let lemons be angry

The Full Lifestyle Detox.

1. Beauty Products.

I kept my vow and was new-product free for 3 months! Without this self-ban, I wouldn't have realised how much waiting time I have killed by chalking up points at Watsons and testing products on my hand. My legs have eyes of their own and they gravitate towards shiny pots of nail polish growing out of their display trays like flowers. But for three months, I did U-turns whenever I reached a beauty counter. I also used up all my products to the bottom of the tin, and found that I can last a month on what I thought was an empty powder pact. I did, however, buy Topshop makeup as a birthday present and that's not counted.

2. Red Meat.

There was a golden age of self-indulgence when k and I would order escargots followed by steaks, dinner after dinner, week after week. If there was a meat to be chosen on the menu, it would be beef. If not beef, then squid or prawns.

Sometime during our time of feasts I kept hearing about young people stricken with cancer, and thereafter the golden era crumbled. I read up on cancer-friendly foods. I bought myself a hospital insurance plan and a life insurance plan. And I installed a food ban: seafood and steak once a month.

I now can see that there are other things on the menu such as fish and chicken, or even vegetables. K and i found that we have less water retention and more energy, and I sure hope this makes us less prone to cancer. If nothing, at least I'm no longer sick of steak, the worst state to be in. And I'll be looking forward to steak tonight.

3. Snarky blogs.

With lots of lull time after a work project is done with, I've followed a number of blogs I found intelligent and funny, like Jezebel, the frenemy, and...Jezebel. The sharp feminism I didn't completely agree with, but it was more of a read than fashion blogs, and I needed to know how liberal feminists thought. Now with the kids camp making me busy all the time, I haven't found the need to click on Jezebel. And just like the steak ban, I feel a brain detox--no more self-righteous snark about media, politics or celebrities I don't know. Instead, I lull myself out on lovemeow.com for pictures of kittens. Ha!