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Dot in the Sky ([personal profile] dotinthesky) wrote2004-03-29 10:12 am

The Fat ***** Factor

I have an interview at a temp agency today. They have asked me to bring my passport. I pull out my black suit, the one made to fit me perfectly in Brazil, two year ago. I try the trousers and realize my stomach hangs out of it like a bursting water bottle. I am fat.

No, I'm not fat. I'm normal looking. I'm actually perfect in height and weight. I'm 70 kilos (give or take 4 kilos) and 6 foot. Or 147 pounds and 1.80 metres. But my weight is not muscle, it's localized fat. And that my friends is all thanks to drinking too many caipirinhas in Brasil: sugar + lime + ice + sugar cane spirits = tubby ollie.

Now I know what it feels like to have your trousers pinch your waist, to suck in your gut and feel your breath shorten. Now I know what it feels like to crave a prolongued fast, to eat only popcorn (no butter) for the next fortnight. That, my friends, is the situation in ollie land.

I called Kevin (who worked for said temp agency) and he said it would be alright for me to go in my blue cords (Bekki has seen them. :P) and my black shirt. Smart casual. And I need a hair cut too.

[identity profile] peraventure.livejournal.com 2004-03-29 02:37 pm (UTC)(link)
*pincha-pincha* *giggle*

btw, I keep forgetting to tell you - you requested new journals a while back and I had forgotten about this guy, but he's posted a few times since. [livejournal.com profile] twodaypugilist has a way with words and is a horny bastard. It's pretty funny. I used to know him in Tallahassee.

Boy, you need to at least get a little protein every day, eh? It's not healthy to do a popcorn diet. Please eat fruit and I dunno, soy milk every day. K?

[identity profile] commonpeople.livejournal.com 2004-03-30 04:10 am (UTC)(link)
lol... i went swimming today and I made a promise to stick to it - I used to swim a lot before so I want to get back into it.

By the way, I think I erased by mistake that journal of yours with your poetry... send it my way again please!

:P

I'll go check on your friend right now.

[identity profile] peraventure.livejournal.com 2004-03-30 05:41 am (UTC)(link)
Ok, good. Exercise is an acceptable way to lose weight. Just definately don't combine it with a popcorn diet! *grins* But I totally understand what you mean. I go on a lazy coffee diet sometimes when I feel the bloat coming on.

[identity profile] commonpeople.livejournal.com 2004-03-31 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
i've never really done any dieting... though I did lose a lot of weight in my first year in uni because of depression...

[identity profile] peraventure.livejournal.com 2004-03-31 06:00 am (UTC)(link)
yeah, that was summer 2002 for me.

[identity profile] commonpeople.livejournal.com 2004-03-31 01:41 am (UTC)(link)
thanks