Yesterday I woke up very early. I had the longest day planned with work meetings and radio spots to be made and photos to be picked, and calls to be made for my premieres (two, Nov. 1 and 2). But Thursday was a national holiday here, and I only worked for 4 hours, had a great rest all day and slept early, so when I woke all by myself on Friday at 7, I was thrilled!

I made my coffee, read your blogs, put on my running shoes, hit the treadmill, showered, made breakfast, and turned on the TV. From 6am to 10 am there are two shows, mostly about news and stuff. In one of them they had dieticians, nutritians, all the diet-health oriented people with an -itian ending. They compared Greece to USA and Northern Europe, and they resulted that here, we eat better, mainly due to the abondance of olive oil, fresh fish and legumes, and also because of traditional mediterenean eating that luckily has not yet become obsolete. However, they did run the bell of danger. Statistics about growing numbers of fatness in many age groups, mainly kids and teens and elders. And then they offered solutions. Lotsa them. They showed overweight people, in the range of 90 to 100 kilos. And doctors. And the doctors made suggestions. The following:

(now here you will have to bear with my Greekiness and lack of correct English terminology)

1. A kind of baloon thingy that is inserted in your stomach, so that it feels full all the time
2. Gastric By Pass
3. Cutting part of your stomach
4. A new revolutionary surgery I did not really understood
5. Diet pills
6. Enzymes that make you not hungry

Quite a collection, don't you think?!

Not one bastardious person there mentioned diet and exercise. Not one! I was so angry, I could feel my face getting red. The people there had 35 kilos to loose at the most! I know so many of you that have lose 40 and 50 and 60 and still struggle for more. It has taken us time. And it has required determintaion. And tears. And falling down and climbing up again. But for god's sake, it is DOABLE!!!!!

In the mornings, while I am in the shower, or afterwards, when I am applying body lotion, I have caught myself feeling me. I have read that many of you do it too recently.You feel your toned arms, your smaller thighs. I have caught myself feeling my belly. I have caught myself caressing my belly and smile. I am hoping I will not get my period this week. I know we just started and that it will be almost impossible to succeed from the first time, but I am hoping. And that makes me feel that our body is indeed a miracle. It produces life. It runs all by itself, should we care for it or not. It is a perfect machine. How can you just cut a piece of it, without reason, is beyond my imagination. It is disrespect to nature, can't you not see it?It is amputation. Why does it not matter, because it is not visible? (I stop here, before I become as tiring to you and the jehova's witnesses become to some!)

On a good note, Core and I have become friends. I love the program. I eat a LOT! My dinner always contains bulgur or brown rice or couscous. This is heaven for me. I always want something to go with my meats. Salad or baked veggies or steamed brocolli was not enough. A pack of 700 gr meat of any form (minced chicken, beef, chicken fillet, lean lamp) and a big cup of either raw bulgur or rice or couscous is shared equally between me and my husband, along with lotsa veggies. I am having breakfast, fruits mainly, and lunch too, the salads, you know. And I am also having some fruit after dinner, pommedegranate or grapes. And since October 19 (91.3 kgs) I today weighed and have lost 1.6 kg (89.7). I have cut back on oil, I am now trying to not use more than 15 flex in a week. I will continue like this.

I got to go now. Its almost 10 to 10, and we will have to rush and do the grocerry shopping, because I have booked a studio to make a tv spot for my big diva singer at 11.15. This will go on till 8 in the evening. For a 30 second spot. On a Saturday. Oh this life I have recently! Someone call my partner and tell her its about time to come back to work please?