Psychomuffin's Suburban Adventure

The misadventures of a domestically challenged girl and her mission to ascend to the ranks of Domestic Goddess.

Thursday, November 09, 2006

After the lights went out



Even though you wouldn't know it by looking at the picture above - that is our living room. See the little specks of light? Candles. You ask, what happened? What was I doing in my living room with candles? Romantic candlelit dinner? Nope. I was studying for an exam. Why? Powercut. I felt like a Charles Dickens novel.

Most of my time recently has been taken up by exams, but I'm reaching the end ( 2 to go ) so I have a little more free time. Over the weekend I went to Benjamin's second birthday party and actually got sunburnt! Wow! Me? A colour other than talcum-powder-white? It's true, I swear. It was a super-cute party - with a sandpit and a pool and a vividly coloured bug-shaped birthday cake. Awesome. I miss being 2.



In other news I recently started dieting again. In my endless quest to drop a few pounds I've decided to try a few diets to see how they work. This month: GI Lean.

About GI Lean

It's basically a low-GI, low saturated fat eating plan with a few pills thrown in. First few days is a detox ( you have to take awful tasting effervesent tablets three times a day, drink loads of water and eats loads of fruit and veg ). The rest of the diet is a 3 meal, 2 snack eating plan and some fat burner type pills in the morning. I modified the eating plan a bit ( buying the food as recommended would cost about R2500 a month for two people ( yipes! )) but all the meals are from the book. I just cut some of the really expensive ones and there is a bit less variety.

So far: It was tough getting used to drinking all that water again, and I had a bit of a headache for the first few days. Cutting down my coffee has also been hard. On the upside: I haven't really felt hungry ( Darius has been quite ravenous though ) and the prescribed meals mean I'm not really tempted by other stuff ( I just don't have a choice ). On the really upside: I lost 2.7kgs in my first week! If I felt more hungry I would be worried, but I'm not, so I guess I'm okay. First week losses are always big, so I'll see how next week's weigh-in goes before I start getting excited.