You Don't Know Her Like I Do!

I used to have a friend who once got us hooked on the summer body trend. It was the "old normal" growing up as the magazine and Facebook pages were the best place to look for role models. My friend came across a blog that guides on weight loss and decided to set a target to eat at least 6 apples a day- two for breakfast, lunch and then supper.

I was puzzled by the act so I asked why so many apples per day. And her response was "Duh Humbs, I am watching my diet-so I have to eat a lot of fruits and reduce my sugar intake.". She read it somewhere that adding more fruits to a diet was good for weight loss. Mind you, apples have a lot of natural sugar too but her diet was cutting sugar from tea only.

The biggest change in her weight loss journey was adding more fruits to her diet. The rest didn't matter, she still went on to eat the same food and not cut off any junk or reduce portions.

At least she got one thing right from the blog and was aware that she needs to exercise too. She went on to flirt with the guy who once confessed to me as her friend that he likes her a lot. She was never interested in him. But now that she wants to lose weight she thought he could be the answer. She thought the guy will have her running in his mind all the time if he gets his hopes up that she likes him too and that would solve her cardio routine.

At least she admitted that running alone won't get her toned muscles and build muscles in the right places

She joined an online meditation class and made it a habit to wake up early in the morning to meditate on her dream body. After that, she would spend 5minutes affirming herself in front of her bathroom mirror. She would tell her body that "you don't need a gym to gain muscle, you have enough strength to build muscle from just caring for your weight".

I believed her self-affirmation was more reliable than gym although it won't get her toned, it will get her to see the truth that she was already beautiful.

The good thing about all this was that she had a boyfriend who loved her no matter what and he used to remind her every time he gets a chance that she was perfect just the way she is. The only problem they had was that her boyfriend used to work a few miles away from her so she would visit him every second weekend.

When it was her turn to visit her boyfriend, she would ask me to watch her puppy for her. If I'm late, she would stick a note on her main door which says "Humbs I kept the keys under the flower pot please make sure to lock up and keep it safe after feeding munchkin, love Yah friend."

Wow! She was good with Personal finance and budgets. She would count all her money after withdrawing from the ATM to confirm that the bank didn't rob her. When she buys her sanitary towels, she would open the packaging to count and confirm they are the exact number as written on the cover before we drive off from the shop. The same practice applied when we buy fast food, we always had to count and confirm it's exactly the number we paid for.

One more interesting thing about her was she was good with numbers and all the scaling. She would use the kitchen scale to confirm if the weight of the product she bought was really what is written on the cover and she would do the math to correct the packaging weight. If the difference is more than 10% from what the cover says, she would take the product back to the shop for a refund.

I remember she once posted on social media complaining to the lays chips company why they are selling air to clients. The manufacturers responded to her post explaining that "the air, which is a nitrogen mix, keeps chips unbroken and fresh, and it doesn't mean that you're being ripped off"

After all the struggle to look like the models on the magazine cover, she later found out all she needed was to invest in a good iPhone and she would look even finer than them. She finally had her dream body after buying a phone with good camera specs. All her social media pictures taken from her iPhone got people envious of her, especially those ladies she used to think were better than her.

Most of them started asking about her face care routine and liking how she looks flawless. But her crush commented on one of her pictures saying "I liked the version that had beautiful curves more". Nobody cared though what he thought and his comment was just a drop in the ocean! Well, one thing I liked about our friendship journey is that she was very humbled and smart. If you think she had dumb moments, then we can agree to disagree on her being smart, You don't know her as I do!"