Blackwifeo Logic

For years I have noticed a unique logic used by blackwifeo. Say for example she goes to the shoe store intending to buy one pair of shoes, say hypothetically for blackdaughtero. Now, of course, shoes are expensive. Lets say there is a wonderful pair of handmade Italian shoes that cost 800NIS. She really loves these shoes. Her lovely toes look awesome, but 800 sheks a pair are beyond her budget. As it happens, she spies a lesser, but still worthy pair of decent machine made Portuguese shoes for 400NIS. If she takes this pair, she has now saved 400NIS and can still buy the pair for blackdaughtero. Now just image if blackdaughtero's shoes just happen to be on sale, and today only cost 300NIS. You see, not only has she bought two pairs of shoes, she has also saved 100NIS. What a deal.

I always thought this sort of "blackwifeo logic" was unique to blackwifeo. But, today I learned otherwise. At WeightWatchers (blackfamilyo lost a combined 2.5Kg and one of us got a star!) someone was bemoaning the fact that she ONLY lost 200g this last week. After religiously following the program, and not losing as much as she felt she should have, she was feeling very depressed. She wanted to go out and have a nice big falafel or shwarma and screw the extra kilo. Why care if after being so good all you lost was 200g. Yehudit, the leader, explained you need to look at the bright side. She did not only lose 200g, but by not having the falafel, she actually lost 1.2Kg.

The whole WeightWatchers thing is fascinating. Today I not only learned that "beets are the new spinach" (I didn't even know spinach was the old spinach) but that there is this whole new diet philosophy based around what you might have weighed, if you would have eaten what you didn't.