Lily Allen - popstar of chavy proportions (but rather sweet) in the UK and somewhat famous in the USA gave me a great idea. Worse still it was in a one blurb ‘interview’ in some horrific magazine like US Weekly - the kind that sucks your soul if you get beyond page 3. Well, it feels like that when I read them.. I lose the will to live. Seriously enough of “a close friend said” such bullshit.
I digress.
Anyway some one at work left said magazine in the toilet - see? I had no choice but to read it I was trapped in a confined space and well, I read that Allen had dropped 3 dress sizes with help from a hypnotherapist. It wasn’t that it stopped her eating cake - it just made her like going to the gym! That’s exactly what I need -I don’t think I eat particularly badly, I just live a very sediatary life style. Therefore I NEED to go to the gym to burn off the calories.. and now an excess of 50lbs in fat.
Unfortunately, I don’t have the $600 plus airfare to travel to London for a one hour consultation with Susan Hepburn the woman who helped Lily - however, I did manage to find a very nice lady in my part of Los Angeles who could do the same kind of treatment. I just needed someone to quieten my conscious mind so they could give a stern talking to my subconscious mind that really I didn’t mind going to the gym that much really, in fact I rather enjoyed it. That I didn’t need to order French fries every time I saw them available and drinking the entire bottle of wine each time isn’t clever. Or lady like for that matter.
So has it worked? Well, yes and no. Yes - there has been no French Fries. I certainly don’t crave them all the time like I used to. I can even drive past Wienerschnitzel to the gym (they do the best fries - salty like McDonalds used to make them). Yes - I have been going to the gym - I am not going every day but most days.. since I had the treatment I have been 7 out of 11 days - and that’s pretty amazing for me. Yes and No - I am still drinking wine.. but I am sipping it more and my desire to hit the bottle after a bad day at work has lessened considerably.
Now I just need to concentrate on this path I have chosen and continue to work at it - unfortunately nothing is easy. I am anxious to see results and see them right now! But I will get there - I have to. If you are open minded and have issues with will power and losing weight I would definitely recommend it.
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congratulations. I thought recently about doing that myself. maybe i’ll do it!
You’ve made a great start! I need some exercise badly!
Hey I’d like to know how many tattoos is “a lot”?
I’m off to figure out what “Chavvy” means.
when you figure out “chavvy” let me know!
I am having my friend’s brother who is an artist draw out my next tattoo
Chavy… is a chav.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chav or http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=chav
I hope that helps!
I think Americans would call them white trash.. what would Australian’s call them?
Lots of tattoos.. hmm I think the bench mark is more than a quarter of your body is covered in tattoos. If you interested you can see mine here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/clarew/501360048 and http://www.flickr.com/photos/clarew/501360096 and here http://www.flickr.com/photos/clarew/501394191
they are my major ones. I have a few others..
i would think living in LA you would probably have to do some major strength training on the old ego and self-esteem to keep it strong.
Perhaps - but I am too old (also poor) for hanging out at those kind of places where everyone stands around coked up to their eyeballs judging each other by the price tag on their clothes.
hoorah for being old and not giving a shit!
Love the butterfly tatoo. Did you have both legs done on the same day?
As for the hypnotherapy, I hope it continues to work for you!
NG - I can hear your voice now - Love it!
Your comment - “. . . am too old (also poor) for hanging out at those kind of places where everyone stands around coked up to their eyeballs judging each other by the price tag on their clothes. . . .
hoorah for being old and not giving a shit! . . . . PERFECT snapshot of that dreadful scene.
The last time I had to go to a place like that was to play a good sport at a friend’s bachelorette party. I remember standing in line in the bathroom and a friend of mine (who was sooo wasted) started saying to the freakishly gorgeous specimens around us, “You two must be sisters, you’re so pretty!” . . . “Wait, are you their sister, too!? You have the same chin.” They laughed politely and refrained from rolling their eyes. Later I told my friend, “They don’t have the same parents - they have the same surgeon!” . . . I never would have believed it til I saw it with my own eyes.
Anyway - congrats on the good behaviors . . . My mum’s learning to practice hypnotherapy. When she comes out next, I’ll get you a free session. We should go hiking in the Santa Monica hills, a great way to get the blood flowing and it’s so pretty it doesn’t even feel like exercise. I won’t make you eat fried food anymore either.
Jenn - yes both legs on the same day. I wanted it to look like stockings hem running up my legs. Inspired by a line from a Sting song of all things!
“The way she walks by,
I see a wave of color
moving like an angel
trailing butterflies”
um, I am not saying I am an angel btw! lol
Ruth - Thanks for sharing your LA story.. some of these people should be banished from our city! It was sooooo cool to meet you. There was not enough time to talk though and I would LOVE to meet you again for coffee / walking / soda / booze - whatever! I just wish the rest of the 30 voices gang could have been there too! Lets definitely do it again soon?!
oh and definitely always up for a free hypnotherapy session.. I think its starting to wear off!