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    She was reluctantly picking at soggy bowl of lettuce covered with a "low carb" salad dressing while occasionally taking a bite out of her foot-long beef jerky, followed by a few crunchy fried pork skins, and a sip of some kind of "low carb" beverage.

"Hi Cindy, mind if I join you?"

"Sure"

Hum, I thought. Her response could be taken in either of two ways. Perhaps I could release her from her great depths of sadness by asking her a few thoughtful questions.

"How’s the diet coming along?"

"Oh, fine." She sighed.

"How much weight have you lost?"

"Oh, about a pound and a half."

"In how long?"

"Oh, about two weeks."

    Uh, Oh, I thought. I’m going to have to change my tactics if I’m going to be able to cheer her up. Losing an average of three pounds per month on a five-foot tall 180-pound frame wasn’t going to cut it. I took another look at her lunchtime meal and wondered how she could possibly look forward to breakfast, lunch, or dinner. "Oh boy, lunchtime!" couldn’t have been in her vocabulary. Breakfast and dinner had to be as equally depressing.

"Gee, Cindy, there are quite a few Hollywood Diets on the market, but there are some new Holiday Diets, I’ll bet you are not aware of."

"Holiday Diets?"

"Sure, I replied, there are several of them."

"I haven’t heard of them!"

"Well, there’s the Valentines Diet." "You just eat chocolates and rose

petals."

"Naw" she smiled.

"Sure, I replied, then there’s the Mothers Day Diet." "You have breakfast

in bed every morning and then have dinner out in the evening."

"Oh, Sure" she replied, with a grin.

"Yup, I said, and there is also the Easter Bunny Diet." "You just eat

Chocolate Bunnies, Cream-Filled Easter Eggs and jelly beans."

I continued.

"Then, there is the Santa Clause Diet." "You just have milk and cookies in strange houses all over the world."

"Then, if you want to go on a drastic weight loss diet, you could go on

the Fathers Day Diet." "You don’t get to eat anything, but you may get a

nice greeting card and a three pack of handkerchiefs."

"No, thanks." She replied.

"Well, there are a few other Holiday Diets." Do you like the outdoors?"

"Um, sometimes."

"Well, you could go on the Fourth of July Diet." "You cook all your

meals outside at the park and just eat hot dogs and hamburgers." "Then

you just wash everything down with cold beer." "You’ll actually lose weight

because you’ll be running away from the ants, swatting at mosquitoes, and

shooing away the Sea Gulls."

"I don’t think so." She said.

"Well then, how about the New Years Eve Diet?" "You just have hours de

ovaries, finger foods, and vast amounts of booze, while you sing and

dance the night away."

"No way!" she responded.

"Hum, well I suppose you could try the Saint Patrick’s Day Diet." "You just

have corned beef and cabbage and green beer while singing some of your

favorite Irish songs." You really don’t lose any weight, but you’re so

happy you really don’t care."

"Hey, I like that diet!"

    I ran into Cindy a few weeks later and she seems to be very happy and quite content with her new diet. She hasn’t lost any weight, but I think she looks very good in green. Perhaps her figure hasn’t improved, but her singing voice and her attitude sure have.