1200 calories/day -- Day 1

Breakfast:
-3 pcs Marie Biscuit (approx. 35 calories)

Lunch:
-1/4 cup rice
-Chicken adobo with potatoes (drumstick)
-1 Banana
-Pancit (tikim tikim)

Snack Part 1:
-1 serving Lychee jellies (120 calories)

Snack Part 2:
-biko and kakanin

Snack Part 3:
-variety of chips and choco biscuits c/o Glenn

Dinner:
-Large White Hat frozen yogurt (plain)

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Above is an example of how NOT to achieve your goals.

2 days' worth

Healthy food = boring. Apparently not, if you're a creative health-conscious wannabe.

Yesterday's good eats: Enzo's Italian-style pasta, frozen yogurt, and lumpiang ubod. Now dieting is getting interesting..

I was supposed to jog around Merville with Enz last night, but that didn't happen sooo, I bought a pampaganang backback from R.O.X. before he picked me up. Perhaps spending more than a thousand bucks on a fitness gear would rid me of more excuses.

And alas, I went to the gym after work today! What. Up.

Gym session includes:
- 15 minutes on the Step Master
- 30 minutes on the elliptical
- some floor excercise

That's it for now. Will --hopefully-- go to the gym again tomorrow morning.

Making up for yesterday's brownies

Because it's the nasty time of the month and the pain made me slouch for hours after lunch, I was only able to jog 3 rounds (High Street) tonight. I need to go back to the gym ASAP. I'm not sure if jogging alone will work for me, having gained more than 10 lbs during my work-out-less, sitting-down-full, and food-abundant year in Watson Wyatt.

Ang sumpa ng office job. Must disprove that theory.

Today's meals were semi-healthy. I followed idol Kevin's advice on not eating rice:

Breakfast:
- fish (Bangus tail from my baon)
- coffee
- 3 Marie biscuits

Lunch:
- Smoked Bangus (sans tail)
- 4 pcs siomai (loaded with extenders, according to enzo. I did say "semi-healthy")

Snack:
- 1 banana (with an exceptionally large "girth." hehe)

Dinner:
- Crabstick n' Mangos sandwich from The Sandwich Guy. No Mayo, with lots of cucumber and green leaves. Bongga!

Thank God It's Thursday. Ngek.

Breakfast
- about 1/3 cup of rice
- a small serving of pork adobo
- hard-boiled egg

Lunch
- chopseuy, beybeh!
- half cup of rice
- pomelo
- 4 pcs siomai

Merienda
- 1 banana

Dinner
- Fillet-o-Fish

Ahuh, it's sorta okay... But I jogged around High Street for 4 rounds with Grace, James, Jam, Tiff, and Trisha. I brought my iPod this time and Jam was right, music increases stamina. You somewhat forget you're tired and if you find a certain song that is perfect for your jogging/breathing pace, man, you gotta put it on repeat! Young Jeezy's Put On (feat Kanye West), for some reason, kept me putting one foot after another, beat after beat.

So far that's all I have for the week. The last three days have no place in this blog. BLAH.

Tama na ang "bukas na"

Kaya last na to. Bukas, I shall make the first--out of many attempted firsts--step to keeping myself fit. I have no drastic plans in mind, at least for this week.

This blog's role is, hopefully, to track my progress. I was supposed to keep it really private, probably just share the entries with vinci. But as he had suggested, if others get to read it, mahihiya ako pag walang entry (i.e. no slimming progress). So if you're reading this, wish me luck!

Statistics. Roughly, the effin' scales now read 122 lbs. No worries, it shall go down dramatically. Ambisyosa, FTW!!! *crosses fingers*

What to expect:
- food log
- attempted successful gym trips
- tips I've discovered
- statistics (yes, walang hiya na kung walang hiya!)
- other topics i fancy

Whew. I'm feeling positive about this. *Marking off January 4, 2009*

It's time to try
Defying Gravity
I think I'll try
Defying gravity
...
And you wont bring me down!