Maniac is back on exercise. Aerobics started yesterday and boy did he relentlessly put us through the paces. Salsa this evening- only 3 classes left!
Breakkie - Croissant and cappucino
Lunch- aiming for yong tau fu
Dinner - Okra and yogurt hopefully, if I can hold out until then...
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Disappointed with Tiger Airways...
...but hoping I get the refund on my return ticket within 4 weeks as promised after holding the line for 20 mins for the customer service person to pick up.
Perhaps it was a blessing in disguise that my flight got cancelled (twice) and I got a better flight and airline to fly home on.
Anyway, being back is nice. Eating only healthy home food and doing my best not to go overboard. Will be off on a small trip to coffee countryside next week. Hope we get some interesting and fresh food out there...
Should go for a walk in the club today, hopefully it won't rain! Still have to sort out finances, put up Dusserah dolls and call friends and have them over.
I miss being a kid. But its also nice to be over the whole teenage mindset which has funnily crept in to my twenties too. The moodswings and hormonal imbalances were hopefully due to lack of a balanced lifecycle and won't be a problem anymore. Hopefully I can go back to being as stable and healthy as I was when I was a kid.
Perhaps it was a blessing in disguise that my flight got cancelled (twice) and I got a better flight and airline to fly home on.
Anyway, being back is nice. Eating only healthy home food and doing my best not to go overboard. Will be off on a small trip to coffee countryside next week. Hope we get some interesting and fresh food out there...
Should go for a walk in the club today, hopefully it won't rain! Still have to sort out finances, put up Dusserah dolls and call friends and have them over.
I miss being a kid. But its also nice to be over the whole teenage mindset which has funnily crept in to my twenties too. The moodswings and hormonal imbalances were hopefully due to lack of a balanced lifecycle and won't be a problem anymore. Hopefully I can go back to being as stable and healthy as I was when I was a kid.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Attempt to revive this bloggy thing....
For the first time I'm looking at the Stats on my blog. It's a recent feature, I think? Only has data from May 2010 onwards. 4 page views from Sg (probably just me) and 1 from the US (goo, is that you?)
Seriously, if you're reading this, leave me a comment. What brings you here?
Anyway, since I never really wrote for an audience that wasn't my mom, well, perhaps I should try to make this blog a little more informative or interesting.
Today I changed the title of this blog from "Maniac on a diet" to "Maniac on a health kick". I don't know why, I suppose the word diet has a lot of negative connotations, and I'm not one to really diet. I monitor my diet, I don't exactly restrict it or anything. I want to change the URL from maniacskipsdinner as well, but I think it's too late for that. I don't really skip dinner - I substitute carbs with slightly more healthy fare - at least, I used to. Lately, I haven't been keeping it up strictly, but I'm trying to get more healthy again since a week ago. Why? Read on...
In the past months, I've been borrowing a lot of books from my neighborhood library. First it was mostly graphic novels, then it was novels recommended by friends, then I started to introduce at least one non-fiction book into the maelstrom. I guess you can say that last year wasn't an easy year for me, having just graduated and trying to find my place in a working environment. My grandmother's passing in January 2010 wasn't exactly easy on me. I didn't get to say goodbye, was not there for the scattering of her ashes. I hadn't seen her for a year and a half, and she wasn't in the best state physically or mentally. Before her passing, she was in a few of my dreams. Since then, I still dream of her sometimes. In the dreams, she's normal and talking to me. It kind of freaks me out, and I wake up feeling pretty sad. I can't even think about the good times we had together without missing her. And like I have been doing for the past few years, I just have to stop thinking about her, which is also kind of disrespectful to her memory because I loved her so much and learned so much from her. It was small things she taught me when I was really young, like when you think you can't reach something, you only have to slowly and surely stretch a little further, and you'll probably reach it (this was when I was too short to reach the hook on which to hang the mosquito net). She taught me how to draw, stitch and embroider and use her old "Rupa" sewing machine where my little toes would sometimes get stuck in between the bars of the foot pedal...she was a pretty great seamstress and painter herself and she did yoga and loved going for walks to the lake when I was young. I remember she would have a bath every morning and then pray a little while in the God's room which smelled of incense and rice grains. But she never forced me to follow her - I was happy to watch and learn to chant the shlokas, and she taught me what to chant every night before I slept so I wouldn't have bad dreams.
Ramum skandum hanumantham vainatheyum vrukodaram shayane smarey nrityam dusvapnam tasya dasyadi.
Ramaya ramabhadraya ramachandraya vedase. Raghunathaya nathaya sithaya pathaye namaha.
When I was a teenager and she moved in to live with us, I used to join her in her evening reciting of the Gayathri manthra 10 times, with 3 "om karas" at the beginning and 3 at the end. It was a great way to still my mind, to picture the hindi letters of the words spelled out in my mind as I was chanting.
Anyway, I could go on about her and everything I learned from her. Back to the present, and I've been turning to books (as a long-time bookworm) to try to find some way to balance all these new emotions that life tends to throw at everyone. Suddenly I find myself worrying more and more about 2 things - having children and growing old. These were things that never bothered me, nor should they considering I'm in my twenties. My older cousins having kids, and the passing on of my grandparents' generation is definitely signalling a paradigm shift in my universe.
A book called Buddha's Brain was the first thing I picked up in a search for inner peace. It talks about how the brain works, and what we can do to elimate suffering (a very Buddhist outlook). It was the hardest one to finish, given the various references to amygdala, hippocampus, pre-frontal cortex, etc. that had me reeling for a while. But it was worth struggling through the technical stuff to really understand how the brain and mind influence each other, how we are all basically ignorant of the "truth" and just make up things in our heads which sometimes stick around and sometimes morph into something else. I think I may have to read it again to fully understand all of it - I did borrow and renew it 2 times over (6 weeks!) just to finish one read-through!
The second book was a recipe book on low-carb vegetarian meals. I snapped a whole lot of pictures of the recipes. Will try them out and post the ones I like the most. The problem about low-carb veggie is a lot of the recipes involve baking versus frying, and I only have a microwave and no proper oven. Not too confident about trial and error since the overhead is too much for me to just end up throwing away the food if its bad - I end up broke and hungry, no good. Also, most recipes involve eggs and cheese, two things I'm trying to go easy on since I find myself eating either egg sandwiches or cheese sandwiches a LOT.
The third and most recent book which I just finished reading today is something I've been interested to read since a colleague mentioned it last year, and also because I visited France this year - "French women don't get fat" by Mirelle Guiliano. The basic point of this book is that French women remain conscious of what they eat and choose quality over quantity and always balance a heavy meal in a day with a lighter one. They also apparently walk a lot. Given my experiences with French weather, they must like being cold and wet a lot. They also eat for the purpose of experiencing many fresh flavors rather than just filling their stomachs. I can attest to this as my French colleague pretty much displayed this trait today at lunch. However, I did not like her choice of eating place since I think the food there is so-so. She chose it because it is air conditioned and not too far from the office. She tried to convince me she thought the veggies were good, but I didn't really buy that =) But she did literally say, "I'm French, therefore I live to eat rather than eat to live". The book also highlights the tricks to eating slowly, chewing well, putting down your cutlery to take your time and thus feel fuller at the end of the meal. Well I observed all those French tricks in action today! She also takes the stairs, but she needs to climb only to the 4th storey while I have to climb to the 6th. I like climbing stairs, but the ones to my office are unforgiving post-fire drill. Walking up to the 6th floor in my apartment building is fairly doable though. I should walk up more often, whenever I'm not carrying too much.
Interestingly, a lot of things which worked for me in the past (and are recorded in this blog) are the main points of her strategy. Things like incrementally reducing portions and increasing exercise, as well as writing down everything that you eat (literally). This week I've been doing that in my weekly planner. Previously I used to write it in the blog, but I don't want to bore you, Reader, with what cereal I eat these days.
Alright, that's enough for today. I'm going on vacation for 2 weeks, so after I'm back, I will try Mirelle's miracle leek soup thing one weekend. I bought a blender today - yay!!! Will report on how my first smoothie and first soup turn out. Need to get to sleep!
Seriously, if you're reading this, leave me a comment. What brings you here?
Anyway, since I never really wrote for an audience that wasn't my mom, well, perhaps I should try to make this blog a little more informative or interesting.
Today I changed the title of this blog from "Maniac on a diet" to "Maniac on a health kick". I don't know why, I suppose the word diet has a lot of negative connotations, and I'm not one to really diet. I monitor my diet, I don't exactly restrict it or anything. I want to change the URL from maniacskipsdinner as well, but I think it's too late for that. I don't really skip dinner - I substitute carbs with slightly more healthy fare - at least, I used to. Lately, I haven't been keeping it up strictly, but I'm trying to get more healthy again since a week ago. Why? Read on...
In the past months, I've been borrowing a lot of books from my neighborhood library. First it was mostly graphic novels, then it was novels recommended by friends, then I started to introduce at least one non-fiction book into the maelstrom. I guess you can say that last year wasn't an easy year for me, having just graduated and trying to find my place in a working environment. My grandmother's passing in January 2010 wasn't exactly easy on me. I didn't get to say goodbye, was not there for the scattering of her ashes. I hadn't seen her for a year and a half, and she wasn't in the best state physically or mentally. Before her passing, she was in a few of my dreams. Since then, I still dream of her sometimes. In the dreams, she's normal and talking to me. It kind of freaks me out, and I wake up feeling pretty sad. I can't even think about the good times we had together without missing her. And like I have been doing for the past few years, I just have to stop thinking about her, which is also kind of disrespectful to her memory because I loved her so much and learned so much from her. It was small things she taught me when I was really young, like when you think you can't reach something, you only have to slowly and surely stretch a little further, and you'll probably reach it (this was when I was too short to reach the hook on which to hang the mosquito net). She taught me how to draw, stitch and embroider and use her old "Rupa" sewing machine where my little toes would sometimes get stuck in between the bars of the foot pedal...she was a pretty great seamstress and painter herself and she did yoga and loved going for walks to the lake when I was young. I remember she would have a bath every morning and then pray a little while in the God's room which smelled of incense and rice grains. But she never forced me to follow her - I was happy to watch and learn to chant the shlokas, and she taught me what to chant every night before I slept so I wouldn't have bad dreams.
Ramum skandum hanumantham vainatheyum vrukodaram shayane smarey nrityam dusvapnam tasya dasyadi.
Ramaya ramabhadraya ramachandraya vedase. Raghunathaya nathaya sithaya pathaye namaha.
When I was a teenager and she moved in to live with us, I used to join her in her evening reciting of the Gayathri manthra 10 times, with 3 "om karas" at the beginning and 3 at the end. It was a great way to still my mind, to picture the hindi letters of the words spelled out in my mind as I was chanting.
Anyway, I could go on about her and everything I learned from her. Back to the present, and I've been turning to books (as a long-time bookworm) to try to find some way to balance all these new emotions that life tends to throw at everyone. Suddenly I find myself worrying more and more about 2 things - having children and growing old. These were things that never bothered me, nor should they considering I'm in my twenties. My older cousins having kids, and the passing on of my grandparents' generation is definitely signalling a paradigm shift in my universe.
A book called Buddha's Brain was the first thing I picked up in a search for inner peace. It talks about how the brain works, and what we can do to elimate suffering (a very Buddhist outlook). It was the hardest one to finish, given the various references to amygdala, hippocampus, pre-frontal cortex, etc. that had me reeling for a while. But it was worth struggling through the technical stuff to really understand how the brain and mind influence each other, how we are all basically ignorant of the "truth" and just make up things in our heads which sometimes stick around and sometimes morph into something else. I think I may have to read it again to fully understand all of it - I did borrow and renew it 2 times over (6 weeks!) just to finish one read-through!
The second book was a recipe book on low-carb vegetarian meals. I snapped a whole lot of pictures of the recipes. Will try them out and post the ones I like the most. The problem about low-carb veggie is a lot of the recipes involve baking versus frying, and I only have a microwave and no proper oven. Not too confident about trial and error since the overhead is too much for me to just end up throwing away the food if its bad - I end up broke and hungry, no good. Also, most recipes involve eggs and cheese, two things I'm trying to go easy on since I find myself eating either egg sandwiches or cheese sandwiches a LOT.
The third and most recent book which I just finished reading today is something I've been interested to read since a colleague mentioned it last year, and also because I visited France this year - "French women don't get fat" by Mirelle Guiliano. The basic point of this book is that French women remain conscious of what they eat and choose quality over quantity and always balance a heavy meal in a day with a lighter one. They also apparently walk a lot. Given my experiences with French weather, they must like being cold and wet a lot. They also eat for the purpose of experiencing many fresh flavors rather than just filling their stomachs. I can attest to this as my French colleague pretty much displayed this trait today at lunch. However, I did not like her choice of eating place since I think the food there is so-so. She chose it because it is air conditioned and not too far from the office. She tried to convince me she thought the veggies were good, but I didn't really buy that =) But she did literally say, "I'm French, therefore I live to eat rather than eat to live". The book also highlights the tricks to eating slowly, chewing well, putting down your cutlery to take your time and thus feel fuller at the end of the meal. Well I observed all those French tricks in action today! She also takes the stairs, but she needs to climb only to the 4th storey while I have to climb to the 6th. I like climbing stairs, but the ones to my office are unforgiving post-fire drill. Walking up to the 6th floor in my apartment building is fairly doable though. I should walk up more often, whenever I'm not carrying too much.
Interestingly, a lot of things which worked for me in the past (and are recorded in this blog) are the main points of her strategy. Things like incrementally reducing portions and increasing exercise, as well as writing down everything that you eat (literally). This week I've been doing that in my weekly planner. Previously I used to write it in the blog, but I don't want to bore you, Reader, with what cereal I eat these days.
Alright, that's enough for today. I'm going on vacation for 2 weeks, so after I'm back, I will try Mirelle's miracle leek soup thing one weekend. I bought a blender today - yay!!! Will report on how my first smoothie and first soup turn out. Need to get to sleep!
Monday, July 12, 2010
Monday morning madness
Now that both my roommates leave the house around the same time as I do, it's a mad rush for the bathroom in the mornings. Meaning that I usually don't get up early enough so I just decide to sleep in a little longer. That leads to my being rather late for work. Boss coming back on Thursday means I can't really do this for much longer. Will have to sleep earlier in the evenings.
I've decided to cut out fried and oily food. Been eating too much of it lately. Need to cut down on spicy food too. Lots of boiled vegetables and raw fruits in my future. Chomp chomp.
Pilates when I get home tonight. Need to get rid of tummy flaaaab!
I've decided to cut out fried and oily food. Been eating too much of it lately. Need to cut down on spicy food too. Lots of boiled vegetables and raw fruits in my future. Chomp chomp.
Pilates when I get home tonight. Need to get rid of tummy flaaaab!
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Blahhhhh
Exercise has started again. Slow but steady. Gymmed on Thursday and walked on Saturday. Today's pilates at home. Need to call the handyman to fix some stuff at home so can't be in the gym today. Lalalaalala. Gym tomolo.
Breakfast - chocolate buns from BreadTalk. Alright, next time it will be non-chocolate.
Lunch - brown rice, beans, peanuts, fried cauliflower + mango carrot juice (yum)
Dinner- Heinz tomato soup + a piece of buttered toast+apple
Breakfast - chocolate buns from BreadTalk. Alright, next time it will be non-chocolate.
Lunch - brown rice, beans, peanuts, fried cauliflower + mango carrot juice (yum)
Dinner- Heinz tomato soup + a piece of buttered toast+apple
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Bonjourno!
Getting lazy after the 2 week vacation - people say I'm looking chubbier despite the fact that we were walking around for at least 8 hours a day. It's funny - I feel slimmer on the sides but not on my front aka belly bulge refuses to subside.
Time for pilates.
Time to distribute the remaining fried Indian snacks to my friends and bring some to work.
Time to adjust my inner clock and sleep normally.
Time to exercise after work instead of flopping in bed and watching tv shows.
Time to clean up my dusty room and get stuff fixed in the house - aircon servicing, leaking cistern, broken bathroom sliding door.
Time to get my finances in check, figure out and stick to a stricter budget and decide what to do with my CPF accounts, life insurance, etc.
Time to plan for new housing in July 2011 and figure out how much rent I'll be able to afford by then.
Time to figure out an exit strategy if my current salary doesn't get raised to a fair level.
Time to learn a new language and make new friends.
Time to be happy with everything I have, to strive for a better future but still appreciate my current standing.
Time for pilates.
Time to distribute the remaining fried Indian snacks to my friends and bring some to work.
Time to adjust my inner clock and sleep normally.
Time to exercise after work instead of flopping in bed and watching tv shows.
Time to clean up my dusty room and get stuff fixed in the house - aircon servicing, leaking cistern, broken bathroom sliding door.
Time to get my finances in check, figure out and stick to a stricter budget and decide what to do with my CPF accounts, life insurance, etc.
Time to plan for new housing in July 2011 and figure out how much rent I'll be able to afford by then.
Time to figure out an exit strategy if my current salary doesn't get raised to a fair level.
Time to learn a new language and make new friends.
Time to be happy with everything I have, to strive for a better future but still appreciate my current standing.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Toosey Tuesday
Breakfast - foccacia bread sandwich and hot tea
Lunch - veg fried rice with tofu
Dinner - ??? will be going shoe shopping (1 pair of flats and 1 pair of heels, or if I find more than 1 really good pair of flats it shall be 2 flats) will probably come home and do a pilates workout and eat some carrots and pears and steal some of wifey's stewed apples :D
Tomorrow - swim and then dinner with aku and apu at 7:30
Lunch - veg fried rice with tofu
Dinner - ??? will be going shoe shopping (1 pair of flats and 1 pair of heels, or if I find more than 1 really good pair of flats it shall be 2 flats) will probably come home and do a pilates workout and eat some carrots and pears and steal some of wifey's stewed apples :D
Tomorrow - swim and then dinner with aku and apu at 7:30
Monday, April 12, 2010
Post-weekend goals
Ah this weekend was one of indulgence compared to the healthy eating and exercising throughout the week (not counting Friday when I had fries and a corn cup for lunch,which I also had for lunch/dinner on Sunday. boo. why are spicy shaker fries so good?) Anyway my stomach is weird again thanks to my lovely eating and drinking patterns.
Sat:
Breakfast - ?? nothing
Lunch - noodles, egg sandwich, lime juice
Dinner - ice milk tea, Shakespeare, kaya toast fondue thingy, a breezer, a little wine, a carrot
Sun:
Breakfast - 3 blueberry pancakes with honey, milk, lime juice
Lunch - fries and corn cup
Dinner - lime juice, a slice of wholemeal bread and honey
Today:
Breakfast - egg sandwich, coffee-flavoured skim milk
Lunch - 2 paratas, beetroot, balekai, rajma. Papaya and guava
Dinner - will be subway after aerobics- veggie delight and nothing else.
Tomorrow: swimming with Cons!
Wed: dinner with Aku and Apu.
Thurs: swimming again!
Fri: swim? let's hope it doesn't rain again like last Fri.
Sat:
Breakfast - ?? nothing
Lunch - noodles, egg sandwich, lime juice
Dinner - ice milk tea, Shakespeare, kaya toast fondue thingy, a breezer, a little wine, a carrot
Sun:
Breakfast - 3 blueberry pancakes with honey, milk, lime juice
Lunch - fries and corn cup
Dinner - lime juice, a slice of wholemeal bread and honey
Today:
Breakfast - egg sandwich, coffee-flavoured skim milk
Lunch - 2 paratas, beetroot, balekai, rajma. Papaya and guava
Dinner - will be subway after aerobics- veggie delight and nothing else.
Tomorrow: swimming with Cons!
Wed: dinner with Aku and Apu.
Thurs: swimming again!
Fri: swim? let's hope it doesn't rain again like last Fri.
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Quickie
Yesterday:
Lunch - brown rice, veggies, no fruit. vanilla ice cream cone (boo)
Snack - kiwi tart, chocolate tart (oh noes!)
Dinner - tea at coffee bean. Tummy was not good so didn't eat anything.
Went for a walk with pav and swung around on the workout bars at one of the HDBs. The parellel bars should be good to strengthen my arms and core. Should go there more often. Also should play basketball. FUN!
Today:
Breakfast - foccacia bread veggie sandwich. hot milo.
Lunch - yam rice, veggie, cauliflower and brocolli and a little curry gravy. a papaya and an apple. I'm gonna force myself to eat 2 fruits at lunch everyday, or i'll never meet my fruit quota.
Dinner - if i swim tonight, subway veggie delight wrap. no meal. should avoid those.
City's still beautiful in the early morning air. Bus rides are so much shorter when you have someone to talk to :)
Lunch - brown rice, veggies, no fruit. vanilla ice cream cone (boo)
Snack - kiwi tart, chocolate tart (oh noes!)
Dinner - tea at coffee bean. Tummy was not good so didn't eat anything.
Went for a walk with pav and swung around on the workout bars at one of the HDBs. The parellel bars should be good to strengthen my arms and core. Should go there more often. Also should play basketball. FUN!
Today:
Breakfast - foccacia bread veggie sandwich. hot milo.
Lunch - yam rice, veggie, cauliflower and brocolli and a little curry gravy. a papaya and an apple. I'm gonna force myself to eat 2 fruits at lunch everyday, or i'll never meet my fruit quota.
Dinner - if i swim tonight, subway veggie delight wrap. no meal. should avoid those.
City's still beautiful in the early morning air. Bus rides are so much shorter when you have someone to talk to :)
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
City's beautiful in the early morning air
The city's beautiful,in the early morning air,
love the smell of sunrise,and everything becomes so clear,
I think you are beautiful,and you know it by one look,
did you long for summertime
when you were growing up,
and when it finally came,it wasn't 'round for long,
you ecstatically stumbled around,
one warm second it's suddenly gone,
one warm second it's suddenly gone,
I wish that time would stand still,
if this was a part of a film,
we would watch the clip all day,
like a portrait of you and I,like a portrait of you and I,
city's beautiful,feel it in the morning air,
love the smell of sunrise,everything becomes so clear,
I think you are beautiful,and you know it by one look,
did you long for summertime,
when you were growing up
well your life's just a breeze in eternity,
why not take this one chance and come fly with me,
just this once,just this second that soon will be gone,
if this second was your life,what would you do?
If this second was your life,I would love you,
if this second was your life,would you love me?
If this second was my life,I would love it,
if this second was my life,I would love you (whoa),
if this second was my life,I would happily die,
the city's beautiful,in the early morning air,
love the smell of sunrise,and everything becomes so clear,
I don't have to look to see,today it's all so clear,
chimney tops start to glow,and that's when I will disappear.
~ Just One Second, London Elektricity
____________________________________________
Yes I am obsessed with this song today.
Yesterday was:
Breakkie : Egg sandwich, malt drink
Lunch: noodles, fake meat, veggie and pumpkin. Guava.
Snack: Cheese toast
Post-aerobics: subway veggie delight, chips, ice lemon tea (1/2 a cup)
Post-workwife losing her wallet and freaking out : half a cheesecake
Today is:
Breakkie: cheese and veg sandwich, coffee
Lunch: brown rice and veggies. a fruit.
Dinner: ?? tea with pav at coffee bean. carrots at home.
I wonder if this meal planning will work. Let's hope it does! =)
love the smell of sunrise,and everything becomes so clear,
I think you are beautiful,and you know it by one look,
did you long for summertime
when you were growing up,
and when it finally came,it wasn't 'round for long,
you ecstatically stumbled around,
one warm second it's suddenly gone,
one warm second it's suddenly gone,
I wish that time would stand still,
if this was a part of a film,
we would watch the clip all day,
like a portrait of you and I,like a portrait of you and I,
city's beautiful,feel it in the morning air,
love the smell of sunrise,everything becomes so clear,
I think you are beautiful,and you know it by one look,
did you long for summertime,
when you were growing up
well your life's just a breeze in eternity,
why not take this one chance and come fly with me,
just this once,just this second that soon will be gone,
if this second was your life,what would you do?
If this second was your life,I would love you,
if this second was your life,would you love me?
If this second was my life,I would love it,
if this second was my life,I would love you (whoa),
if this second was my life,I would happily die,
the city's beautiful,in the early morning air,
love the smell of sunrise,and everything becomes so clear,
I don't have to look to see,today it's all so clear,
chimney tops start to glow,and that's when I will disappear.
~ Just One Second, London Elektricity
____________________________________________
Yes I am obsessed with this song today.
Yesterday was:
Breakkie : Egg sandwich, malt drink
Lunch: noodles, fake meat, veggie and pumpkin. Guava.
Snack: Cheese toast
Post-aerobics: subway veggie delight, chips, ice lemon tea (1/2 a cup)
Post-workwife losing her wallet and freaking out : half a cheesecake
Today is:
Breakkie: cheese and veg sandwich, coffee
Lunch: brown rice and veggies. a fruit.
Dinner: ?? tea with pav at coffee bean. carrots at home.
I wonder if this meal planning will work. Let's hope it does! =)
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Getting there...
Breakfast - foccacia bread cheese sandwich with lettuce, tomato, cucumber. Coffee.
Lunch - rice, chickpeas, carrots, raita.
2/3 going swimmingly well so far! Wonder what I should have for dinner..I wish the plaza had a Soup Spoon. Pilates tonight!
Lunch - rice, chickpeas, carrots, raita.
2/3 going swimmingly well so far! Wonder what I should have for dinner..I wish the plaza had a Soup Spoon. Pilates tonight!
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Goals
Goals are great. My problem is I need to write them down for them to have any effect. And even then I dont always have the resolve to acheive them.
I suppose its time to change that.
I have about 5.5 weeks to get into a bit of a better shape than I am in at the moment. This is due to an upcoming family trip. Will be nice to surprise the folks by being trimmer again. Time to shape up.
That said, I have joined aerobics classes which are fun and intense. I'm also going completely vegetarian for the rest of the year and consequently am eating more veggies. Need to get back on fruits too.
Yesterday was not only aerobics class, but also a sprint through the underpass and up to the Esplanade since I was getting late for the Imogen Heap concert. She was wonderful!
On today's retrospective menu:
Breakfast - coffee with FULL CREAM MILK and sugar. boo.
Lunch - yam rice (yum) with leafy veggies and cauliflower and broccoli. yay!
Dinner - instant noodles. boo.
2/3 nutrition fail. I drank a fair bit of water and peppermint tea and took my vitamins. Really need them with all the people sneezing and coughing around here.
Tomorrow I'll come home and do pilates. And some laundry. Sigh.
I suppose its time to change that.
I have about 5.5 weeks to get into a bit of a better shape than I am in at the moment. This is due to an upcoming family trip. Will be nice to surprise the folks by being trimmer again. Time to shape up.
That said, I have joined aerobics classes which are fun and intense. I'm also going completely vegetarian for the rest of the year and consequently am eating more veggies. Need to get back on fruits too.
Yesterday was not only aerobics class, but also a sprint through the underpass and up to the Esplanade since I was getting late for the Imogen Heap concert. She was wonderful!
On today's retrospective menu:
Breakfast - coffee with FULL CREAM MILK and sugar. boo.
Lunch - yam rice (yum) with leafy veggies and cauliflower and broccoli. yay!
Dinner - instant noodles. boo.
2/3 nutrition fail. I drank a fair bit of water and peppermint tea and took my vitamins. Really need them with all the people sneezing and coughing around here.
Tomorrow I'll come home and do pilates. And some laundry. Sigh.
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