Stepping on the weighing scale is something that dreads me every time for the past two and half years. After giving birth, I made a pact with myself time and time again that I will get back in shape and have my pre-pregnancy weight at 98lbs. Despite trying out different diets and even resorting to self induced vomiting at times, I still find myself off from my desired weight. I’ve written about the No Rice formula that I’ve tried – it’s one of the diets that work effectively well. But my problem now, is really motivation in sticking to the diet and discipline in resisting sweets and delicious food. Add to that having discipline in working out. I just have so many excuses.

Somebody sell me some discipline! Any suggestions on how I could motivate myself to lose weight?

There are so many detective shows in tv these days, but nothing beats what started it all – CSI Vegas. I used to be a big fan of the said show since my hubby got me hooked on the said show. I think the other shows are good, of course including the CSI clones – New York and Miami, but my favorite remains to be Vegas.

Four or five years ago, I not only got hooked in watching the show because of the interesting cases, I guess the detective genes from my parents had to do with it. You see  my mom and dad met in college. They were classmates and they took up BS Criminology. I used to think it was gruesome, and well watching the show not only re-affirms that notion of mine. But well, I guess with the show featuring modern day gadgets and equipments that helps in extracting and processing pieces of evidence from the crime scene, somehow I managed to understand how my folks got interested in taking up such a course. I could imagine that crime scene investigation is beyond tedious back then.

Seriously, I thought of going back to school to take up the said course. But then again I decided against it because of monetary concerns and because I feel that the colleges and universities offering the said course here in Manila still has a lot of things to improve on. People in first world countries are more fortunate to have actually good universities that offer criminal justice degrees. I think it’s absolutely cool to be a CSI! Dang if only I could afford to study in the US for it. I guess I’ll just have to settle for watching these tv series at home. After all, I might actually chicken out when faced with a cadaver.

Will do a CSI Vegas marathon over the weekend.