Oh My Gawd.

Anyone can say they're on a diet, but following through with your diet is a whole 'nother ballpark, partner. Living with three other girls might as well be called "dwelling with three living, breathing chocolate entrepreneurs". Insert cocked eyebrow with head tilt.

So WHEN Roommate #1 says at 8:30 at night, "I want a blizzard."

And then Roommate #2 says at 8:30:04 at night, "Oh my gawd, chocolate extreme."

And when Roommate #3 is asked what she wants from DQ, she says, "What the hell. Chocolate extreme."

You FIND yourself strapped shotgun in a finicky Jeep Liberty cruising to the nearest DQ a couple miles away. Excuse #1: But it's not after 9pm yet. Excuse #2: But I did a really hard workout today (not a lie, at all, I did). Excuse #3: But all of my chocolate-whore roommates are going...

All valid excuses, yet all excuses. No! I am soooo not even close to the perfect dieter, this is why I've battled my weight for over 10 years! Trips to DQ to get [small] chocolate blizzards are only going to shock your system. I know shocking the system can be a good thing! But I'm not into consistent fatty shocks.

I could make a lot of points about this, but all I'm trying to say is, I'm not perfect and I can admit that. Just because I burned off that Blizzard today (easily) does not mean that it should be a constant thing. I am all for condoning treats every now and then. But this. This:

This SMALL chocolate extreme blizzard, that all three of my roommates ate as well, contains:

-- 650 calories

-- 29 grams of fat (keeping in mind you "should" limit your fat to around 30 grams per day, if not less)

-- 12 grams of protein (all* coming from the dairy, I bet)

and wait for it,

-- 69 grams of sugar. SIXTY-NINE.

As a house, as a chocolate devouring unit, as four young-twenties women, we consumed:

-- 2600 calories

-- 116 grams of fat

-- 48 grams of protein (go us...!)

-- 276 grams of sugar.

I only ate half of mine, but we're being hypothetical here. If I had just finished mine (which would NOT have been a hard task had I not looked up those numbers halfway through), we would have eaten 276 grams of sugar. That is absolutely disgusting.