After two weeks in phase 1, I have moved on to the more liberal version of the diet known as phase 2. In this phase, fruits and other healthy carbs like brown rice, whole grain bread and sweet potatoes can be reintroduced into the diet. And more importantly for me, phase 2 allows wine consumption. [...]
Yay, I did it! I have finished phase 1 successfully, with only very minor slips! Seattle got the biggest snow storm in more than a decade and we have been stuck at home since last Wednesday. I have to say this really helped me stay on my diet. As I mentioned before, South Beach Diet [...]
I don’t even have an excuse for my tardiness this time! Can I use the acquisition of two new gadgets as the defense? Wii has been taking up a lot of my time and energy lately, it is totally cool and super-addictive. Also, I finally bought the iPhone and I am hooked!! For all the [...]
I stopped doing the day-by-day posts, since it is is way too much work, who was I kidding anyway? I’ve been weighing in daily, and the weight has been coming down slowly but steadily. First week went by relatively easily. It is definitely not a hard diet to keep up, if you are preparing all [...]
Today the morning weigh-in showed only a 1/2 lb loss compared to a a whole pound each on the previous days. But still it is going down, which is great news! Today I had lunch and dinner outside, due to previous commitments. I was a really good girl, stuck with the program! Lunch was at [...]
This morning weigh in showed another lb drop! This is pretty good motivation to keep up with it! Now that I am having coffee, headaches have completely disappeared. I missed the morning snack today, since I was in back-to-back meetings till noon. So after breakfast, I directly went to lunch, but I had two snacks [...]
I woke up and weighed myself and I lost 1 lb in a day!! I know, I know, that is just normal fluctuations, but I sure was glad that it was fluctuating in the right direction. I started the day with a decaf like yesterday, but the headache started from the morning itself. After a [...]
After a day of pigging out, I started the day 1 of the diet. It started fine, but got really worse as the day went by. I had no idea first day was going to be like this! It wasn’t the diet that bothered me, food-wise it was pretty good! I was full the whole [...]
The diet starts tomorrow. I weighed myself today, and my BMI is 25! BMI is meant to be used as a simple means of classifying sedentary (physically inactive) individuals with an average body composition. For these individuals, the current value settings are as follows: a BMI of 18.5 to 25 may indicate optimal weight; a [...]
I haven’t been very active on this blog lately, one reason being that I’ve been writing another blog. I wanted to keep it private, since I was not sure whether I’d actually stick to it. Yes, I tried a diet for the first time in my life (if you don’t count the feeble attempt at [...]
I love December! Everyone is in a jolly good mood all the time, not much’s happening at work, too many parties to go to, commute is pretty good most of the days and the streets are so colorful! I am avoiding the mall these days, which is where most of the ugliness of the season [...]
After a successful Banana Walnut Muffin experiment, I wanted to get a bit more creative on the baking front. This time I made a Banana Walnut Bread using pretty much the same recipe as the muffin, but substituted All Purpose Flour with Whole Wheat Pastry Flour and replaced most of the sugar with Maple Syrup. [...]
Regular readers might know that I am not much of a baker. Actually, I don’t bake at all! Following a recipe to the exact measures is not something I can do very well. I always have to make some substitution or variation to make a recipe my own. Without having any basics in baking, I [...]
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