Girl Scout Cookies
February 20th, 2008
I am on a diet of 1200 calories per day. If I want to have a day of eating only Girl Scout cookies I can have:
Tagalongs - 1 box, 16 cookies, for a total of 1200 calories, 80 grams of fat
Do Si Dos - 1 box, 22 cookies, for a total of 1210 calories, 45 grams of fat
Thin Mints - 32 cookies (box minus four), for a total of 1200 calories, 56 grams of fat
Lemon Chalet Cremes - 15 cookies (a box plus one!) for a total of 1200 calories, 45 grams of fat
All Abouts - 24 cookies (a box plus three!) for a total of 1200 calories, 32 grams of fat
Samoas - 1 box, 16 cookies, for a total of 1200 calories, 64 grams of fat
Chocolate chip - 23 cookies (a box plus 8!!) for a total of 1280 calories, 69 grams of fat
Trefoils - 40 cookies (box minus five) for a total of 1200 calories, 56 grams of fat
Why is this not sounding like a bad idea to me right now?
February 20th, 2008 at 9:33 pm
I know it was said in humour, but could you really just eat only cookies for the day? I’d suggest that you try for one day. I suspect you would be sick of them by mid-afternoon, and that they wouldn’t fill you. Kind of a negative reinforcement really.
February 20th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
REALCDN: Some days, I really do feel like I could just eat cookies. But I get where you’re coming from with the negative reinforcement. Kind of like the old school approach to teaching kids not to smoke by making them smoke a whole pack… back in the day. Funny story: my 2-yr-old nephew has been very delayed in his speech development. At about 16 months of age, he was not saying anything, no mama or dada, not even “no!” One night he is trying to wrestle my sister’s glass of wine out of her hand and she finally relents and let’s him stick his fist in the glass thinking negative reinforcement, he’ll taste the wine and leave me alone. He stuck his fist in the glass, then into his mouth, and said his first words: “Mmmmmm, good!”
February 21st, 2008 at 7:51 pm
That is funny. Not quite the same, but we have a cat that begs (most times okay, but a little annoying at times). I thought one night I’d give him some of the spicy dish I was eating - he loved it.