NEW YEAR: clean slate, new hope!

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)