Nothing Depressing - 1

I just got off this call with my Mom... turns out a couple of her friends checked out my blog and didn't go past one entry as they found it too depressing... made me think... really... I'd always liked to think I was a jolly, fun-loving, crazy, kooky person who didn't mind spouting irrelevant nonsense and meaningless drivel if it made someone laugh... and now I'm a wet-blanket each time I can manage to be one, a negative-Nancy, a sad, depressed mopey dog, a person who almost has to be paid to smile, a woe-is-me plain Jane who is just no fun at all... the only place I'd fit right in, is at a funeral!

Why the change, you ask? refer to my previous post... or maybe you rather not... you might feel so wretched, you'd never ever check my blogs again... maybe it's time for a change... or should I say, maybe it's time to undo the change... which is why, I figured, I'd start off with a nice happy post... (I'm sure I heard those sighs of relief)... after all, who wants to read one depressing post after the other? (I guess no one does... which explains why I have the most unpopular blog on the net... :D well at least I'm superlative in one sense...)

I then wondered if I had done anything remotely funny to blog about... forget funny... anything that might make someone (/anyone) smile... it then struck me... I've never blogged about my ongoing battle... the battle of the bulge... (pilfered that from Archies comics... there! i acknowledged that fact... don't want no copyright people hounding me!)

Well, even though most people who've known me might find this hard to believe... I wasn't always fat... sigh... only I've been fat ever since I can remember.... think I was a normal sized kid... till around the 4th... and since then... there's been a steady growth along the x axis... I've always wished I was a little less prosperous, but you know what they say... if wishes were horses...

I completely let go after the 10th... school hours changed and with it came more sleeptime... right after lunch... so i grew... more rotund than ever... the only time I ever did anything to check the growing prosperity was just before I left to the States... a pilot can't afford to be chubby, so I started gymming... lost 7kgs and was extremely proud of it!

Well, what with McDonalds and Qdoba and Panda Express and Starbucks and ColdStone and a million other eateries that I soon began patronising... the weight that I'd fought off, started challenging me again... the school shutting down just about did it... had to cancel my membership at Inshape (funny... no one who came there was in shape... ironical...), the gym that I went to every now and then... (more "then" than "now"...) still things weren't so out of hand... till we started flying so much that the only time we had to eat was in between flights... ha ha... I bet you think they were hurried meals, a few nibbles... huh? oh! you're so so wrong... we ate in style... at a different airport cafe each day... you've to eat this food to realize what it can do to you... else, you can take the safer way out and see what it did to me... :D

The result is that I reached my highest ever... (thought I'd disclose the no., but what the heck... I've always wanted to say this - that's for me to know & for you to find out! :D

Do I regret being overweight? sure I do! Especially in the fitting rooms! But thankfully, I've never kidded myself about my weight issues, so I've not had people hurting my feelings on that account! If there's a crack about the waistline, you bet I'm the one making it! ;)

Here are a few rules a prosperous/healthy/not-so-slim/un-skinny person, such as I, lives by :
1. Emotional Eating : if something goes wrong... something has to go in...
2. Study Companions : if something has to get into my head, something else has to get into my mouth...
3. Polite Eating : if something tastes good, show your appreciation by eating some more... and some more... and then... some more...
4. Storing up : when unsure of when next, the next meal will be, leave nothing to chance, store up...
5. When you're really bored... and you have nothing else to do... EAT!!! :)

So the battle goes on... with rules like the above, there sure is treachery involved ;) wait a mintue! I think I'm going to wind up now... All this blogging has made me hungry!! Bon appetit! ;)