Day 10 - Closet Land
Woke up with boundless energy and with a sudden desire to drag absolutely everything out of my wardrobe and throw half of my clothes out to charity. Russell thinks I've gone mad and keeps giving me very strange looks. At any moment I think he might ask me who I am and what I've done with his wife!!

The bedroom is a state and there are clothes, shoes and bags everywhere. On the floor; the bed; creeping out of the door into the hallway and I'm really quite shocked at the amount of clothing I've managed to accumulate. Most of these things I've not worn in ages -probably because they didn't fit anymore - but I couldn't bring myself to throw them out. Now I find that even if they did fit I wouldn't want to wear them anyway. Oh, & what does one woman need with 5 black wrap dresses anyway??? Madness. I think I must just buy things, forget I've got them as they're stuffed at the back of the tardis - sorry, wardrobe. Though it does seem to be much larger on the inside than it appears! - and then go out and buy something almost identical at some point afterwards.

Please tell me I'm not the only one who does this.

Four black bags later I now have a 'capsule' wardrobe - that is what they call it I think - which is arranged by colour, style & length. This is, even I have to admit, somewhat alien to me considering that I'm the type of person who thinks that an alphabetised cd collection denotes a somewhat anally retentive personality! Alphabetise by genre and I'm I'm all for calling in the men in white coats.

Russell doesn't expect this order to last and has given me a week before I go back to my random & chaotic ways!

Personally I'm just looking forward to that major shopping spree I'll need to go on to replace everything in my wardrobe as it just doesn't fit me anymore. Oh, and I hate shopping so for me that's quite an amazing comment to make.

I forgot to say that we learnt some more interesting facts are our meeting last week. Well, I say interesting but actually I'm terrified. Here's the thing - a lot of people go on a diet because they want to lost weight to look better (potentially to attract a partner or to keep/re-interest an existing one) and, if the horror stories are to be believed, some of the side effects of this diet will do exactly the opposite.

For example
1. Hair loss. The suggestion is that your body starts to stop growing cells which it doesn't feel are important and concentrates on the ones needed for the body to function. So, as hair is lost it doesn't get replaced, resulting in a general thinning overall.
2. Bad breath. Ketosis produces keytones which give off a particularly unpleasant smell. If you've ever done Atkins then you'll know all about this.
3. Bad body odour. Keytones can also be given off by skin through sweat.
4. Loss of periods. Another one of those 'the body doesn't think it's important' things.

These are all potential side effects and not necessarily going to happen but...........
In 90 days I will be at least three stone lighter and may smell like a rotten egg and have no hair! Fanbloodytastic.

If you see me swigging from a hip flask it's not alcohol, it's mouthwash!!!