It Does *What* You Say?

Weight : still no scale -- more than the battery seems wrong with mine.  :(

So yesterday I walked to my local Wild Oats because I needed some stuff for my eczema* and they're having a sale (25% off all body care products).   The sale's a pretty good one so I bought two bottles of Burt's Bee's Buttermilk baby lotion (one of the only brands of body lotion my skin will tolerate), some face mosturizer (also BB) and some grapeseed oil for bathing with.

I also bought a new loofa mitt.  The text on the wrapper made me giggle.  Apparently, in addition to exfolliating my dead skin, this thing can "slough away cellulite."  And it was only $3 less 25% off.   I really should alert my friends at the CGB.  Forget all that blather about diet and exercise!  All we need to do is massage with soap and a loofa in the bath. 

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*Having chronic eczema is a bitch btw.  I need to remember to go and find the doctor who three years ago, when I looked like I had second and third degree burns over 90% of my body told me that my skin issues would "probably go away if I lost a significant amount of weight" and kill him.  Almost 200 pounds later and my skin is every bit as fragile as it was at 360+ if not moreso.  What keeps the eczema under control has nothing to do with my weight loss.   

Comments

[Bronwen]

Yeah, I, too, would like to cheerfully strangle every stupid arse who ever told me that xx problem would disappear if I only lost some weight. They can all bite me.

Of course, many of my problems _did_ go away, but that's besides the point! It's just more of that "one size fits all" brand of medicine that just doesn't work. Since when has one size ever fit all? I have nightshirts in my armoire upstairs labeled OSFA that I clearly couldn't wear 72 pounds ago.

Miss Peanut has eczema - it's mainly located on the backs of her knees. Any suggestions?

[harriet]

eeeeuwww, can you imagine if it did "slough away cellulite"? Where would it go? Would you be left with a loofah full of cellulite? Oh, I guess it just means the loofah will smooth things, not that it will actually suck it out. Sure.

[Ezpy]

Harriet, I hadn't considered that, but yeah... where would it go? And imagine having to explain *that* to the plumber who's snaking the drain? "Oh that? It's my excess thigh cellulite." Bleh!

Bronwen, eczema...sigh... how long do you have? No, seriously though, I'll write an entry just on what works for me. That said, it's one of those illnesses where treatment that works for some does nothing for others and vice versa. Frustrating. Poor little Peanut girl.