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31 August 2011

Eight more weeks, then my school will be finally over. Because I am taking classes, I should use FS to maintain myself, but it just gets harder for me. Too much emotional stress. It is not a good time for me to put too many things on To-Do list. It makes me feel like a failure because nothing is completed or achieved. There were times that working at FS helped me to go through a stressful time, but right now is not the one, I feel. I still try recording my diet time to time do workout as much as possible. I just cannot commit to do those as much as I want to, right now.

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26 August 2011

Our bathroom had its caulk re-done this morning, and we cannot wet those area for the next 24-hours. And we have only one shower... I have no choice but have off from workout, and I could not do yesterday either. I am in a "danger" zone to slip out from the good habit again. I at least try better eating today and am going to do workout tomorrow!

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24 August 2011

Starting over 100-P/U and 100-S/U challenge...
week1, day-1
P/U (2nd column)- max 15
S/U (3rd column)- max 20

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23 August 2011

The last week of every term gets really busy, and this week is not exception, unfortunately. After this week, there will be one more term (=eight weeks), and that's it! The group project in this term messed up my schedule a lot, especially on weekend, but it will be over on Saturday. Then I still need to finish my paper... by Sunday...

Yesterday, I was waiting a phone call from school that stopped me doing workout till 6pm. Then my husband came back with torn pectoral muscle at gym. I think any men can guess what he did. Why guys feel a pressure to show off at gym to other guys? Gee... Helping him to do ice/heat treatment consumed most of my evening besides cooking, studying, and communicating with others for the group project. At the end, I missed my workout. I hope it will not become a habit, but I don't have much faith in me this week with my long to-do-list. I need to take one day at a time, I guess.

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19 August 2011

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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