hits and misses in dieting and weight loss
Category : General Dieting and Weight Loss
It’s been more than two months since my last blog post. And in the past two months, I haven’t been eating healthy and haven’t been exercising. I can’t even remember the last time I played badminton.
So basically, here’s what happened:
Lots of fattening delicious food + no exercise = weight gain
I needed inspiration for an update in this blog so I searched my SD card for pictures of healthy and appetizing food and I found these:
Granola with Soya Milk....yummy!
Lyle & Brendel's Corny Vegetable Salad....preparing it together makes it twice as delicious! :p
Shrimp Siomai: Makes a healthy snack if you stick to a single serving...:-)
I really miss having granola. It is so filling and delicious. Too bad a 700 g bag costs more than Php200. Too expensive for me. Even a carton of soya milk sells for Php60 nowadays. And to think I can easily finish a liter in one day. 
And salad greens with corn on the cob? This one I also love. Lyle and I had so much fun preparing this. I am thinking of doing this again soon.
And lastly, the shrimp siomai. This is what I usually have when I crave for Chinese food at night and it’s too late to go to my favorite dimsum place. Two pieces of siomai and shredded lettuce and I’m all set. The lettuce, by the way, is to keep me from going overboard on the dumpling. Works for me all the time.
Looking at these pictures makes me very hungry and I really want to munch on something. But since I’m currently somewhere where healthy food is not in abundance, I guess I have to stare at these pictures awhile.
Goodbye, my love…
Since I haven’t been watching my diet since February 17 (yeah, I remember!), I will have to do something remarkable for the month of April. And so I have decided NOT to have rice or noodles for one month.
This won’t be easy for me, I tell you. I am a self-confessed carb-addict who’s been snacking on Nissin cup noodles a lot lately. I also have a steady supply of Lucky Me instant noodles at home.
But I really have to do it as I already told people that I won’t be having rice or noodles for 30 days. It will be pure torture so I’ll probably need all the luck in the world.
Tuna Tocino: My kind of dupe…
I joined one or two badminton sessions since February 17, 2009. Very bad, really. I was out of town on two occasions and something came up recently that even if I really want to, I just don’t have the time for a badminton game. Not even for a 30-minute cardio exercise with Shaun T.
I am still on a no beef, no pork diet so I try my hardest to stick to it. Lyle had burger steak yesterday, which I really, really like. I wanted to have a teeniest-tiniest bit of the burger steak but I remembered that I can’t so I had to look the other way. Literally.
Hurray for Hip Hop Saturdays!
Last night, I joined another session of Project Kool-Lab, a hip hop class at the Metro Lifestyle Fitness Center. Scheduled every Saturday at 6:45 pm to 9:45pm, the dance class is organized by Groove Unlimited Dance Community under the mentoring of Bryan Grandeza.
So how come I signed up for a hip hop class? My friend Dulce informed me about the Kool-Lab Project and since I wanted to try out something new and the registration fee at Php80/session is very affordable, I said yes. Plus, I desperately needed to change my lifestyle from super sedentary to not-so-sedentary.