ONE METRE!

Well ladies and gents,

I've DONE IT!

I've cracked the 1 metre milestone! Yes, I've lost over 100 centimetres from my combined body measurements since this exact time last year. Quite fitting, don't you think?

Next on the agenda, WW goal weight! Yep, still not at that one, although my scales are hovering around 64.2 (WW scales = 64.4). So sooooooon, my pretties, very sooooooon!

Holiday snaps

Aaaaah, holidays. The thought of cameras on holidays used to make me run for the hills (see my oldest post for snaps in the USA in 2006). Now, as you can see, I've become a lens vixen. Vanity! It's exciting to be vain, if only until I get some more wrinkles and become camera shy once more. Which is likely to be soon given all my sunbathing activity of late.

Yes, so, I was in Fiji during the dramatic events of last week. Which we didn't hear about AT ALL, given that they pander to tourists on resorts as though we're in a completely different country. No politics, no worries. Just please spend you money here, and leave happy. We'll keep smiling for you, you won't realise a thing! It made me feel very strange, stuck in a glass cage. Locals unwilling to discuss anything of importance with you, and change the subject back to you on the assumption that all Westerners are a) rich, b) self-obsessed *ahem* c) utterly disinterested in them as people, because they are an 'experience', and therefore we're really just back at b) again. Furthermore, there are 'towns' constructed purely for tourists to feel like they are getting out of their resort into 'real' Fiji. Ridiculous!

I'm in endless fascination of this, if only because I feel so guilty for visiting a country just to relax, without much interest in their politics. Although I tried immensely to enjoy myself (and 80% of the time succeeded), I had the nagging feeling of ignorance. Piggish ignorance. Feed your face, lie on the beach, drink some cocktails, stay ignorant.

Fiji saw a 2kg weight gain, not the predicted loss (ha!). This reversal is currently under construction. Stay tuned. :)

Fiji Time!

While there is a demonic thunderstorm outside, I can't help but think of the serene waters in my future. It's almost Fiji time! Tomorrow I'm off for a week, with the intention of doing everything I normally do, except on a tropical island. This includes losing weight rather than gainin, seeing as today I am mustering the bravado to weigh-in after so long, only to lose 200gms, or thereabouts.

But when I return, sunkissed from my tropical paradise, I will be a kilo lighter, and a thesis chapter richer.

Bula!