And she hates it.

Vye Brante is also going to be talking about herself in third person so try to keep up.

After years of not being perfectly happy with her weight, Vye Brante has decided to do something about it. She came to this conclusion after learning that she had gained ten pounds in the last couple months. This was probably due to the fact that she had been spoiling herself more than usual with sweets such as donuts, candy bars, sodas, and one of her biggest weaknesses, lemonade. You see, Vye Brante is insulin resistant, which is basically one step before diabetes. Diabetes and other kidney problems run in both sides of her family, so she's probably doomed. When she learned of this condition, it was suggested to her that she watch her carbohydrates/carbs. It also meant she was going to have to give up her beloved lemonade, which she used to drink almost daily. Now she tries to limit her sweets and only gives herself soda and lemonade sparingly as rewards.

But Vye Brante hasn't done well with that over the last couple months. Not only did she go through a couple cases of lemonade, she also had a case of 7Up, and was eating lots of candy bars like Kit Kats. She went through two large bags of fun sized Snikers in like a week and a half! She knew this wasn't good, but . . . she's only human for cryin' out loud . . . But even she thinks she went overboard a bit. The ten extra pounds confirmed it.

Vye Brante likes food. Vye Brante likes to eat. So dieting doesn't exactly appeal to her. But she figures she'll never see below 200 pounds, the goal she's been wanting forever, unless she actively tries to lose weight. Problem being is that Vye Brante is a picky eater. Very picky. Her food choices were already rather limited. She also tends to snack when she's bored or just feels like snacking. So Vye knew the only way she would be able to diet is if she were still allowed to eat some of her favorite foods. This meant only one diet she knew of, and that was the Atkins diet.

If you don't remember, Atkins was a huge fad a few years back. It's still around today, but not as far spread, it seems. (Vye doesn't know, really.) Vye Brante actually has done it in the past with her parents and sister. She did pretty well with it. So she's trying it again. Atkins works by cutting down carbs, so your body has to find other sources of energy. Vye is supposed to be watching her carbs because of her insulin resistance anyway, so Atkins is just kinda taking it up a notch. Done incorrectly, Atkins can be pretty unhealthy. You can still eat bacon and eggs and stuff, (something Vye Brante takes advantage of,) so you just have to be careful about the foods you eat. Seeing as how Vye is already a picky eater, this isn't easy. But Vye still gets her chicken which makes it easier. She will just sorely miss her pizza . . . She will just try her best with the choices that are available.

Why start a diet right before the holidays? Particularly ones with such amazing desserts? Well, Vye Brante figured with so many bags of Halloween candy calling her name at work, she had better start it soon while her will to lose weight is strong enough to resist the sweets. And while on Atkins, now and then it is actually good to give yourself a day where you can eat some more carbs. So if Vye Brante stays good, she'll be able to take a day off her diet in time for Thanksgiving and then another one for Christmas. When it comes to carbs, quite frankly she'd rather have the Thanksgiving rolls and Christmas cookies over the Halloween candy. So she won't realy be missing out on much. (Plus, she had already eaten those Snickers so she kinda already had her own Halloween . . .)

So Vye Brante is on a diet. She's having to cut back and watch what she eats, which isn't fun, but she hopes will be worth it. She started on Wednesday, and so far it seems she's already lost four pounds. (This could be simply due to having eaten less. Weight can fluctuate a bit from day to day, afterall. But just humor her.) She's currently surviving on peanuts which is one of the few save snacks she has. She's already sick of tuna which is quite a trick seeing as she's only eaten one can. Ah well. It'll be chicken and salad for a while it seems. Until she can remember what else she survived on the last time she did this diet . . . Vye has decided she also better go back to using Wii Fit, something she enjoyed but got out of the habit of. Some exercise should do her some good.

In other news, Vye Brante has been extremely lazy this last week, art wise. She had previously determined not to make comics until after she completed her prizes and the art trade with . She completed the prizes, but hasn't even really started on the art trade. Vye blames this on having figured out how to make a Sim looks somewhat like Saix from Kingdom Hearts II. She may have created a Sim to represent herself and then have the two of them get married . . . (She said MAY! . . . For what that's worth . . .) Vye goes through phases of video game play where she plays video games for hours and end and then won't play them much again for some weeks afterward. She seems to be in the video game phase now. After she's done here, she will go finish the final part of Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days, something she has been looking forward to. Hopefully, she will be ready to draw stuff after that. She has managed to get some inking done lately, at least.

With today being Halloween, Vye Brante will be allowed to wear a costume to work. She was too lazy and cheap to buy anything new this year, so she will be recycling a costume from two years ago where she dressed up as Hillaree from Just Gotta. Vye is tempted to take a picture of herself and show her fans . . . but she is also a little shy so isn't sure if she'll actually do it. She does have something else that will probably go up for Just Gotta though. She has also impulsively decided to have another contest. Rest assured however, that she will not be offering art to the winners. We all saw how that worked out last time. She's come up with some different prizes instead. Hopefully they are good ones. We will see. So watch for details on that! Vye hopes you will look forward to it.

Now if you'll excuse Vye, she is going to go try to put all her candy in places she can't see it . . .