This will no doubt see me suffering some mockery in comments, but Adam and I started Lite & Easy the other week. We’ve done it before, and it helped us lose the weight we wanted pretty quickly. Yes, it’s a little bit lazy; and yes, the food isn’t exactly gourmet (although it’s not that bad) – it’s just what works for us. I’ve got a little way to go to banish an excess 15kg at the moment and this should do the the trick.
Of course, anyone who’s seen a Lite & Easy order knows that it arrives in enough plastic bags to strangle the ecosystem of an entire coral reef into a coma in one foul swoop. “Biodegradable!!” the labels plead desperately. Rather a smashing example of consumerism today – you’re going to lose weight, but a metric ton of plastic bags will take the place of your relentlessly ponging battered-food farts in destroying the ozone layer for the time being.
The Lite & Easy diet often requires assembling a bogglingly gargantuan number of ingredients for lunch. I’ve been trying to secret this process away at my work desk, because frankly, it’s kind of embarassing admitting you’ve purchased something that’s primarily advertised on morning television.
Last week I was finally busted by a workmate who didn’t realise what the diet was, but was able to identify lesser food-forms. “DON’T DO IT!” he screamed in desperation as I shyly unwrapped a processed slice of cheese. “YOU’LL KILL YOURSELF, ARE YOU INSANE, MAN?”
Quite the lecture on processed cheese followed, all of which was frightfully eye-opening. “The only thing worse than processed cheese are those little pillow-shaped fruit biscuits your grandma forces you to eat when you visit,” he continued. This had me blushing painfully, because these exact biscuits were in my bag for that afternoon’s snack.
It’s not a proud diet, but it’s a diet nonetheless.
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A small child could sail the seas in a Lite and Easy foam packing box.
And if you end up with more than one foam box, they refuse to take them back. I’ve got four here. I could build a fort.
Although the dry ice amuses us for a good half hour.
I love pillow biscuits! I found myself working out what days food to eat today based on whether I would get pillow biscuits!!
I loved Lite & Easy when I did it – and, four years later, I still have the foam box. It is the handiest thing ever.
Well…at least…it will be, when I need to keep many things cold. You know, more things than would fit in an esky, but less things than would fit in a fridge.
I’m sure it will happen one day.
Jeb!? I thought you had disappeared. Found you again via Shauny’s twitter…
Good on you for getting into shape – summer is here, we want to see some skin :)
As for egg stories: here in WA (I have moved from NSW) the local eggs have a little swan stamp on them. I tell my kids they are swan eggs ;)
Hurro! Surprised anyone remembers my original incarnation ;)
Y’know, a week after this original egg incident and I’m still retching at the thought of eating them…