Anastacia
Friday, October 24th, 2008 | General+Life Stuff, Health, Personal, Rants | No Comments
In the past, I considered myself to be (i) quite slender; (ii) a physically active individual regardless of not exercising regularly; (iii) have a relatively healthy diet and managed to stay a vegetarian for the past ten years.
Society raised me to be very aware of the fact that one day, just one day IT will happen; so I constantly reminded myself about how the body can expand if I don’t eat correctly etc. Being of so called “Cape-coloured” inheritance, I was led to believe and it cases saw it with my own eyes that the female’s thighs, butt and ass tend to become fuller approximately at the age of twenty five.
It’s quite convenient that IT chose that age to show ITs true colours! In my opinion, majority of the females my age are either getting married soon or just recently got married – I pity the husband that sworn to be there for her through THICK and thin, better or for horridly worse. Those in the minority like me have only their shame and dedication to fix IT; their teddies, friends and family for support…
The day that I dreaded for most of my teens and twenties has arrived. IT snuck up to me without me knowing – well half knowing I guess?
…this note has been dedicated to my many longs that are no long…
• To my dearest black faded pair of Levis jeans. If only my thighs would not have bounced you ‘at the door’ and allowed you to enter. Every time I try to fit into you, the thighs jump in and disturb our meeting. Yes indeed you are under aged as TJC only just bought you for me as a gift back in 2003. Guess under aged denims are for youngsters then and maybe I am just too old skool to be wearing you?
• They say you shouldn’t wear to work what you wear to play? Why oh why was I wearing you my fondest khaki longs? I thought I was thin and I was convinced I could squeeze through that gap between the table and the whiteboard. So to avoid hurting my @(76$$! , instead I slid past the board and the corner of it caught the back of you and I am convinced I even have a scar on my butt to prove it.
• To the one that was the last of the three quarter shorts selection, I wore you on Sunday to the event in Muizenberg. All I wanted to do was squeeze in the change into your pockets? It was only just going to be coins as its broke week and you for some or other reason got frightened and decided that you wanted to make your pocket bigger to accommodate me? Why did you shock SO badly only to reveal half my ass to nearly the entire audience that night? You outlived the brown three quarter too! You know the one that I keep trying to fit into, the one with the strong button and stitching that never seems to fail me; only the material to cover me up is lacking!
• Dearest Soviet denims bought back in 2001 – if only your zip would close and stay closed – I would wear you then.
• To my most recent longs family member, my True Religion jeans. So much for the ripped look of 2007, because in 2008, you totally ripped my heart to pieces when I discovered that you will not be able to be mended.
• If you really sharing this pain with me, read my blog post especially written for and about my Jet jeans
The desired THEN
Age: 20-25
Weight: 65 kgs
Waist: 29-32 cm’s
The dreaded NOW
Age: 26
Weight: (definitely not any of the digits above in the desired section>
To all of you, know that I treated you as a part of me. Yes, you are that part of me that reminds me of my youth! Those were the days when I was able to fit into a size 28 and 30. Yes this is a saddening realisation yet an ecstatically exciting one too – my newest committed challenge.
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008 | Personal, Rants | No Comments
I actually don’t like this public holiday I am supposed to be having today. Yes thats a harsh statement but couldn’t they have made it tomorrow instead? Its like broke week i.e. the last week in fact day of my month before I get paid. Its like that week where you find entertainment within the four walls of your bedroom, your diet consists of none other than wholewheat bread and peanut butter and a glass of ice water to go with that.
Then you see all these ads out there for party this and party that then I wonder, am I the only broke person out there? Is everyone not saving and using all their salary? Are people just lucky to have rich parents and still be living off them and therefore have their salaries to themselves? Like seriously, where is everyone getting money at this time of the month?
I’m not starved yet but i do wish I had a little more to play with – the rising increases in the prices of food in Cape Town (thats all I can speak for) is making us all suffer – well me suffer! I am a vegetarian and one would think that its cheaper to not eat meat… I have news for you.
Vegetarians wanna eat organic vegetables that I think could cost more than Woolworths these days. Its not cheap to manually milk a cows teat you know. Its not cheap to water the garden on your own with a hose pipe and throw old vegetable skins over your growing veg. Organic foods are just way too expensive around here.
For thos who eat soya products like Frys , I am beginning to wonder if its soya in there or real meat? I remember paying around R17 for the veggie hot dogs and I think the price now between R19 and R22.
I have to eat food, so i will naturally fork out the cost to cover it regardless. Honestly, how does some people afford to get overweight? Okay okay I might have just opened up a whole other can of worms there but still – I am referring to affording as in cost here and don’t even think that there are other factors that come to the fall here cause I went through shit but never allowed my shit to gain hold of my weight. So still I ask that question “how does some people afford to get overweight?”
I think at this rate, its going to be cheaper for me just to just stay home, work from home, have no friends, no family, no car, no phone and just eat and pay for electricity, water, rent. No DSTV just internet maybe. No land line just a cellphone? Yaw!
Anyways…just another bitch session courtesy of yours truly…tomorrow is pay day and then cycle leading towards broke-ness starts again… peace!
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