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.