February 17, 2008
Beauty 101
Well, apparently it really does take alot of effort to be beautiful. Recently, I bought a beauty magazine. This is isn't any usual beauty magazine mind you. Its a special beauty magazine written by a Taiwanese actress who "miraculously" after the birth of her child remains as gorgeous as ever. Frankly, after filpping through the magazine I felt a headache coming on, not because it is written in Mandarin but all the effort she puts in to look SO gorgeous.
That got me thinking, maybe Fatgirl is Fatgirl because she only puts in like 10% of what the gorgeous actress puts in. Just make up alone, there are so many things you can do with false eyelashes that boggles the mind. I always feel like screaming in fustration after 10 minutes trying to stick transparent tape to my eyes to give an illusion of double eyelids. And till date, practice still has not made perfect so I have kind of given up creating such illusions. I do not even bother with make up most of the time, so the world see my freckles, dark eye rings and whatever else skin imperfections on my face. And most mornings, I am too lazy to bother with contact lenses as well. Most times, I look like the frumpy, boring accountant because I seriously cannot be bothered.
Next came the section on diet. The actress seriously puts in thought on her food. Everything is boiled and healthy, nothing is fried nor does she recommend lots of sauces. Most times, lunch and dinner for Fatgirl is hawker food, which is high in calories and cholesterol. I mean, hey, there is only so much of fish soup and niang tau foo a person can stomach when one has to eat out so often!! Okay, maybe if Fatgirl had more self restraint, I will make a bigger effort to choose healtier options.
Oh well, as the Mandarin saying goes "There are no ugly girls, but only lazy girls". I realised that I am a very lazy girl after reading the beauty magazine. Of course, to begin with, the actress is pretty and slim, however, to look as gorgeous as she does, she does put in ALOT of effort and she does not just get out of bed looking that stunning. After reading the magazine, I do feel a little more inspired to make a bigger effort to make myself look better. It will probably take a long time before I put in as much effort as her and I will never look as gorgeous as her. Hopefully a little effort a day will start my renewal process and you will see a more beautiful Fatgirl the next time you see me. Stay tuned for updates here.
Here's the link to the magazine I bought. Click on the link and see how gorgeous she is!
Posted by Fatgirl at 12:51 AM | Comments (3)
March 10, 2006
Shrinking sizes?
Sometimes I wonder if clothe sizes are shrinking or my body is growing. Actually, I know its my body growing lah. All I do is eat and work and take cabs coz there is no public transport by the time I get off from work, so of course, my body is just expanding like a balloon. Wonder when the day will come when it explodes. Will not be a pretty sight though. Hmmmm.
Anyway, Fatgirl has grown so big that she is having problems buying clothes. The biggest sizes at plus size clothing stores no longer fits! Help! Why don't they carry larger sizes?? Do think there are no obese people around??
Another problem that I encounter is that these plus size stores carry so few pieces of the really large sizes that its always the last crappy piece left or they have ran out of my size! Help, does anyone know where I can buy some new clothes from. Help! I really need to buy new clothes.
Yes, I know going on a diet is a really good solution but unfortunately I have no will power. I need to eat to work, if I am hungry, my brain freezes and I cannot work. Besides, I work so hard already, if I have to eat crappy (read: blandless and healthy) food too, then my life will be super miserable leh. Help!
Posted by Fatgirl at 02:11 AM
October 03, 2005
Bimbo Fatgirl
After a week of minimalistic skincare, my face is suffering. There are brown spots (aka freckles) on my face although I had diligently applied SPF 30 face moisturiser daily and the oil bumps on my forehead have re-appeared. The former being that I had not brought along my whitening care products and the latter being a result of not applying my skin refining treatment.
Sometimes I feel really guilty about the amount of money I spend on skincare, but after this trip, I am convinced that its money well-spent. With my fair complexion, SPF is simply not sufficient to maintain the fairness which is why I need extra help in the form of whitening care products. Hopefully, with the help of my whitening mask and whitening essence from SKII, the freckles will disappear soon. I know many of my friends are unconvinced about the effects of the skin refining treatment that I use. They insist that it has no effects on their skin, I beg to differ. The skin refining treatment have been keeping the oil bumps on my forehead at bay for the past few years!
And yes, I am a sucker for new skin care products. Everytime I read about new skincare products that interest me or are from the brands I like, I feel compelled to go buy it to try. This probably explains why I have 5 types of face mask, 2 types of eye cream and a wide assortment of skincare products guaranteed to whiten my skin, firm my skin, minimise my pores and etc etc. Ha ha, now everyone knows how bimbotic I am. OK, some skincare recommendations:
1) SKII skin refining treatment (enemy of oil bumps)
2) Clarins aromatic plant mask (good for weekly deep cleansing)
3) Lancome Venefit SPF 15 moisturiser
4) Clarins Whitening SPF moisturiser
5) SKII whitening source
Posted by Fatgirl at 01:05 PM
July 09, 2005
iTango!
As I type, my new toy, Osim iTango is on "cellulite" treatment. This treatment promises to "help to reduce the appearance of cellulite on the skin and the stimulation aims to tighthen the skin for a firmer, toner look"! Since its only my second time trying out my new toy, I cannnot comment much but will let all of you know if this new toy is any good! Thanks again to my good friends who contributed to this lovely present for me!
Posted by Fatgirl at 12:10 AM | Comments (2)
June 28, 2005
Fit Chronicles Part 5
I could not take it anymore. A diet of plain, non oily food for most of the past week. As much as I like to eat yong tau foo and fish soup. No more! For today. I had MacDonald's Fillet o'Fish meal for lunch today. I decided I should allow myself something before I do something drastic like eat a whole box of chocolates or something equally bad. Sigh, its back to fish soup and yong tau foo tomorrow though.
Posted by Fatgirl at 11:42 PM | Comments (1)
June 26, 2005
To splurge or not to splurge??
I am seriously considering splurging on the OSIM iTango. Its small, lightweight and powerful! But, do I really need it? It seems like the perfect answer to a lazy person like me. I can sit and watch television as this new toy attacks my fats or my sore muscles. Its really powerful. When I tried it at the OSIM store, it works like a real massage. Considering a massage costs at least S$50 and this new toy costs S$288, that will mean savings in the long run! Sigh, but it comes to the question of, do I really need something like that? As cool as this new toy is. Sometimes I suspect that my "real" horoscope is Gemini because I seem to be at two minds about everything! Argh!
Posted by Fatgirl at 08:23 PM | Comments (1)
June 17, 2005
Fit Chronicles Part 4
My body is starting to get used to the workouts. Stamina still sucks but at least my muscles are no longer screaming in pain after my workout. I obviously have not been keeping my calorie intake to a maximum of 1400. Its too drastic of a change but I am much more careful of what I put into my mouth since I put in so much effort for my workout. Feeling quite guilty because I just ate one and a half piece of fried yam cake as part of my lunch. Hopefully, my light breakfast was enough of an offset!!
Posted by Fatgirl at 04:54 PM | Comments (3)
June 14, 2005
Fit Chronicles Part 3
After 2 days of aching muscles, I headed to the gym for my second session of personal training today. Realised that my stamina absolutely sucks and I have to do more cadio exercises to improve my stamina. I never knew working out on weights machines can actually result in breathlessness but it does. After a few sets on different machines, my muscles were aching and I was breathing as if I had spent the past half hour running on the treadmill!! But I must be improving (Ha ha like real, only my second session and I am having grand delusions about my improved fitness!) because I managed 15 minutes on the stationary bike and 25 minutes on the treadmill after my one hour personal training session.
But now, I am feeling soooo sleepy that I think I may go to bed really early tonight. I can just hear DSD laughing, I, who always laugh at her "sleep early" habits is thinking of going to sleep at 8.30pm!
Posted by Fatgirl at 08:27 PM | Comments (2)
June 11, 2005
Fit Chronicles Part 2
Fatgirl worked muscles she never knew existed in her body today! Man, my stamina is soooooo bad. I could feel all my underdeveloped muscles screaming in protest as I worked the machines at the gym. Think I am going to be in sooooo much pain tomorrow! But it was a good workout today. At least I felt that I had benefited from this personal training session. Well, I better right, since I paid so much for it!!!
No results to report yet but feeling rather good about myself today. Did abit of shopping after my gym session. How could I resist, to be in the shopping district of Singapore and not pop into the shops to take a look! Ended with a new top from Marks and Spencer. Yes yes, the shopaholic in me has awaken once more. Why deny myself that lovely top when no one knows what's going to happen tomorrow! Ha ha.
Posted by Fatgirl at 05:01 PM | Comments (3)
Fit Chronicles Part 1
Going for my first personal training session tomorrow. Don't think the trainer is going to approve of what I have been eating for the past few days but I have bigger things to worry about than that.
At 1 am on thursday morning, I suddenly remembered that I had conveniently omitted to do something really important at work and its much much too late for any remedial action. Woke up some hours later, with hope that all was a really bad dream, but obviously it was not. Life just got more complicated. Sigh.
Posted by Fatgirl at 12:37 AM | Comments (2)
June 07, 2005
Fatgirl decides to get fit!
Its official, I have a personal trainer now. I finally got sick of staring stupidly at my fat folds everytime I sit down or wear fitted clothes so I signed up for twelve sessions of personal training at the gym. The cost, man, I could have gotten 2 LV bags for the amount I paid so I will be making an effort in the next weeks to get some results hopefully or else I will surely have nightmares of the LV bag I was planning to buy with that money!
Of course, I am not expecting miracles. Just wanted to see if I were really disciplined and followed a proper exercise plan, I will lose some fats. Watch this space for my progress!
Posted by Fatgirl at 11:41 PM | Comments (4)
May 01, 2005
Health Screening
The office was offering free health screening for all employees and I went for one. The results are out and Fatgirl needs desperately to get healthier and exercise more. 40% of my body is fats, I have high cholestrol and high blood pressure! The high cholestrol and high blood pressure is a shock. The food I eat do not seem to have a cholestrol problem since I do not eat animal inards, do not eat eggs often and I am not particularly fond of seafood except for fish and scallops. And I have never been diagnosed with high blood pressure before! Argh, my colleagues and I concurred that we were much happier people before we went for our health screening. At least then, we were blissfully ignorant of how unhealthy we are were!!
Posted by Fatgirl at 03:52 AM | Comments (1)
December 22, 2004
Shocking pink toe nails
Yesterday was another day of indulgence. At the pace I am going, I will never watch finish all the VCDs I have bought and clean my room and finish my reading before my leave ends next week! But whatever.
Anyway, my ugly unpainted toe nails were starting to get to me so I decided to go for a pedicure. The pedicurist was horrified at the state of my feet! Ok, that did not come as a big surprise to me as I have never particularly paid much attention to feet care. In short, I have dry skin (must use a creamier moisturiser), dry cuticles (must use cuticle oil), have been wearing heels too often! I admit, guilty as charged, I have truly been neglecting my feet. Always forgetting to moisturise them each night and wearing heels all the time. After listing down all the feet problems, she went on to tell me about how all these problems if not solved, would lead to more problems in future. Last night, besides remembering to moisturise my hands, I diligently applied moisturiser to my feet too!
Posted by Fatgirl at 10:16 AM | Comments (2)