My Diet and the Japanese Gift Giving Tradition
I've fallen off the wagon. OK, well not totally. Here's the problem. If you do something nice for someone (like a big favour or you give an expensive gift), you will generally get a gift in return (called okaeshi). Sometimes you get stuff (I've gotten towels and coasters and stuff) but generally you get food... and it isn't usually the healthy kind. So this last week I've gotten 2 of these gifts. The first was a giant bag of chocolate and candy (for helping my Japanese teacher with an essay) and the second was a little box of chocolate cookies from the school nurse Fujioka-sensei (because I contributed to a pool to buy her a congratulatory gift for winning some award)...
Now having chocolate, cookies and candy in my house is incredibly dangerous, especially after a night of nomihodai (all-you-can-drink)... Saturday was the start of my demise (that's when the chocolate entered my apartment and seeing as I have no will power to begin with and even less when I've had too much to drink... well... you can guess what happened) and then Sunday I had conbini food for dinner (GASP!). Monday, I didn't go to the gym. Instead I went out for dinner and ate too much. Tuesday I had a McDonalds breakfast set... And the list goes on. So in the last 5 days, I have been very very bad. I also haven't been posting because I've been sick (and lazy) so the transparency of my diet has been lost.
But I've posted and now you know. And you can post death threats or whatever for falling off the wagon, but I'm not giving up. I've put myself back on the wagon and I'm going to start all over again, if I have to. I am not giving up this time around... As the say in Japanese: Ganbarimasu!
Note to self: In the future, be less nice...

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