Is it ’sweat-worthy’?

There is a classic episode of Seinfeld where Elaine is faced with the elimination of her “favorite” means of birth control, the sponge. Hilarity ensues when she is dashing all over town looking for any store that has a stock of the coveted ’sponge’. In order to make her supply last as long as possible, she develops a rating scale to determine if a potential date is ’sponge worthy’. The dialog in this episode is hilarious, none more than …

Jerry- I heard you went out with Bob last night. Was he sponge-worthy?
Elaine- VERY sponge-worthy!

Since we are less than 24-hours removed from the celebration of Christmas and the leftovers and treats are still voluminous. I developed my own scale. Is this Russian Tea Cake ’sweat-worthy’? To answer that question, I paraphrase Jackie Chiles, “Yes they are, and they are delicious“!

I have set a personal goal of losing 2.4 lbs this week in order to make my total loss for 2007, 80 lbs. Tomorrow, Thursday, is the last weigh-in of the year and a nice round number would be just that… nice. In order to make that happen, and to survive my wifes’ onslaught of decadent treats I ask myself about the treats’ sweat-worthiness as I hover over the plate.

Tune in tomorrow to find out how I did. You don’t know how hard this has been. As a formerly 400 lb person, walking away from a tray of festively decorated cookies is tantamount to asking Brad & Angelina to stop adopting stray children. It can be done, but it’s very difficult!