low on calories (this, btw, is wrong, wrong wrong). So I proceed to bring the bucket (yes I did type bucket), into the computer, er tv room *cough*, and eat raisins and almonds. At some point I must have realized I was eating the raisins like popcorn, because I decided to read the calorie content and double check how many raisins I had eaten. Well it turned out I had eaten 136 grams of raisins.. For those of you that have not been cursed, I mean blessed, with the metric system that’s about 1/4 a cup of raisins. Turns out those were FOUR HUNDRED CALORIES. Yes FOUR HUNDRED. OK Alex, I said to my cats (because talking to yourself is crazy), put the raisins down and back away!

A couple of hours later my husband comes home and we begin watching our favorite show The Big Bang Theory. About five minutes into the show I find out the other reason 1/4 a cup of raisins is a bad idea! And five minutes after that and five minutes after that.

The moral of this story is: There is a reason that diets tell you to measure raisins!T