I've been plateauing lately, this past month or so, but overall, over the past 15 months, I've been doing pretty well. I'm down from over 280 lb to under 210 lb, from a 44 waist being slightly loose on me to a 36 waist being slightly loose on me. Part of what I have done, both to save my health and to save my wallet, is to cut fast food almost completely out.
But not McDonald's soft serve cones. At only 200 calories a pop, and only a dollar and a quarter, they are a treat I try to give myself once a week or so. Okay, maybe sometimes twice. So imagine my shock and utter horror, when the soft serve machine at my local McDonald's went down.
I was in the store, because the drive-thru line was ridiculously long and I figured going inside to be faster. I paid my buck and change, got my receipt, and waited for my treat. Then I heard, shouted from the back, "no soft serve, machine's down!" They apologized profusely for having processed the transaction and taken my money before realizing that the cashier didn't know that the machine was down, and offered me any dessert item on the menu in its place, I would not even have to pay any extra money. I could have gotten a three dollar shamrock shake for my dollar and change. Or two pies.
But I looked at the calorie counts of all the items that were available, and I just couldn't bring myself to do it. I thanked them, politely declined, and asked for my money back. I said something to the effect of "I don't really have the calories to spare on that stuff."
To which, the woman working the register, a kind of attractive 30-something emo- looking female with a vibrant cotton candy colored streak running through her hair under her visor, multiple piercings, and I would imagine more than her share of tattoos under her uniform, responded "pffft, really?, you don't need to worry about that kind of stuff!"
The remark kind of caught me off guard. I'm sure she wasn't flirting, just being nice, a point I later emphasized to my wife when I told her the story. I may have left out the part about her being kind of cute.
Still... it's a pretty new experience for me. I could get used to it though. :)
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