How it all started?

It was the year 2002 and I was on holiday abroad with my husbands family, sans the husband though! My sister in law was showing me around and we were busy having a ball. Having been a foodie forever, I was devouring everything in sight, photographing it and blogging about it, pretty much what I do even now! Then one evening we visited one of her friends for what would turn out to be a life changing experience, except that I didn't know it then! We met a Lebanese gentleman who had been a hair stylist in his home country but was employed in a corporate company at that point, he talked about how he yearned to style and actually quite missed it. Just then my sister in law suggested he work his magic on me. Why me? To which her simple response was "you keep your shoulder length hair tied up all the time!!" I explained why, I had thin hair and limp too... she would have none of it. She actually invited him over to my parents in law's house the very next day. As D Day dawned I was secretly very excited. All I remember of that morning is hearing a pair of scissors dangerously close to my scalp and ears...wondering where my tresses lay?! Well, they lay on the floor. By the time he was done, I had a trendy bob and I was in utter shock. That night my ponytail didn't bother me as I lay on my back and looked up at the ceiling feeling like a little bit of a celebrity!


A few days later I headed back home, I touched down at the airport and imagined a lot of people looking at me! Were they, weren't they?! I walked out with my standard confident gait and walked right past my waiting husband, it was only when the friend accompanying him saw me smile, that they both realized the girl with the bob was me. I loved my new do but it came with a few hiccups, one of which was my weight. From the day I got the hairdo I felt I was a tad to large to carry off something so pixie-like. That was the first time in my life I decided to do something about an issue that had been plaguing me, my excess weight. Being a foodie I knew it won't be easy but then again, what really is? It took me a over a year and a half to lose 26 kilos which I did by eating right, eating healthy and working out. By the year 2004, I was the girl with the cutesy hairdo and a very healthy weight, the balance that I was looking for was finally mine. Eating right did many things for me, it helped me manage my weight, my skin and my hair. So all in all I didn't just get a hairdo during that holiday, I got the inspiration to be a better me, to eat what I like and yet know when to stop, to develop recipes that gave me the pleasure of good food but with fewer calories and suddenly my hairdo was as pixie like as me ...that was the end of my weight problems and that was the end of my hair problems!

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