DIETS

So, I started the Master Cleanse. It's sounds terrible, doesn't it? Ugh. Okay lets call it the Lemonade Diet - that sounds much more pleasant, dontcha think? It's where you drink 6 to 10 glasses of the lemonade (water, lemon juice, maple syrup and cayenne pepper). That's it - no food. You can have green and peppermint tea though - as well as water but that's it. So, today is Friday and day 5 of this diet & I might be completely bonkers but I kind of love not eating food. Don't get me wrong my bro was eating a burger in front of me the other day and I was practically salivating & I don't even eat beef. The lemonade is filling and I don't feel hungry but I do miss food.

Since I started the diet, or "cleanse" I have also noticed how bad my eating habits are, like when I get home from work the first thing I do is go in the kitchen, open the fridge and look for a snack. I am always constantly on a diet and weigh myself everyday and have incredible guilt whenever I indulge. It feels nice not thinking about any of that, oh yeah losing 2 lbs a day is also nice. :) So, I am actually kind of afraid of stopping the diet for fear of gaining all the weight back. I know this Lemonade Diet is to be used as a cleanse and not a source to lose weight but now that I've lost the weight - I just can't gain it back again. My sister thinks I'm "obsessed." Big surprise, right? I am always obsessed about something.

Tomorrow will be a real test Twilight Party at Rebecca's. Lot's of yummy food, desserts and wine. I want to stick to my lemonade but I also want to enjoy some food too. I guess I'll see what happens when it happens.

MARCH 29 UPDATE: I totally pigged out at Rebecca's. I am now back to eating food again.
APRIL 20 UPDATE: I lost a total of 9 lbs and gained 4 lbs back.

ADDICTIONS

Okay I think I have become an addict. I am not sure what to do. Perhaps I should look into some kind of rehab or support group. Oh sorry - you are wondering what could I possibly be addicted to. Okay alcohol was an obvious one, but my current addiction is even worse. Okay, yeah that is true I am a shopaholic. However, I am dealing with the hardest addiction I have ever felt in my life. I am addicted to . . . Twilight. Yeah, the book. I don’t know how it happened. One day a friend was telling me about it, then another friend and then my sister. I didn’t get it. Why is everyone so obsessed with Twilight. "Yeah, yeah," I thought, "I will read it when I get a chance." My sister even confessed to me that she wouldn’t drink any wine on the nights that she was going to read the book, for fear of being too sleepy to read. Giving up wine for a book - she is crazy I thought. Then I started reading it and I couldn’t put it down. I started reading it Monday night and finished last night. I have been staying up until 1 in the morning and then getting up at 6 in the morning for work, tired throughout the day but still managing to stay up late again so that I can read more. Sneaking off to bed around 9 proclaiming, "oh, I am so tired," just so I could get in bed and snuggle up with my book.

The characters and their emotions have been running through my mind since I started reading it. I don’t know what is so fascinating about it. Oh, yeah I do. It’s the way the author describes all the emotions and sensations you feel with your first love. Your first love, do you remember how you felt? I honestly had forgotten. How sad, huh? I had forgotten about the butterflies and the tingling you feel just holding his hand. They way you can’t get him out of your head - can’t concentrate. The way you wonder what he’s thinking, doing, seeing, feeling. I had forgotten all about those emotions until I read this book. Am I a complete dork or what? I know it’s a teen book aimed at kids in high school, but I couldn’t help falling for this book. I already started reading the second book, New Moon. I am so obsessed. However, apparently I am not the only one. Everyone I have talked to that has read this book feels the same way. Crazy, huh? Well, I can’t wait to keep on reading all the books in the series to find out what will happen next with Edward and Bella. The worst part about the book - now I want to fall in love with a vampire and where the heck am I going to find one of those?

GOING FOR A RUN

Well, here I am sitting at the computer. Sitting - because I can no longer walk. Well, to be honest I’m not sure which is more painful walking or sitting. You see, my so-called friend, Rebecca a.k.a. the boot camp instructor and I went jogging yesterday. I thought it was going to be a nice short jog with our Puggles - Chewy (hers) and Roxy (mine). It’s just her “usual” route which she does about 4 times a week. Little did I know she was some kind of maniac runner and thought I could keep up for 5 miles. HELLLLOOOOO. She has apparently gotten me confused with someone who works out. I mean don’t get me wrong I do get some exercise, like almost every day I have to get up from my desk and walk over to the printer. And let me tell you that can totally be a workout. So halfway into the run I start getting a headache and then I start feeling nauseous and I thought I might possibly be having a heart attack - because my chest hurt as well. I obviously couldn’t keep up and she had to leave me in the dust. She caught up with me on her way back of course (still running - what a maniac!). She had lots of encouraging words for me like how proud she is that I made it as far as I did and I look like a runner – good form or something. What a load of crap. Me and Roxy had to take a 2 hour nap afterwards to try and recover. So as I sit here my legs, hips, back and pretty much every other body part is in a lot of pain. Runners. What the hell is the matter with them? Don’t worry about sending me cards & flowers I will recover soon. And if you see Rebecca with her running shoes on - you better run. . . in the other direction. :)