Lent update

I'll try and keep it short and simple because I've jotted down my diet/weight loss/healthy eating updates SOOO many times, and it'd tedious.

So lent started on wednesday. I gave up all the rubbish that causes me to gain weight.
The only thing is, I'm not allowed to make myself sick either, so anything I eat has to stay down, which I hate, as it always makes me feel uncomfortably and sweatily bloated and fat.

It's Sunday and I've stuck to the plan pretty well so far. I haven't ate meat, chocolate, sweets, junk food (which I don't eat anyway). Saturday, yesterday, is the only day off I've had.

I had a few biscuits and a roll of fresh bread.

I've started exercising every day and I LOVE IT. I really do. I went for a jog on saturday night at about 11:30 and it was so quiet and dark and cold. It was really lovely, if not a tiny bit scary (especially since my route does involve going past a few dark fields and isolated streets).

I dread to think how much I weigh since I've been keeping food down, but I'm trying to think about the bigger picture - I'm barely eating carbs and doing cardio everyday.

I'm on my period this week so I have the gorgeous, bloated, flabby hips us ladies are lucky enough to get. It's hard to tell about any improvements on my stomach but I do feel a bit ribbier/hip-bonier. But as I said, with a big, painful, period bloated belly it's unclear what's a perminant exercise-achieved improvement and what's lack of food for one day.

I think I can honestly stick to this diet. The only thing I miss is having something to eat with a cup of coffee, but I think not having that little pointless piece of calories could help in the long run.

I'm having an unhealthy day

It's 11:06am and already I've had a bowl of cereal, a milkybar yogurt, a cream egg and a wierd apricot brandy chocolate. Tomorrow is lent and for it I am going to give up everything bad in my life, including bulimia. So today I plan to eat little fruit, no salad, and maybe go a bit sugar/carb crazy. Actually, maybe not carb crazy. A bowl of cereal and a slice or two of toast perhaps.

So for lent, I am going to give up

- Chocolate
- Limit myself to one yogurt a day
- Bread
- Any cereal other than corn flakes or bran flakes (one bowl a day)
- I don't eat junk anyway, but still no junk food
- Biscuits
- Alcohol (not that I drink it much anyway)
- Snacking in general

Oscar Time

So it's a few days late but I have been really lookin forward to the Oscars this year, so I thought I'd make a post anyway.

I know it doesn't really count since I know the winners, but what the hell, here is the list of winners along with my original predictions.

Best Actor in a leading role - Mickey Rourke
Since I saw the first advert, I've really wanted to see Milk. Sean Penn looks absolutely amazing and authentic as his role as ay political activist Harvey Milk, so I wanted him to win. However, there has been an unbelievable ammount of hype rearding Rourke being the come back king blah blah blah, and seeing as he's won almost every other award for his lead actor role in The Wrestler (usually foreshadowing the results of the Academy Awards), I presumed he'd win the oscar too. But he didn't! And my main man Sean Penn (Milk) took home the old.

Best Actress in a leading role - Kate Winslet
(The Reader)
I really hoped that she would win this, and she did. This was her 6th oscar nomination. 6th! At long last, 'the best actress of our generation' got the oscar. Congratulations, Kate.

Best Actor in a supporting role - Heath Ledger
(The Dark Knight)
We all knew he would win because he was spectacular as the Joker. End of story. However, his premature demise caused a lot of hype and a lot of people wanting him to get the oscar for his final role. Congratulations Heath, and his family.

Best Actress in a supporting role - Penelope Cruz
(Vicky Christina Barcelona)
I didn't really know who I wanted to win this, but going by what I'd heard and the other awards she won for this role, I sort of guessed it would be Ms. Cruz.

Best Director - Danny Boyle
(Slumdog Millionaire)
Oh my god, I am so happy for him mun! I've loved his work (and him) for a long time, and seeing all this success and love toward Slumdog Millionaire is really touching. Given that Slumdog was tipped to win big this year I knew Danny Boyle was a big candidate if not definate winner for this award. I think it made me love him EVEN more, if that's possible, when he accepted the oscar in 'the spirit of tigger'. Ah man. I love that man. This is an award I aspire to more than anything in the world.

Best Picture - Slumdog Millionaire
It really bugs me that I am still yet to see this film! But in my defense, I am completely skint and haven't seen anything since Dec 27th, when me and a few friends went to see Yes Man haha. Hopefully I'll get to see it while it's still in cinemas as I think they'll be showing it for a long time yet.

Best original screenplay - Dustin Lance Black
(Milk)
I didn't really know much about this category, but I knew Slumdog was based on a book and The Curious Case was based on a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I figured that either Milk or Frost/Nixon would get this prize. It went to the adorable Dustin Lance Black for Milk who gave the acceptance speech of the night.

Hangover from hell

I am never drinking again. Ever. Bleurgh.

I went to town yesterday as I previously posted and didn't eat anything before I went or while I was shopping. When I got in at about half past 2, I had a bowl of cereal and a cup of coffee. My neighbours are on holiday this weekend so I had to nip in and feed their hamsters and their (genuinely) 13 year old goldfish, and while I was doing it noticed what looked like a strategically placed open back of sweets, which I helped myself to one. Or 3.

So yeah - no food and lots of vodka. and tequila.
Eurgh GOD. Gross.

It was a pretty good night though :)

Got told I was 'the tallest lass in the bar' - nice.
Also got called mean and accused of breaking some random lads heart.
One of the lads I was out with described him as having 'curly hair and a bit spotty' haha.

But yeah, met a few people I'm gonna keep in touch with. Even got a little kiss from one of the boys. Ilikesit.

Shopping alone on V-day

To banish any valentines day blues I had (but if I'm honest with you, I didn't have many. I like being single), I went shopping. Went in early to hit the shops without getting swamped in Primark and getting frowned at by dissaproving topshop customers.

Here are my buys!

I decided to get some leggings for the first time ever. Where I'm from, leggings are the uniform of trendies, who wear them with cream ugg boots, long cardigans, gold bangles, big necklaces, fake leather bags, and usually a posh spice haircut. So I opted for the ankle length variety which I really like and bought these from Topshop for £12.

I really liked the deck shoe/old school nautical look when it came round last summer but daren't venture further than my good old vertical stripe tees, navy cardi and blue tights. I saw an almost identical pair of deck shoes to the one's above last year from office for about £55. However, I was looking enough to find a navy blue but still patent pair of deck shoes for a fraction of the cost from Primark for £8. They's good but do smell a bit of curry.

I've been looking out for a pair of vintage/ornate flower print tights for a while now so when I saw these in River Island for £7.99 today I had to grab them before regretting it till the day I die (remembering the gold-green eyeshadow incident of 2002). I tried them on and as I feared but completely expected, I'm gonna have to lose a few before I wear them. With such busy print, every single little twist in the fabric shows so I'll wait till I'm happy enough with ze ol' pins before wearing them.

So not exactly clothing but a buy none the less. With some help and guidance from some lovely chaps on the imdb page for this dvd, I finally invested in small piece of cinematic history and Stanley Kubrick wonderment and forked out a whole £5 for 'Dr. Strangelove or: how I learnt to stop worrying and love the bomb'.

I also bought...

- Tartan bra from Primark

- Ethnic/folk print headband from Primark

- Some bobby pins and mini elastic bands from Accessorize

- Flight of the conchords tee for my brother's birthday from HMV

- A packet of kleenex from Superdrug

My thinspo

In terms of the media and online blogging today, thinspo or thinspiration tends to be lots of emacicated, very skinny, ill-looking young girls and celebs.

Thinspiration has been used for years! And I don't mean the promotion of eating disorders and having bones pop out everywhere. I use it as a bit if inspiration to look good, my current goal is to look good for Mexico.

The girls I have as thinspo are typically slim but healthy. Don't expect any bones or sunken cheekbones.

So whenever I post thinspo, know it's not in the modern sense but for my own little motivation.

:)

I NEED to see 'Milk'

I was at my mates the other day, flicking through the trashy mags like ya do... and I managed to make a list of about 11 films that have not long been out/come out/coming out soon that I really need to see!

Here's the list (although I may have forgotten one or two..)

Milk
Slumdog Millionaire
The curious case of Benjamin Button
The Wrestler
Frost/Nixon
The Reader
Rachel getting married
Nick and Norah's infinite playlist
Confessions of a shopaholic
Changeling
Bolt
In Bruges
Tropic Thunder
He's just not that into you

I think of all the ones out at the minute, despite my love for Danny Boyle and David Fincher, the one I might go and reluctantly spend my £7/£8 on is Milk. I might be going to see the curious case for English Lit, which is nice!

For a bit of comic relief, I'll probably end up going to see Nick and Norah, or confessions.