Wow, I just read my last post... and yes, I was absolutely angry.

I apologize for my foul language.

This is exactly why I can't wait to leave this shit hole called "work."

I'm always at the bottom on fucken priority list and when I actually needed my supervisor, she was chatting with one of my coworkers.

I'm literally counting down the days until i leave this shit hole and leave all of this shitness!

No one does work here... how am i supposed to take this organization seriously when the management team only bicker about who manages who and how they can fuck who. Shit, it's pointless to be at an organization where the WHOLE company is dependant on ONE person!!!!
fuck you, fuck all y'all!

Best Mode - Days 25 - 27

Day 25

Breakfast: Iced tall skinny vanilla latte; Banana = 60; 105
Lunch: Spinach soup = 200
Snack: Blended tall iced green tea passion fruit = 100
Dinner: BP's strombolini and salad; 4 yaggerbombs; 1 pink lady; 2 crispy cream = 660; 836; 80; 210

Calorie Intake = 2251

Exercise = 1 hr hot yoga
Calories burned = 700

Calories/Day = 1551

Day 26
Breakfast/Lunch: half bowl of pho = 300
Dinner: 1 sausage; half hamburger w/cheese; 4 asparagus wrapped in bacon; 5 chicken wings = 286; 279; 720; 305

Calorie Intake = 1890

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So I'm getting really tired of updating this everyday lol I'll see how I feel later....

Beast Mode - Day 24

Breakfast: Iced tall skinny vanilla latte = 60
Lunch: McDonald's Mediteranean salad with crispy chicken = 290
Snack: Chinese ribs w/mushrooms and rice = 400
Dinner: Kelsey's Grilled salmon with onion wild rice; 5 wings = 580; 1700

Calorie intake = 3030

Exercise = None
Calories burned = zero

Calories/day = 3030

Uhmmm not liking this number at all! lol I should've listened to my healthy side and NOT ate five of Joo's mouth watering wings LOL oh well. Those were delicious and even though I did feel a tad guilty about it... I felt as if my hard work of working out really helped my metabolism... or so that's what me and my cousin says LOL

I realized that I need to eat some sort of breakfast. If not, I'm starving by the time lunch comes around... a salad is NOT good enough for just lunch. When I came home from work, there was zero food to eat and all I have eaten so far was the salad. Finally my dad came home with some ribs, desperate, I had to eat something.. but still wasn't full because I had to leave for Em's softball game. It kind of hit after the game... that I was really starving myself and in result, I eat excessively. Not good. I have to get back to regulating my eating and make sure that I get a breakfast within 2 hours of me getting up.

Hot yoga tonight =D

Beast Mode: Day 23

Breakfast: McDonald's breakfast - BLT bagel sandwich; hashbrown; small coffee = 440; 160; 0
Lunch: half a veal sandwich w/ no top bun; pasta marinera = 300; 327
Dinner: Congee Queen - Fried rice w/eel, salmon roe & crab; baby bakchoi w/garlic; calamari; flat rice noodles with beef & soy sauce; turnip = 600 (est)

Calorie Intake = 1827

Exercise = none
Calories burned = zero

Calories/day = 1827

I started writing this at 11:30am and now it's 1:43pm LOL My coworker who's on maternity leave came to visit so I was just gobbling her lil' 5 month old daughter up! She's the cutest lil' thing ever!!
I havent' my coworker since December... she said I lost weight =D *smiles

Anyway, I felt so guilty yesterday... eating all of the take out food and all... however, I don't feel guilty eating Congee Queen's new fried rice... mmm it was soo good! kind of expensive but really satisfying! LOL

Tonight, I gotta train extra hard. Kickboxing with my cousin tonight.. hot yoga with friends tmr =D can't wait! =D

Beast Mode - Day 22

Breakfast: Banana; Coffee; garden salad = 105; 110; 64
Lunch: half a club wrap = 216
Dinner: small bowl of Chinese broccoli; small piece of steak; medium bowl of Korean beef curry = 200; 200; 500

Calorie Intake = 1395

Exercise = 1hr & 15 mins of biking
Calories burned = 625

Calories/day = 770

Yesterday's bike ride wasn't that bad. We decided to visit Main. St., Unionville... and it only took us about 30-40 mins to get there! LOL compared to the 1 hr biking to BP morningside, yesterday's ride is easy peasy! There was no escalation except for when we had to cross the ETR in order to get to the other side. Other than that.... it was meh...

I feel so bad this week. I'm only working out 3days this week which is nothing compared to 5 days last week. I think I'm going to try to do some P90x today after shopping with my sisters. Hopefully I don't get lazy =S

This morning before my shift started, I went into McDonald's to purchase one of their salads because I had a coupon for 50% off. It turns out that I forgot they were still serving breakfasts so they didn't have any salads prepared. It kind of sucked because I was standing there trying to decided what I should order since I couldn't order my salad. As I was looking through the menu, nothing on there was in my diet! Finally, I ordered a BLT and a coffee. Of course, they got me by asking if I wanted to make it a combo with the hashbrown. I gave in and got it. I missed that greasy lil' baked potato thing so much! LOL
Anyway, when I got into today, I ate my breakfast quietly... an hour later, my supervisor asked me what I wanted for lunch? I completely forgot that I promised to purchase lunch with my co workers today, thus forcing me to eat more. Darn. It sucks. My supervisor just left to pick up a veal sandwich, salad, and past for everyone. Yep, that meal will be my last =S

Beast Mode - Day 21

Breakfast: banana; coffee = 110; 105

Lunch: Harvey's grilled chicken salad; half of a poutine = 300;320

Snack: bowl of Vietnamese crab soup = 100

Dinner: assortment of appetizers - (sweet potato fries; pita bread w/assortment of toppings; nacho and spinach dip; coconut shrimp); 1/3 of grilled salmon = 300; 136

Late night snack: half of Honest Lawyers' club wrap = 216

Calorie Intake = 1587

Exercise = None
Calories burned = zero

Calorie intake = 1587

I thought that I didn't eat that much yesterday until I calculated all of my calories and realized that I went over for more than 100 calories. Wow! Gotta step it up next time!

Yesterday afternoon, Katie stopped by for a lunch date with me. We ended up going to Harvey's across the street (long story). We didn't want anything unhealthy (even though 90% of the menu was exactly this) so I decided on a grilled chicken sandwich and she went for the grilled chicken sandwich. As we were waiting in line, I heard Katie whisper to me, "Do you want to share fries?" I replied, "Do you want to share a poutine instead?" LOL so we did it! hahah we got a poutine and shared it... even though I felt sooo guilty eating it, at the same time, it felt so satisfying as the delicious gravy and cheese oozing in your mouth... hahah and that was my first poutine since Montreal. I think I did good!
Today's post is all about french fries! LOL haha and I'm sorry in advance if you're craving for some good ol' fried up potatos after reading this post.

I know it can be very hard eating healthy. Especially when fast foods is so easily available (and cheap). I've decided that yes, you can opt for a salad by replacing french fries... but what if you just don't "feel" like eating that boring salad everyday for lunch? Here's where my post comes in! If you're choosing between fast food chains to eat, here is a comparison chart for you to choose the french fry that has the least amount of calories. I hope this table can be of some use to you :)

(Ps. I don't know why I have this huge gap between my text and the table, if you know, please let me know =) )

Restaurant	Small	Medium	Large	Poutine	Kids
McDonald's	220	360	560	na	220
Wendy's	330	410	540	na	210
Harvey's	N/A	320	410	840	210
Burger King	270	350	440	740	270
Taco Bell	N/A	360	N/A	(supreme) 540	N/A
KFC	N/A	340	940	970	N/A

Are these numbers surprising to you? It did for me...! I can't believe that KFC's poutine is practically almost a full day's worth of calories for me! wtf!!! It's official - KFC's gravy is just lard lol

Beast Mode - Days 18 - 20

Day 18

Breakfast: Iced Skinny Vanilla Latte; SB Chicken Sante Fe wrap = 60; 360
Lunch: Vegetable & Beef soup = 106
Dinner: Pho = 449

Calorie Intake = 975

Exercise = 1 hot yoga
Calories Burned = 500

Calories/day = 475

Ahh that number looks so much better when it's under 500! i'm glad! =)
I only put 500 calories burned for hot yoga because 1. the room wasn't hot enough.. well not how I was used to so my sweating wasn't really in effect... and 2. the class seemed like it was geared towards beginners thus the challenge wasn't there. Hopefully this doesn't persist next week. If it does, we're going to another location Friday nights!!!

Day 19

Breakfast: Ikea's $1 breakfast - scrambled eggs, 2 sausage links & home fries; 3 swedish meatballs = 500; 105
Lunch: Half a veal parmigiana sandwich = 300
Dinner: 3 pieces of california roll, 3 pieces salmon sashimi; 3 pieces salmon sushi = 130; 120; 130
Late night bar snack: seared salmon salad = 200
Drinks: 8 yagger bomb shots; 1.5 beers = 1672; 249

Calorie Intake = 3406

Exercise = NONE
Calories Burned = NONE

Ok, this really sucks!! LOL I was on track but when it comes to alcohol... lol I just can't help it!!! LOL not drinking is sooo hard!
On another note though... I've come to realize that I really like salmon... and fish in general! =D barely any calories... and it tastes good!

Day 20

Breakfast & Lunch: Thai beef and mango wrap; south western soup = 228; 120
Dinner: Chinese food - rice noodle with beef and soy sauce; chicken and salty fish fried rice; sauteed beef = 335; 350; 250

Calorie Intake = 1283

Exercise = None
Calories burned = zero

Calories/day = 1283

Today's meals weren't that bad! Joo, his sister and I went out for some chinese food after a movie... I don't know if it was the food or my hunger kicking in, but it was soo good!! mmmmm

Beast Mode - Day 17

Breakfast & Lunch: SB Chicken Santa Fe; Tall Iced Vanilla Latte = 380; 60
Dinner: Korean food - seafood soup with ramen noodles; hot and sweet chicken; spicy seafood noodles; spicy seafood soup w/noodles = 1000 (est)

Calorie Intake = 1440

Exercise = None
Calories burned = zero

Calories/day = 1440

Ugh, I'm going back to my same diet! but what am I supposed to do when I go out for dinner with Joo's family... and they litterally give me a bowl of each plate!!!??? blah! AND I have to eat it! It's disrespectful if I don't.... :(

Hot yoga tonight! CAN'T WAIT!!!

Beast Mode - Day 16

Breakfast: 1 scrambled egg; 2 breakfast sausages; 1 hashbrown; cup of oolong tea = 100; 132; 63; 0
Lunch: vegetable soup; Banana = 67; 105
Dinner: small bowl of tofu, tomato and egg soup; bowl of fried glass noodles; tortilla chips w/salsa = 105; 250; 150
Snack: Greek salad = 100
Shots: 3 Crispy crunch, 2 pink lady; white sambuca; pornstar; 2 swedish berry; liquid cocaine; polar bear= 303; 210; 103; 87; 206; 123; 96 (= 1128)

Calorie intake = 2200

Exercise = 1 hour of swimming
Calories burned = 554.5

Calories/Day = 1645.5

Instead of going to kickboxing yesterday, I thought we should switch up the work out and add some cardio in there... Kay did some cardio on the treadmill and I did some circuit training with Ram yesterday in the pool.
When I was in highschool, I was part of the school's dragonboat team. Just in case you don't know what dragonboating is... you can check it out here. During this time, I realized that I was at my fittest point of my life... I was a size 2 with high b or low c cup boobs... yes, I was a hottie! and I realized that the only reason why I had such a small waist was because training for the boat races were quite vigorous! This was our schedule:

Tuesday & Thursdays: Practice started at 7am sharp in the pool. There were three parts to the practice:

• Pool - We trained our endurance by doing many laps, races, relays, and circuits. We would start off with easy with 2 or 4 laps to warm up. Then we would either do relays or team races. To end it off, we did circuits. These circuits consists of pairing with someone else. One person would swim 2 laps - either specified or free methods - and the other person would do floor exercises such as push ups, sit ups, planks etc. and we would rotate doing this. Sometimes we would even tred water for a long period of time.
• Floor - We worked on our strength training by doing the usual push ups, sit ups, crunches etc
• Paddling - We worked on our technique (yes, there's technicalities paddling!) and our rhythm

On Fridays, we would go the beach and practice in the boat.

Training for dragonboat was quite hardcore! But since we loved dragonboating, it was worth waking up at 6 to go to practice at 7am!

Anyway, I introduced the circuit training to Ram a few months ago... and he really liked it! If you have access to a pool, you should do this! It really kicks your butt - you burn a lot of calories, work on your strength training AND your endurance!

Good thing we got some cardio in there...! Afterwards, Kay and a few other of my friends decided to go to bar to watch the hockey game. I, myself, was uninterested in the game because hockey - to me - is uber boring (and sometimes, I can't even see who has the puck! LOL). Nobody was planning to drink as everyone was trying to restrict their alcohol consumption to lose weight... until we saw the sign that said:

$3.50 SHOTS EVERDAY!

(sorry, just had to steal this from my cousin's blog tehehe)

We looked at eachother, justified that each shot is probably less than a drink... called the waitress and went crazy on ordering shots! They had a list of shots were able to order... and we wanted to try them all! We decided to randomly get 1 shot each but of different flavours. We started playing rock, paper, scissor to determine who would choose 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc... lol all in all, we took 11 shots within 2 hours! now that was random and epic night! LOL

As much as the night was filled with lots of drinks, laughs and more drinks, I couldn't help but wake up today feeling soooo guilty! I promised myself that I wouldn't drink and get trashed... and to stick to my daily exercise and healthy eating... it's just so hard to cut alcohol out, especially during summer! And yes, after calculating the amount of calories I consumed, I was absolutely devasted! I told my cousin that i didn't want to go over 2000 calories.. which I did -_-

but nonetheless, I feel like these calories, I can burn anytime but the memories of random drinking nights I cannot make up for =)

Beast Mode - Day 15

Breakfast: Coffee; banana = 110; 105
Lunch: Instant noodles w/miso soup; 2 veggie spring rolls; spicy salmon maki = 300; 240; 290
Dinner: bowl of egg and torfu soup; vietnamese scrambled eggs; tortilla; 3 chicken wings = 100; 100; 100; 213

Calorie Intake = 1558

Exercise = 1hour muay thai
Calories burned = 553

Calories/day = 1005

This sucks! I'm very disapointed at myself! I'm in the beginning of my 3rd week and I can't seem to get my eating habits out! arrrggghhh I gotta stop!

Today I'll be working extra hard! Kettlebell AND muay thai today! I gotta eat healthy before I start working out or else I'm gonna be starving once I come back and gobble down everything I see! Not good....

Dresses!

(this post is for Kay but you're welcome to read it too)

A few posts ago, I posted that I'm shopping for a dress for Joo's friend's wedding. The date is August 1 and I have almost 2 months to perfect for my look.
I've been experimenting with my hair lately - waves, curles, tight curls etc - and I think I'm gonna do something different this time. I usually keep my hair down with curls but I don't think I'll be doing it this time. I want my hair up... but don't want to make it too fancy. So - with the help of SATC2 - I've decided to do a side bun... something along the lines of this:

I really like this and I think it would like really elegant.
Another reason why I want to do this hair style is because I want to put emphasis on my shoulders (cuz i've been doing some crazy pushups!) and not on my waist. I've decided to go for an assymetrical/one shouler/boat neck line... or something other than just a tank or tube...
I've been searching through malls lately... not for a dress in particular but for clothes in general. I find that there's really nothing special out there. One day, I received a friend's request from a random girl... saying that she sells Korean and Japanese clothes online. I check her clothes out.. and found that these items are soo cute.. and unique! They have a certain flair to them that I can't quite point out but they're just sooo nice! As I was looking through their stuff, I found some really cute dresses that I am considering of wearing for the wedding. I think these dresses will be uberly compantible with the choice of hairstyle I picked...

I really like all of them and don't know which one I should choose? What do you think?

Beast Mode - Day 14

Breakfast: coffee; banana = 110; 105
lunch: fit for life chicken souvlaki wrap = 169
dinner: 9 piece sushi rolls = 255

Calorie intake = 639

Exercise: 1/2 hour kettlebell workout
Calories burned = 500 (est)

Calories/day = 139

I think I need to eat less. Yesterday (day 14) was the least amount of calories I've consumed... along with the most amount of calories I've burned... which is great!
I've always thought that the more I eat, the more energy I have to work out. I guess this isn't the case! I've realized that I need to just satisfy my hunger rather than satisfying my cravings for certain foods... and that's where the tempations come in...
I also blame my loving boyfriend who encourages me to eat (because he has a huge appetite!) and for making me feel guilty for not finishing my food. Because of all of this food intake, I've gained a huge amount of weight and crave more foods! arrrggghhh
Lately, I've been noticing that the people around me have said that I am an inspiration/motivation for them to stay fit - either losing weight or just being healthy. I'm sorry if I sound like I'm boasting... It made me realize that the actions I do for myself not only betters my life but the people around me... and I feel somewhat overwhelmed by this yet grateful that only a small action would create a wave of healthy lifestyles. With this said, I thank you. I thank you because it helps me keep motivated and focused... and encourages me to keep doing what I'm doing.
A few months ago, my supervisor bought Jillian Michaels' (the hardcore trainer of The Biggest Loser) book Making the Cut: The 30 Day Diet & Fitness Plan for the Strongest and Sexiest You. It wasn't until a few days ago that she started reading it. She noticed that I've been eating healthier snacks and lunches at work. She mentioned that in the book, there's a test that helps you find what type of metabolism you have... which can help you create (or follow) a nutrition plan that can help you lose weight in a healthy way (not a fad diet). She brought the book in today and photocopied the test for me take. In the book, Jillian mentions that there are three metabolic types tha tone has:

• Slow oxidizers requires a higher percentage of carbohydrates than of fat and protein, both to lose weight and to feel both physically and mentally energized
• Balanced oxidizers require an equal percentage of carbohydrates, fat, and protein and have the capacity to do well on the widest range of foods
• Fast oxidizers require a higher percentage of protein, and fat than of carbohydrates. Fast oxidizers should have protein in every meal, including snacks.

I fell under the Balanced Oxidizers and I'm pretty sure most people do too (all of my coworkers did). In this metabolic type, it says that I need a balance carbs, fat and protein. And here's my rant of carbs - I find that in the last 5-7 years, there has been this fad diet that you should cut out carbs if you want to lose weight. At first, it all made sense to me... cutting out breads etc sits in your stomach longer thus, not digesting food etc etc - That's not the case. I find that good sources of carbs can help you be full longer thus cravings for sweets or other unhealthy things can be curbed. Other than the fact that people who are under the fast oxidizer type, I don't understand that. Most people are balanced oxidizers and for you to cut out carbs just means that you're living an unhealthy diet and starving yourself.

Anyway, I was gonna blog about something else today... but just thought it might be useful for you to see what metabolic types there are. If you'd like to do the test, let me know. =)

Also, yesterday Kay and I went to our kettlebell class. It was only half an hour but it seriously kicked our butts. Even the jacked up black guys behind us weren't able to do the full exercises! Today when I woke up, I already felt the pain (I usually feel it in exactly 24 hours of my workout). The lower back is aching and I think I'm in much need of some hot yoga to stretch it out. Thankfully, our new work out routine enables us to do some hot yoga on Fridays after a long week of working out.
Yesterday, Kay and I have made a pact to ourselves that our goal at the gym is to be able to do the full kettlebell exercises, along with an hour class of Muay Thai. Yesterday, we were only able to do the kettlebell class and were too exhausted to do the Muay Thai one.
On that note, I'm very glad Kay and Katie has decided to join the martial arts gym with me. It truly motivates me to work harder and be focused. Thank you =)

Beast Mode - Day 11, 12 & 13

note: I wrote this post yesterday but couldn't write a new post in blogger for sort of reason...
Day 11

Breakfast: Baby arugula w/ cashews, coffee = 200, 60
Snack: Broccoli, cucumbers = 20; 21
Lunch: Turkey sandwich w/cucumbers, alfalfa, baby arugula and flax bread = 400
Dinner: Hamburger, sausage = 500; 300

Calorie intake = 1501

Exercise = None
Calories Burned = zero

Day 12

Breakfast/Lunch = Kim Kim’s chili chicken on rice; chicken & corn soup = 500; 300
Snack: half an ikea hot dog = 97
Dinner: Shrimp rolls = 400

Calorie intake = 1297

Exercise = None
Calories Burned = zero

Day 13

Breakfast: Ikea’s $1 breakfast (includes, 2 sausages, scrambled eggs & home fries) & 1 soup = 500
Dinner = Jack Astor’s steak fajitas = 1019

Calorie intake = 1519

The weekend is over… and so are the temptations I endured. Gosh, it’s sooo hard to go out with friends who love to eat everything and anything! Joo finally got a Friday night off. Initially, me, him and couple of other friends were supposed to come by for a uber small bbq and cool down with beers (obviously, the beer was not for me). It turned out to be at least 5 guys coming over and Joo getting drunk with Dan…! (Lol They get hilariously funny and at times, sooo friggin’ weird! LOL Dan is an engineer so whenever I talk to him or anyone else, he’s always talking about engineering stuff…! Lol stuff like, how it works, physics, math etc etc… Joo loves talking about all of this stuff so they’re soo compatible with each other! )
Anyhow, it kinda sucks how I’m starting this lifestyle change during the summer. I gotta admit, I miss out on a lot things such as… drinks on the patio, barbeques, ice cream… and a whole lot more! BUT, I gotta make it through.
Saturday wasn’t sooo bad! I thought I ate a whole bunch of stuff that day… but as I was writing it down, it wasn’t that much.
Sunday was a killer. Those fajitas were soo damn good… but I could’ve gotten a salad instead. Boo.

Anyhow, that was my eventful but still chaotic weekend. Back to grind of Monday….

Beast Mode - Day 10

Breakfast: Baby arugula w/cashews; iced tall skinny vanilla latte = 200; 60
snacks: carrots, brocolli; cucumbers = 10; 20; 21
lunch: turkey sandwich w/flax bread, baby arugula, cucumbers, alfalfa = 400
snacks: carrots, brocolli; cucumbers = 10; 20; 21
dinner: spicy Korean seafood & tofu soup with veggies & rice = 600
Calorie intake = 1362

Exercise = NONE

Sleep = 6 hours

Yesterday since I knew that I wouldn't be working out, I decided to keep my eating at a minimal, but of course not starving myself. My plan to eat a meal every 4-5 hours with carrots, broccoli and cucumbers in the between worked. Surprisingly, the snacks helped curb my hunger until my next meal. I've also noticed that I don't eat that much when I'm actually eating my meals. It helps me not chow down all of my food all at once. Planning your food everyday makes it easy to see what you intake and control your hunger.
Did you know that you're practically intaking zero calories when you eat carrots, broccoli, cucumbers and celery? Apparently, the digestion process of each of these foods burn more calories than the actually calories it has. Interesting fact. huh?

The weekend is almost here! five and half more hours to go! Temptation will arise... and hopefully I am prepared =S

Beast Mode - Day 9

Breakfast: Coffee; 1 Double = 110; 345.4
Snacks: Carrots; celery = 10; 20
Lunch: 1 Double = 345.4
Snack: Carrots; celery; cucumbers; bowl of spinach and pork bone soup; iced tall skinny vanilla latte = 10; 20; 21; 200; 60
Dinner: Bowl of pho = 449
Calorie intake = 1590.8

Exercise = 1 hour hot yoga
Calories burned = 700

Calories/day = 890.8

As I mentioned in yesterday's entry, my coworkers and I get some take out lunch once in a while. It turns out that we didn't go get veal parmigiano but decided on some west indian food. As I was looking at the menu of all types of curries, roti and jerks, I thought to myself that I will never lose weight if I decide to get all of this type of food (mostly sauce and rice), especially when I know they pack the whole damn take out container to the very top! I felt so helpless. There were times when I just thought, "C'mon Pauline, if you eat this today, it's oookkkk!! You're going to hot yoga anyway so you'll burn it off!!" Yes, that's my conscious talking to me, the devil side telling me to friggin' be fat... and that's how it was before! But not anymore!! NOPE! NOT ME!!!
My eating habits has always been a struggle me. I loooovveee food! Any type of food - from Korean, West & East Indian, Chinese... EVERYTHING! - I love!! It's horrible, I know. But I fell through it and decided to get the least amount (and cheapest!) thing on the menu, doubles!

If you don't know what doubles are, please look above. They're a native Trini street food that consists of two fried but scrumptious flat breads and delicious curried chick peas. It is incredibly good... and the chick peas make up for all of the greasy and fattening flat bread. Yummmm... I just wanted to share a lesson culture to you =)

Yesterday's hot yoga class was sooo hot! But do you know what made it hotter??!?!? The friggin' instructor!! hahaah I swear, at times I felt like we were flirting with our yoga moves! lol jk! I wisshhh!
The place that we usually go to for hot yoga no longer offered the cheap $7 class on Wednesdays at 8:30 anymore. Wednesdays are our mini "girls night out"nights that consists of hot yoga and some good lovin' pho. But now, since the classes aren't offered anymore... what to do? what to do? We gotta rearrange our work out schedule or find some place that offers hot yoga for cheap. It's gonna be tough because everyone reserves Wednesday nights for our weekly hot yoga session.
Yesterday class... and I swear, every week, the class gets hotter and hotter! I actually fell asleep while in corpose pose before the class lol As I was lying there, I could already feel the sweat roll off my forehead! lol and the class hasn't even started yet! lol But yesterday's class was really good. There were only about 1/8 of people there compared to the usually packed 60 people. It wasn't as stuffy and the instructor took his time to try to perfect everyone's pose. It was good.

Anyway, I think that's it? I'll ttyl =)

Beast Mode - Day 8

Breakfast: Baby arugula w/cashews & cucumbers; coffee = 200; 105
Snack: Cucumbers, carrots, celery = 50
Lunch: Turkey sandwich w/flax bread, baby arugula, cucumbers = 200
Snack: Snack: Cucumbers, carrots, celery; bowl of pork bone soup & tomatos = 50; 100
Dinner: Bowl of rice w/spicy/kim chi chicken, kimchi, kimchi cucumbers salad = 500
Calorie intake = 1205

Exercise: 2 hours of biking
Calories burned = 894.5

Calories/day = 310.5

Sleep = 6 hours

I gotta make this entry quick.. before my supervisor comes back from whatever she's doing. I think she's catching on to the fact that... I don't really do work at work... but meh! LOL There's nothing to do anyway....!
Yesterday (Day 8) marks the official 1 week of the my 'lifestyle change.' I say lifestyle change because this is not a fad diet and I truly want to change my eating habits etc.... I weighed myself... Yep! I stepped onto that scale and was afraid that my weekend of bad eating would catch up to me... but it didn't! I'm right on track! I lost a pound! phew! all that hard work, all those biking nights and the heat of standing hot yoga paid off!
This week, I'm planning to go full force! Monday night, I went over to the supermarket and bought a whole bunch of muchies! Munchies such as celery, carrots, broccolli, cucumbers to snack on. Remember when I mentioned in my earlier posts that I gotta stop heading straight to the kitchen after work? Yeah, I was hoping that snacking on these veggies that it would curve my hunger... and it did! I'm so glad!
Other than the weekend, I find that there are a lot of food temptations... but I know I can overcome them. For example, we do luncheons at work now and then... today we have an ex worker come in to have lunch.. and we're having veal parmigiano sandwiches from an Italian restaurant nearby. I don't even want to know how much calories that is... but my plan is quite simple: eat it piece by piece throughout the day. Eat half for breakfast (since I started late today) and eat the other half for lunch.... oh yes, and eat it without the bread lol That's the key!

Hot yoga tonight with ladies! Can't wait! Gotta stretch out my body after the kettlebell workout (my body is still sore) and after riding uphill yesterday...!