Vegenaise

So yesterday, I was vegan condiment shopping which led me to Healthy Options. There... I saw this...

I've seen a lot of vegans online putting this in their food. At first, I wasn't excited coz I am not that much of a fan of mayonnaise. However, I saw this pesto variant and I succumbed.. 

I made breakfast moments ago and added it... 

I made some sort of breakfast wrap with veggies, boca vegan burger seasoned with liquid aminos and a sprinkle of nutritional yeast. 

This pesto vegenaise is sorcery. I kid you not. I want to eat it with everything now. Its so good that I wanna make a cold pasta salad with it next... It would probably taste amazing with some black olives and loads of garlic... Hmmmm. Salivating just thinking about it. Haha

Love this new discovery!

Vegan life made easy :)

Vegan day 23

Dairy-free, meat-free and egg-free for the past 23 days. 

I'm able to go home and cook lunch again after a long time! 

I made a tofu stir fry which I seasoned with aminos, sesame oil and coconut nectar which pretty much tastes like teriyaki.

Super quick, easy and delicious. 

I wasn't the only one who thought it was good. Angie and Ate Wow even almost licked the serving platter clean. 

Success. 

Snack attack

A drawback of this vegan diet is since I have faster metabolism... I always feel hungry!

Which leads me to always have to snack.. 

Today's snack is salted cashews... Cashew is my favorite nut hands down. 

On to my 3rd vegan day...

I'm feeling pretty happy about this. Not bloated at all. 

Willpower, please!!!

Veg it out..

I really think I got inspiration about being vegan from Pipino...

Here are additional inspiration for me...

Exhibit A - improved skin

Exhibit B - amazing weightloss 

So here's my vegan packed lunch... Black rice balls with loads of seaweed, kimchi and tofu "spam" haha 

It doesn't look so pretty but it sure is tasty! 

Miracle noodles made of unicorn excretion and leprechaun urine!

Got this last night at Healthy Options... Sooooo friggin' expensive but I was too curious to pass it up!

Zero calories!!!!!

Will post an update once I cook something amazing with it :)

Wish vs. do

바라지만 말고, 실천해~ 

I just recently learned about this quote this week from YG official trainer, Hwangssabu. 

It means: "Don't wish for it, work for it"

I love it. Its a really good quote to live by. 

Today, I didn't feel like doing anything or working out. I could easily have called it a rest day. However, I felt guilty and still brisk walked with good time too. 

Standard breakfast today still savory oatmeal and organic egg from the Enchanted Farm.. Cooked it poached just to deviate from the usual boiled egg. 

I tried eating chicken yesterday at Tala's party... Gosh it was good to eat meat again, but as I tried to feel what my body was telling me, it felt as if it was having a really hard time digesting it. 

So I'll stick with veggies for now.

At Tala's party, there was a painting activity, this is what I came up with...

Yup, once a dreamer, always a dreamer. :)

Day 9

Its my 9th day being lacto ovo today. Kinda running out of creative juices for food to cook... Then today I tried something new! 

So I got oatmeal and instead of cooking it in milk, i cooked it just in water. Once it was cooked, I seasoned it with Liquid Aminos, raw onions, soft boiled egg and some pepper.

It tasted amazing! 

I'm not a fan of sweet stuff so whenever I try eating oatmeal with honey and cinnamon, I feel like I'm just trying to force it down my throat, but this one is different! I enjoyed it because it was savory... 

I need to research and stimulate my creativity in cooking my food. 

Another update is that, since last Saturday's MTO, I was sales talked into buying Dr. Gerry's Coco Nectar. It apparently has 20 or more amino acids compared to honey that only has 9. Anyway, I gave it a try yesterday... And the past 2 days, I've been taking a spoonful first thing in the morning (on an empty stomach) and I don't feel the need for caffeine to do my morning workouts! I feel super energized. 

So happy! 

My mom was telling me about other improvements in her health that she's been experiencing like better metabolism, etc. 

Anyway... We shall further observe :) 

Home cooking

Went home to cook lunch today. I have seen some pretty good results about being lacto ovo vegetarian for a week, mainly how it made my skin not terribly breakout during my PMS week. So I decided to push being vegetarian further to this week too.. 

I made this tofu/sweet pea/mushroom stirfry with lots of garlic and laced with green chili, red pepper paste, soy sauce and honey. 

Super spicy but tastes pretty amazing and I ate it with red rice. 

I'm feeling pretty good learning and continuously researching about health and fitness.

I've been consistently exercising for the past 3 months and I've never lasted with a fitness routine longer than a few weeks. I'm feeling pretty good about myself. *pat on the back* 

vegetarian week

It's my lacto ovo vegetarian week!

Day 3 today and I haven't had the urge to punch anyone… Yay! I'm not cranky nor am I craving meat… yet.

Hahaha!

crap food

I've had 2 days straight of eating crap for dinner..

Tuesday - lucky me instant noodles and kwek kwek

Wednesday - fries and a boiled egg

This is just so wrong.

stop

i must stop eating crackers.


stop eating empty calories!!!

tuesday dinner

Dory fillet with cilantro, tomato and garlic...

recycled yesterday's sauteed cabbage. Uber delicious.

capers

I feel like I've outdone myself tonight.

I had white fish so I was thinking of making some sort of Mediterranean thing with capers and tomatoes..

But laziness got the best of me.

So I saw this bottle of pesto lying around so I just slathered it all over the top of the fish, then I put pepper, garlic and a bit of capers.

Dang... It was so good. Although the capers made it slightly salty so I don't know if it's still healthy.

I also made sauteed cabbage by sauteing it with garlic, olive oil, pepper and liquid aminos.


Liquid aminos and garlic are my bestfriends.

what's cookin?

I bought a kilo of eggplant from Tita Brenda today at the farm... They were so fresh and of course organic...

So when I got home I was so hungry, I made something really quick for dinner.. Eggplant Parmigiana!

Prepared the Pomodoro sauce last night with tuna, fresh tomatoes, garlic, onions and mushrooms... Then just put them together with Xilca's goat cheese... also from the Farm!

Was a great dinner with half a slice of tosted whole wheat bread.

Perfection!

DIY lunch again

Lunch I prepared this morning.. Would have wanted to take a photo of the smoked salmon omelet I made for me and my mom for breakfast but it didn't look nice.

Tuna and Cucumber Salad with Blush Wine Vinaigrette


If you kidnap me and make me your slave, I'll have a lot of skills I can do such as makeup, nail art and cooking. Haha!

accomplishment!

I feel like I've accomplished something major today.

I was able to cook my own dinner that's oil-free and salt-free!

Pan-seared tanigue (mackerel) and steamed broccoli :)

It looks good, doesn't it? It tasted amazing!

day 10

Gosh.

Tonight's dinner was delicious. It's called Fisherman's stew. Basically it was white fish and shrimp in some sort of marinara sauce with black olives.


Died.


Didn't even get to take a photo. I was starving. :)

foodie

Day 9 of my diet.

I think I can do this. I did Zumba tonight with the limited calories I have in my body. There were times when I wanted to just stop... But I didn't... And I didn't faint. It's a good sign. I think my body's getting used to my 1200cal/day thing.

This is tonight's dinner. Something I realized since salt isn't really a good/allowed option for me... capers is a good idea to adding some sort of saltiness into my food but still be considered a veg.

I'm really gonna start on looking for recipes I can do aside from the ones I have tasted through my diet program.

I shall make this a success.

My whole body hurts coz Kristy was intense tonight with her moves .... But I love the pain.

God help me.

diet mode

So this is my dilemma today... I have these two treats in front of me and I can't choose either one...

For my snack I will just stick with my 10pcs of unsalted roasted peanuts.


Great training for me to curb my cravings. Especially hard now because I'm on my period. (TMI)

Anyhow... I'm proud to say I've lost 7lbs in 6 days!!!!!


Woot! Woot! I shall celebrate by eating a jelly bean... Or not... Haha

Obsession

I'm currently determined to lose weight... more weight... Last time I checked I lost about 6-8lbs already... and then the scale went missing... I can't check my progress.

I've been doing Intermittent Fasting for 65 days already... Basically I can only eat from 11am-7pm everyday. It's hard but bearable because I can eat anything in moderation in that span of time... However I decided to take take it to another level by taking out rice and unhealthy foods in my diet.. That just started last Monday.

Today's lunch menu that I prepared this morning... 

I made a pact with Bless and Aimee and we'll all do this together for a month and see how it goes. Wish us luck!

I've also started doing yoga with my sister last night. Hope it all goes well!