glad to be a loser

yes i am!

i finally put down my stats, that's additional motivation for you! =D

i've been taking the pill for 14 straight days now and for about the same time i've also given up rice at dinner time.  well, except last night, i had to eat a couple of spoonfuls with the beef stew i made for the hubby.  i allowed myself that considering i had no breakfast and no lunch, absolutely nada.  just a glass of water and nothing else.  at around 4 p.m i ate 2 itty-bitty pieces of toblerone offered to me by my soon to be sister-in-law as i had no energy to go out and buy something to eat anymore.

so that's my justification for eating a full meal at dinner time =P

oh, i decided to up the ante a little more.  i bought a box of tea which is supposed to make my metabolism better and make me go do number 2 as soon as i wake up in the morning.  i've taken the tea once and yes it was effective.  i just have to convince myself to drink it every night.  no, it doesn't taste horrible.  in fact, it tastes like your average chinese tea.  i'm just no tea-drinker, that's all.

if only it were coffee instead, sigh!

carbo free dinners = svelte body in 3 weeks

its true, my friend's 'no-longer-chubby- friend' is really slim now.  i saw her most recent pics [taken just this past weekend] and she really is as thin as a non-chubby person is.  lol, i need to improve my adjectives.

i guess next week's plan of attack is more raw veggies at night paired with healthy protein and probably some fruit.  actually, this ex-chubby girl is also my firend but because i have not asked her permission yet, i will not name her.  i'm so tempted to place before and after pics of her just to inspire me more. and you who are in the same boat as i am. =D

i'm planning to stock up on cucumber salad.  i love it and i can eat a big bowl for dinner and eat while playing yoville on FB.  lol!  and it's such a cinch to make:

slice up some cucumbers, horizontally, so you end up with 'cucumber coins'.  i prefer to use the long, thin japanese variety cause i don't like to remove the skin and their deep green color just looks way better than the pale native ones [i bet they're healthier too]. i sprinkle some salt on it, mix it up a bit, and let the cucumber water drain off for about 15 minutes or so.  then i add vinegar, i prefer sukang-puti, barely a teaspoon of sugar[optional] and freshly ground black pepper.  let it sit covered in the ref for about thirty minutes.  it's yummier when it's cold and crunchy.  enjoy it with porkchops, fried chicken or even your ordinary galunggong.  you'll be smacking your lips for sure.

curbing the craving

why is it that when there is a conscious effort to stop eating the good stuff like chocolate and creamy, buttery, melt-in your-mouth pastries the cravings just about kill you???

i almost gave in tonight, like i did last night.  there's half a bag of dark chocolate hershey kisses taunting me right now and it's taking all the self-control i can muster to not get up, walk 5 steps and eat 1 dark, gooey kiss at a time.

i only had a small bowl of left-over congealed chop suey for dinner.  yuck.  it was still yucky even after i zapped it in the micro.  but i ate it anyway so i wont have to suffer hunger pangs before i crawl into bed.

the image in the mirror looks better than it did yesterday so i push on and get a new wave of courage to control my overzealous tastebuds.  i would like to give the mirror a chance to see me smile at it again. ;P

stinky broccoli

i am so far successful in the no-rice-at-dinnertime plan, which actually means no bread, pasta or sweet pastry stuff at night either.  good thing there's meat and veggies.  they're good filler-uppers.  i heard from a friend who has a chubby friend that chubby friend is no longer chubby.  she just started to eat only salads and protein at dinner time for only 3 weeks and is looking pretty svelte now.  my, oh my, i'm sooo excited for me, lol!

so today i had pasta and broccoli for brunch.  since cooking is such a heavy thing for me these days -read: i hate it, i just zapped a bowl of broccoli florets in the micro, drizzled EVOO and sprinkled some salt on it.  i paired it with left-over linguine which i also zapped in the micro along with some light butter and feta cheese,  sprinkled them all with grated parmigiano-not-reggiano [lol!] and i had a stinky but yummy meal.

why does broccoli reek so much?  i brushed twice now but every time i burp, it stinks up my breath with broccoli gas.  i guess 1 minute of zapping was too much.  according to google, the gas comes out when you overcook it. blecch!

i'm back

it's a whopping 2 months and 16 days since i last posted and it's all because of facebook.  well, facebook games to be exact.  i have never been online as much as i have in the past two months and i've never been as 'unconnected' as ever.  for the first month all i could think about was play, play, play.  my friends thought i was crazy as nothing came out of my mouth at outings [as rare as they already are] but how this game and that was soooooo cool.

but i knew all along that in time my 'game addiction' would taper off and life would go back to normal.  too bad even my weightloss goals were put on hold.  i forgot to take my wonder drug so many days i practically stopped.

i still play but not as much.  daily, but as i said, not as much as in the first weeks.  and i'm back on track with losing some of the fat before 2009 bows out.

to make up for wasted time, i'm denying myself of rice at dinner time.  so far, so good.  and i'm back on the drug.  so i'm actually looking forward to a lighter me this christmas. i think diet and the wonder drug will absolutely do wonders, he he.

how's every one?