May 10, 2006
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[bitterly] HA!
Amazing Potato Salad Diet my left foot.
Lose up to 100 lbs? I’m so sure.
Turn to page 4 of this magazine and you know what’s there? An article about a mother-daughter duo who went on diet/exercise regimes simultaneously and lost 81 and 93 pounds, respectively. Now, there’s no doubt but that those are impressive numbers. I am certainly not intending to disparage their fine achievement in any way.
But an article entitled “Like Mother, Like Daughter” hardly deserves to be hyped on the cover as an Amazing Potato Salad Diet, even if there is a potato salad recipe included.
There’s also a recipe for Shrimp and Spinach Pasta, so the blurb could just as easily have read Amazing Shrimp & Pasta Diet.
Point being, when I purchase a magazine because the cover promises an Amazing Potato Salad Diet, I do not believe it is unreasonable to expect an actual “diet”, largely consisting of potato salads. I’m not a total doofus….I gave up expecting “amazing” a long time ago, never mind suggested losses of 100 pounds. But by jingo, it does seem to me a “Potato Salad Diet” should encompass more than one potato salad recipe in an article about someone’s successful weight loss.
Comments (6)
Doesn’t this remind you of Weird Al’s song, “Midnight Star”? In particular, the line that says “Eat jelly doughnuts and lose 20 pounds a day . . . hear the story of a man born without a head” . . .
Anne . . . mayonnaise, potatoes, salt, herbs, egg slices . . . you’re gonna lose weight eating this? I know you have a favorite potato salad recipe (whether this is it or not).
Marketing. My old boss always said the easiest one to sell is a salesman. And as she carries a magazine out of the Safeway, she proves his point!
Forget the miracle diets. If you go on a diet, eventually, you will go off the diet and gain the weight back. The key is changing your eating habits completely. Eat foods you enjoy, but, if possible, stick with healthier recipies or products. It’s all in moderation.
I suggest Weight Watchers (either in person, or on-line). I’ve lost 23 pounds since I started at the end od January, and it is easy to keep off (and continue loosing), because it is habit now.
Well, Plummy, it said it was “amazing.” A potato salad diet that worked would be pretty darned amazing, wouldn’t it?
And I keep intending to go on the WW thing, really I do.
Really.
Any minute now.
Right after I polish off this last bit of Hershey’s Special Dark Expresso Chocolate.
You know how the “Amazing Potato Salad Diet” really works dont you, okay for some reason I cant use the apostrophe, so forgive the rather bizarre punctuation….anyway, back to how the “Amazing Potato Salad Diet” works. You make the amazing potato salad. And then. You dont eat it (do you know how hard it is to not use the apostophe? I type using punctuation without even thinking about it….pffffft
Ah well, after todays foray into court and then the ipod breaking I think I will go have another margarita….but no potato salad (but you know it does sound good) And speaking of diets, my mother has lost 20 pounds (on the “oh my I have diabetes diet”) and my little sister has lost almost 15 pounds (on the “my goodness I do have willpower diet”) and I have lost a measly 5 pounds on the (“for some reason this time stress is making me not want to eat” diet).
I occasionally have a twinge of concern about going on your mother’s diet (though so far, so good), while fearing the odds of success with your sister’s method are close to nil.
Much as I’d like to lose weight, I’m not anxious enough to go through your particular recent diet, thanks. Ick!
OTOH, I daresay it beats putting on 5 pounds through nervous eating!
There. See? It could be worse! ;^p
My sister said the same thing about the stress diet. Now that I know we have to take this ridiculous thing to trial I am much better…for the moment…tomorrow we talk to the attorney. We may end up suing at least one local officer and possibly the police chief….oy!!