Another birthday party? It’s like these people know I am on a diet and they just want to torture me. That cake looks so good though… I really have a weakness for chocolate frosting. Maybe just a small piece- the one with the big flower on it.

I’ve been so good this week. I’ve even been doing my butt flexing exercises at my desk everyday. Now, that is exhausting! I’ve lost six pounds in thirty-one days, and this time I am keeping it off. What’s one piece of cake?

Besides, I deserve a snack for being so good.

My doctor says I shouldn’t use food as a reward, but he has no idea how hard it is to stay on this diet. And what other kind of rewards are there anyway? What, am I going to take a trip somewhere? Not if I have to buy two seats! Those jerks at Southwest have got some nerve embarrassing people like that. So what if the armrest won’t go completely down? How is it a safety hazard if my arm rests on my side instead the armrest? And if they were really concerned with the comfort of the other passengers, they wouldn’t be serving tiny bags of pretzels on the flights. They’d be serving ice cream or Cinnabon!

Oh God, Cinnabon…

I could eat a whole tray of those delicious cinnamon rolls, and I’d wash it down with a huge glass of their creamy frosting. That would be sooooo good! Mmmmm. Now why can’t their be a Cinnabon diet?! There is a diet for everything else. I swear, if there were a diet where all you could eat was Cinnabon and Kentucky Fried Chicken I would lose so much weight! I should write a diet book. I’d call it the Food Court Diet-

Oh darn it! That jerk Bob from accounting took the flower piece. Now he’s giving me the “you don’t need the flower piece, Emily, you’re too fat” look. That son of a bitch, he doesn’t know what it’s like to be judged all the time. At least I got a side piece, but this doesn’t even count as a snack now.

I’ll get my snack after work – a bucket of chicken with mashed potatoes and gravy and then some Cinnabon. And a bag of potato chips. I looooove potato chips… I remember those old Lays commercials with Jay Leno where he would say that you couldn’t eat just one. Those were so funny because it’s so true! You can’t eat just one! As soon as the bag is gone, you have to eat another. They are sooooo good!

I am going to get some chips at the store on my way home. I deserve it.

I also need to get some marshmallows. I’ve been craving Rice Crispy treats ever since I found that one stuck to the inside of my desk drawer yesterday. I’m not sure where it came from, but it was still pretty good. That didn’t count as a snack because I didn’t intend on eating it. It was just there. I mean no one can turn down a Rice Crispy treat. They are tooooo yummy!

Everyone is leaving? But, there is still a piece left… I guess I’ll eat it. I’ve been so good lately.