Perseverance is defined loosely as, "steadfastness in doing something despite the difficulty or the delay in achieving success...and the weird looks you get from people along the way."
With that as a scene-setter, I'd like to tell a story about a fictional dieting girl. There was once a girl who had an affinity for fattening foods. Alfredo sauce, cheesy pizza, McDonalds cheeseburgers (Plain, dammit! Plain!), French cheese.....there was nothing this girl wouldn't touch.
Well one day, she decided to go on a little diet. For the most part, her old favorite foods were completely off-limits to her---which was very sad. She listlessly wandered around the world searching for something--anything--that despite being healthy would taste as decadent and wonderful as the foods she had given up. Well one day, while the girl was in the midst of her pitiful search, she stumbled upon a large, imposing building that was filled with organic, non-processed, and frighteningly expensive foods (oh, and hipsters; there were also lots of hipsters).
As she stumbled through the large building her eye suddenly caught something: a delicious looking little tray filled with colorful wheels of edible glory. And on the label, "Spicy Tuna Avocado Roll w/ Brown Rice." Poetry. Intrigued, she purchased the STAR (w/ Brown Rice) and tried it. It was heaven. She had to (HAD TO!) know: just how many calories are in this little miracle?
She searched high and low. She asked the frighteningly friendly clerks at the store where she purchased the STAR, but to no avail. She asked the chefs who arrived to make the STAR "fresh daily." No luck. She employed her above-average research skills to try to find the information on the Internet. Nada. She tried dissecting the STAR like a frog in her own kitchen to roughly estimate the calories in each ingredient herself. But no matter how precise she attempted to be, she could never quite calculate the information to a comfortable degree of certainty.
People started to think she was becoming a broken record. Repetitive. Relentless. Frankly, irritating.
But just when she was about to give up, she thought, "Maybe, just maybe, if I email the manufacturer of the STAR I might find my answer." So she did.
And five days later, Patricia Hadiwidjajaji of Kikka Sushi Incorporated responded:
And the world could finally be at peace. Sigh.
Calories consumed: 1070 (precisely 320 of which were from my delicious STAR!)
Exercise: No time!
Weight: 129.6 (for REAL this time!! -0.8 from yesterday; -8.4 overall)
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