Day 7

Seven-up! I can actually have that (diet version). Hard to believe I've nearly made it through my first week. Not sure I'll ever commit to eating just one food for an entire month without at least a week test run for a reality check, but what fun would that be?

Breyer's Mint Chocolate Chip has been my breakfast of choice the last 3 days--mainly because it was that or vanilla. I've got to go shopping--tonight!!!!!! I'll have a melt-down without more variety.

It's nice of others to sacrifice a bit on my behalf. My brother gave up his birthday buffet and opted for a multi-star gelato shop in the big city across the river. So we headed out to alottogelato and sampled the flavors before the pierced, tattooed maiden gave us the scoop. My brother's a big guy and he opted for the pint which allowed him 6 flavors. I went for the biggest dish they had which would nicely hold 4 small scoops (about 3 tbs. each I think). Their banana was my favorite, followed by pistachio, strawberry and espresso. My brother liked the coconut and yellow cake mix, but the Hazelnut was a fav and the banana also topped his list. This gelato was as good as those in Italy--truly. Highly, highly recommended. Gelato has more air whipped into than regular ice cream and a little less buttercream, but the sensation on the tastebuds is definitely more intense. Tattoed, pierced girl was fascinated about the Ice Cream Diet so I invited her to view the blog. I was going to take her photo to post, but she declined so I'll leave her image up to your imagination.

Later we viewed more interesting people at a local Starbucks. My brother accessed the wifi and I sipped on a cuppa Joe (Pike's Place) and watched the action and caught up on the local papers. Definitely fun peeps watchin'.

Rolling home later, I stopped at the local store for a flavor my brother recommends, Bear Tracks. It's cheap (Western Fam brand) and tasty--dark chocolate with ripples of carmel and nuts. Brother also popped over for a burger--Fried onions never smelled better. Desparate, I sniff at my ice cream and there is a wee waft of fragrance.

Sabateur couldn't miss a day to tempt and called me with a report on the neighborhood barbeque--salmon and venison steaks with all the trimmings. I almost hung up! But that'd only spur them on--I'll pretend not to care, despite the drool running down my mouth. I tell ya, August is gonna be one great month. I'm going to enjoy my food soooo much. Glad the point of this is not losing weight.

Today I stopped by Baskin Robbins (BR) for lunch to check out those 33 flavors. Deciding is definitely a challenge as about 2 scoops truly fills me up. I opted for strawberry and black walnut. I'll be back to sample the others. I shared about my diet with the BR employee. She said she lost about 30 pounds just substituing 2 scoops of ice cream for one meal a day. Might work--any takers. 'Course ya can see what happens to me--Will I have to take in our take out my belt or carve more notches in it?

Stay dialed . . . The first official weigh in is tomorrow evening.