I love this show. The problem? It has a lot of commercials. Unlike Biggest Loser commercials that feature products for people with Type II Diabetes and Cheerios, SYTYCD plays food commercials. Lots of them.
Prior to watching the show I did great on Diet: Day 2.
I ate my egg whites and blueberries (a super food I might add, according to Women's Health Magazine) and even packed pistachios in my bag when I went to the office. Then I can home and made an uber healthy tuna salad.
Then I saw it. Chicken, fried, goodness. I only even watched the stupid commercial because they had all these pretty outdoor lights set up that looked like what I want at my wedding. That's when they started eating.
They looked so happy, smiling and dunking the little nuggets of gold into a variety of sweet and savory sauces. Eating them made the family love each other again and realize that life was worth living.
By this time, I was hungry, and the idea of standing in the kitchen and cooking my chicken for 30 minutes did not seem appealing. I wanted a variety of sweet and savory sauces, dammit.
"Hey, maybe we should go out for dinner!" I eagerly suggested to my fiancee, Jim, AKA "The enabler."
"Yeah, I could go for some Olive Garden. Ooh! Or Outback, yum," he replied.
I made a frowny face.
I know that the OG packs tons of fat, sugar, and salt into everything (even their salad is fattening). I thought chicken nuggets would be the lesser of two evils. At least it's a small serving and doesn't come with previously mentioned fatty salad and bread sticks.
My only redeeming decision was to avoid french fries and soda. I just ate the meat, deep-fried delicious meat. And it was white meat!
Of course that didn't stop me from eating five of Jim's french fries which earned me a, "Hey. You better not be eating all my fries. You said you didn't want any, those are mine."
Jim, let me say here, thanks for your support in my endeavor to avoid eating an entire container of french fries. Love you, so much.
Lesson learned: make dinner before sitting down to watch TV. Thereby avoid insatiable hunger and need to stuff bad food into mouth.
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