Health and Beauty
Today I will definitely have to exercise. I realized that even if I only stay at home, I need to take care of myself too. We were able to avoid junk foods when we shop and we rarely drink sodas now. Last night, I decided to relax a bit and pamper myself with a nice french tip manicure. Well, I did it myself to save money. LOL. I’m not getting any younger so I will also start on applying wrinkle creams. I want one of the best wrinkle creams of course but it has to be affordable too. I have also been doing facial scrubs once a week but I don’t use a drugstore product. I actually use honey and sugar. It is effective and natural. I just need to rinse thoroughly though. I do accept how I look like as long as I’m healthy. Sometimes little improvements (non surgical) can already make a world of difference.
Losing Weight
Yes, I have been losing weight. It’s a miracle. I can’t believe it myself. I keep on losing a pound each day with no exercise. I’m not following any diet fad just a simple old Okinawan practice called Hara Hachi Bu. It means eating until you are 80% full. Apparently, it takes about 10 minutes or so for the stomach to produce hormones that will inform the beautiful brain that your full.
This practice was hard for me in the beginning. Eating slowly helps. I realized now how much I overeat each meal. I eat too fast and too much that I feel tired right after eating. One other thing that I have been doing differently is to drink water first when I feel hungry. The husband told me that thirst is often mistaken for hunger.
I’m sure I will lose a lot more and build muscles if I add exercise like using an elliptical or a treadmill. I will start on that this week and we’ll see how it goes. 
Weight a Minute!
After taking a shower, I decided to weigh myself since I have not done that in a long time. I figured that I probably lost a couple of pounds since I don’t eat much these days. I also thought that knowing I have lost some should motivate me more to eat healthy and exercise. It was a wrong decision. I gained and its A LOT MORE pounds. It is so frustrating sometimes. My weight just keeps on increasing. Every time I weigh I keep on telling myself “this is my heaviest”. *sigh* I’m really fighting not to get depressed and lose the little motivation left in losing weight. I just had it with this weight issues. Ugh! I need to make a weight loss blog to keep track. I’m getting desperate. 
Happy Hump Day!
Wow, I really thought its only Tuesday today, seriously. I have been inside the house most of the time that I don’t realize that the world still spins. Hehe. Anyway, yesterday I had to accompany the Husband at a doctor’s appointment. He just had his blood drawn today for tests. We have to wait for 2 weeks for the results. What does he have? Well, we don’t know yet but I hope it is not something dreadful. I’m glad that I haven’t been sick in a long time. I still have those occasional tummy pains and headaches but nothing serious. My allergies don’t bother me at all even with the cat around. There are still so many things to be thankful for and I always try to focus on the positive things in life.
Write It Down
I thought of making a journal for weight loss so I can see progress and at the same time keep me going. I really really want to lose weight. Something that has always been in my New Year’s resolution. I know that lately I have been posting alot lately about this topic but I want to don’t want to reach 30 years old fat and ugly. My time is running out because I will turn 30 soon. As I was checking for ideas on the web about weight loss journal, I came across some videos about lapband surgery. Based on the videos and pictures, there were great improvements. I think that operation is recommended for the highly obesed folks since their lives are already in great danger. I don’t think I will have to wait for that for me to happen. I better exercise now.
Healthy Living
I often complain about how much weight I gained over the past few years. I know exactly why but just doesn’t want to start working on it. For those people who wanted to lose weight, there’s no big secret. We all know that we just have to exercise and eat healthy. Since me and the Husband are both techi-holics, glued to our laptops most of the time, we ‘forget’ those two golden rules. It all comes back though in the morning when we will be weighing ourselves. Hehe. I will have to tell him about freshfunds, – my new discovery. We need to change our diet and get healthy products at the store next time we go grocery shopping. Then, I can earn points and bid on exercise machines at freshfunds.com. Talk about killing two birds with one stone. I think kids will find The Sproutwells video entertaining yet it still teaches them the value of health. Read more
Tomato..Bow!
It was only this year that I appreciate tomato juice. I often see it the juice aisle but never imagined myself drinking it. The husband get me into drinking tomato juice as well as vegetable juice. Don’t get me wrong, I eat tomatoes with fried fish, or as pasta sauce or as a ketchup.
As I go over the nutritional value list, I found interesting health facts that tomatoes have. Of course, we all know that tomato has lycopene which is a great anti-oxidant. Not only that it helps improve good eyesight but it is also known to prevent certain cancers like prostate, breast, intestinal as well as pancreatic. For best results, it is recommended to take it with olive oil or nuts because lycopene is fat-soluble. Tomato also has vitamin C, A, potassium and iron. It also contains riboflavin (aka B12) which is an energy booster.
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