Stockpiling.

"I did something stupid again!"

"This is getting to be a pattern with you.  What did you do now?" 

That's right. I called my sane friend to tell her about the NutriSystem thing.  I was hoping she'd talk me out of this so I told her. "I'm doing NutriSystem."

"Really?"

"Yeah.  Tell me to stop."

"Why would I do that?"

"Uh I dunno.  Cuz it's crazy?"

"Why?"

"Cuz…I don't know!  That's why I'm calling you!"

We talk for a bit, and she's no help.  She thinks it's a great idea.

Great. 

I check my email while she's telling me about her dog.  I didn't call to hear what a good dog she has. I called to talk about me.

"uh-uh…that's funny…" There's one from NutriSystem.  They want me to know that my food is in the hands of UPS. 

Holy Cow!  That's fast priority!  I only ordered it yesterday…

"So now he's doing this trick where--"

"Oh crap!"

"What!  Yeah I just checked my email."

"You read your email when you're talking with me?"
"All the time. Get over it.  Besides, I hear you cooking lunch now, that's not any better."

"Ok…what's wrong?"

"NutriSystem emailed me.  My foods on the way."

"That's good!"

"No it's not. I've got all this fattening food in the fridge I'm gonna need to eat before it gets here!  I just pulled Italian sausage to make Spaghetti!  They won't let me have that."

"I'm sure they're sending you some pasta."

"But it's not my Spaghetti!  And I have an apple pie!  What am I gonna do?"

"well you could eat it.  You said they were sending you deserts."

"Well yeah."

"I'm sure they're good."

"I hope so. I'm just going to miss making my own meals."

"When did you last make your own meal?"

"last week sometime."

"and you've been eating what?"

"You know restaurant stuff, quickie stuff...you know stuff."

"And NutriSystem will be worse than the quickie stuff?"

"Well no…"

"And you said they had a lot of different stuff to try from."

"Well yeah…"

"Just try it Rob. What's the worst that could happen.  You lose weight?"

I hate it when she makes sense.  She's just no good to talk to anymore.  Still she's right, so I wrap up the phone call and let her go.

She's right though. Even if all this does is change my eating habits, It's totally worth it.  Maybe I'll start tonight. 

I pull some salmon from the freezer...