wednesday, 3.6.13

7:15am
huge tuna and egg patties, kinda like meatloaf.
4 cans of tuna, 7 eggs, garlic, basil, pepper, rosemary crackers that i made on sunday for the “bread”, mixed and poured into an oven pan, baked at 350F for 45 mins. it should have only taken 30 mins., but my patties were extra thick. after it was done baking, i split the huge patty into three servings for w, th, and f breakfasts of this week.

12pm
was not hungry (wonder why =P). had my grapefruit green tea and was good to go.

4:50pm
workout
lower body and abs 6 sets of: 12, 10, 8, 6, 12, 12; with increasing weights (unless otherwise noted): 6, 10, 13, 16
quads: dumbbell squats- low-carry (10, 13, 16, 18, 10), shoulder rack (10, 13, 16, 18, 10)
hamstrings: dumbbell lunges, straight-leg deadlifts (10, 13, 16, 18, 10)
calves: standing heel raises (10, 13, 16, 18, 10), one-leg raises (10, 13, 16, 18, 10)
abs: ab ripper x (from p90x).

6:30pm
tilapia, sautéed garlic peppers, bean sprouts, some pork and chicken (like three bites), spinach. was still hungry after dinner, so i had a handful of nuts and a few gulps of almond milk, too.

i am feeling really good! today was a bit tiring because i subbed for another p.e. teacher and was out in the sun all day, but i honestly feel better than i have felt in a long time. i am feeling like i felt before my whole downward spiral, which is awesome. also, i am extra encouraged because a colleague of mine told me something special. there was a former teacher whose daughter was a victim of a car crash, and, sadly, she did not make it. my colleague asked us all to write letters if we wanted to so that she could send the former teacher and her family a care package. i had not known the teacher well. in fact, i only knew her name and would see her at the same church before she left for the states. however, i still wanted to reach out to her in hopes of helping her in some way. and i did! and i am so happy that i could make a positive impact, albeit a small one, on someone who is practically a stranger. =] PTL. i hope that i can keep glorifying God in this way, especially for peace. speaking of peace, i think my family mistakes my peace for cruelty. it can be difficult, but people who do not have God cannot have peace. a few of my family members are so stressed out over the physical. i am sad that my father is in the hospital, but, because it is out of my control, i can only place my trust in God. He has some sort of plan, and it is not important for me to know it. i can only do what i can.

it’s been interesting figuring out how to do breakfast. 50g of protein within half an hour of getting out of bed can be difficult sometimes, so i have been preparing bulk breakfasts to last me a couple of days. also, i like to stretch and do a little bit of yoga in the morning before eating anything, so it makes it extra difficult to try to prep in the morning. b.i.l. got me egg whites today, which was really nice of him. it was funny, though, because i had only asked him how much egg whites cost per unit, and then he said, “oh, they are 125nt (~$4usd) for one bottle, and one bottle has 30 egg yolks. i bought you four.” x_X well, i guess i’m set for a week. =P

interesting article husby showed me (“how i stopped eating food”):
http://robrhinehart.com/?p=298

and to end today’s post, here’s some motivation for what i call the the move, be moved, make a move MOVEMENT.:

=]

sat, 2.23.13.

8:30am
hard-boiled egg, green veggies juice (cucumber, bittermelon, peppers, carrot). sorry, forgot to take a photo.

12:30pm
1 hard-boiled egg, 1 bowl of shredded coconut+goji berries+chia seeds+pumpkin seeds, 5 marcona almonds, 1/2 a yogurt cup, 4 stalks of celery

5:30pm

fake bibimbap- spinach, sugar kimchi, sugar kimchi radish, 2 fried eggs, 1 bowl of fish soup

so i was at the hospital when i started my leptin resetting. my dad has a history of health issues from many years of health abuse and bad lifestyle habits. diabetes ii in his thirties and kidney failure in his fifties. he held off doing dialysis because he is a typical taiwanese man, a self-made individual who relied and still thinks that he can rely on no one. his ambition for money, status, and recognition became his priority, over his health, even over his family, which was what had motivated him in the beginning. his focus was completely money-oriented, and bad lifestyle habits, including eating low-nutrition and high-cholesterol/sugar diet, traveling extensively among three continents (i saw him–what, five days out of the year?), resting little with about 4 hours of sleep per night (and unrestful sleep, at that. could not shut off his brain), and just generally being a stubborn workaholic, landed him in the hospital.  for the first time, he had no appetite to eat. his favorite thing to do is eat. all he thinks about, other than work, is what to eat– for breakfast, lunch, andsupper. so he finally caved in to doing dialysis, which will become a regular, three days a week thing if he does not change his habits. he will also be relying on angioplasty. i admire his tenacity, his strong will, and his intellect, but i do not want to end up the way he has.

  

so i got inspired to do some research on how to repair my leptins, and, lo and behold, i came across the work of jack kruse, a neurosurgeon. he has some great stuff about foods, exercise, sleep, and scheduling. he is a bit tendentious, and there are other sources that suggest he makes up statistics, so take everything with a grain of salt. however, his guide on eating paleo and epi-paleo are pretty good.

anyway, i was at the hospital, staying on a convertible chair in my dad’s room. i did bring my own food, but i did not bring enough for five days. you would think that a hospital would have a food court with healthy foods, right? wrong. the only healthy vendor was a fruit and vegetables + juice seller whose products were sent in fresh every morning. they had other stuff, too, but it was all made with grains and soy, so i steered clear of those. no clean protein options, so i opted for the “korean” restaurant and got their fake bibimbap. so greasy. the kimchi was not really kimchi, just tasted like sugar and chili-covered cabbage and radish. eggs were fried in some unclean oil. =( i had a lot of celery in hopes of helping it to digest, but i think i had too much of the fibrous things because my tummy was not happy. in fact, it was roiling in disgust and upset. not sure if the yogurt did anything. oh, well. i know for next time, i’ll just have to pack as many meals as i can.