El Chunko
July 14th 2011 21:00
Photo by Jeanne boleyn. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
Now that I am working twelve hour days, I have noticed I’ve put on two kilos. Okay, I lost twenty kilos a year ago making me still eighteen kilos ahead in the Jenny Craig stakes but who wants to get bigger especially when I don’t want to get Type 2 Diabetes?
At first, I put it down to simply working much longer hours in a sedentary office job. No biggie. Then I thought about my new eating habits: chocolate at night just to take the edge off my hunger before going home to have a proper meal. Then, I remembered the proper meal included a snack of gourmet chips (the ones Andrea calls “cold ones”). It hit me. It was like, der! I stopped the chips straight away. That was easy as I had just finished my last packet anyway. I then cut down on the chocolate. I was still working the same hours and doing the same amount of (little) exercise but a month later I noticed I had lost a kilo.
At the same time, all the other Borders stores closed down, meaning I had to go to Bondi Junction for my weekly Borders fix. Most people would have caught the train. Me? I walked from my place to BJ. It takes an hour. I’m sure the extra walking helped shed that kilo.
Now I’ve only got one more kilo to shed before I go back to my lightest weight, although my friends are telling me to stop.
“Skinny doesn’t suit you,” said Jamil.
“I like you just the way you are,” said Brett.
“I’m not anorexic,” I would reply.
“I know but I’m sceptical of the corporatisation of medicine,” said Karina. “It’s like the medical profession is buying into the idea you have to be skinny and you don’t.”
“I want to be in the healthy weight range because of medical reasons, not because of fashion,” I said. “Not only that, three doctors have already told me to lose weight. And, I must say, it is nice to be able to fit into designer clothes, although I don’t think it is right that designers don’t cater for larger women.”
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