It all started so well today. I ate my usual Atkins bar for breakfast early, then headed to another office for a meeting with colleagues.

I was doing fine until lunch was brought in. Two trays of delectable sandwiches, bow-tie pasta with pesto sauce and lots of other goodies to boot.

I was hanging tough until I got to the end of the table and spied .... chocolate-covered macaroons. And my resolve melted away.

I don't get it. I can face down most emergency situations and somehow always manage to find some sort of solution. But one small cookie can chop me down like a tree in a forest. Okay, so it wasn't a small cookie.

At any rate, I ended up having two. So I guess it's back to the diet drawing board again tomorrow.

Two steps forward, one step back. The Diet Tango strikes again.

-- Amanda Barrett