The Incredibly Boring Plot with the Shocking Twist

So, a few weeks ago I started a Mighty Team with the goal of losing weight.  I had one plan to share with my team: I'd tell them what I ate and how many calories it was every day.  I invited a couple good friends to join.

What followed may be the most boring series of posts in the history of online networking.  Each day, sometimes multiple times a day, I would grace my teammates with witty gems like this:

 Is your heart racing yet?  Well, wait till you read the kind of brilliant inspiration they gave me along the way:

Were there some turns in the plot along the way?  Well, sometimes I wouldn't post for a couple days, and would have to go through several days' of calorie counts in one Note!  (I always kept track as I ate by putting counts into my cell phone calendar.)  And sometimes I posted about how my Mom drives me nuts, instead of about eating!  And, finally, when I saw my daily calorie totals drift up, I picked a diet plan to follow -- and then kept on reporting my calories counts to my team.  Yes, it's a regular [select preferred sarcastic reference: a) Oscar Wilde play; b) Michael Bay movie] over here.

Until you get to the shocking twist . . . where the main character steps on the scale . . . and has lost more weight trying this than with anything else she's tried in ages.

The reason why is simple.  With everything else I've tried, I didn't announce to my friends that I'd be telling them exactly what I was doing every day.  So, if I felt like giving up (and who doesn't feel like giving up sometimes?), I'd give up.  Now, if I dropped all the calorie counting, I'd look like a quitter in front of my team.  And I don't want that.  So, even if I have an occasional lapse, I report it to my team and get right back to eating right.

Now, I am NOT an unbiased source -- I helped create this site, and I want it to succeed.  But what keeps me going with my calorie counts is not the thought, "I hope the site succeeds."  It's the thought, "I want my friends to know I'm sticking with this." 

So what works for me could work for you too.  Here's wishing you an incredibly boring journey -- with a very happy ending.