DON’T EAT THE CARROTS

Yuck. My carrots are turning into this goo, I had to throw it away!

Breakfast:
1 Banana – 105 calories

Lunch:
Beef Tapa with Sauteed Spinach and Honey Barbeque Sauce – 265 calories
1/4 cup of brown rice – 55 calories

Snacks:
45 grams of Raisins [Ram] – 150 calories
*I’m actually very proud at myself considering that since most of my friend are eating their McDonalds, I restrained myself to eat only my raisins which was a really really big achievement

Dinner:
Marie’s July Salad minus the carrots – 52 calories
Karaage Pop [Tori Box] – 286 calories
*I added some chicken kara age pop to add more flavor and protein (though I’m not even sure if this is healthy since its fried… HAHAHA any thoughts?)

That’s it for today,

Cheers,

Marie

Yesterday, I failed.

Four days into this program and I have already ended my streak. I failed my diet, failed being optimistic, and even failing to do a blog post. This isn’t much of the problem at hand, but rather, my feeling towards these failures

See, despite having failed my goals for the day, I didn’t feel at most disappointed at myself. (It might really be because of the delicious mouth watering lunch that I had yesterday though….)

So to recap my day, here’s what I have done for the day.

I woke up at 8am, did some mild stretching, and proceeded to eat my Salad (its really coming together now, yay!) then went to my school’s gym to do some jogging.

The start of the day was really nice, and today, I had company with me to run around the oval. At first I thought it was really gonna be awkward since my other two companions were fitter than me. But it turns out it is better to have them because they will be the one to keep pushing you to go further. In the end, I managed to have 20 full minutes of cardio. One of my friends then suggested we do and ab workout and, being as the #roadtofitness people that we were, we obliged.

She asked me how many minutes we should do, 5, 8, or 10 and in my mind, I was like only 10 minutes max for the ab workout?! Then I became a little modest and tried 8. Oh boy halfway there I was dying.

But I did it, I finished it up and really felt great (and sore) but felt great!

Another reason why we did this was actually to prepare ourselves for a food trip that was planned later that afternoon. And so began my failures.

It was my first time going to Hole In The Wall, a place that had gained fame for their chic interior and delicious food. Everyone of us were first timers there so we really did not know what to expect. When we went inside, we were expecting some classy restaurant, but instead, it was a really cute food court with different stalls and each stall was absolutely divine!

Everything was so cute and delicious so we had a hard time deciding what to eat. After a while, I settled for Bad Bird, because of the countless instagram posts that I’ve seen about them.

 Umami spiced fried chicken with sweet potato waffles. Considering that I’m still in my Paleo Diet, it was hard to figure out which was okay and which werent okay in eating. I initially opted to eat only the chicken, but then there was waffles. Sweet heavenly waffles. Did I mention that I LOVE WAFFLES?! Not like, but LOVE. As in I can marry a waffle cart just so I can get free waffles. And this Paleo Diet is killing me because of that.

Although, the waffles werent technically a violation to my diet, since it used sweet potato, that meal really lived up to its name… Cause its really bad for your health. Total calories of the meal? 908 CALORIES. Ugh. I was actually feeling full after devouring the first chicken and waffle but it really hurts me to see leftover food so I had to eat it. It’s not really a bad trait, but its a bad habit for your health 😦

Afterwards, we roamed around the mall and, feeling full, we decided to call it a day because we all think we need a ciesta hahaha!

I actually felt bad for eating that much thats why I YOLOd myself with my other goals:(

I do hope next time, I dont need to eat that much.

Till next time,

Cheers,

Marie

The Paleo Dorm Diet Day 3

I seriously now have a problem with naming my posts.

Forgive this really really sluggish writing but I’m definitely tired so I’d probably hurry this one up!

Breakfast:
Marie’s Ultimate Paleo Salad (MUPS) – 79 calories

Lunch:
Filipino Beef Tapa with Honey Barbeque Sauce – 224 calories
1/4 cup of brown rice (Just to balance out the bbq sauce) – 55 calories

Snacks:
KFC fun shots – 150 calories (okay, this was a mistake but I needed to sit down and KFC was the only place that was available! Besides, its protein!)
Banana – 105 calories

Dinner:
MUPS – 79 calories

Total: 692 calories

I really don’t know if that KFC Fun Shots is okay for the diet, but since it’s meat then I guess it’s okay? HAHA this will be the death of my diet! Hoping though that this still brings out some good results!

Only time will tell.
Cheers,

Marie

Marie’s Ultimate Paleo Dorm Salad

Juggling the stresses of college and nutrition is tough – especially if time is of the essence. Which is why I’ve invented this salad to last me a week in the dorm.

For preparations, I started browsing the vegetable section of my grocery to find the ideal ingredients for the salad. Here’s what I bought:

• 1 big cabbage I actually made a mistake of buying cabbage instead of lettuce. Facepalm
• 4 pcs of cucumbers
• 4 pcs of carrots
• 2 stalks (?) of brocolli
• 2 Fuji Apples
• 1 pack of grapes
• 250g pack of raisins
• Teriyaki sauce this was really more of an experiment since I don’t like the salad dressings and I LOVE teriyaki

After preparing everything, and as I’m writing this down, I realize everything I bought can fit SIXTEEN meals! And I plan to eat this every breakfast and dinner!

Now here’s the challenge. I don’t own a microwave, I don’t have a stove. And so far, I only have a water heater (because COFFEE). It’s my first time doing this so I really used up my Trust me I’m an Engineer(ing student) tactics and actually used my water heater to steam up the carrots and brocolli!

 Boiling some brocolli in my water heater. I bet my coffee would taste like brocolli from now on…

I then chopped up the cabbage, sliced the cucumbers, brocolli and carrots, and placed them in different containers to store in the fridge.

So each salad consists of the following:

Marie’s Ultimate Paleo Dorm Salad  

• 1/16 of a cabbage (chopped up) (I sliced the cabbage into half the chopped one half, and got a quarter from what was chopped off)
• 1/4 cucumber
• 1/4 carrots
• 1/4 brocolli
• drizzle with teriyaki sauce
• option to add tuna

Total calories: 79 calories (+tuna)

For the snacks, I have three options:
Option 1: 30g raisins – 100 calories
Option 2: 1 banana – 110 calories
Option 3: 1/8 of an apple + about 10 pcs of grapes – 25 calories

And now it looks so idealistic since it’s so low! And this is why I have trust issues HAHA!

Let’s see in the future if this works! See ya!
Cheers,

Marie!

I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IM EATING

It’s 11:32 PM here and I’m really really tired, but I’ll try my best to make the last two blog posts for the day.

Today, my calorie counter was EXTREMELY LOW, and it won’t even show me its featured “Your weight in 5 weeks” since my calorie count was low. I don’t know what to feel since I already feel full yet if I don’t eat more, I’m afraid my metabolism would go lower. Plus I still am not impressed about calorie counting since I think there’s a lot of inaccuracies there since I live in the Philippines (with lots of cultural foods not listed in their database).

My eating time’s were also very weird since I had my breakfast at around 11am, my lunch at 2pm, and dinner at 6pm. Yet, the articles I’ve read regarding the Paleo Diet says nothing about eating time so maybe it’s okay? (uh-oh).

So without further ado, here’s my meal plan:

Breakfast:
Javita Burn + Control Coffee – 11 calories
Fresh Tuna and Egg Salad [7-eleven] – 218 calories

Lunch:

  Lumpiang Togue [bought from the supermarket stalls] – 65 calories

*Lumpiang Togue is somehow ground meat and bean sprouts wrapped inside fried spring rolls

Dinner:
Sweet and Sour Fish Fillet [Classic Savory] – 186 calories

Total: 480 calories

I’m so excited to try my new salad since I’ve already done my grocery for the week! Let’s see if something changes 🙂

Till next time!
Cheers,
Marie

Starting Out: My Paleo College Diet

I actually don’t suggest you follow this because I had a lot of cheats this day… And it’s my first day doing the diet. HAHAHA Oh, life.

Anyway, I started out by installing some apps on my phone, to fully help me and motivate me to do this diet. The one I usually use is My Fitness Pal. It’s a great calorie counter, though it tends to omit some food in my country 😦 Boohoo. So I tend to eyeball it instead (which I probably wouldn’t suggest. You know what? I suggest you skip this post HAHA).

Living in the dorm means that you really, really, really have limited food options, and I haven’t had the time to do grocery shopping this week (since I just came back last Saturday) so I had to make do with dear old 7-eleven.

Now, before you say Oh-oh, there are actually some food there that I think have some nutritional value. So now let’s take a look at my meal plan.

Breakfast:

• Fresh Tuna and Egg Salad [7-eleven] – 218 calories
• Javita Burn and Control Coffee – 11 calories

Snacks:

• Leche Flan aka Vanilla Egg Custard [7-eleven] – 195 calories

[See this is why I don’t like buying at 7-eleven, I was so tempted to buy theseee huhu and I hate the fact that I don’t regret buying this :]

Lunch:   

• Beef Tapa and Sauteed Spinach with Barbeque Sauce [Food Stand at my school] – 264 calories
• Red Rice (this is included in the meal that I bought with the Beef Tapa but I only ate half of the rice) – 124 calories

Dinner:  

• Chicken Leg with 1/4 cup of rice – 220 calories

[I was about to buy another of 7-eleven’s salads but they ran out (and I went through 2 different stores, too) so I had to go with their Fried Chicken. The rice came with the chicken and it was too salty so I can’t resist the urge to eat some rice though…]

My total for today was 1,033 calories which is nice, considering that I had to eat that Leche Flan… the app said women need to have a food intake of 1000-1200 calories a day so that was great considering I was in the range of it.

Now, the Paleo Diet strictly says that we should avoid rice, wheat, etc. However, I do not feel the slight regret of eating rice since its my first day and we cant simply have that radical change, or can we? I still hope this works though! Tomorrow, I’ll do my grocery shopping already and maybe my diet will change… who knows? Haha! Stay tuned!

Cheers,

Marie