...You can do anything for just three days...;^}
Lately God has been nudging me to lose some weight. I have a
wedding to go to this weekend, and I’m going on vacation next month, so I
thought His idea of my losing a few pounds was a good one. One of my co-workers, Monica, came in to work
last Friday with the “Three Day Diet”!
How timely.
Hmm, Three Day Diet—there’s something Biblical in there
somewhere. Perhaps God is trying to
resurrect one of His original creations.
By following this miracle diet, I was practically guaranteed
to lose 10 pounds in just three days!
Easy—I can do almost anything for three days! I planned out my three days---Tuesday, Wednesday
and Thursday of this week; and armed with my list, took off for the grocery
store. This was just so awesome, not too
restricting, it even had a few enticing perks, not to mention a carrot dangling
in front of my nose (literally).
Tues:
Breakfast:
½ grapefruit (I love grapefruit, but am not supposed to eat
it since I’m on cholesterol medication)
1 slice of toast with 2 tbls. Peanut butter. Coffee or tea. That’s more than I usually eat, so I was on
my way to skinny!
Lunch: ½ cup of tuna,
1 slice of toast. Coffee or tea. Well, that’s a little limiting, but just
think, 10 pounds in 3 days!
Dinner: 2 slices of
meat! Wow, I thought of 2 giant slabs of
prime rib, but then I read the fine print (3
ozs.) , 1 cup of green beans, 1 small apple, and ½ banana. My dog, Mia, was so happy, she got the other
banana half. And, I couldn’t believe my
eyes: 1 cup vanilla ice cream for
dessert. I chose Haagen-dazs.
I was so pumped! This
was a snap. I could hardly wait to get
to sleep so I could hit the scale in the morning and see my 3 1/3 pound weight
loss.
Apparently there is something wrong with my scale! I lost nothing.
Wed:
Breakfast:
1 Egg, 1 slice of toast and ½ banana (another happy day for
Mia)
Lunch:
1 cup cottage cheese, 1 hard boiled egg, 5 Saltines – this
feast lasted until about 2:30 when my stomach was serenading the entire office.
Dinner: Now this was what I’d been waiting for – my favorite
food! 2 hotdogs—I fired up the grill as
soon as I got home and threw on 2 Ball Parks and watched them plump! With my meat dish, I gagged down (oops, I
mean enjoyed) 1 cup broccoli, ½ cup carrots, ½ half of a banana (Mia is in
heaven by now), and, can you believe it, another ½ cup of Haagen-dazs!
I could hardly sleep Wednesday night, just thinking about
all of the clothes I’d be able to get back into, instead of taking them to the
women’s shelter. Again I stepped gingerly onto the scale. No Change!
I picked the scale up and shook it just to be sure it was working
correctly. Nothing!
Thurs:
Breakfast:
5 Saltines and a slice of Cheddar cheese so thin it only had
one side, accompanied by a teenie weenie apple.
Lunch:
1 hard boiled egg and a slice of toast. No further comment on that.
Dinner:
1 Cup of tuna – must have come from some old tuna living in
the Dead Sea – dry as a bone, ½ half banana (Mia is doing flips through the
living room by now) and, of course, 1 cup of vanilla ice cream.
OK, so I lived through the 3 days—barely. Friday morning was the big day, the day I
would step on the scale and see how my weight had plummeted!
WHAT! 1 pound? Really?
What about the big promise? I was
starving, and still fat!
I came in to work and told Monica I wanted a refund. She reminded me that the diet had been free
of charge.
The lesson in this, I believe God has been trying to get my
attention. Well, it worked, and in His
amazing sense of humor, He reminded me that free will is my choice. He doesn’t make bad choices for us, we do!
Written by an only slightly thinner
Paula Glauber
