I made this joke in my wife’s presence at some point and it went over well, so I decided to make it into a strip. Originally I tried to make it a phone call to the Weight Watchers customer service line, but I felt it needed more setup. I ultimately managed to link it with my own experience of having to hold back my opinions on weight loss based on my personal success. For me, simple calorie counting – with a daily goal that was adjusted down based on my weight – was the only thing that ever worked, and thus everything else seems like voodoo. But of course people’s minds are different, and some people need to wrap calories up in the abstract concept of “points” or eat specially-prepared pre-portioned foods or sacrifice weasels to Tony Danza or whatever. I eventually learned to shut up unless asked for my opinion.
I made a brief attempt to build a bonus joke around Jenny Craig’s initials being the same as a certain well-known religious figure, but that went nowhere.
-=ShoEboX=-
Wait until you get to the part about linking caloric retention with greenhouse gasses such as methane and a cabbage soup diet plan.
You surprise me with your religious knowledge! Not a lot of people know that Jonah (of Jonah and the whale fame) was a Capulet!
*snicker* Good question about the Eucharist, since the Miracle of Transubstantiation would have it that it changes from one to the other.
I stay out of diet discussions. I’m an ectomorph with a fast metabolism, and my problem has always been gaining weight.
But one thing experience with dieters has taught me is that weight control is less about what and how much you eat, and more about what you do when you aren’t eating. (Get off your butt and exercise.)
seriously man, seeeeriously.. the diet scene is just like the messiah scene, there’s a preacher on every corner claiming to have the answer.. and following someone else’s way doesn’t guarantee you their results..
that bit at the end. i laughed hard
So, to be clear, sacrificing weasels to Tony Danza….. doesn’t work.
DAMN IT!!!!!!