Beach-Ready!

I just took advantage of the recent Cebu Pacific sale to book flights for my friends and I to enjoy a beach weekend! Our balikbayan friend K is returning to the Philippines, and she said she missed the beach, even if she wasn't fond of beaches before. I'm not a big beach buff either, but I do relish any opportunity to spend with my friends. We're still going a long time from now, in June, but I'd like to start to get in shape just by having dessert (cake, cookies, ice cream, and other sugar-based treats) once a week from now on. Argh, it's going to be a tough ordeal for me, since I do love my sweets.

But whenever I am faced with temptation (like my brother's birthday cake at home, or the ice cream from the nearby Korean grocery), all I have to do is to remember that fantastic feeling of a not-bloated tummy simply when I didn't have dessert for five days. I'd just like to schedule my dessert in moderation, just not to deprive myself completely, but if I can do without my weekly dessert treat, so much the better.

I won't do anything else to my diet or exercise habit. I know if I can tone down the sugar in my diet, I'll be much better.

How about you Belles, any beach vacations lined up? And any healthy plans to help you get a beach-ready body?

Tuesday's exercise
- 45 minute brisk walk/jog

Tuesday's meals
Breakfast: Old-fashioned oatmeal with peanut butter, coffee with low fat milk
Lunch: (at Recipes by Café Metro) Crispy tilapia, gising-gising, Korean beef stew, rice
Snack: Banana
Dinner: Pork barbecue, beef chili, brown rice