Counting those calories when all you really want to do is hang out with Wantu Gourge!

I am fairly new on this fat loss quest, this being only day 5, but already |I got a taste of my friend Mr. Gourge! Let me tell you a little bit about my friend Wantu Gourge. Wantu is a bit complex as a person, providing some good and bad qualities. Mr. Gourge never fails to fill a short-term need for me. Whenever I let Mr. Gourge come over he always gives me a big burst of pleasure, overloading my taste buds with whatever flavors I desire, with the pure freedom of a little boy splashing in the mud. I can indulge in countless sugars, saturated fats, salts, anything I want! The party can go on for hours before Wantu gets tired and wants to go home. Here is where Mr. Gourge can get cranky! He will not hesitate to make you feel so stuffed you cannot sit down with comfort. Oh, but worse comes...then he will sneak into your head and begin to make you feel guilty for eating so much food, even though he urged you the whole time. Wantu can make you feel ashamed, weak, hopeless. Even when he goes home he does not stop. Mr. Gourge shows up on the weight scale, in the mirror, on the blood pressure machine, anywhere he can get his hands on. So, really, why do I invite Wantu over to my home when he causes so many long-term problems and provides only a fleeting moment of pleasure?

This is where Wantu is his most sinister! Even though you know that inviting Mr. Gourge over, even for just an hour, will give you many problems down the road, it is still just so hard to say no when he imbeds himself into your very subconscious! I will catch myself craving Mr. Gourge's company even while in the middle of healthy long-term eating, as I watch my excess fat melt away, and my well-being and self-confidence improve. For instance, just last night Wantu made an uninvited appearance. A friend of mine made a joke about Oh Henry and Mr. Big chocolate bars, and this triggered my desire to invite Mr. Gourge over for a visit. I resisted the urge to call him but I can't deny the desire to do so was there. If only I could make Mr. Gourge seem even less attractive, than maybe I would not get such strong desires to have him over. Perhaps, by reading about the long-term effects of too many Mr. Gourge visits I can learn to dislike him. I guess since Wantu does provide so much pleasure and momentarily takes away my urge to have him over all the time, I could allow for a game of cards here and there. But, the problem with Wantu is that if I have him over one night, he wants to come over every night! Oh, Wantu Gourge, why do you have to be so difficult?


I would enjoy hearing about everyone else who has that annoying yet somehow desired friend named Wantu Gourge, and how they keep him in line 8). Thanks and may you continue to keep Mr. Gourge in his proper place!