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Yesterday I practiced patience. I assumed the French way of eating three meals a day and cut out my snacking.

Breakfast was coffee and a yogurt. Lunch was 2 pieces of whole-grain baguette topped with brie and cucumber slices. Dinner was chicken and sauteed mushrooms, onions and peppers.

I wish I could say that was that. But before I ate my dinner, I was cooking my daughter’s spaghetti and had a few bites of it. And after she went to bed I took a couple bites of her leftover Nutella sandwich.

If I can learn to control my relationship with food (my over-obsessive, over-eating relationship!) then perhaps I can get back into losing weight. I especially want to keep my food intake to a minimum healthy amount because my birthday dinner is coming up this weekend and I know I’m going to have a cupcake or two…

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After watching The City last night, I got a little jonesing for a new DVF dress – I mean, aren’t they all so divine? The wrap dress does things to a woman’s body that only a doctor can do! And the bundle up into tiny little balls in my luggage and come out looking perfectly with no wrinkles! Ooh, here are a few of my favourites from the resort collection.

Check out the rest at DVF.com!

Body Love.

Get rid of the diet books. Get to know your body. Spend time on yourself. Get naked. Sleep naked. Skinny dip. Don’t wear underwear. Love your body and your children will grow up loving theirs. Be realistic. Take the time to own your body: If you seek change, modify your relationship to food with patience and simplicity. Relax and enjoy the ride.

- Entre Nous by Debra Ollivier

I am somewhat of a fan of The Hills – I’m not the avid-can’t-miss-an-episode type fan, but I am the type to watch the whole season in reruns if I miss an episode here or there. So I’m obviously excited about The City – Whitney’s spin-off – cus let’s face it, The Hills was getting kinda bland with Lauren’s eye rolls and silent stares, Spencer & Heidi’s constant fighting, and me hating Lo and wishing Audrina had more of a storyline…

Anyway, Whitney always seemed bland on The Hills but on The City, you see more of her own person. Cute nice girl not to be fucked around with – she’s always watching her own back, she’s a smart girl. Now she’s working with “socialite” Olivia, who I know is there for the drama, since she keeps trying to put Whitney down and get her upset.

There’s a boy named Jay who looks so much like some teenage heartthrob actor whose name I don’t know (cus I’m not a teenager), but he’s kinda hot in the Australian rugged long-haired sexy kind of way. But I find like her show is like a cheaply copied reality version of Sex & The City.

Whitney in New York is fine, it’s fun, lots of city shots, lots of ‘hip’ restaurants that paid to get into the show. And after all is said and done, the show may be a success but I’m worried about New York. Will the city get trashed into this bubble-gum princess hollyworld?

I hope it won’t lose its’ dirty grittiness, it’s chic and hipness, all because of MTV….

I know I’ve talked about the Style Statement book before, but my life took over and I was unfortunate to not really be able to spent time with this book. More than a book, it’s a journal on self-reflection, trying to find yourself, define yourself and live by your definition, or rather, your style statement.

One of my new years resolutions was to actually work through this book, which I am starting to now. Also, check out the reviews on Amazon if you don’t believe me – all 5 star reviews – this book is more than just a book, it’s a guide on how to live your life.

Check out Carrie & Danielle’s personal website for more inspiration.

Wishing everyone a fabulous new year!

Champagne for everybody!

I have envied Bronde’s for a long time now, for many years, especially since Carrie Bradshaw & Rachel Green have broke on the scene. They each had hair that was so different in style and colour, but it was the same – the brownish blonde – sometimes with more highlights, sometimes with more lowlights, but always interesting, always enviable.

Being a dark brunette for many, many, many years, I finally felt that it was time for a change. Why couldn’t I go brondish? Spice up my hair, lighten it, look different? I have always played between a chocolatey brown to a midnight blackish brown, so obviously when it came time to go lighter, I seeked my hairdresser.

Sarah Jessica Parker, also known as Carrie Bradshaw, had the perfectly undone version of Bronde.

It took a couple of hours to lighten my hair to a lighter shade, a bright orange shade, which my stylist swore would not remain. I wasn’t too worried though, and I discovered that I could also go copper-orange and look pretty good. Next were highlights and base.

Jennifer, also known for the "Rachel" do, always had the perfectly posh colour of bronde.

After I was rinsed off, my hair still wet, I could already notice a difference. It was the lightest I had been in 5 years, if not longer. A medium brown with blondish highlights scattered very finely throughout. I didn’t look like myself, I looked different. I looked good. It brought me out of my ho-hum brown, the darkness of which seemed to be making my winter pale look even paler, my skin sallow, and making me feel like caca. Now, I felt like a golden goddess.

Jessica Alba has a gorgeous bronde look here, more brunette than blonde, but still a sexy look.

When I came home I joked with my boyfriend about how he could feel like he was having sex with a different woman now, but I noted he hadn’t fallen in love with my golden bronde locks. He said I looked more… plain, more normal. He finished saying I look good and beautiful and all that, but the normal part bothered me.

At work everyone seemed to love it, except for the random person who yelled at me for denying my dark brown hair and said that I should go back. Was going a few shades lighter that controversial? Really? I mean, for people to have a whole debate over it in the lunch room was a little much. The haters continued to say the same thing though, that I looked good, but more normal.

My makeup changed with the hair, more bronzer, more golden, less smoky eyes, less moody looks, less sensual. And I was beginning to get a drift of it while looking over old Facebook pictures, comparing them with the new ones. I still looked good, I looked cute and more American, but before I looked sexy, more like an Angelina Jolie than a Jennifer Anniston, if you get my drift.

It's difficult to find a picture of Angelina not looking sexy, and she is brunette after all.

My sex life has actually dwindled (and I thought blondes have more fun!), and I wasn’t feeling my bronde look anymore. It was okay, but that was it, it was just okay. And I am way more fabulous than just okay, so on impulse tonight, at the drug store I grabbed a box of Feria and went to town with it.

My hairstylist is going to kill me. But looking in the mirrow, I noticed just how good I looked. How sultry my eyes were, how it made my skin look, my features stood out more. So I blowdried it big and I’m sitting here, waiting for my man to come home and fall in love with me all over again – just kidding, he loves me no matter what, but he had no clue I was dying my hair cus I love surprises!

All in all, it was fun to have a change after being dark for so long, but I realised that even though some girls stand out with a bronde look, there’s a reason I’ve been a dark brunette. Cus I look sexy and fabulous as one.