Hunger Pains

"You're not eating my little cheese thingies. I wanted to try the recipe out on you tonight, Ma."

"I'm just not really hungry. Sorry." L I A R ...............6 points.

"I know you didn't have dinner cause you came right from work. You have to be hungry."

D O U B T ..........8 points.

" All right. All right. I'm trying to stick with a diet for the New Year. Just didn't want to make a big deal about it."

B U R G E R ............12 points.

"I know what you mean. It's so hard to loose these extra holiday pounds."

E M P A T H Y ...... 22 points.

"Oh right. Like you must have gone from a size four to a size six. Sucks to be you."

P I Z Z A .............42 points.

"That's not fair. Once I hit thirty it seems my metabolism just quit on me. I can't eat anything without breaking out in cellulite."

W H I N E .........21 points.

"Oh. Let me call the whambulance. I'll just haul my 59 year old post menopausal body with hypothyroidism to the telephone. Wait right there while I get you some help."

P A S T A ..........10 points.

"Now who's whining? Just work out on your elliptical more often and cut back on the calories. You've done it before. You can do it again." E A S Y ........9 points.

"OK. I suppose I could get up at 4:30 instead of 5:00 to exercise on my ten hour work days. And those boxes of girl scout cookies that I bought from Boo are probably fat free. Working grandmas have the cards stacked against them when it comes to dieting."

C A N D Y ..............8 points.

"Working women have the deck stacked against them. Period!"

E Q U A L I T Y .......96 points. "May not be all it's cracked up to be, but the word uses all seven of my tiles plus a bonus, and the Q is a real nice kicker too. "

"Gawd.....I feel like such a loser tonight. Give me those darned cheese puffs and I'll have another glass of wine while you're at it."