2007-12-27
I don't believe it. I just don't.
I went to the gym for the first time since -- oof, around Thanksgiving -- and decided to confront the Awful Truth by getting on the big ol' medical scale in the locker room.
I've gained one pound. ONE.
I really think something is wrong with that scale.
I say this because the weeks in between Thanksgiving and Christmas were a no-holds-barred orgy of eating. Or at least it seemed that way. Port wine cheese balls. Cheese-coated cheese wafers with cheese on the side. Those infernal peanut butter cookies topped with Hershey Kisses. A gustatory atrocity known as "pickle log." (You will not be able to find this on Google, so I will describe this as best as I can: it's a pickle wrapped in cream cheese and corned beef, and then sliced into vaguely-sushiesque pieces. I can't decide whether it was the most awesome, or the most disgusting, thing I've ever had in my mouth.)
Other than shopping excursions and trips up and down the basement stairs to retrieve Christmas decorations, I did nothing in the way of exercise. I had detected the beginnings of a muffin top, and so figured that I'd put on at least 5 pounds.
Is that really possible? How can one consume nothing but cheese, cookie dough, and eggnog lattes for a month, while doing a whole lot of sitting around, and only gain ONE POUND?
Maybe it's a tapeworm.
lisamcc at 11:27 a.m.
5 comments so far
lj lindhurst
2007-12-27 14:34:37
hey, my family makes those things--only they're not called Pickle Logs, they're called Fish Eyes. And you can also use Roast Beef on the outside. Oh, and you can switch it up with sweet pickles OR dill pickles inside.
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LisaMcC
2007-12-27 14:40:35
OK, hold up -- you call them FISH EYES?
Jesus Christ, that's awful.
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lj lindhurst
2007-12-27 15:52:12
In fact, here's a picture from last time I made them: http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k91/ljlindhurst/fisheyes.jpg (yes, I felt compelled to take a picture!)
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LisaMcC
2007-12-27 17:52:36
Yep. That's them all right.
Nice tray.
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Jess
2007-12-28 14:14:33
Me too, Lees! Seriously: donuts, candy, cookies. Oreos topped with whipped cream. It's almost like I'm DARING my body to gain weight! No matter what I do, I don't seem to gain a pound. It's pretty much the greatest thing that's ever happened to me. (the truth is, I get full very easily. So I don't eat very much. But what I DO eat is shit. Delicious wonderful shit. I also don't drink very much anymore so that might have something to do with it too.)
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