Photo source: http://pinoyfitnessblog.blogspot.co

How are you Belles today? I woke up this morning feeling simply fantastic. Here's what I did today:

8.30am to 9.00am: Brisk walk around the village with Sis, while holding light weights.

Then i met brides, brides, brides. Then I met with my business partner to discuss our fashion show at the Ayala Museum.

6.30pm: Yin yoga at Beyond Yoga (Monica Eleazar-Manzano was our instuctor tonight. She was excellent!) It was relaxing with a good number of stretching.

Here is what I ate today:

breakfast: bowl of banana abd papaya fruit platter (with yoghurt)

lunch: 1 slice panfried salmon, 1C brown rice (LO lumpiang hubad)

snack: tuna sandwhich wi whole wheat bread

dinner: fresh coconut jiuce, half cup brown rice, Italian herb cheicken (turbo), desert: suha

Photo source: healthycheck.net

I created a Pinterest wall for my simple to follow renewed  healthy habits. I began implementing some of these pointers in my everyday routine since my Relax and Recharge Weekend. I continued doing these Monday, here in my home. Here is my wall where I collected images to remind me about these everyday, easy-to follow practices.

http://pinterest.com/michicalica/healthy-living/

Below  were my meals last Monday, May 21.

Here are some of my ideas for tomorrow's meal plan:

bowl of oatmeal, veggie shake (broccoloi and carrots), omelette wi asparagus.

Up next: My review of 'The Farm, San Benito, Lipa'

Photo/illustration is from http://www.loseweightfastideas.com/

Hi Belles!  I've been away way to long due to incredibly interesting activity in my business and family life. A weekend at The Farm in San Benito Lipa changed my life and fast tracked my desire and actions to get back on the healthy saddle.

I will talk about The Farm another day - but let me tell you what I did today.

At 8.30 to 9.30am, I walked aroung the village with my sister who is visiting from NZ. We brisk-walked holing light weights. We never really labor over the walking time, becuase there's so much to catch up on! I love having a work-out partner.

Breakfast was a bowl of oatmeal, and a small fruit salad bowl: (small slices of mango, avocado, bananas and papaya). I tried to copy the first course for breakfast I had at the Alive! resto at The Farm.

After more than an hour with my fave client Lena V, designing her wardrobe for an Alaskan cruise, it was lunch time.

I had brown rice, vegetable lumpiang hubad from the Little Chinese Store. I only added very, very little dressing. Their dressing is all sugar! My protein for lunch was a piece of freshly grilled tilapia, which my four-year old enjoyed too.

At 2.00pm, I presented a design to a mother of a bride: a lovely champagne gold gown with romantic petal details on the sleeves. 

I then spent a few minutes watching CJ Corona on the stand at the Senate proceedings (finally!). At 5.00pm, Sis and I left for Beyond Yoga in Tomas Morato, QC. THe 1.15 hour session was a sweaty, feel-great work-out with sixteen other students and our instructor, a young surfer looking dude named Johann.

After YOGA, Sis and I went shopping at Rustans Supermarket, right below the yoga studio. The shopping list included Muesli, low fat milk, salmon among other things. I decided to drink a whole buko of fresh juice while waiting in line to pay.

The beauty of ushering in a New Year is being able to give ourselves a clean slate. New Year is about hope (pretty much like a wedding day) I am currently at my heaviest,  most sedentary state. It feels horrible, but I know that I am responsible for this.

I've decided not to despair, but instead continue to be patient, focused and persevering.

After  a planning session morning at work, I headed off to Rustan's Supermaket to buy items I need to reach my ideal weight and good eating habits.

Day 1 of carb-free, sugar-free, baked-goods free, fruit-free, alcohol free (and again nicotine free). So help me God. Tyra Banks once said: "If you eat it, you write it."

I am actually doing the Phase 1 of the South Beach Diet once again to re-train myself to eat the right stuff. Fruits and complex carbs will be introduced on the 15th day (Phase 2). Am watching Healthy Appetite (Lifestyle Network) to get more healthy cooking tips.

I also wrote

Breakfast:

~Spanish omelette

~2 slices of Excellente ham

water: 3 glasses (8 oz each)

Lunch:

~1 big bowl of green salad (crunchy lettuce, blanched spinach, thin slices of Baguio tomato, boiled quail eggs with thin slivers of gouda cheese)

~ 2 pieces roast chicken with Italian herbs (for recipe pleasee see All About Chicken cookbook)

water: 2 glasses

Snack:

serving of kimchi (Silla Korean Store, T. Morato corner Timog)

water: 2 glasses

Dinner: 

cabbage soup:

link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKeQ8cjG04U&feature=related), but I added Knorr chicken broth and slices of chicken breast

grilled anggus steak  

ginger tea after dinner

* We are cooking enough for the whole family

Ideas for January 3

Breakfast:

~asparagus and tinapang bangus omelette

Lunch : OUT with Elena. Be good girl please

Ideas:

~Turkish salad: tomatoes, feta cheese, olive oil, jalapeno

~monggo!

~bistek tagalog

~Sukiyaki

~tuna sashimi

~salmon sashimi

Snacks:

glass of low fat milk

pistacchio nuts (buy)

The beauty of ushering in a New Year is being able to give ourselves a clean slate. New Year is about hope (pretty much like a wedding day) I am currently at my heaviest,  most sedentary state. It feels horrible, but I know that I am responsible for this.

I've decided not to despair, but instead continue to be patient, focused and persevering.

After  a planning session morning at work, I headed off to Rustan's Supermaket to buy items I need to reach my ideal weight and good eating habits.

Day 1 of carb-free, sugar-free, baked-goods free, fruit-free, alcohol free (and again nicotine free). So help me God. Tyra Banks once said: "If you eat it, you write it."

I am actually doing the Phase 1 of the South Beach Diet once again to re-train myself to eat the right stuff. Fruits and complex carbs will be introduced on the 15th day (Phase 2). Am watching Healthy Appetite (Lifestyle Network) to get more healthy cooking tips.

I also wrote

Breakfast:

~Spanish omelette

~2 slices of Excellente ham

water: 3 glasses (8 oz each)

Lunch:

~1 big bowl of green salad (crunchy lettuce, blanched spinach, thin slices of Baguio tomato, boiled quail eggs with thin slivers of gouda cheese)

~ 2 pieces roast chicken with Italian herbs (for recipe pleasee see All About Chicken cookbook)

water: 2 glasses

Snack:

serving of kimchi (Silla Korean Store, T. Morato corner Timog)

water: 2 glasses

Dinner: 

cabbage soup:

link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKeQ8cjG04U&feature=related), but I added Knorr chicken broth and slices of chicken breast

grilled anggus steak  

ginger tea after dinner

* We are cooking enough for the whole family

Ideas for January 3

Breakfast:

~asparagus and tinapang bangus omelette

Lunch : OUT with Elena. Be good girl please

Ideas:

~Turkish salad: tomatoes, feta cheese, olive oil, jalapeno

~monggo!

~bistek tagalog

~Sukiyaki

~tuna sashimi

~salmon sashimi

Snacks:

glass of low fat milk

pistacchio nuts (buy)