What Threw Me Off-Diet

Last year in late April and early May I was thrown off my diet by a bowel obstruction. This year I am thrown off by a malfunctioning refrigerator.

It sounds like a lame excuse but it has been disruptive. The refrigerator was not keeping food cold and I kept throwing food away because it was spoiling quickly. Then it stopped working altogether but the freezer worked fine.

I tried troubleshooting the problem online. Freezer works, refrigerator does not brought more than a half dozen possibilities. I did not have time to do diagnostics so I called an appliance repairman. He came out and did a bad diagnosis. He defrosted the freezer and proclaimed the board defective. The refrigerator would be cold within 24 hours. It would freeze again in two weeks but in that time we would have a new circuit board.

The fridge would not make a comeback in 24 hours. The repairman made a return visit and declared the fan dead and the circuit board OK. The good news is that a fan is cheaper and easier to obtain than a circuit board. 2-3 days. The bad news is that in that time we would have no refrigeration.

So I have been eating a lot of freezer to microwave foods as well as things like canned tamales. I had to throw away about a $100 worth of food. The diet would be impossible to practice without a refrigerator so I am taking a respite. As soon as the refrigerator starts working I will be back on diet.

YEA!