It's Okay NOT To Diet When...

I was looking through some old magazines, and I came across this cartoon in Family Circle, dated October 25, 1983.  Since we seem to always be on a diet (or at least a lot of us are), here are the times when it's okay NOT to diet. (Written by Joan M. Scobey)

• You've been working really hard and you need the energy.
• You've just received good new!
• You jogged all the way to the mailbox.
• There are only two cookies left in the box.
• You just received bad news.
• You're going to the dentist and may not be able to eat again for hours.
• You can still squeeze into your bathing suit.
• Your son/daughter just got his/her driver's license!
• It's in your honor.
• White truffles are in season.
• You're sneezing.
• You have a fever.
• You haven't tried the ice cream of the month.

Well, my 16-year-old daughter just got her driver's license last week, so NO dieting for me this week!!

Also, as a mom, we experience stress.  I came across this Women's Stress Diet at my MIL's house.

Breakfast

1 Grapefruit

1 slice whole wheat toast

1 cup skim milk

Lunch

Small portion lean, steamed chicken with a 

cup of spinach

1 cup herbal tea

1 Hershey kiss

Afternoon Tea

The rest of the Kisses in the bag

1 tub Hagen Daas Ice Cream with 

Chocolate Chip topping

Dinner

2 loaves of garlic bread

1 family size supreme pizza

3 Snickers bars

Late Night Snack

Whole frozen Sarah Lee cheesecake

(eaten directly from the freezer)

Diet Rules

• If no one sees you eat something, it has no calories.
• When drinking a diet Coke with a chocolate bar, the diet Coke cancels out the sugar in the chocolate bar
• When you eat with someone else, calories don't count if you do not eat more than they do.
• Food used for medical purposes does not count (e.g., hot chocolate, toast, cheesecake).
• If you fatten up the people around you, you will look thinner.
• Movie theater related foods have zero calorie count as they are part of the entertainment package and not counted as food intake.  This includes popcorn, Sno Caps, and ice cream.
• Cookie pieces have no calories because breaking the cookies up causes calorie leakage.
• Foods licked from spoons and forks have no fat if you are in the process of cooking something.
• Anything eaten while standing has no calories due to gravity and the density of the calorie mass.
• Food consumed from someone else's plate has no fat as it rightfully belongs to the other person and will cling to his/her plate.

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