I believe

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.
Audrey Hepburn
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6 steps to flawsomeness

This months issue of Cosmopolitan magazine is by far my favorite. Not only do they have the gorgeous Melinda Bam on the cover and in a swimsuit spread, but they also have an amazing article about accepting your flaws and loving yourself. Over the next six days I will follow their "six steps to flawsomeness" and in the end I will hopefully be a more confidant and flawsome me.
The first step is to write down the things that you want people to know about you and what is authentic about you. Here is my list of things that make me spesial:

1) Humor
2) Don't take myself too seriously
3) Dedicated
4) Drive and ambition
5) Kind and good-hearted
6) I have a good eye for style and fashion.
7) I am appreciative
8) Very Creative
9) Loving
10) Smart
11) Strong
12) Bubbly
13) Curious
14) Spirit
15) I embrace and enjoy life
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Hiding behind a mask...

Now you know I believe that confidence is key and I do not believe that you should hide who you are. I am tired of people pretending to be who they are not. If you feel that you have to hide yourself from the world and wear a mask in order to be accepted, do yourself a favor and take off the mask and own up to your true self. There will always be people who won't accept you for who you are, but the people who do accept you are worth keeping.
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Rejected scale

I am left here in this cold place, forced to stare at these four white walls ansd African tiles. I see the tears falling from their cheeks as they come to visit me once a week.

My job is simple: they ask me to tell the truth and when I do, they blame me for their sorrows. The amount of weight they place on my shoulders somehow makes me the enemy.

In the beginning they loved me and greeted me daily, but now they avoid me. Leaving me with feelings of rejection and pain.

It hurts that I can't give them what they want. Their dissapointment leaves a bitter taste in my mouth.
Why do they treat me so coldly? Why do they blame me for their sorrows?

I can hear their sobs and smell their fear. I am only a bathroom scale and can do nothing but lie here.

They blame me for their increase in size and yet their friends include Simba, Cadbury, Coca-cola and Lindt.

They want nothing to do with me, but are obsessed with the tales I tell.

And so a simple scale like me has the power to destroy the mondays of my masters.

Yes, I feel hurt and yes, I am alone. After all I've done I pray that one day they will love me once again.

I am a poor little bathroom scale rejected and feared. They treat me coldly. Leaving me forced to stare at these four white walls and African tiles on the bathroom floor.
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Love

I did this on the beach on my holiday in Cape Town this year.
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I almost died

About 2 months ago, I posted a tweet about me losing weight thanks to the Womenshealth magaine's kilojoule calculator. To my surprize, they actually printed my tweet! It was the first time(definitly not the last) that my name has appeared in a magazine.
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Dance

I feel like a kid in a candy store every tome I enter my belly dancing class. In just one hour every week I get to become the woman I want to be. A sensual yet vulnerable gypsy girl who can shake her hips like there's no tomorrow. My first show is in 6 weeks, so I better start practising.
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