Sampling Products :: Online Dating Version

"Is UGH an emotion? Because I seem to be feeling it all the time online now."

~ Carmen

Don't you love going to Costco or Sam's on a Saturday afternoon? You can enjoy the samples they offer at every corner of the store. In fact, you can pretty much have lunch on the samples there! It's sweet!

You normally will tell the person working the sample table that you're interested in a purchase. Ask where the product is in the store. Grab a coupon. Take steps to show you are really interested... I mean, super duper interested in that particular product. And, grab another sample. Because that's what you really want - the sample! Sample everything! I mean, it's free after all!

You're not really going to purchase the product. I mean, why would you buy a giant box of frozen chickpeas that you'll never really eat, even if the samples are tasty. At that moment in time.

That's what it feels like when you're dating those you find online. A sample product.

You talk yourself online. Men stop by and check out the offer. Decide it looks and sounds pretty good. Let's see, are we ready for a sample?

Great... let's meet!

The bad thing with online dating is that men are only in it for the sample. The never ending supply of samples online. Men are just going from one corner to the other sampling products like crazy.

For women, let me tell you, the pressure to "being a sample" right off the bat is tremendous! And, if you don't within the first couple of dates, the guy moves on.

It's like sampling the products at Costco or Sam's. Men keep checking out the samples, but the product never makes it to their cart!

I'm tired of being seen as a sample. I'm not saying they need to make the purchase outright, but at least give me a try for a while longer than one or two dates!

Ugh!

Just Ugh!


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Carmen Garcia writes about stuff... life as a single mother, dating, weight loss, performing, and other random experiences. Sometimes it makes sense. Other times, not so much. You decide.

Complacency and Contentment

"Why hide your talent in the closet of complacency when you have greatness within you?"

~Robin Sharma

I've been very good about keeping track of my food intake - protein, carbohydrates, and fat.  I've been good about drinking enough water and taking my vitamins. I've been good about working out every day. I've been good about weighing myself once a week.

Until I wasn't.

I realized the other day that I am not logging in my food as religiously as I had been. I didn't meet my water quota. I skipped a couple of my vitamins. And, I ate carbs... bread... which I hadn't in a long, long time.  And, it wasn't the first time.

I grew content.

And with contentment came complacency.

Complacency kills progress.

In my case, it could send me back to a life of being unhealthy and large.  Not somewhere I want to be. And a place I've been running away from.

I've been at this for a year now. I guess everything can get a little tiresome after a year. But, I can't relax. I can't be complacent. I can't sit back in contentment.

I have to keep working.

Seeking to be better. Be healthier. Continue to do things that were outside my norm for so long.

I'm so close to my target... I can taste it (every pun in the book intended)!

So, right here, right now, I am telling all of whoever reads this, I'm back on track.

Going to log my food, cut out carbs, drink my water, take my vitamins and work out every day!

Every freaking day!

And weigh myself in the morning. Even if the thought of seeing what the scale says scares the crap out of me.

I had a nice little break. But, now its back to work!

I know I have greatness within me! And success doesn't come from what you do occasionally.

Just have to remind myself every now and again!

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Carmen Garcia writes about stuff... life as a single mother, dating, weight loss, performing, and other random experiences. Sometimes it makes sense. Other times, not so much. You decide.