INJECT ME WITH SOME VANITY

Long time guys!!!!

So much has happened since I blogged last. I successfully lost 9 kilos (0r so, can’t remember now) to the dreaded Mastercleanse diet. Yup! 10 days of starvation and living on flavoured, peppery water solution. The Mastercleanse, or

lemon cleanse is a “lie”. One of the existing and most popularized “lies” in Diet Kingdom. Why do I say that? Because there is absolutely nothing fantastic about it. Anybody will lose 10 kg if they ate nothing and drank only non-sugar drinks (or just water) for 10 days! Common sense, innit? But no, we insist on enriching maple syrup, lemon and cayenne pepper sellers. Lucky them!

Of course I gained it back. Well half of it though… and a few more when Nda Sero came visiting. (Story for another day)

I met up with my friend and sis at her parent’s golden jubilee celebrations and she is now half her size. A debrief from her only reminded me of how far away discipline has gone from me concerning feeding habits. Portion control, yeah right! Eat healthy… boring! She said many interesting things about the mind and it’s (re)focusing the way we think of food. Yeah, some day! Glad-ish that it worked (is working) for her though. My day of break through will come!

Another friend launched a weight-loss program that’s a direct opposite of this. It is a, “The more you eat, the more you lose” program. My head can’t wrap itself around it since it goes against everything I have ever known. But over 60 kilos loss after, it is clear that she MUST know what she is talking about and that it works! So, why haven’t I started? Hmm… too good to be true? Or worse, it is the fixation on food. I have a problem with having to think through my week’s food timetable. I can’t be that focused on food, the next meal, the next snack etc… Can I just live?

Another good friend sees me at a party and says to me (and later my dh), “I dropped 2 clothing sizes.” What did he do? A juice diet. Mmmmscheeew! Where is the gist? Did you not just hear me say that any starvation diet based on liquids is a guaranteed weight loss therapy? Why are you singing and dancing about your 2 months and 2 dress sizes fiasco. I should really publish a “Water Detox & Diet” – drink only water for 5 days. Let’s see if you will not drop 4 dress sizes! A beg second base jare!

Another friend went under the knife. Hmmm. I tried to talk her out of it and now I am squirming with envy as I see the weight drop off every week. Soon she will be doing Size 12 clothes and I will be looking like her aunty. But no, I still draw the line somewhere ad I guess the knife is my line.

This weight loss thing is a constant reality check for me. It reminds me that I have quite a few things that are way beyond my control still. Reminds me of the proverbial (biblical) thorn in the flesh that Paul spoke of. I need a massive dose of vanity to care and a whole new paradigm shift to believe that it is attainable. Yes I still have that nasty mind-block that I can’t lose weight… Nasty stuff!

So how has the month been for you?