The View from the Classroom

I LOVE going to the movies and like some of you, I just HAD to go see Pirates (bad reviews and all) this weekend.  I also absolutely LOVE popcorn…one of those things that’s REALLY hard for me to pass up.  In fact, the only way for me NOT to give in to temptation is NOT to have it in the same room as me at all.

With the movie at almost three hours long, me being in pre-contest mode and knowing that hubby would HAVE to have popcorn, I knew I had to devise a plan.

So…I asked hubby (really just a courtesy…he knows better than to say no cause I’d be taking it regardless of his answer) if he would mind if I took some tuna to the movie…"Tuna?" he asks with an "are you serious" kind of tone to his voice though he KNOWS I’m dead serious…"No, I don’t mind.  You might need to take a restroom break, though, when you’re ready to eat it." he says matter of factly.

So…I put the tuna in a plastic container with some chopped veggies, grabbed the plasticware, put it in my purse and I’m set. 

Now I’m on to eradicating the popcorn temptation for which I need to enlist hubby’s help.  No, I’m not asking him to not buy popcorn, that wouldn’t be fair…just to not give me any, no matter how much I beg and plead and no matter what I OFFER to do, lol…for or to him…lol…NO MATTER WHAT, I tell him, don’t let me have even one piece.

The first time I asked, he did good.  BUT…he was taking SOOOO long to finish that little bag of popcorn that I just had to ask again.  I did a teeny tiny bit of begging…and he caved…I can’t lie…I had just a little bit…maybe two/three bites tops.  I told him I was disappointed in him…he should have held out for some kind of offer, but instead, he got nothing out of the deal…and, without uttering a single word, he sat there smelling the tuna that I so proudly feasted on.

I think he’s finally getting that I’m serious about the diet thing.

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