Tuesday, June 16, 2015

16 not 8 glasses of water every day

I am dehydrating myself because I am not drinking properly. 

Yes, you read it right. At 264lbs, I should be drinking half of my body weight in ounce to totally hydrate myself. Now, I am thinking how am I going to drink 16 glass of water (250ml)  if I usually fail to drink 8 glasses of water every day?

I need to drink a glass of water in every hour that I am awake for 16 hours.
Whew!


Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Sauteed Sardines in Tomato Sauce with Alugbati Leaves (Ginisang Sardinas na may Alugbati)


I am starting to load up on my green vegetables. I am add malunggay leaves whenever I cook sauteed monggo and tinolang manok. This 

Ingredients: 
(Take note that I am not into measuring my ingredients when I cooked. I was more of assessing how much goes into this and that based on the way I look at it and I just adjust the taste later.) 

Canned sardines
Sliced onions 
Chopped ginger 
Diced tomatoes
Minced garlic 
Alugbati leaves 

Procedure:

Saute ginger, tomato, onion, and garlic in a cap of cooking oil. (Yes, I use the cap of my bottle of cooking oil to measure the amount of oil I will in sauteing.) 
Then add the sardines, half-cup of water, and a pinch of salt and ground pepper. 
Let it simmer then add the alugbati leaves. 
Turn off the stove and let the leaves wilt in the remaining heat. 
Serve! 





One Day At a Time: No Colas or sugar-filled drinks

I am starting this week to avoid any sugar-filled or sweetened drinks like soft drink, cola, iced tea, and the likes. I know I can easily do this because I am not really into cola-drinking. I have to be contended with drinking cold water.    

I realized sugar is the most culprit of all culprits in a diet when I stumbled upon these charts comparing different drinks.



Who wouldn't be crazy when you see these charts of comparison?

So in line with avoiding sugar-loaded drinks, I will not use sugar and cream with my coffee.. Yeah, black coffee for me starting this week.





Saturday, May 30, 2015

30-Day Cardio Challenge


I go for this! And I am taking the challenge. I am competing with myself. (Note: I saw this in a friend's FB timeline.) No harm in trying. Though I must admit that doing the climber is a little difficult to do since I have a big tummy. :-) 



Why the sudden concern to do this? I want to be healthy. I want to live longer. Few days ago, I went for a medical check up after experiencing a slight pain the upper right part of my abdomen. I was not worried about my gall bladder. I have been living without it for several years now. I was worried about my liver. 

Well, after a blood chemistry and ultrasound, I found out that I still have a fatty liver and my cholesterol is too high. I was prescribed to take Simvastatin every night and Silymarin three times a day for a month. Then I will submit myself for another round of blood works. 

I know taking medicines is not enough. I have to do something about the the food that I eat and I really need to lose weight. Though I have targeted to lose at least 40lbs but not more than 50lbs by December 1. 




Thursday, March 5, 2015

I am back!

Again... 

I read all my entries in this space all over again. One of the things I noticed was I keep on hibernating and returning back. It happened for several times. Now I am wondering what happened in between that I missed writing and updating this blog. Maybe so many things happened and I lost time to update this. Or I lost the interest to update. Or I lost the interest to share what happened to me. 

So many reasons, and I do not want to dig into that. What is more important is I keep on returning back. I move on. This time, I am looking forward. And I hope to stick around... longer this time. 


Happy New Year
Happy Three Kings
Happy Chinese New Year
Happy Grammar Day!