When I say diet, I mean eat-all-you-can diet.
Food. Fooood. Fooooooood. I have a love-hate relationship with food. I love eating but it doesn't love me back. I am a voracious eater, perennially hungry but looks like someone who starves herself like an anorexic. Weighing no more than 90 pounds, I am a constant subject to interrogations on whether I eat no more than half a nibble a day. Let me make the record straight. I do not starve myself to be skinny. In fact, I am trying my hardest to gain weight because I am aware that I am underweight. I want to have what my guy friend s call "bumper". It is difficult to feel like a woman when you are as flat as a pancake, if you know what I mean.
There was only twice in my life that I gained weight. First was when I was studying in Northern Illinois University as an exchange student. In a month, I gained 13 pounds. That is no surprise since my daily diet consists of breakfast, lunch and dinner at McDonald's and at least three bars of Hershey's milk chocolate with almonds after dinner. I replaced water with soda. My favorite is 20-ounce bottle of Mountain Dew which I can finish in three breaths.
But when I got back to the Philippines, I cannot maintain that lifestyle anymore for many reasons like we don't have McDo in Marawi, Hershey's is sold at around 30 pesos (i used to buy it for less than a dollar at the vending machine on the second floor of Holmes Student Center Hotel in NIU), and I realized that I can't fit well anymore in my extra-small clothes. I realized I am not used to the muffin top and the love handles. I realized that the shape of my face is so round like that of Judy Ann Santos when she was her fattest. I shrunk back to my normal self in no time.
And then I missed being huggable. I obsessed over gaining pounds for the sake of looking healthy and well-fed. But I am an emotional eater. When my pseudo bipolar self swings into the depressive mode, everything loses its taste. My throat dries out and gulping down is a chore. I am tired of dieting, eat-all-you-can way. Say I am too skinny. Say I am anorexic. I don't care anymore.
awww.. buti ka pa hirap na hirap magpataba.. hahaha ako naman alam mo na.. hahaha pero 13 lbs.. ako din.. mga 15lbs na yata ang tinimbang ko simula nagstay dito.. ang masama pa dun..super bilis ko tumaba.. pero grabe gapangan magbaba ulit ng lbs..
ReplyDeleteAko.. gusto ko pumayat :'(
ReplyDeletebreak a leg ayeesha.
ReplyDeletepahilot ka kaya... sigurado tataba ka niya...
ReplyDeletei could relate...people thought i diet too much when in truth i am hopelessly trying to gain weight. I've always been frustrated with my (ahem) front!
ReplyDeletehaha pareho pala tayo ayeesha. gusto ko rin tumaba pero kunti lang.
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@kamila... how ironic. gusto mgpapayat ng chubby, gusto namang tumaba ni payatot. good luck na lang sa atin. haha.
ReplyDelete@denase... men always look better when they are heavier. ;)
@jaydee... di ka naman mataba ah.
@aiz kim... hehe. flat as pancake? a lil help from our friends from victoria's secret goes a long way.
@musingan... tried and tested ba yang hilot na yan?
@kamila... how ironic. gusto mgpapayat ng chubby, gusto namang tumaba ni payatot. good luck na lang sa atin. haha.
ReplyDelete@denase... men always look better when they are heavier. ;)
@jaydee... di ka naman mataba ah.
@aiz kim... hehe. flat as pancake? a lil help from our friends from victoria's secret goes a long way.
@musingan... tried and tested ba yang hilot na yan?
aww. same here. i want to gain a little weight.. pero, the whole internet thing is not doing anything good to my pursuing that mission. hahah.. laging nalilimot sa pagkain.
ReplyDeletepareho tayo. lol :)i used to be really really thin..
ReplyDeletebut i tried taking propan.. :) it's a capsule and it makes you hungry and sleepy all the time. lol you will really gain weight.. gained around 14-16 lbs after two months. :)