I'm not sad about this, on the contrary, I'm quite happy.
And yes, I get your thinking "Uh, ok? You lost your food and that makes you happy?"
Or maybe you're thinking, "Oh damn, she was making potatoes for dinner and some carb loving thief stole them!"
"Maybe they rolled out of the grocery bag and into the back of her car while she was driving home from the store."
I mean that did happen to me once but instead of it being a potato it was actually a tube of beef. FYI, a "tube of beef" sounds f-ing nasty!
But anyway, it rolled out of the bag and we didn't realize it was missing until a few days later. In my defense, it was winter so the smell didn't hit for a while and we honestly thought maybe a cat had curled up into the car engine to stay warm but then died, so we were pretty devastated.
Of course once we realized it was beef and not an innocent cat we were totally relived. Moral of the story...I always pop my engine hood to make sure I'm not accidentally cooking orphaned kittens and also always check your truck for rogue tubed beef.
But yeah, back to what I was saying, I didn't lose 4 actual potatoes. Let me explain.
I'm going to blame Covid and summer and vacation...and carbs...but I've put on a few extra pounds. I've been walk/running a mile each night to help lose the weight but it's taking foreevveeerrr!
Possible because I'm in my forties now and my metabolism has slowed to a snails crawl (and possibly because I celebrate my mile run with a small scoop of ice cream) but either way, I'm trying to lose weight.
Anyway, a friend of mine has been working out and recently lost 10 pounds. To celebrate she posted a picture of a ten pound bag of potatoes to show how much extra weight she has lost.
Anyway, I thought it was so inspiring that I took a bunch of post it notes and drew one potato on each one. (Side note: I hate that the plural of potato is "potatoes" with an "e" but a single potato does not the extra "e" at the end probably because it's skinnier than the potatoes.)
So yeah, the back of my bedroom door now has multiple post-it's with a single potato drawn on each one. So when I lose a pound I can remove one potato from the door. My poor husband supports everything I do and even though he doesn't completely understand why there's 15 potatoes on the back of our door he doesn't even question it. (He doesn't really question most of the weird things I do but he's supportive and I love him.)
Anyway, so far I've lost 4 potatoes so I'm happy. I have a lot more potatoes to lose but it feels amazing each time I take down a post it from the door.
So if you're trying to lose weight just grab some post-it's and draw a vegetable on each one to keep yourself motivated. Oh and stop eating French fries and night ice cream...and always check your truck for tube beef and your engine for orphaned kittens.
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