Seeds of Wisdom....!

LONGING TO BE A LOSER!

It's a recurring nightmare. I'm on this diet. I can't eat pasta, rice, cooked carrots, sweets or anything else I like, I can't snack between meals, I have to wait 5 hours between each meal and I have to eat not only a cereal made from old cereal packets and the bits of fluff and stuff you find under the sofa cushions but also enough seeds each day to cater for an entire aviary! To make this nightmare worse, I appear to have gone cold turkey on the Diet Coke limiting my beverage intake to a combination of water, water and water.

Eeek! It's not a bad dream - IT HAS BECOME MY REALITY!

You know things have gotten bad in the weight department when you consider shelling out a mortgage payment's worth of cash for 12 weeks of this torture (followed by another 6 weeks of not-quite-so-much-torture).

Suddenly the calorie-counting diet, the Weight Watchers diets, the Lite'n'Easy diets all seem so much more do-able than they did before, not to mention a bit kinder on the wallet! I was having a lot of trouble sticking to these, finding loopholes and gleefully taking advantage of them. If you stick to these programs, they DO work. PLUS you can eat rice, pasta, lamb, cooked carrots, sweets and even Diet Coke!

And now there are these patches. Sounds pretty good - if your skin isn't too sensitive and you don't mind the odd bit of clothes/bedding getting stained (I'd put up with that rather than a bowlful of Pepitas!). They use Citrus Arantium extract and Guarana as the active ingredients to curb your apetite and boost your metabolism and other flab-burning bits, as well as give you more energy and sense of wellbeing. Tthey cost about $39, and they last two weeks.

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(Please note I am not endorsing this product, I haven't used it, only passing on info!)

In the meantime, the months yawn ahead of me along with the promise if I stick to it that I will detox my body, rev up my metabolism, balance out the other natural occuring chemicals in my body to help burn fat better, lower my cholesterol and result in a loss of about one dress size per month and an increased feeling of health and wellbeing. And basically, this is why I'm doing it. To get my body all recharged and healthy.

If anyone is healthy, and likes seeds!, check out SureSlim.


A SCRAP A DAY KEEPS THE PHOTOS AT BAY!

I really enjoyed the Daily Challenges at Aussielayouts, run by The Scrap Heap . It has been
a great way to catch up on my scrapping. My pile of photos is getting smaller (I reckon piled on top of each other they would only reach the frist floor ceiling now!), and my stash of all the things I had to buy, all those photo turns, slide mounts, frames, label holders, rub-ons, stickers, chipboard and coaster pieces, flowers, ribbons, and other embellishments, not to mention all that yummy paper I have here, is slowly getting less and less. Of course, it could keep me going for a good while yet, at least the end of the year LOL! But I think I will feel a wee bit less guilty next time I put in an order! They are doing it again for June, so I will give it a go though I don't think I will do all 30! I've still got 2 to go on May!


I'VE BEEN TAGGED!

The lovely Tassie Deb has Tagged me on her Blog! I'm a bit behind in responding actually (sorry Deb!).

What scrapbook products/lines do you dislike?
I'm not much for realistic papers or diecut machines.

What’s the hardest thing you’ve had to scrap?
Relationship pages of my DH and I!

What technique do you use more than anything else?
Oh, these days it would have to be doodling!

What is the smallest scrap of paper you save?
Yeah, probably nothing smaller than a credit card, depends on what the scrap is.

Have you had any scrapping related injuries?
Eye strain? Back ache? RSI? Lack of sleep? I think it's called OSS (Obsessive Scrapper's Sydnrome)!

Finish this sentence…'If I weren’t a scrapbooker/stamper, I’d spend my money on....food and bills! ROFL!

Give your best storage organisational tool
A friend got me onto the flat plastic document boxes for storing foam stamps. I used velcro tape to attach the stamps in order inside the box. So easy to store and see what you want!

You just won a week long scrapping cruise for 5.
Well, I guess it would depend on who paid me the most (in scrapping supplies of course!) LOL!

When you received your first publication notification, who did you tell?
Everyone I knew! DH, my Mum and Dad, my sister, and of course all my Aussielayouts friends!

Tagging someone else?
SallyD
Ruthy
Jody