Well, I did it, I took the Special K Challenge. (Technically I guess I didn’t because I think the Special K Challenge lasts for 2 weeks. Come to think of it, is there even such a thing as the Special K Challenge or is that the Grape Nuts Challenge? Well, either way, I did the Special K diet for a week.) Over the course of 7 days I lost 7 pounds which is one pound more than Special K claims you might lose over the course of two weeks on the diet, so in that sense it was a success. After a couple days of eating normally, I gained back two pounds for an overall loss of 5 pounds. Not bad for 7 days. 

It is a little tiring eating the same thing for breakfast and lunch for 7 straight days. Especially when that one thing isn’t the most exciting cereal you’ve ever come across. But, at the same time, it’s not some god-awful tasting thing that you have to choke down either (like cabbage soup or something). I could have spiced things up with some different varieties of Special K but I wanted the straight dope.

I hope now that I’ve successfully completed the Special K Diet that Kellogg’s sees fit to add a guy to their web-page/commercials. Better yet they should specifically use me in their advertising. Not the real me, but a cartoon version of me to appeal to kids on a Saturday morning. Special K has very little kid appeal, but I could turn that around by being their new cartoon pitchman. The commercials could be about how I’m always trying to get my hands on a bowl of Special K but the kids will never give me any. Then at the end of the commercial I could kick the shit out of one of the kids for his bowl of Special K. Then we see the kid’s contorted body on the ground and the camera pulls back and we see he’s in the shape of the letter K, which then morphs into the Special K logo. What do you think, Kellogg’s?