really stupid things i occasionally do

i'm a self-confessed junk food addict. and i thought it was bad in singapore where i'd guzzle roller coaster rings, cheezels and cheese twisties with reckless abandon. don't get me started on super rings (oh those radioactively orange loops of yore) or keropok. when i went back to uni, i thought, "great. clean slate. no junk. my body is a temple...". this worked for all of three days, before i discovered the beauty of hula hoops (roller coaster rings incarnate) and quavers. did not help that i've a vending machine 50m from my front door. in stockholm it was a pizza shack. now, it's a cafe (with the most decadent chocolate cake...) and a vending machine. sigh. the fates conspire against me :(

to exacerbate matters, i realised that pound*land sells quavers for a quid. 7 bags of crunchy goodness for a quid?! my inner auntie was thrilled. little did i know that once i bought that first family pack, there was no turning back. what was initially intended for a week (hah! as if i'd self-restraint sufficient for a pack a day) disappeared before my very eyes in the matter of minutes. there you go folks, a whopping 7x88kcal in one sitting. incidentally, 800% my recommended daily salt intake and let's not venture into how much fat is in that. this, i confess with great shame, happened on more than one occasion. 

one fine day (actually, yesterday) i learnt that [Na+] (salt concentration, for the un-sciencey among you) controls the volume of water in our body. true enough, after my quaver binge (also as recent as yesterday :/) i drank so much water that i weighed 2kg heavier this morning, complete with quaver baby and popeye arms. am horrified by this revelation and have decided to cut additional salt out of my diet. thank goodness even with white coat hypertension, my bp just about hits 95/65mmHg. which also draws me to conclude that dietary salt intake has little bearing on blood pressure. in fact, over here, no one really knows the correlation between salt and blood pressure, or so it seems. have long been resigned to the fact that i might not have the fastest metabolic rate but i'm incredibly grateful for perfect eyesight (parents say i don't study enough), naturally straight teeth (score! no metal mouth) and low blood pressure + heart rate (50bpm ^^). win big, lose small? great if i were ever in a famine, not so great when there's a wedding dress to fit in a mere three months. butbutbut positive thinking, yo. even as i struggle into my skinnies.