Diets

This is a wonderful portrayal of the psychology behind diets. It's rather exaggerated, but there is definitely some truth in it. Jenna Marbles FTW! (... but actually, she's really skinny + she has a steady boyfriend, so she sure as hell does not need a diet).

As a fat person myself, of course I have tried dieting, and of course I have failed. They say that 95% of diets don't work, and most people gain back the weight they have lost. And if the diet does work, you'll probably end up on a hospital bed in a ward full of other miserable anorexic patients being force fed all kinds of fat junk food against their will. So, it seems that you will never win.

I always believe that the success of your diet is never a question of how strong your will power is, because the strength of your will power is dependent on how badly you actually want to lose weight. To elaborate further, I don't believe in stupid sweeping statements like "That girl has such a persevering character, she doesn't give up anything she sets her heart on". To me, that is a really stupid thing to say. Perseverance is not a trait! It is merely a result of an existing (strong) desire. And DUH, if you have set your heart on something, you won't give up, because... you have set your heart on it! If you seriously give up, it just means you did not set your heart on it.

But I digress. To bring things back to the diet issue, the stronger your desire to lose weight, the higher your chance at success. There are many other factors that affect your desire to lose weight, such as your love for food and your laziness, which may be so overpowering and overwhelming that your desire to lose weight takes a backseat and ends up fading into the background.

As for me, I am:

1. A major food-fanatic. For all you people who have never been to Singapore, you are seriously missing out on the food. I can safely say that 90% of the food we have here is so oily that your complexion will suffer for it, and after eating you will feel a mixture of disgust, and yet, great satisfaction. Argh, it makes me feel highly ambivalent. And, not to mention the abundance of fast food outlets we have here - I practically live next door to a McDonalds, KFC, and an ice-cream parlour.

2. A complete lazy-ass, and proud of it! P.E. has always been my least favourite lesson. In fact, PE ruins the entire day for me. I officially hate Mondays and Fridays because those are the days when I have PE. The games are not so bad, but when they make us RUN. Oh god. The other day I ran 1200 metres and I puked into the drain after that, right in front of my classmates. How embarrassing. Yeah, it isn't so hard to see that I'm not a fan of exercise.

3. And sometimes I have these random moments when I buy all that inspirational, self-empowering crap (as described in my previous post) and think to myself "Candice, you are a BEAUTIFUL person and you DON'T need to change a thing!" Of course, such moments are rare, but they still happen... ...

These three factors are probably the reason why my diets in the past have failed. Good luck to all my future endeavors. I embrace them with hearty enthusiasm.

P.S. this entry does not "go to show" that fat people are lazy people who eat a lot. I know there are plenty of fat people out there who watch what they eat and exercise, and I seriously admire them for it.

P.P.S. I will be taking my (extremely important) A Level exams in less than a month, and I am panicking the shit out of myself. So I have resorted to calming myself down with chocolate. Especially Kinder Bueno, the best chocolate ever. Isn't this a legit reason to pig out? :(