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Today I’m in total working out mode.  At of this moment I”m super interested in going to the turbo kick box class at 8pm held at my gym (24-hr-fitness).  I wanna go I wanna go I wanna go!!!!!

I really hope that this work-out-mood will stay until 8pm so I will really go!  A lot of times I abandon my class plan due to: tired after a whole day of working / hungry / simply don’t wanna go anymore…and a bunch of other excuses…

 PLEASE LET ME KEEP THIS MIND SET..until 8pm!!!!!

Last night was bad.  I was crying for nothing and I felt that my life was hopeless.  OK it was all hormone but sometimes even if you know it’s just hormone you sorta fail to it.  Instead of standing there crying, I knew i had to make myself happy!  I popped in my FRIENDS DVD and forced myself to laugh with it.  And guess what.  It worked!!!

I’m back to normal now and I’m looking forward to the below things that will make my life even happier!

• My boyfriend has finally decided to REALLY go join a gym!  I’m a 24-hr-fitness-er and I think he’ll become one too.  Sometimes I get irritated when I hang out with him too many days in a row because that usually means I haven’t been to the gym too many days in a row.  Joining a gym is the no. 1 thing we have to get it done this weekend!
• My fit & healthy body coming.  Summer is always one of the biggeset encourage to lose weight.  And for some reason I’ve developed a habbit of NOT eating empty carbs.  All those sugary cereal, white bread, those super empty carb-loaded stuff has become evil stuffs that doesn’t get me full in the stomach but fat on the butt  Whenever I think of that, I lose the desire to eat that.  Can you believe I’m actually craving for apples, celery and lettuce (organic) these days?!
• Making myself up like a doll.  When I was depressed, i got no mood to dress up or makeup.  I put on my most sloppy clothes and head out looking like a dying woman.  Now I’m ALLLL back to normal.  I can’t wait to get my hair done and I finally got my shopping mood back!
• Cooking tonight.  I LOVE cooking and tonight I’m gotta cook for my boyfriend.  Just thinking of it makes me so happy because i think eating out too often makes me really kinda unhappy..with all the unknown fat and MSG and whatever evil stuff they put into the dishes….EWWWW

So….if I can wish for more, I’ll wish that I don’t have to OT that much today so I can get started on those even sooner!!

Something funny’s going on.  I’m having a hard time falling asleep these days.  This isn’t the weird part.  The weird part is that I still feel extremely OK after not sleeping much for several days in a row.  Today I’m in the office reading very boring government regulations.  Usually stuff like this would drive me to sleep in no time but I just finished about 10 pages without yawning. 

All I had was a diet coke yesterday and for today I haven’t touched anything that contains caffeine.  I’m feeling good, energetic.  I’m not even grumpy… I remember about a month ago I was whining to my friends saying, “remember before I had one hour of sleep and I was oK….now I have 8 hours every night and I’m tired every morning when I wake up…” That was before all the organic foods coming in.

Nobody ever told me organic food would give you such a benefit as Not-Needing-To-Sleep.  It’s so weird that it creeps me out a bit. :-p

I don’t usually eat out for lunch.  But today my co-worker twisted my arm and we went to boston market.  I’ve never been there and have always wanted to try.  They have all sorta of chicken and I ended up with a chicken pot pie.

 I assumed that it was about 500 Calories the most.  I was starting to feel weak again (stupid unpredictable weather) so I ate the whole thing.  The first thing I did when I got back to the office was check out boston market’s website and holy shooting cow it was 800 Calories!  Including the corns on the side my lunch was almost my whole day intake of calories.

I regreted it like nothing I’ve ever regreted for.  I wasn’t even that full from the pie.  The feeling was exactly the same as when I found out my favorite cinnabon had 1000 calories inside.  How can they fit in soooo many calories in such a small thing?  Do they inject fat inside?  I was getting mad. 

They had the healthy chicken or the turkey and NOpe i didn’t go for those.  And i chose the most fattening one.  I could literally felt the fat was starting pile up on my butt and stomach.  I couldn’t sit still after lunch.  it was totally irritating.

 I got home trying to limit the damage by eating a small dinner.  Ok..as least I didn’t go for the “since I’ve done it wrong already let me go all the way wrong today.” Which was really good.

Will DEFINITELY DEFINITNELY work out extra hard later.  Hopefully tomorrow will be a better day.

Boston Market you’re not so tempting anymore…

Changes: 

I’ve been eating organic fruits for breakfast these days.  Usually 1 -2 pieces of fruit and 1 piece of 100% whole grain bread.  And my snack at 4pm every weekday has been replaced by one big organic orange.  Yum!

Try to eat less, and also not order the big fat evil dessert at the end of dinner when I’m eating out with my boyfriend. 

Back on the gym routine.  Try to go every other day.  Just bought a new pair of gym shoes for that so I’m extra motivated. 

Order salad with dressing on the side ALL THE TIME…. The veggies usually got my so full that I can’t eat much other than that. 

Result:

Well, weight hasn’t changed. 

 But definitely a better color on my face.  I mean, usually my face is sorta yellowish..but now it has more pink.  (naturally, I’m not talking about the makeups).  People said I look like I’ve lost some weight, at least on the face.  I actually weight the same, but i guess now the bloating on my face is gone. 

MUCH MORE ENERGY!  I go to the gym at 9pm and 10pm and before I had to drag myself there.  Now I don’t, I’m excited about going to the gym.  

Less cravings. 

Simply feel better about myself knowing that I’m putting in much less chemical into my boddy.

The only bad result should be:

less money in my pocket :-p.  But it’s well worth it!

After I decided to go natural on my diet, I realized I needed to do some serious grocery shopping.  I looked at my kitchen and saw: Boxes of cereal, waffles, chips, yogurt, white bread, chocolate, nutella… All these and I sighed.  I ended up eating eggs and cooking some chicken breast last night.  Unbelievable full after just about 400 Cal of those.  And I really felt like I’d eaten something.  I ended up at about 1100 Calories yesterday, and I was full through out the whole day.  Then I wondered, “is it really 2000 Calories that we need?”  (2000 Calories is what listed on all food boxes as the standard calories daily intake.)  Is it just something from either FDA or whatever governmnet agent to get us eat more because a lot of heavily processed food are stuffed with nothing but empty calories.  If I got full, and felt wonderful by eating all natural food, seems like 1100 Calories is perfectly fine.  Or is it because I’m still new to all the natrual foods?  Once I get used to them, I won’t feel as satisfied?

 Looooots of questions in my head.  It actually makes me feel very excited to see how my body reacts to all the healthy food.  And of course, so far all the reactions are good - including much less mood swing, no cravings (even when I’m looking at my heavenly nutella + bread, I had 0 appetite for that), more energy, simply feel better about myself, full through out the whole day. 

I’ll try to dig a little deeper, and I’ll share what I’ve got with everybody here. 

And big day tomorrow, I can finally go back to the gym!  oh!  I do have a craving, it’s craving for exercising!

Recently I read an article about how Americans eat and how Europeans eat.  It’s about how we eat junk food all the time, everything in a box/bag is packed with addictives and chemicals; and how the french eat their veggies with just a drop of olive oil….etc etc. I don’t know what was in that article, but I made up my mind about Going Natural after reading that.  I’m alway the biggest fan of food like cereal, bread, you know all the refining stuff.   Trying to go natural is a big step for me.  Besides the article, it’s also how I’ve been eating lately that triggers my determination.  I compared how full I was after eating 2 cups of cereral (240 calories) - felt like I’d eaten nothing, and how full I was after eating an apple and banana (around 150 calories) - Full, satisfied and proud.  And the other day I tried to eat stuff like eggs, and broccoli…and before I hit my calorie quota, I was just SOOOOO full I couldn’t eat anymore. 

 I’ve also liked fruit but I guess from now on, I’ll be spending a lot more $ on buying them organic!  I heard that people who go for organic have better skin too…

Feel like I’m starting a new life.  All I need is to get back to 100% healthy and start working out again.  (I’m 65% healthy now I think…)

Had been sick for…1..2..3..4..5 days now.  It was just a cold, but I could hardly move.  Hopefully it’d go away ASAP so I can start going to the gym again.  But I made a promise to myself and my man: until I get 100% back to healthy, I will totally forget about dropping anymore pounds!  health comes first!

 I am actually surprise that I’d come back after not food logging for so many days.  Maybe buddyslim IS the one!

Good things of buddyslim.com is slowly popping up one by one.  Tonight is my first night of being in the program. I’m still so excited that I practically sit next to my computer and insert every single bit of food that I have eaten tonight.  When they didn’t have the food in the food library, I entered it. 

 I’m the kind of person that would eat 2 bites of this and 3 bites of that….so my dinner list turned out to be just plain long (and quite awkward).  Well but I’m sure a lot of you have had night of a million bites of a million kinds of different food, right?

By the 5th or 6th dinner food I found myself getting pretty full.  Then I looked at the calorie counter and I was at 814 calories.  “What?!” I was really starting to get full.  I guess it was the protein working.

I know that it’s never good to go under 1000 Cal, so I try to “find” what I have to eat to get to that 1000 line.  This is the first time in my life that instead of holding back, I have to lean forward to eating more…

Then I figured, it must be all the food entering or adding that slows me down.  I normally INHALED food at dinner cuz I’m so hungry.  But tonight, I focused on typing typing typing. 

Just so unbelievable.  I even had calories quota left for the Godiva truffle that my man got me yesterday as part of our 1st year anniversary gift!

Buddyslim, buddyslim, are you the fairest one of all?!

Well, that’s just any number I picked to show that I’ve signed up for numerous blog to keep track of my diet.  But this is so far the 2nd one that is made specifically for people who are trying to lose weight.

Last time I played with something like this, I had a huge success losing those extra pounds.  That was by Glamour.com.  But they made the biggest decision to make it avaliable only on the time period that they’ve set - biggest mistake.

I’m so excited that I’ve found here… And honestly, so far it has been a lot of fun putting in my food in my food journal…but I just can’t figure out how to delete my customs made food…

I’m 28 now.  And I have been trying to lose weight since I was 16….yep…it has been 12 years.. I did lost 10+ pds when I entered college…but those good days are gone.

Lately I’ve found my love.  Which is suppose to be the best thing in the world.  I was so happy to have found him, and happy leads to eating out a lot, and without further explaining, I’m here trying to lose all those “happy” weight…

Good luck to me.  And also good luck to everyone out there.