Cereal Killer

I have a confession. I currently have a pantry that’s stacked with 13 boxes of cereal.

Thirteen.

. there are 4 boxes of kashi. 2 are opened. 3 boxes of frosted flakes. 1 is open and others ranging from special K to banana nut crunch to raisin bran to organic granola and I think there’s a wheatix in there too.

i think somewhere in my childhood i must have been trained to store rations for wartime. Or I could have been a squirrel in my past life. For the life of me, I cannot stop myself from buying boxes upon boxes of cereal every time I’m at Target (or riteaid or whatever store that has a cereal aisle). I mean, I KNOW cereal production isn’t going to come a sudden halt tomorrow. nor do I have insider stock tips at kelloggs. But somehow I cannot stop stocking up.

 So after this weekend visiting my dear friend Ah Diao – name changed (rather weakly) to protect the innocent – I HAD to get some of the cereal that I’d tried at her place. Special K Fruit and Yogurt! Yum! have you ever seen the ad where the skinny lady meets her friends for brunch in some chi-chi cafe and she has Special K for lunch? Apparently it’s very low in calories blablabla. And there’s a marketing called the Special K challenge where they say you’ll drop a jeans size in 2 weeks if you replace two meals a day with special K and a bowl o fruit.

My desire to lose weight coupled with my love of cereal resulted in the experiment log below:

November 6, 2007 .

6:30pm : I leave work. Drop by Rite Aid. Buy Special K. There’s a promotion on Kashi. $1.99 a box. Cannot resist deal. Purchase 1% milk too. A reduction in fats from my usual 2%.

7:00pm - First bowl of special K. The milk DOES become all strawberry-flavored! yum

9:00pm – energy levels wearing down. Lie down in bed

9:30pm – weak efforts at studying for LEED exam wearing thin. Losing focus (if any was there to begin with)

9:45pm – entire body shut down. brain still awake. very trippy sensation.

Somewhere between 10:30 and 11:00pm – pass out.

November 7, 2007

6:00am – why am I already awake??!!!!! grrr

6:45am – Bowl of Special K to start the day

9:00am – An hour into the workday and I’m not snacky yet.

10:20am – STILL not snacky. awesome!

12:09pm – walk home for lunch. walkies must surely count for extra weightloss.

12:35pm – Special K for lunch. I can feel the magic working. I feel pounds lighter. I” float back to the office. tra la

1:20pm – drawings looking more curvy and delicate

1:56pm – did I have helium with my cereal? why does everyone look so tiny?

 2:33pm – woozy… very woozy… is that a snickers bar?

2:47pm – energy returns. Saved by snickers bar

5:00pm – return home. chuck out Special K. Wolf down everything else in pantry.

Experiment terminated.