On Becoming Filipina in 10 months...

Islands=27 So now that I'm spending about 10 months in the Philippines, I'll be living the Manila life, reconnecting with my extended family and hopefully learning my Tagalog. I'll also be tallying how many times people ask me if I have a boyfriend and how times they tell me I'm fat. McFattie: 14 McSingle: 22

Thursday, December 20, 2007

The Path to Diabetes starts here.

I'm sitting at the office having a yummy little layered cake slice made of honey cracker bread, chocolate, nuts and what seems to be an entire stick of butter. I can feel my heart stopping now.
I recall the days of my childhood when I would buy juice from the street vendors and they would be so bland because they didn't want to use up their sugar and save a couple pesos. It seems that now that's definitely a thing of the past. Even meat dishes, spaghetti and pizza are all sweetened. I have to add water to all the beverages I drink because for some reason, everything has at least 3 grams of sugar. I hold back as much as I can, but it becomes difficult to find less sugar items. Not to mention the fact that exercise is very difficult to get here. I don't walk around too much because of the fumes coming by the subdivision.

Hopefully I can get back on track at some point before I begin to have some serious health problems.

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