You Want a Cookie?

My best friend's mom has a plaque in her kitchen that goes something along the lines of this-

"There is a skinny girl inside me crying to get out but I can usually shut her up with cookies"

Hilarious, yes. True, painstakingly! I have been trying for too long now to lose weight. Granted, I was very successful for a while, but I have hit a slump. I love food but it keeps me fat!

Now here is where all my friends get pissed off and start with the "Sabrina you are not fat, you look great. And the "Lots of girls would love to look like you's" and so on and so forth.

First of all, thank you. Second of all, bullshit. Now, I realize there are lots of other women out there who have a more significant weight issue than myself, but none the less I am not entirely happy with my appearance and it is something I struggle with daily. Umm, or more like hourly.

So here I am, 9:07 pm on Monday night and I am hungry! Mind you I have had 3 square (even though they are on a round plate we call them square, why?) meals today plus dessert. And I have tried to ignore the hunger pains and be a good girl and not eat anything until breakfast, but it is so so hard when my boyfriend, who eats like a horse, covers most everything in either butter or bacon, and washes it down with a regular (not diet calorie free) Snapple, needs his late night snack (buttered popcorn, please! which is so not fair that he can eat that crap this late at night and still have the body of a professional baseball player). What is a girl trying to lose 10, OK 15, ... fine! 20 lbs. to do?

*Light bulb*

I will have some healthy cereal! Like the girl in the Special K commercial! She looks full, and happy, and most importantly THIN. And, it just so happens that the other day in one of my self help, I need more fiber in my diet and this time I am really going to take care of myself moments, I bought this super healthy organic cereal. Perfect.

Enter Weetabix.

Hmmm. Upon first inspection it resembles something. Can't quite put my finger on it... its brown, bendy, and smells like... cardboard! That's it. Wonderful, I am about to eat cardboard. No! This is good for me. Do not judge until you have tried, Sabrina.

Right, so add a little skim milk, a dash of brown sugar, and enjoy. Enjoy. ENJOY DAMNIT!

This is going to be harder than I thought.