When to start your diet

We can't stop eating sweets now, because we just finished Halloween and the kids shouldn't eat all that candy themselves. 

Once we plow through the candy, there's Thanksgiving. The turkey, the stuffing, the gravy, sweet potatoes and pies...the leftovers. We can't let them go to waste.

The whole month of December is filled with Christmas cookies, holiday parties, and let's face it, AWESOME food. Who can celebrate when they're chewing on celery? Not me.

Sure, January is a typical month to start a diet, but it's so darn cold. Warm chocolate pudding and hot cocoa help us survive until Superbowl Sunday. Please remember to bring the artichoke dip.

February brings Valentine's Day gifts from our husbands, and it would be rude not to eat the entire box of chocolate.

March is so blasted cold, wet, and rainy that the only way to get through it is with a mouthful of chocolate chip cookies.

April brings the Easter Bunny. Who can resist a bunny bearing chocolate?

May and June are chock full of birthdays (save a piece of cake for me!), and July begins cookout season. August is when we go on vacation, and who wants to deprive themselves over vacation?

That leaves September. Back to school, and back to the diet. Oops, wait a second, football season starts in September. Tailgate parties are the best.

In conclusion, the best time to start a diet is...never.

This is an original post to Philly Moms. Lynn also writes about the lighter side of parenting over at For Love or Funny.