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"So my diet&amp;#039;s going\u2026. okay. But maybe not as good as it was when I first started. I would say I&amp;#039;ve generally been straddling phases 1 and 2 in the Fat Smash. I&amp;#039;m still down 4 pounds, but in the past week, I&amp;#039;ve given in to a few temptations and I bet you can guess what they were:  COOKIES.  For me, it&amp;#039;s always the darn cookies. I can&amp;#039;t resist them! THREE TIMES in the past week!  So what does that say about me? That I can eat well for several days, but then break down when a few cookies are placed in front of me? Does it mean I don&amp;#039;t have any will power? Maybe. Or is it that I don&amp;#039;t want to lose the weight badly enough? Maybe.  Or maybe it&amp;#039;s that I wish they&amp;#039;d devise a diet where you don&amp;#039;t have to be on it every single day. One that lets you eat what you want for, say, 2 or 3 days a week. The other 4 or 5 days you&amp;#039;d stick to the diet. I think getting through the tough times would be easier if I knew I could eat &amp;quot;normal&amp;quot; (read: delectable) foods in merely a couple of days.  But diets never work like that. It&amp;#039;s always -- stay on this plan forever. I guess that&amp;#039;s why Weight Watchers has had so much success because it does let you splurge more frequently than other diets. But still -- to count every point is annoying for me.  My ideal diet would be a combination of the Fat Smash, and splurging a few days a week. Something like:  Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, Sundays: Do the Fat Smash Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays: Splurge on whatever you want  I imagine this dream diet to be sort of like a dream date: We get introduced to each other, in the magical light of (um) a bookstore. And the diet introduces itself out of nowhere: Dream Diet: &amp;quot;Hi, Nicole. I&amp;#039;m the diet you&amp;#039;ve been waiting for all your life.&amp;quot; Nicole: &amp;quot;Hi, Dream Diet! I&amp;#039;m so pleased to finally meet you. What will my life be like with you?&amp;quot; Dream Diet: &amp;quot;It will be a life full of variety, where you can be with me most days of the week but have your freedom.&amp;quot;  Nicole: &amp;quot;So this would be like an open marriage?&amp;quot; Dream Diet: &amp;quot;That&amp;#039;s right! It&amp;#039;s open so that, when you want to take a break from me, you can. But then we can get back together when your affair (with, say, cookies) is over. That&amp;#039;s what you want, right?&amp;quot; Nicole: &amp;quot;I do, I do! You are indeed my perfect mate. Ooops -- I mean diet!&amp;quot; (Sorry, hubby.) Okay, back to reality. How I was good today: Egg whites for breakfast; salad for lunch; fruit snacks. How I was bad today: Put cheese on my egg whites. Over the weekend, pigged out on 8 (yes, 8!) cookies. What I avoided today: A chocolate cake tasting test! Can you believe work was having a taste test for chocolate cake at the one time I&amp;#039;ve decided to diet??? But I didn&amp;#039;t give in. I&amp;#039;m a saint. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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