My Junior High Dieting Disaster

When I was in Junior High School I was convinced that I was fat. Well more accurately I was convinced that my thighs where humongous even though at about five foot five inches I was at most a size 3. So what did I do? I created my own diet; it was what I now call the cookie and popcorn diet with butter of course.

The most important thing was to make sure to eat a lunch at school. I didn't eat breakfast already so when lunch came I was hungry. I would walk up to the window and purchase a two-pack of huge peanut butter cookies for lunch and milk and that would be my lunch and all I ate for the entire school day. After school I would go home and exercise to one of the exercise professionals I saw on public television like Jack LaLanne or stretch and do yoga if there was a yoga program home. My mother would come home later after work and go to sleep and that would leave me to find food for myself. So I ate popcorn and lots of it whenever I was hungry with salt and butter, mmmm I loved the buttery salty taste of popcorn. I don't remember eating much else but I'm sure I must have. Since I started this diet at the end of the school year I couldn't really keep up the cookie part of the diet but I did continue to eat as much popcorn as possible and lots of Kool-Aide too, with plenty of sugar. Well junior high was a long time ago for me so I can't remember if I cheated on my so called diet or not but when I started my second year of junior high school after the summer I remember being so happy that I had lost so much weight and my humongous thighs that when I saw my best friend the first week of school I couldn't wait to show hew my new and improved body. I said look how much weight I lost I look so skinny! She said to me, "you look the same". I was in shock but that ended my cookie and popcorn diet for good and made sure at lunch to have my normal lunch of cookies and a huge cinnamon roll and milk.