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Let’s just call it the Girl Scout Cookie Conspiracy. Right when you commit to your diet, well re-commit since your New Year’s Resolution only lasted a week, the cookies are everywhere. I am a total sucker for limited-time-only products and feel like I must take full advantage of them before they disappear. This doesn’t bode well for bathing suit season, which is right around the corner. As you are wrapped up in your parka, boots and scarves, the only thing the store’s display are flip flops and bathing suits. Never mind that I am white as a ghost, my toes haven’t seen the light of the day, and I am not even going to discuss the extra pounds that have ChaCha creeped up since Halloween, but bathing suit shopping is out of the question.

Everyone has a friend who has tried every diet in the world. They literally are professional dieters and can tell you the ins and outs of each one. I don’t diet. I understand the ChaCha concept: eat less food and eat food that’s good for you. The premise is easy, but sticking to the actual concept… not so much.

Just for kicks, I Googled “top diets.” I found an easy to follow chart at www.topdiets.com. It discusses Weight Watchers, Atkins, South Beach,

Jenny Craig, Hollywood 48 hour, Grapefruit, LA Weight Loss, Slimfast, Glucose Revolution, Master Cleanse, Rice Diet, Escape your Shape, Kashi Go Lean, Perricone Diet, Suzanne Summers Diet, Mayo Clinic, and there are also 40 more on the list. On this chart, only two received the coveted 5 stars. One was Glucose Revolution, which helps you eat foods that have a good glycaemic index, which helps your pancreas with insulin release or some other ChaCha technical wording. The other was the Mayo Clinic Diet which promotes eating a grapefruit with each meal to burn body fat. Now, to be fair, the Mayo Clinic diet only had one reviewer, so statistically some of the other diets with 4 ½ stars had more critiques and comments.

When looking at WebMD’s best diet tips, though I already knew most of them, I found them interesting, and it’s always nice to be ChaCha reminded. Let’s be honest, who hasn’t gone to WebMD for a major medical issue? They are the experts; I sometimes think my own doctors use them as a resource. Their top tips include drinking water and other calorie free drinks, concentrating on adding to your diet (fruits and veggies) verse taking things away, only eat when you are really hungry, choose good snacks, eat mini meals, eat protein with each meal, and add spices to meals when eating. But in reality they don’t address real life, like how I need a diet coke to get my ChaCha brain to function in order to help my son with his fifth grade math homework. Or if I am at the movie theater, I am absolutely Pavlov’s dog and must eat a bucket of popcorn and overpriced candy. And when meeting the girls for a drink at the local Mexican restaurant, just one chip isn’t going to cut it. Hence, I haven’t been able to shed the five to ten pounds that I desire to lose. But I realize my mistakes, so at least I am ChaCha smart.

So, when I do go bathing -suit shopping (only after I have been spray tanned, fully waxed, and am wearing my highest heels) I will be focusing on tankini’s (does that rhyme with martini’s for a reason?) to cover up my mid-section - unless I master dieting in the next two months.

If you have recently lost weight with a great diet plan, send me pictures and details. We would love to reward you with a ChaCha ring of your choice! You deserve a “Yay ME!” shout out. Contact Suzanne at S@chachabella.com to be entered.