I’ve started to feel like a teenager again.
But it’s not because I’m full of energy, hormones or even indecisiveness. Nope, my teen spirit smells like ProActive and Benzoyl Peroxide this time around.
Basically, I have become a zit face and it ‘aint perty.
I’ve been baffled by my usually clear skin’s change of direction. Have I done anything different? Is it stress?
Does raising teenagers give you pimples?
Could it be too much hanky panky? (Ha Ha, just checking to see if you read this dear!)
Then one day as sweet little Kolby counted eight boo-boos on my face and kissed them to make them “all betta,” it dawned on me whom the culprit might be.
LEMONS
I recently read how a dash of lemon in your water make you lose weight so I have been adding a wedge of citrus to every glass of water I down. (If I can’t get to the gym enough I can at least drink myself skinny, or so my reasoning assumed)
Now my mom is probably laughing right now, because unbeknownst to many, I grew up with horrible food allergies. I was that kid –the one who couldn’t drink sodas or eat pizza or have anything good because I would blow up and turn into an EWOK. Seriously –it was hidious.
But sometime into my thirties my food allergies waned. I ate my first egg in fifteen years and I lived. My husband says it’s all due to his amazing love because most of my allergies disappeared around the time we got engaged.
(Honey, it must be time for a vacation!)
So now I’m in lemon recovery and my zits are drying up and peeling off. It’s so attractive.
And I didn’t reaIize how hard it would be to starve myself of my little habit. I cheated on Friday and had a lemon drop martini and a small margarita on Saturday(which is clearly a lime, but closely related to the evil lemon), but overall I’m making great progress.
I must admit at one point I was having a whole lemon daily and sometimes two because I was so incredibly dedicated to the lemon diet.
So the lesson I learned is this:
- Lemons might make you skinny but they will also make you ugly.
- There are no shortcuts to getting in shape and drinking myself skinny is delusional.
- The love of a good man can eradicate many illnesses but the force of a lemon is very strong and Tim just might need to head back to the Degobah System for some more Jedi training on battling citrus.
- Sometimes you can’t make lemonade out of lemons. You just have to move on to a new fruit altogether.
