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My Life Thus Far
2005-12-12 00:36:52 (UTC)

Discovering The Dead Sea

On Friday while I was perusing through the mall, I was
offered hand lotion by one of the lovely exotic woman at
the Spa To Go kiosk. Usually I pretend like I don't see
them, because I know I'll be conned into buying some
overpriced body products I don't really need, but this day
I was feeling very benevolent and I stopped so the lovely
foreign lady could do her little presentation on my hand...

Good Morning America (my favorite morning program) has a
new series that showcases the wonderful places in the
world that are slowly disappearing. Venice is sinking
beneath the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea is drying up.
The shoreline is receding 3 feet every year. It's kind of
sad, but I digress. While watching the story about the
Dead Sea, I learned that the water has amazing healing
properties that have been well renowned for thousands of
years. Millions of people a year flock to the shores of
the Dead Sea to experience it's magic. I didn't
necessarily believe all this, I was just watching because
it was interesting. It was good general information for me
to store with the rest of my useless knowledge. Robin
Roberts even had a doctor come on with different products
that contain Dead Sea minerals and salt, so if you can't
get to the sea you can still reap the benefits. This
interested me a little, so I paid attention...

So, now back to the lovely foreign lady massaging my hand.
Turned out her name was Bar and she's from Israel (all of
them were) and the product she was touting is Seacret (a
line of Dead Sea products endorsed by that doctor on Good
Morning America). I actually liked the earthy scent of the
lotions and I LOVED how shiny my nails looked after she
finished buffing them and putting on the cuticle oil. I
know I can get that high-shine buffed look from any drug
store buffer, but it was the lotions and oil that sold me.
The stuff was crazy expensive and after 10 minutes, I was
$60 poorer, but my nails looked great. I had a little
buyer's remorse when I got home, but the point of this
story is simple...

My skin and nails have never looked or felt better! I've
been putting the lotion on religiously, like Bar
suggested, for the last 2 days and I did the treatment on
my nails and they are shiny like I put clear polish on
them (but much more durable). The skin on my face is
smooth and clear and not oily in the places it's usually
oily and not dry in the places it's usually dry. My legs
and feet feel smooth. My skin just seems to be drinking it
up. Maybe I've found the perfect product for me :) It
would be from the other side of the planet.

Wow, who would have thought I could go on and on about a
beauty treatment? It is great, but I should tell you about
my day. Since Snookums is leaving tomorrow and we are
celebrating his birthday this weekend, we decided to go to
Applebee's for linner (lunch/dinner, kind of like brunch,
but not). Last night I had a major set back and binged on
cookies and milk, so I really wanted to be good today. I
had the onion au gratin soup (150 calories) and the
grilled chicken salad on the weight watcher's menu (250
calories). I was going to leave it at that, but Snookums
wanted to order dessert. Since this was a celebration, I
thought I'd go all out and I ordered the triple chocolate
meltdown cake (soooo good). When I got home, my curiosity
was getting the better of me (and I needed to record lunch
in my accountability journal) so, I went online to find
out how many calories was in that cake...727. I nearly
died. I'm still under my daily allowance, but only by
about 70 calories. So much for dinner. This is exactly why
I binged on cookies last night. We went to dinner at
Puerto Vallarta and I had the taco salad, minus the
tortilla bowl, but I felt like I'd eaten too much, so I
skipped dinner. I woke up at 11:30pm and was so hungry
(and no one was awake to see me) that I ate half a pack of
those nasty Oreo knock-off cookies (which aren't nasty
when you haven't had a cookie in awhile) and 2 glasses of
milk, a grand total of 1,160 calories (I still was honest
and recorded it in my accountability journal). I'm not
getting into this cycle of guilt and redemption. I enjoyed
the chocolate cake, it was Snookie's celebration and I'm
leaving it at that. When I got on the scale this morning,
I was lighter than I was yesterday morning, so I'm still
on a downward momentum. I needn't become obsessed with
every single little calorie. No one can live like that.

This is really long, so Ciao until tomorrow :)




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