Did you know that an ENTIRE bag of baby spinach has only 50 calories? That's like one bite of peanut butter or something. So, of course, I ate an entire bag (sauteed with onion and garlic and the shaved parmesan didn't hurt) for dinner. And now I'm thinking that I could just do an all spinach diet. Has anyone (other than Popeye) tried that? And how long will it take me to get as impossibly skinny as Olive Oil?
[Two second internet search.]
Okay, I admit I'm not really surprised that there is, in fact, a "spinach diet" -- like it's something special some genius figured out. But what made me lol and almost snort ol (new trend= "sol"), was the following from an article about the "spinach diet:" "However, there is one very important thing that you will need to consider before going on the spinach diet....Do You Like Spinach Enough to Eat it Daily?" Well maybe it was only funny to me. Turns out the "spinach diet" is basically eating 2-3 cups of spinach every day along with other food. The article also had the super-helpful suggestion that you try to take in fewer calories and eat more healthy food and less unhealthy food. REALLY? You don't say? Wow, these guys are good. Do you think exercise would maybe help too, oh wise article authors?
So now my "spinach diet" plan seems laughable. Maybe I can just substitute spinach for one normal, tasty meal every 2-3 days. Hey, maybe they're right -- maybe I DON'T like spinach enough to eat it every day. I didn't have room for that much spinach in my little fridge anyway.
And for those of you playing along at home, the numbers were up a bit this morning and are a vague and distant memory at this point. But tonight's spinach will definitely work the magic for tomorrow morning. No WAY I'm over 116.5 in the am.
Sleep tight.
full of tasty iron and B vitamins. Too many carrots can turn you orange. Don't know about spinach!
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