I'm sure I've mentioned the acupunture and massage place I've been going to for the last month or so but I can't remember if I posted about the treatments so to recap - a new Chinese treatment place opened a few months ago and it's on the way home from work. I went in one day thinking I'll try the massages cos I tend to get stiff neck, back and shoulders. I came out buying a package of 10 x 30min acupunctures + 10 x 30min massages and they threw in 3 x of each extra + 6 cupping sessions (Google - Chinese glass cupping therapy).
Anyway the owner of the place is a middle aged Chinese lady and she's one of the doctors there. She's taken a liking to me and thinks I'm her adopted daughter. After a couple of time going there she started talking about "fixing me then making me slim". For those of you who don't know me that well, I'm Oriental and Orientals have this thing about being brutally honest with weight gain. The lady doctor obviously thought nothing of it and I understand the culture thing (I get it everytime I go to Korea) so I wasn't offended, in fact it's quite funny. "making me slim" turned into "making me slim and beautiful" and yesterday she actually called me "fat" lol Bearing in mind her English isn't that good, she comes across quite blunt with her broken English and mixed in Chinese words and phrases here and there. She's found out I understand a bit of Chinese so whenever she can she tries to speak to me in Chinese lol
So yesterday after my last session she asked me when I was coming next, tomorrow? I told her that was my last session and she said she knows but she needs to make me slim. Out of curiosity I asked what was involved. She said acupuncture + massage + herbal stuff + food she makes herself. I tried Chinese medicine weight loss before when I was in Korea and lost around 8kgs in a month but I was starving most the time. No sugar, no processed food rules etc. Then when I moved to the UK and gained weight for the first time, the proper yo-yo dieting began reaching my heaviest weight twice now.
Back to the present, so when the lady doctor suggested this I was intrigued but didn't want to spend a fortune on it. Long story short I managed to haggle and get a 20% discount on it
Weigh in, measure and the first lot of acu + herbal drinks started today and she reckons by tomorrow evening I'd have lost around 2kgs. Something about the acu she does that drains the toxins out or something. We'll see. It was quite late today so she didn't have time to make me food but for tomorrow I am to only eat fruit and veg. No meat, bread, rice etc. That made me think.. Hang on... that fits in perfectly with my juicing which means I'm on the right track juicing and it seems to go hand in hand with the weird Chinese thing I've been roped into lol She gave me some powder I'm supposed to make and drink first thing in the morning on empty stomach and this other liquid thing she told me to drink throughout the day diluted in warm water. All natural herbs apparently. Then tomorrow she will make me food for the next day and I should eat whatever she tells me to. Acu will be fore 10 days and I'm supposed to go see her Mon - Fri. It's a full time thing!
I'll just go along with this for now. She claims she can get me to lose 10kgs in one month and she's so confident she told me to pay half now and if it doesn't work she'll give it back to me but if it works I pay the rest. Not bad deal I think.
She's so funny, she said she'll make me slim everywhere but I need to keep the boobs so if I start losing my boobs I should tell her so she can adjust the stuff she gives me lol
Anyway here goes nothing!