Frugal Failures

I'm always on the look out
for any type of device
or plan
or cool invention
that will make dieting
a little easier.

Be it a grapefruit knife,
a salad spinner,
or a special tea,
I gravitate toward
the claim that it
could dramatically change
the way I eat.

The May issue of Family Circle
had a short article about
a new diet accessory.
Called A-Wrist-A-Trac,
this fashionable weight loss tool
is a cinch to use.

It consists of 30 bracelets
of various colors.
Each color represents
a food group.
Pink for fruit,
green for vegetables,
...and so forth.

You start out with the bracelets
on your left arm
and as you eat specific foods,
you move the color-coded bracelet
to your right wrist.

Eat an apple-
move a pink bracelet
to the other side.
Do this until the bracelets
are all on the opposite arm.

If you have a green one left
over at dinner,
grab a salad to fulfill
your daily portions.

Creator Kathleen Healey
claims that it is
"a food diary right on your arm.".
You can find it at awristatrac.com
for about $20.

Well, not only am I an explorer of diet aids,
I am also a very frugal gal-
and until I'm sure something
is going to work,
I hate spending too much money.

Twenty dollars would buy
a lot of lettuce-
or gasoline.
So, I thought I would improvise
and create my own version
of the A-Wrist-A-Trac.

So, I went to the dollar store
and bought 30 candy bracelets.

Ooooppps.....