learning to live on chicken and fish

I haven't been able to post entries on what I've been eating since I came back from my out-of-town trip last week. I'll start from today going back to Tuesday so it'll be easier for me to remember...

Today (Day 17)- I had fried tilapia for lunch. For dinner, I prepared baked penne with spaghetti sauce (I used ground chicken), honey glazed grilled chicken, and grilled minute steaks. Of course I only had the pasta and chicken. I prepared the steak for my family in case they were already sick of chicken (haha!).

Saturday (Day 16)- My friends Esther, Tin and I had a bit of girlfriend bonding/adventure day. We went to Sitio de Amor in San Pablo, Laguna. Can I just say, it was soooo worth the long drive! But, I'll devote another entry about that..back to my diet--we were served lots of food for lunch but of course I didn't eat anything made from pork or beef. We were served blue marlin, liempo, bopis, soy chicken, pako salad (sooo yummy!), and this dish that was made of baby shrimp cooked with coconut milk then wrapped in gabi leaves then steamed (to die for!). For our afternoon snack, we were served this special kind of suman (that was bought in Lucban, I think) with a slice of mango and drizzled with a light caramel sauce. I swear, that was the best suman I've ever tasted. After spending the entire afternoon at Sitio de Amor, we headed off to Kusina Salud for dinner. We had their fried lumpiang ubod for our appetizer, and the Hot Crispy Tilapia as our main dish.

Friday (Day 15)- lunch out with my college friends Ria and Eia. We ate at Kimono Ken at Podium. I had salmon sashimi, chicken teriyaki and japanese fried rice. I don't think I had dinner. Hahaha! I think after my dgroup, I went to this spa near my house and had a very relaxing massage. Me thinks that's why I woke up late yesterday. Hahaha!

Thursday (Day 14)- I think I had shrimp and ginataang papaya for lunch.

I can't remember what I had for Days 12 and 13. But I'm sure I didn't break my diet :)

getting better...day 5

Toxic day at work today, as usual. Juggling two projects--both in the implementation stage so I've been practically running around making calls, fixing questionnaires and schedules and other documents, facilitating field briefings and other meetings for the past few days. I'm hoping that I'll go out of town this weekend--for work, still. But it's an out of town trip!! Who wouldn't want to go out of town, even if it's for work right? Hahaha yeah yeah I'm a weirdo. I have a love-hate relationship with my job. I hate it when I'm super duper swamped with work, but I love my job nevertheless.

So today's the 5th day of my diet...I had some sort of wholewheat/oatmeal cracker (?) for late lunch. I had dinner with Mishi at Shangrila. We ate at Green Tomato--she had the kani salad and I had the shrimp and feta pasta. Mish gave me some of her salad--twas quite good, actually. It had shredded seaweed, too :) I wasn't able to finish my pasta so I brought home the leftovers and I'll probably eat it tomorrow for lunch.

Mish and I did a bit of window shopping at Shang...got a bit depressed because I really wanted to buy a couple of items but I didn't want to spend my money. I need to save up for the gifts I'll be giving friends and family this Christmas. Ugh. Don't you just hate it that you know you have money but you can't buy anything because you're saving up for something else?

I'm soooo craving for Chocolate Kiss' fish and chips. I mean, I am really REALLY craving for it. Shiet.

Day 4

feel hungry. Hahahahaha! Gaaaaaahd this is hard. I'm still alive, though :) Okay..I had a pretty long day. Was at Makati as early as 8 for a 9 a.m telecon with our client's counterpart in the US. My boss was late so I waited for an hour at Starbucks 6750...I didn't buy coffee...just had hot chocolate. How sad. I was busy the entire day from the time we returned to our office until before I went home. I'm still supposed to do stuff for work now, but maybe later because I'm too tamad to do anything work-related now. I had rellenong bangus again for lunch and chicken ala king for dinner (soooo good!), and a slice of papaya...I'm still hungry. I'm trying to control my rice intake because I noticed I've been eating a lot of rice, carbs actually--either bread, pasta, or rice. I dunno whyyy. I think when the ulam's really good I tend to eat lots of rice. I should start working out again. I feel really fat already. I have to prepare for my Sitio de Amor trip this December 5th. My body should be swimming pool-worthy. HAHA!

I want to look like this again :

I want my pre-work body back. Haha!