Excuses to Cheat On your Diet

It’s Cheat Day: 10 Excuses Every Girl Makes So She Can Cheat On Her Diet

By Charlotte PhillipsJuly 14 2014

Starting a diet is easy. For the first seven minutes, you feel wildly confident, motivated by the thought of you in a bikini and the admiring looks you will get.

Precisely 11 minutes later, you are hungry. You worked out, you tell yourself, so that gives you about 300 “free” calories.

You start thinking about food. You look at photos of food on Instagram. Soon, you are using your expert powers of self-persuasion to convince yourself a diet cheat is actually a good thing. It will boost your metabolism! And you’ll get right back on track straight after one little treat.

Woe is you. As all girls know, dieting is hard, boring and, worst of all, it’s often futile.

 

My Favorite?  -keith    “It’s free!”  I love free food (…) and have been to known to eat a day’s worth of food in free samples.

Read on for all 10 —> https://www.elitedaily.com/women/10-excuses-girls-give-cheat-diet/664898

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Letters to Santa that Will Warm Your Heart | Reader’s Digest

These funny, heartfelt, and inquisitive letters to Santa from real kids will make you laugh and warm your heart.

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That Time Johnny Carson Accidentally Caused a Near Month Long Toilet Paper Shortage in the US – YouTube

The reason Carson’s words resonated with the public is because of the “oil crisis” of the early 70’s. The country was in turmoil as drivers waited in long lines for hours for a few gallons of gas. This is what happens when people are stressed and a shortage psychology sets in. It may seem funny now, but people were actually getting in gun fights for a place in line at the time.

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Joke – The psychology instructorFrench Flashcards –

Le professeur de psychologie

The psychology instructor

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Le professeur de psychologie venait de finir un cours sur la santé mentale et faisaitpasser un oral.

The psychology instructor had just finished a lecture on mental health and was giving an oral test.

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En parlant spécialement de la psychose maniaco-dépressive, elle posa une question.

Speaking specifically about manic depression, she asked a question.

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“Comment diagnostiqueriez–vous un patient qui fait les cent pas en hurlantà plein poumon une minute, puis s’assied sur une chaise en pleurantde manière incontrôlée la minute suivante ?”

“How would you diagnose a patient who walks back and forth screaming at the top of his lungs one minute, then sits in a chair weeping uncontrollably the next?”

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Un jeune homme au fond leva la main et répondit : “Un entraîneur de foot ?”

A young man in the rear raised his hand and answered, “A football coach?”

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A Dog’s Purpose (2017) – IMDb video 2:29

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This video story about Dogs Lives is delightful. Take a moment. -keith —–>  – Directed by Lasse Hallström. With Britt Robertson, Josh Gad, Dennis Quaid, Peggy Lipton. A dog looks to discover his purpose in life over the course of several lifetimes and owners.

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This Video is worth the bit of time it takes – keith   —–>

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How to Whistle Loud: 14 Steps (with Pictures) – wikiHow

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Old Dogs CAN learn new tricks. I have only a high pitch whisper of a whistle so far but still – Whistling this way has always been on my unspoken bucket list – Keith

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It’s like my father always used to say “It’s like my father used to say.”

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