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I met a new person, and she was really into cooking. Every time I meet someone who likes to cook, I feel intimidated because I don't cook well and am not overly interested in cooking. Between cooking and reading, I will definitely choose reading. I prefer free-book to free-meal, prefer no-eating to no-reading.
She did inspired me just a little and cooked Italian pasta salad, Pasta Primavera. I like to cook this one and ratatouille so I can eat a while without cooking. My husband does not eat such dishes, so I am the only one to eat usually. I think that is another reason that my interest in cooking has not developed much.
Another my inspiration is discovering a new magazine. I have been a fan of Cooking Light magazine, and I still check them time to time. I found a new magazine on Internet. It is "Clean Eating" magazine, and I actually found it at a store too. I liked what I read on their website, so I bought it to see if I will like it. I don't think I will buy all ingredients they use to be "clean eating", but their recipes are somewhat inspirational. I will see how much my "cooking spirit" would be inspired.
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200-situps & 100-pushups challenge
week 3, day-1
Situps: max=35 (using 3rd column)
Pushups: max=20 (using 2nd column)
... It is getting really hard! I am not sure if I can stick to the same column. I will try this week as much as I can, but I probably lower my column next week.
... I will miss day-3 session this week. I forgot to incorporate this challenge into my workout. I tend to remember about this challenge during or after my workout routine. After my regular workout, my muscles are not strong enough to do these challenge.
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After meeting this new person I mentioned above, I gave a thought over my eating. I am Japanese who live in the US over ten years now. Japanese people who has just moved to the US recently, like this woman, are really slim. Many of us gradually slipped out from it after three years or so by adopting American lifestyle (=mobile by car everywhere) and eating habits (=eating high-fat and huge serving size meal; eating while doing something else).
I am thinking to go back to my root. I have read many different diet approaches and tried some. Obviously I did not try Atkins because I am not a big meat eater. By following these diets that adjust for Americans, I think my food became very different from what I used to eat. I was not really skinny when I was in Japan, but my heaviest used to be around 55kg (122.5 lb).
So. My roots, Japanese way of eating practice. I can think of two things: eat "hara hachibu", and eat from six basic food groups.
"Hara hachibu" is basically stop eating before you feel full. Eat as much as 80% (=hachibu) of what you may eat to be your stomach (=hara) full. This can be achieved easily by eating slowly. If you eat slowly and stop eating right before you feel full, you will actually feel full 30 minutes or so after the meal.
Six basic food groups are 1)Good protein source... fish, meat, egg, soybeans and its products, 2)Calcium... milk, dairy products, seaweeds, small fishes that you eat with bones, 3)Carotene... colorful vegetables, 4)Vitamin... light color vegetables, fruits, 5)Sugar... grains, potatoes, sugar, 6)Fat... oils. I know these categories are no quite accurate, but the point is eat balanced meals. Eat at least one food from each group in each meal, and eat 30 food in a day.
That WAS the idea, but eating 30 different food is very much difficult. So, my goal is to eating food from all six groups in a day. It is still challenging, but I'll see how much I can do.
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1273 kcal
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Fat: 40.71g | Prot: 69.57g | Carbs: 180.20g.
Breakfast: Raspberries, Bran Cereal Fiber One, Blueberries, skim milk. Lunch: chunky apple muffin, Pasta primavera by Giada. Dinner: boiled egg, avocado, honey dijon dressing kraft, chicken breast tenderloin, tomato, romaine lettuce, green leaf lettuce. Snacks/Other: natural PB smuckers, english muffin -sara lee, yogurt plain -dannon all natural, kiwi, mango, whey protein gold standard french vanilla creme, skim milk. more...
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1593 kcal
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Exercise:
Calisthenics (heavy, e.g. pushups) - 10 minutes, Sleeping - 7 hours, Resting - 16 hours and 5 minutes, Dance (fast step, aerobic) - 45 minutes. more...
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