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I should have bought shares in Kleenex...

or at least planted my own Vitamin C tree so that I wouldn't single handedly be keeping the Fruit & Veg at The Wedge in the green. Yip, I have my annual bout of charmingly snotty flu – once a year my body wimps out on me and decides that *cough cough* it'd quite like a week's break from normal life and from running at 5am and from generally being useful *sniff*.   Once a year I get really, really grumpy and apparently the presence of flu over rides my genetically inbuilt spell check. I actually forget to spell... which is why I have been firmly in bed (or on my couch) far away from my laptop for the past 24 hours. I know you're probably giving me one of those 'yeah, right' looks but trust me, it's not a clever ploy to get out of work or avoid my blogging responsibilities, it's a very real side effect of my *cough cough splutter splutter* condition. Yesterday morning I updated my Facebook status and only after I'd hit 'post' realised tha

It's not rocket science...

I worked out and it worked. Don't know why I'm so surprised . Everyone always says that there's no quick fix to shifting the extra 'padding' that one tends to pick up over Winter. I am particularly guilty of looking up insane, Hollywood-type diet tricks online when my favourite skinny jeans take up baking – and their specialty is the muffin top.  I often find myself browsing the shelves at Clicks and briefly considering buying meal replacement shakes and capsules branded Diet Fuel and Fat Blocke r. I say I only ever consider it briefly because the price tags freak me out... R300 for a plastic pot of strawberry flavoured powder? I think not. Anyway, the point is that the idea of a quick fix or a 'fit in your jeans by Friday' promise/marketing ploy... often seems way more attractive than 'put down the wine, grab an apple and put on your running shoes'.  Sure, I have Special K in my cupboard but opt for Oat so eas y most mornings. Sure, I have Green