MMMiii!

With people recently getting engaged (Momon and Ros, high school classmates) and clothes quarterlife crisis, I’m starting to think of dieting seriously. I know, I know! I’ve said this at least a hundred times… but this time I’m doing it! So far, I’ve been into it for 2 weeks already. There’s no noticeable change yet. I’m going to take this slow.

What am I doing?

I’m starting with breakfast which is actually my dinner.

I’m not going to eat rice anymore in the mornings when I get home. I usually feel so hungry after work that I could eat 2 cups of rice, depending on how good the food for breakfast is. I overeat until I’m satisfied. So, I’m switching to healthy sandwiches for breakfast. Well, just 1 sandwich. Two slices of whole wheat or multi-grain bread. Tuna or Egg spread (I know, the mayo -_-), and if available, other meat like bacon or whatever’s there on the table. AND! Lettuce, Cucumber, and Tomato.

I don’t really like bread, and I’m not into sandwiches because I get full easily. So instead of eating a mountain of rice, I just eat a sandwich, I’m limited to that and I won’t want to eat another sandwich unlike with what I sometimes do with rice. If for some reason I still feel hungry, I just eat a couple of more slices of cucumber and/or tomatoes and/or some lettuce.

I’ll start with breakfast! I also walk more now. I’ve got such a sedentary lifestyle that when I went out with Lori last time and played a few games in the arcade, my arm went sore. I’m thinking of incorporating maybe some weight loss supplements in this breakfast diet, so when I wake up, I can do the exit dance. I don’t want to take them after dinner because I don’t want anything funny happening to me at work.

We’ll see how long this will last!

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Starting tonight, I am officially part of the Escalations Team at work. I work as a tech support representative, by the way, and although we are the help desk of our client, not everyone knows everything and agents also need assistance. There are also times when a customer just demands for a supervisor for reasons that are out of our control as a Tier 1 agent. Before, as just one team handling both of these, and the center realized that it’s too much for one team, I guess. So the Escalations Team was born.

Our job would now involve supporting agents, mainly, with their questions and their escalations. Ohhh.. just imagine… 8 hours a day of just taking in calls from irate, or frustrated, or livid customers. Or 8 hours of supporting boneless agents who can’t think for themselves even with all the information that is available to them.

We did some dry runs today for only a couple of hours and I am not pleased to say that I am utterly exhausted. My head is pounding and I’m just ready to sleep now. Should I start checking on insurance quotes in case I implode? or start running amok? or just get myself run over by a bus or something?

It’s not a promotion, but we will not be allowed to go home early anymore and I can go on Over Time as long as I want … if I want… at least that’s what they’ve told us so far. Since I won’t be going on half-day anymore, I’ll start to earn my full salary with the 20% night differential. I’ll be earning big bucks starting today! LOL.

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I have never tried running on one of those treadmills before. I imagine that they might be hard to run on based on those funny accident videos. My brother tells me that it’s easy and it doesn’t require much brains for application. You just turn on the machine at low setting and run. You can increase the speed or difficulty of the settings as you go along. Awesome things they are, they way they can tilt for harder workouts. Some even have programs you can choose for varied results.

I want one. So I can wear something nice for a change.

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I am a fan of good food and sweets so it has been hard on me on my attempts to trim down. The other day, me and my brother were shopping for some pants and it has been relatively getting harder to get good fitting ones that are actually comfortable and wearable for work. The old lady at the store kept offering “Skinny” pants for someone not so skinny like me. Internal Miii was laughing her head off.

Recently, I have been checking out diet pill reviews to see the best ones on the market. I have come across a few that have already piqued my interest as of the moment and have referred some to my brother who; for the life of me, has taken an interest in these things as well. I pretty much look up these things for reviews and other related matters like price and availability and the ratings other happy customers have given it.

Who knows, the idea of me wearing Skinnies might not be so funny in the future. :p

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My poor brother seems to have developed lactose intolerance so that pretty much means that he has to stay away from dairy products with lactose in them. Just thinking about it, any food blogger might think that it would be like living in purgatory because most of the good deserts have some form of dairy on it.

No more Starbucks for him. *chuckles* He was even joking about using it as a form of weight loss program as it gives him a really bad case of diarrhea. He should use something like ephedrine as an effective means of losing weight. It’s not as uncomfortable as how he wants to do it and it would cost even less to just buy a bottle compared to drinking a Frappe everyday. It’s effective too as the reviews put it.

The never-ending quest to lose weight tarries on.

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I was having a lot of pimples the past few weeks because I was religiously using my water-based skin moisturizer. It’s supposed to keep my skin from being dry, since I always keep the air conditioner in my room on whenever I’m home, but my skin was drying up. Or so I thought it was the reason. So everyday, I would put this moisturizer on my face. I actually love it. It doesn’t have some strong weird smell and it’s not greasy. And since it’s water-based, I just rub it into my hands and then on my face.

And I just realized now… that for the past few days that I’ve forgotten to put on this moisturizer… I haven’t been having my pimples. It could be because it’s been raining, and it’s not so hot and I’m not sweating so much. It could also be because I stopped using the moisturizer.

I still believe that the best treatments for acne isn’t some strong chemical or fancy facial soaps, but just keeping your face clean and actually NOT using too much stuff on your face. Hence, the reason I thought that the moisturizer wouldn’t be bad for my face because it’s water-based and it didn’t have a lot of chemicals. I’ll experiment, I guess. I’ll try putting on the moisturizer again for a couple of days and see if the pimples come back. >_<~

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Ok. So. Yeah.

When I got home from work earlier, I read more on this mesothelioma thing because I only skimmed over the information I got yesterday. I found out that if ever I develop asbestos cancer in the future, there are these people called “Mesothelioma lawyers” and you can file lawsuits with their help. So… 10-30 years from now, if I find out that I got this mesothelioma, I could file a lawsuit against whoever said that we should use asbestos pads in chem lab classes.

I read too much Ouran High School Host Club, I think. I get crazy overblown ideas.

Now, Back to Ouran.

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I mentioned in my previous post that I bought oil burners for my lavender fix. But whenever I mention “oil burner” I think of … an oil burner. Something that really burns the oil. A lamp.

Actually, I was thinking of getting an alcohol lamp instead of a bunch of candles that only burn for a couple of hours. And then I would get a ceramic dipping sauce plate and think of a way to make a stand and just let it burn that way. I just need denatured alcohol and then my lavender oils.

But then I remembered something from when I was in high school and in uni, during the chemistry lab classes. I know that I could just put the ceramic plate over the flame, but we used to use this small screen with asbestos when heating beakers. I don’t remember where I got the thought that exposure to asbestos caused cancer. But I remember clearly being terrified of the asbestos pads. “I’m being exposed to it, I’ll get cancer and die,” I thought silently. Maybe I read it somewhere, because I loved to read books like kiddy encyclopedias and educational books when I was a child.

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My room smells like lavender. Different lavender scents, but definitely some kind of lavender.

I don’t know when I started to become crazy over this scent. I know that I started becoming aware of “lavender” as a flower that smelled good was when HK drama, Lavender, was dubbed and aired here. But I didn’t go and buy lavender scented things back then.

My first experience with the lavender scent was when I got into the habit of trying out new bath and beauty products when they come out. Palmolive had this Aromatherapy line. I bought the lavender shower gel and soon afterward, the shampoo and conditioner. A talcum powder version of it came out as well. I was pleased with the smell. I smelled good as well. I don’t know if the aromatherapy part of it actually works on me and relaxes me, but I love how I smelled whenever I used these products. I don’t use them all the time, but when I see them, I buy them.

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I’m …. still not serious about dieting!

I know that diet pills don’t work as good if you don’t do your part too. In my case, I really love eating. I really really do. And lately, if I don’t like the food, either Mama cooks instant noodles for me or I cook them by myself.

And my friend who used to be heavier than me is now lighter. >_< *glares at the friend with contempt*

I was thinking of dieting for the Hong Kong trip that I’m planning on the 3rd quarter of this year… but meh… with the stress at work, I want to eat and eat noodles.

I try to drink fruit juice like pineapple juice and orange juice with pulp, so at least I’ve got my fiber. I eat vegetables as much as possible whenever I buy food in the pantry. I give my snacks to my mother… but still… I think if I can only remove noodles from my diet, life would really be a lot easier.

It’s so evil!

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