The Grape Juice Diet

One of the things that Rhonda and Bill watch while trying to lose weight is to not drink anything but skim milk or water. Anything else counts against them. Even fruit juices that are 100% juice. Why? Because the body absorbs the drinks so quickly and there is no chewing. Lots of chewing leads to more satiety. Well with that said, Rhonda thought, How could anything in a quart jar be bad for you?" Since her neighbor offered her grapes from his back yard and another neighbor lent her a juicer, Rhonda was off to making and canning some grape juice. Yes some sugar, about 3 cups worth, was added, but that would all blend into the juice and somehow lose its sweetness in the canning process. Only, Rhonda is a beginning canner and didn’t screw the canning lids on tight enough or something because the jars didn’t seal, which left 3 quarts of grape juice needing to be drunk soon. Thinking that surely something straight out of the back yard and into a quart jar couldn’t be all that bad, Rhonda quickly lost point after point in what is called faulty drinking. Consequently, she gained a pound this week. Bill, who was much more obedient (and also gone to work most of the time, so he didn’t have to look at then all the time) and didn’t want to lose any points to faulty drinking, lost a pound.

Here are the scores for this week.

Rhonda: (S) 100 (S) 100 (M) 99 (T) 96 (W) 95 (T) 90 (F) 100

Bill: (S) 100 (S) 100 (M) 100 (T) 95 (W) 95 (T) 100 (F) 100