5 pounds and what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt. Well that’s partially true, today begins week five of Lent in which I have given up alcohol and sweets and to date have dropped five pounds. I told this to my friend and she said, “Wow, you must drink a lot!” And I said, “Uh, no, I don’t drink a lot. It’s more than the alcohol, it’s what it entails. A vodka tonic at night on the porch requires some snack as I can’t drink without food in my body. Then it leads to dinner and by that time I’m much hungrier than I would have been if I hadn’t had the drink. So it’s alcohol and food that has led to my body expanding one to two dress sizes in the last two years.”
She ate an entire can of tuna while I was telling her this and smugly said, “Well I only have about two or three glasses of wine total a week.”