Shock Horror!

Having time off work, the plan was to go to the market and finally get the ingredients for my Hausa declicacy "tuwo shinkafa" as the rain prevented me from doing so the other day. So off I went to the market. However, on my journey to the market, I decided to go into a pharmacy to pick up sodium bicarbornate as it's been rated to increase water's alkalinity to say 10Ph which is quite good if you are a fan of the supergreen diet which has recently taken my fancy.

I did the necessary and made my way to leave and head into the hustle and bustle of my local market but at the exit, I noticed a machine that looked rather odd and given my curious nature, I made a bee-line for it to satisfy inquisitive nature. It was then that I discovered it to be a machine that measures height, give blood pressure reading and cleverly works out your weight and BMI. I was elated! I have read about these machines a few times but so far haven't been opportuned to come across one so this was really good.

I positioned myself on the platform, inserted my wrist in the wrist bag, band or wrap(whatever you chose to call it) but not before inserting a pound coin in the money slot. Off it went. With calcuations done, I was excited to get my result, infact, I was like a kid in candy shop for a reason that still isn't clear to me now. S

So the ticket came out and what I beheld was a shocker to say the least! No, my blood pressure was normal -thank God! You see, i've always fancied myself as a Naomi Campbell(in height, anyway) and thought I was taller than average but the reality was that I am merely a 5ft 7inc tall lady. That wasn't the disappointment though. The disappointment was beholding my weight!! Now, i'm thinking that there might be some mistake somewhere afterall the machine recorded my weight as 5ft 7in which i'm sure should have been 5ft 10 at least (:-)), so how am I to trust a machine that says i'm slightly over 1st overweight? Surely, there must be something wrong with the machine, so off I stormed to the counter only to be told that the machine is perfectly alright!

I was gutted to put it mildly but what hurt me most was the realisation that my Tuwo shinkafa wasn't going to happen that day and from then on, i'd have to put myself through the tough and rigid regime of raw food!!!

Today is my first day on the raw food diet and so far, i've had a packet of plantain chips, jollof rice with fried meat and i've just taken a bite of the left over pancake I made on saturday with no greens in sight if I may add.

Our diet is going just fine, isn't it? Yeah right!