Memoirs of a Gafsha
I am proud of myself, am in the best physical shape of my life. My body has come a long way since having to wear size 42 waist. Yesterday I bought a size 33 jean, and am so happy. I certainly took my time though. I started losing weight three years ago at an average rate of about one and a half kilo a month. But it's been hard. I finally am able to balance a good workout with a healthy diet (apart from my obsession with ice cream). I feel good. I lost weight so I can finally run on the beach into the golden sunsets; get to the top of the mountains I always wanted to climb, learn how to hang glide so I can feel like an eagle soaring in the bright blue sky, swim like a dolphin in the English channel…yes I can now achieve these dreams of mine. Qawiyah? Yeah it sounds like what someone on Oprah would say. Ok I lost weight so I would look better, period. Anything wrong with that? Didn’t think so. It feels good walking into a room or a coffee place and have people look at you with an obvious look of attraction in their eyes. You might not notice but somehow we always tend to look over a fat person, which kinda doesn’t make sense cuz they're hard to miss (look at me referring to fat people as them, not us). It's weird, I just thought about it in this sense. When you visit a blog, read the posts and like what you find, do you imagine what the blogger might look like? I do. And guess what the bloggers that I like look like in my head. Yup! For some reason I imagine them looking as good as their writing. I never thought of myself as being shallow. But is that what this is? Is it only me or do we naturally assume inner beauty correlates with our looks? I know that one has nothing to do with the other. Maybe this is just how we react to an attraction to a beautiful mind. All our lives we've been attracted to people for their looks, well at least most guys have, and so we might find it hard being attracted to someone without knowing what they look like. So it might be easier to imagine them looking good, it certainly would fit our natural attractions. Hehe, I know some bloggers that go to arms length to try and "subtly" or "subliminally" assert that they have good looks( refer to the first sentence of this post)((ok maybe not that subtle)). Maybe they do so to attract more visitors and readers to their pages. Do you find yourself more interested in reading someone's blog if you think they look good? I don’t know if it's real or not, maybe it's all in the mind of a Kuwaiti man.
posted by Homer Al-Simpson at 11:51 AM
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Loved the title! Hehehe.
Awal shay mabrook 3ela the lost weight, I really do have a lot of respect for people like you. How do you do it? I've been thin all my life (no subtle hint intended) :P but when I sometimes stack on the pounds and find myself a little heavier than usual, I don't know what to do with myself! I really don't know how to diet and some foods (like all sweets & desserts) are just diet-proof. Now, tell me what kind of diet is that?
'Qawiya'? Not at all. I know people that have gone through the same as you and all I can say is: life changing, happier, more confident, more productive, more social...the list goes on and on.
So...enjoy it!
I don't usually imagine how bloggers look like. I don't know, call me strange. But the better I like someones writing and more beautiful I percieve their minds, the less beautiful I percieve them physically. I just think that most smart people aren't as good looking on the outside as their minds are. I know thats bad. I'm also very wrong. But thats my automatic reaction.
eheheh LOVED your post.. so many points i liked.. wont limit myself and refer to them..
GOOD FOR YOU losing all that weight mashala.. keep up the good work.. guess what? very slim chance of u gaining any back.. cuz u lost it slowly..
As for the looks and the blogging.. i personally remove that from my mind.. i just read..
and shallowness.. i hear ya.. im there too lool.. always argue about that point with my best friend..
but in real life i noticed that inner beauty RARELY correlates with outer good looks...
If i read someone smart.. i tend to think (yeah he's ***) .. ya3nee i think itha he is that smart must not be that good looking.. alah yaketh o ya36ee.. u cant be smart.. gorgeous.. and funny..
i'm the exception hahhaha but i'm an airhead at times so i do pay for it.. (excuse my over thiQaNess ) :P
Congratulations on reaching your goal :) Losing weight, and keeping it off is probably one of the hardest things any individual undertakes. It's more difficult than quitting smoking (which is up there with quitting crack and cocaine, it's considered that difficult).
About your blogger thing: I always imagine the bloggers as happy fat people for some reason. Fat happy people are some of the nicest, most intelligent people I've met, so yeah, that's how I picture most of the bloggers I admire :P
Great for the lost weight :)
Personally, I do not think looks are the most important thing. Yeah, okay, some people are extremely beautiful but if you get to know them more, well, you kind of regret that you dug in because their shallowness pervents you from going any deeper! As for bloggers' looks...I'm curious but not really interested, mostly because I have a mental picture of their physique based on their persona and I think that's more signficant and worthy than their waist size or alluring eyes.
Cheers...
I admit that I am shallow. I prefer good looking people with good bodies.
Congrats on the weight loss!
Delicately Realistic: allah ebarik feech.. How did I do it? Painfully! ;p but it's a matter of changing lifestyles, not just the food. no hint intended ha;p I think a lot of ppl presume that the smartest and most interesting of us tend not to be so good looking, but in truth looks and brains are not related, dontcha think so?
Beyond Q8iya: enshala I wont gain it back, or I wouldn’t fit into my new jeans ;p
There's a bit of shallowness in all of us, we're only human. You really don’t think someone can be smart and good looking? Or do we think so just to feel less sorry for the ugly people (ya3ni they are ugly but at least they are smart) and feel less contempt towards the beautiful people ( yeah they are gorgeous but they are dumb too)…it could also work in reverse..
McArabian: losing all that weight was hard, keeping it off is harder…harder than quitting smoking, and I have been smoke free for 18 months, I smoked for a couple of years but now I happily haven't had a cigarette in all that time. LOL about the happy fat people, for some reason that comment reminded me of the fat guy from "Lost", also Michael Moore, I hate his accent…
Erzulie: You're right, looks are not the most important thing. People who work on their look more than their personality don’t make great companions. Ok your beautiful am excited, and then after that what? At some point couples have to start talking ;p
MiYaFuSHi: who doesn’t want that, but should it be number one on your list?… bs ta3jibnee sara7tich ;p
1) Congratulations on the weight loss.
2) I _LOVED_ the title. Couldn't stop laughing for an entire minute.
3) I believe that some people put more pressure into their manners and education when they feel that they need to compensate for something. Beautiful people don't need brains! (lol, just kidding) I also think that when you talk to someone who you believe is sophisticated (assuming you haven't met face-to-face) and then meet them afterwards, they're bound to seem attractive.
just my two fils on it.
Well adorra I appreciate your "two fils" on this post ;p and I have to say that I agree with you
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