Spinach Artichoke Salad

Today’s Lunch

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129 lbs

1. Long life cocktail + 2 caps psyllium husk
2. raspberry carob protein shake (I should’ve added more stevia… tasted alright but not quite out-of-this-world as I had expected >.>)

3. warm lemon water
4. cran water + 1/3 cup prunes
5. cran water + vitamin e + c + evening primrose oil + ezekiel bread + 4 carob chips
6. 3 baked eggplants seasoned with nutritional yeast and parsley, baked in vegetable broth (no salt added)
7. Cran water
8. Shrimp sauteed in veg broth, cumin, ginger, garlic, with 1 sliced zucchini. On top of a bed of spinach, showered in flax oil and 1/4th squeezed lemon juice. ( Y U M )
***The combination of all the spices really made the broth taste good. Had a flavor similar to tom ka and sinigang. Mmmmm.

9. Warm lemon water
10. Cran water + prunes + 10 carob chips

11. cran water

+ ran 6 miles in 1 hr 15 min

+3 sets of 16, 30 lbs on leg machine

+3 sets of 15, 10lb free weights

+ 140 jumping jacks

+200 sit ups

12. water

13. cran water

And now for more pictures:
Dinner

Lunch

So happy with how the food turned out today! :D~

ε=ε=ε=┌(；ﾟヮﾟ)ﾉWeekend Flash Recap

Saturday and Sunday went by fast, as always.
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130lbs
Saturday
1. 6 glasses of cran water (not all a once, just total for the day, plus 2 psyllium husk caps total)
2. 2 glasses lemon water
3. bowl of nilaga with no rice.

So good!
4. Raspberry protein shake + ezekiel bread
5. 2 cookies
6. a bite of an ube red bean popsicle.

+ ran 1 mile in 11 minutes
+ did 2 sets of free weights
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129 lbs
Sunday

1. Long life cocktail with 2 caps psyllium husk
2. warm water lemon
3. 2 eggs with spinach, nutritional yeast, cumin, cayenne. I love nutritional yeast.
4. Big spinach salad with garlic, flax oil, cayenne, apple cider vinegar + ezekiel bread
5. cran water
6. strawberry protein shake
7. spinach salad + 2 ezekiel bread
8. 2 waters + vitamin e + evening primrose oil + vitamin c
9.4 cran waters + 2 caps psyllium husk + ezekiel bread
10. 1 table spoon of carob chips.

+ran 5 miles in 1 hr 10 min
+2 sets leg machine 30 lbs
+ 2 sets free weights 10 lbs
+2 sets free weights 5 lbs
+100 jumping jacks
+75 sit ups

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Warrior Dash and Tough Mudder are obstacle courses in mud I’m interested in doing. In conclusion: I need a job —because those activities are not free. T_T

The theme of this year life is ‘endurance’.

Post V-Day Daily Menu Recap

130 lbs

1. Long life cocktail with 2 caps psyllium husk

2. warm water + lemon

3. 2 scrambled eggs with parsely, mushroom, cayenne, nutritional yeast + cran water

Nutritional Yeast was alright, I liked the added flavor :0)

4. cran water + evening primrose oil + vitamin e + c

5. 6 carob malt balls

6. 1/2 cup prunes

7. raspberry protein shake with flax oil and stevia

8. spinach salad with flax oil, apple cider vinegar and garlic + cran water

9. the last macaron

10. 9 more carob malt balls…..

11. another spinach salad with flax oil, garlic and cider vinegar + cran water

12. 2 cran waters + half a slice of ezekiel bread cinnamon raison flavor

13. spinach and valentine’s chicken + cran water

14. lemon water + evening primrose oil

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Today is going to be a big work out day to make up for yesterday’s feasting.

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1. 4 miles in 45 minutes

2. leg machine

3. rowing machine

4. free weights

5. arm curl

 

☆Update ツ

I began The Fat Flush Plan  on January 20th, and weighed 140 lbs. 27 days of  semi-strict dieting and I now weigh 130lbs.  10 lbs in 27 days.

In terms of progress lately on The Fat Flush Plan, it has been going well. This weekend I’ve been off and on. Here is the best of what I can remember..

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Saturday

1. Cran water

2. 3 glasses of water + ezekiel bread

3. Lemon water

4. carob almond brownie from Mother’s Market (couldn’t resist..)

5. cran water + evening primrose oil + vitamin e + vitamin c

6. water + 3 carob malt balls (can’t stop eating them… ahh!!)

7. 4 macarons

8.  sesame tofu + salad + cran water

9.  lemon water

10. a few fries (bad, tsk tsk)

11. cran water

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1. 140 jumping jacks

2. 120 sit ups/ crunches

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Sunday

1. Long life cockail 2 psyllium husk caps

2. Lemon water

3. 2 eggs with mushroom and cayenne

4. cocktail shrimp, a few tempura shrimp and squash, stuffed mushrooms, salmon and tuna nigiri ( Tita Marie’s birthday ) + water

5.  cran water + evening primrose oil + vitamin e

6. lemon water

7. Carob powder protein shake — it was okay! Definitely needed stevia and maybe ice. I will try blending it with frozen fruit next time.

8. sesame tofu + spinach with flax oil and apple cider vinegar + cran water

9.   jog 2 miles, 3 reps of 15 on leg machine, 4 reps of 15 on arm curl machine, 3 reps of 15 on 10 lb free weights, 2 reps of 15 on sit – up bench press machine (I don’t know what it’s called ) and 4 miles on elliptical.

10. Water + cran water

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I did more weight lifting than usual because I was waiting for an elderly lady to finish with the treadmill, and she ended up using it for an hour… had to kill time and be productive while I was there. I also did more on sunday because I wasn’t able to do any cardio on saturday; *someone* convinced me to stay in and watch Inception, so I did some jumping jacks and sit ups– easy stuff that can be done in front of the t.v. I do the jumping jacks in sets of 25 and 30.

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Valentine’s Day (Today)

1. Long Life cocktail 2 psyllium husk caps

2. warm water with lemon

3. 2 eggs with mushroom, cayenne and parsley + cran water + water

4. 4 carob malt balls (ahhh!!!!)

5. cran water + sesame tofu + spinach with cider vinegar, flax oil, garlic, cayenne + evening primrose oil + vitamin e

6. 5 or 6 macarons (ahhh!!!)

7. 1/3 cup of prunes

8. cran water

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For dinner I’m planning to use the slow cooker to make mushroom chicken…  I hope it will turn out good!

Here is a photo of it after I just placed the ingredients in:

The ingredients are whatever I found around the house
Ingredients:
5 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
ground mustard powder
chopped parsley
gluten gree organic cream of mushroom soup
vegetable broth
ranch
sesame oil
parmesan cheese
chopped garlic
shredded cheese
1 cup mushrooms

1/2 jar of sun dried tomato alfredo sauce

and I’m planning to serve it with pasta and spinach

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Dinner was delicious!!!!!

☆\{ﾟ∀ﾟ}/ Raspberry Protein Shakes and MISSION SPAGHETTI-SQUASH-SPAGHETTI– was a SUCCESS!!~*

Lesson of the day: Raspberry Protein Shakes > Strawberry Protein Shakes

Not only do I love the taste but  –I geek out over foods with high-fiber content.

vs.

Strawberry

Spaghetti Squash Adventure

I just took it out of the oven and am in the process of separating the rind and seasoning it. To be continued!..

 

I decided to make a sauce to go with it using tomato puree, parsley, green onions, shrimp, crushed red pepper, garlic and veggie broth. I sautéed the garlic/veggie broth/ green onions with the shrimp, then added the spices and tomato puree all together. It was PHENOMENAL… Behold:

 

Using spaghetti squash as actual spaghetti noodles have made me not ever want to eat regular noodles again!

YATTA!!!

1. Long life cocktail + 2 psyllium husk caps
2. Warm water + lemon juice
3. 2 scrambled eggs + mushroom+ parsley + cumin + dill
4. Cran water + water
5. Cran water + 2 evening primrose caps + vitamin c + vitamin e
6. Warm water + lemon, cran water
7. Raspberry protein shake
8. water
9. Spaghetti-Spaghetti Squash + warm lemon water + 2 evening primrose oil caps + cran water
10. 2.5 cups Life Cereal all day (act of temptation for the day)

Egg Bake

Today for lunch I tried the egg bake recipe in The Fat Flush Plan, a great detox regimen book by Ann Louise Gittleman. Instead of ground turkey I used ground chicken. I was low on red bell peppers, so I added green bell peppers. I love that sweet taste that bell peppers add. I used dill weed (not fennel), parsley, and garlic. Other veggies were mushrooms and tomato. I added 4 eggs instead of just 2. It turned out good. I’ll try the eggplant next time; and I need to add paprika and fennel to my spice collection.

d･_･b Day-11 Phase-1 I like apple cider vinegar

135 lbs

1. Long Life Cocktail with 2 psyllium caps
2. warm water with lemon
3. 2 eggs with cayenne, mushrooms, parsley + cran water
4. cran water and water
5. cider chicken with mushrooms and cider salad with garlic and cayenne + cran water
6. 2 waters + vitamin c, e, evening primrose oil
7. 1.5 small coconut choco thing (baad..)
8. prunes
9. cran water
10. Water with lemon
11. Cran water + leftover cider chicken + leftover quinoa & sesame tofu
12. 2 miles in 25 min (elliptical), 2 sets 12 reps 30lbs leg machine 5 min
12. Water + long life cocktail

I’m going to try the 12 hr fast track phase 2 detox tomorrow… we’ll see how it goes! I was looking forward to making avocado protein shakes (because they are abundant in my house and are in season… and btw they were in yesterday’s pic and were the ‘look-alike’ limes hehe). The avocado protein shakes will have to wait until tues or wed. Ahh can’t wait til then.

Today’s events:

Breakfast

 

Lunch Prep (was very yummy)

 

Ever since I began The Fat Flush Plan, I have  renewed motivation and joy for cooking a new found love of apple cider vinegar and red peppers.

 

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:0) Day-10 Phase-1. Love at first bite… of carob.

135 lbs

I’m wondering if I have to start the dates over to square-one every time I go off FFP menu?  meh! (shrug)

1. Long life cocktail with 2 caps psyllium husk
2. warm water with lemon
3. strawberry protein shake (always with flax oil)
4. cran water + water + vitamin c, e, evening primrose oil, prenatal
5. 1 cup teeccino chocolate mint flavor with 1/2 stevia packet and  1/3 scoop of whey protein.
6. 2 carob malt balls, 5 unsweetened chocolate(or carob?) covered almonds, tiny taste bite of all natural coconut bar thing
7. Water
8. 4 oz sesame tofu, 1/2 Quinoa Cake, cran water, water
9. Strawberry protein shake
10. 3 miles in 39 min, 3 sets 12 reps on leg machine 30 lbs, 3 sets 12 reps arm curl 10 lbs.
11. 2 water + 6 carob malt balls

Bad news:  didn’t get as many veggies in as I should’ve and I also should’ve upped my liquids intake.  Good news: I did get my recommended servings of fruit and I did get an ample amount of protein.

Carob malt balls were heavenly. Thanks for the suggestion Niknaks! 😀

The unsweetened chocolate almonds were kind of gnarly but I ate them ALL anyway because that is how hard up I am for sweets these days. Yay for me and my self control not buying anything in the Whole Foods bakery section or anything else not FFP friendly.

Dinner– Quinoa and Sesame tofu

Evening Snack– Strawberry protein shake

I also got these while I was out. Is very sexii, no?

I’ve been considering trying the 12 hour detox regimen (also by Gittleman) in addition to this. I’ll do more research on it.

☆ヽ{ﾟㅂﾟ}ﾉﾞ Day-9 Phase-1 Eggplant Day and TGIF

135lbs

1. Long life cocktail (2 psyllium husk caps)

2. warm water with lemon

3. Strawberry protein shake

4. cran water + water + vitamin e, c, 2 evening primrose oil caps, prenatal

5. 2 water + Baked Eggplant

6. cran water +water

7. cran water+ plus a few bites of chicken enchilada (ffp unfriendly) + spinach salad with flax oil, garlic, lemon and cayenne

8. 1 water + 5 miles in ~50min, 3 sets of 12 reps on arm curl machine 10 lbs, 3 sets of 12 reps on leg machine 20 lbs + 4 sets of 12 reps on leg machine 30 lbs

9. Binged on tortilla chips, salsa and hummus…. ehhh…. (it was 3 in the morning and yeah….)

10.  Long life cocktail with 2 caps psyllium husk and water

The chicken enchilada was a total cheat but I had a little because it didn’t taste that great. It was a ready-made thing from Costco, which is surprising because I usually enjoy Costco food. I think it would’ve tasted better if I had prepared it in the oven instead of the microwave. Lesson learned.

First time making baked eggplant. Got the recipe from the FFP book. I put vegetable stock, chicken stock (both unsalted), a little lemon juice and added parsley to taste.

Pre-Oven and Post Oven Photos

The eggplants soaked up the broth and the result was a soft savory flavor. Simple and nice.