I work at a radio station!

This whole diet thing has now spawned a rather annoying side to it! Word is out in my office that I'm on this diet and weight loss mission, and everybody is talking about it. It's at the point where I can't have an interaction with somebody at work without either some comments about how the diet is going or how much weight I have lost and how much better I'm looking, which is all flattering but I don't want to discuss it constantly! Even worse, if I pass somebody in the corridor people think I don't notice them checking me up and down! I feel like the spotlight is on me and following me around. Sure, when I'm on stage playing drums I love the attention, but that's the only time. I'm otherwise quite a shy person and not a big fan of attention!

Today we had our weekly Friday office tea, which was very nice. My colleague outdid herself in quality, quantity and presentation, and she made a concerted effort to make the options as healthy as possible, like the lady who's turn it was last week! It was appreciated! It included carrot cake with low-fat cream cheese icing, apple pie, and a very nice fruit platter which I had generous portions of. Very nice indeed, and I ate my fill without pigging out. But then at one stage I got up to go for a piss, because as part of the diet I drink copious volumes of water constantly. When I got back I was asked, in front of 8 people, if I had gone to "purge", ie. stick my finger in my throat and barf up my food. This then became a conversation and I was questioned further. I must have gone red in the face with embarrassment, it was a kak thing to ask and a fucking shit awkward thing to have to explain, at the tea table, that I had indeed gone for a fucking piss! I was seriously not impressed! What the fuck - do these people think I've lost all this weight from throwing up my food like some anorexic ballet dancer (no offence intended to ballet dancers!) This diet has been fucken hard work, determination, and sacrifice of many things that I love!

Seriously, fuck off!

I will no longer mention my mission nor answer questions about it at work. It's something I'm proud of, I don't need condescending insults!

Anyway, rant over... This Friday tea was just a treat that I took as a calculated moderation of something nice.

When this crowd sees my tea contribution next week they are going to fall over backwards, probably with cholesterol heart attacks! It will be a surprise indeed!


Tomorrow we are going to my friend Mandy from school for a braai, whom I've not seen since school, in 1994. Yes I'm that old already! She is also on this will power diet, Tamsyn is a mutual friend from school, so we will endeavour to keep the contents of the braai reasonably healthy as well as being enjoyable. 

BUT, before the braai, Mandy and I are playing squash after months of threatening for a game, something I've been dreading due to her reputation as a pro with bite. That said, I'm looking forward to the game, it will be a good workout and a fantastic learning experience. I have never had any squash coaching so I don't even know if I'm holding the racket correctly, let alone playing correctly, so hopefully I'll learn a few useful tricks!

I also intend to hit the gym tonight and tomorrow morning, with some squash if there's any free courts as I don't have any bookings. I don't book weekend courts in advance since weekends can be so unpredictable. Liezel and I had spoken earlier in the week to not do anything this weekend besides gardening and working around the house and the hike up Lions Head on Sunday morning, which has been cancelled since everybody who was so keen to get a hiking club going has chickened out, and I'm not keen to go up alone and get mugged, which happens there regularly in case you think I'm chickening out too, because I'm not! I'm keen to do it! Well, the weekend is now fully booked, just about!

Then Sunday evening I'm doing a family photo shoot at the beach. Should be interesting!

So anyway, lunch is over, I need to get back to my Autocad drawing!

Have a nice weekend all!