Ito ang larawan ng birthday cake ko noong huling kaarawan ko.
Hubby and I make sure that we took upon each other to check on our lifestyle as simple as checking on each other's sleeping pattern, smoking habits---which we are totally against now, social drinking limits, vitamins daily and our milk intake. Hubby in particular, guard me as I drink my 2 glasses of non-fat milk daily requirement because he knows that I might just flush the milk down the sink hee. He also gives me my daily dose of calcium pills! Yes, he is that serious when it comes to my bones :D. His step-mom has some mild osteoporosis and he's just scared that I might get one in my old age if I don't have the right amount of calcium I need. You see, women loses a certain portion of calcium everytime they give birth that is why we are more proned to osteoporosis.
I had a classmate who was a military sports doctor. She said that more and more women are having orthopedic problems. She shared with me this site about sports medicine San Francisco where Peninsula Orthopedic Associates resides. It is an organization of Orthopedic Surgeons who are dedicated to the care, evaluation, and treatment of the musculoskeletal system. The doctors' credential are somewhat admirable as they are all board certified or board eligible. I guess the bottomline here is no matter how women tend to get too busy with their daily lives, one must not forget to care about themselves.
I have heard, watch and read about this too many times.
No matter how much you want to diet and cut down on your food intake, never ever skip anything from the food pyramid. Although, I do not abide this rule as I am close to a month on reaching my weight goal.
To be honest after all these dieting, I realized I never get hungry anymore. I could stand having only 1 meal a day, weird. So definitely, Phentermine is a big no for me. :D
Let’s say a person weighs 240 pounds. Half of that is 120, so that would be 120 ounces. 20% of 120 is 24 (this is the amount of water this person gets from his food), so subtract 24 from 120 (120 – 24 = 96). So, this person needs to drink 96 ounces per day, which translates to 12 8 ounce glasses.
I could sacrifice eating out or skipping some meals and buying chips, but running out of toiletries and some stuff needed for my Double Vanity and Bathroom Vanity, N-O-P-E. My mom always wonder why I have to hoard lotions, facial wash, body wash and mists, shampoos, conditioners, hair products, bubble bath etc... when I already have enough stock in my bathroom cabinet. I just feel a certain kind of high seeing them all piled up in my storage cabinets and the mixed smell they emit puts a smile on my face, babaw noh?
However, I realized that our current bathroom only has a very small vanity cabinet is too small (similar to a medicine cabinet). I see the need to check on some Bathroom Vanities that I could purchase at a lower price. When I saw these Discount Bathroom Vanities such as the picture above, I think I found just the right deal for me.
You see, hubby has this notion about keeping all things inside the cabinet. His ideal home includes a kitchen with only the oven, coffeemaker, rice cooker and bread toaster on the table, all things are kept in the cabinet. Same as our bathroom, he’s annoyed by the fact that I leave my make-up and toiletries on the sink. So I guess, it’s easy convincing him to get one of these bathroom vanities.
Yahoo! After pigging out on fastfood deliveries for the past 5 days, our pantry and fridge are filled up with yumminess again. Hubby did some grocery shopping and boy was it a lot! He discovered this cheapo grocery called 'SAVE A LOT' where the meat and veggies are really really cheap. He spent only a hundred bucks but looks like our next trip to the grocery will be after 2 weeks.
He bought 3 kilos of spareribs because it was on sale at 99 cents per pound hee! So this week's recipe of the week is my mom's spareribs in sweet spicy sauce (with a bonus extra sidedish recipe). We gotta try this on weekend :D.
(image credit: google search)
SPARERIBS WITH SWEET SPICY SAUCE
Ingredients:
1 kilo short baby ribs
¼ cup soy sauce
¼ cup water
1 tablespoon chopped spring onions
1 teaspoon grated garlic
½ teaspoon grated ginger
½ tablespoon sugar
¼ chili powder or chopped labuyo
2 teaspoon sesame seed, toasted
oil to cook
Procedure:
1. Panfry the spareribs just to change color around 5 minutes.( you can grill in oven or barbecue the ribs) remove from pan.
2. In another pan with small amount of oil, put garlic, ginger and shallot or onions (optional)then put the spareribs, add labuyo or chili powder, curry powder and sugar to taste. Cook for 30 minutes or until tender then add soy sauce.
3. Put over rice or noodles then put sesame seed, onions leaves.
Side dish: sprouted mongo slightly blanched.
Tips:
Singaporean style…use curry powder
Japanese style…Use Kikkoman
Thai style…Use sweet salty sauce ( calamansi, tamarind sauce or candy tamarind boiled the make into a tamarind sauce)
While I was searching on some compact flash over the net at lunch today, hubby surprised me with these:
We was feeling Chef Red (as in the mascot-RED of Red Robbins hee) and prepared merienda for me and our son. He made a vanilla ice cream topped with cherry and chocolate syrup for the little boy and of course a vinaigrette salad for me. See, how supportive he is on my diet? haha! Today marks exactly 1 month before my 30th.
It would also mean I have only ONE (1) month to lose 8-13 lbs off me.
I am pressured, super!
But I haven't eaten a single "butil" of rice for almost a month now.
I have to admit though that this dieting makes me cranky tsk tsk.
I just need to control myself from grabbing rice and from the hungry-insulated mood swings.
Thanks goodness because I have a busy life, I wouldn't be thinking (nor hearing) my growling stomach every now & then.
Wish me luck.
Reaching my weight goal would be such a fleeting experience more than receiving a designer bag on my 30th. But, I wouldn't say no to designer bags, nevertheless hee.
Next to the hair, I guess one of our 'crowning glories' include our smile. Just imagine, you are too shy to smile because of your crooked teeth and you're breath stinks because of your negligence to regularly visit your dentist. One of the things I look into a person when it is just my 1st time to meet him/her is the way she smiles at me. You can sure tell a lot about a person by his/her smile. I remember hubby and I used to kid each other when we were just about to get married that we should admit to each other if one of us is wearing dentures hee which obviously we are. I guess you know by now you already know what kind of couple we are hee.
But of course, inevitably in our old age, some teeth would fall off and we are left with no choice but to replace those missing teeth to still have that big great and friendly smile. Bridges and dentures are not the popular option nowadays. They have what they call dental implants which are more natural looking and feels more comfortable than bridges or dentures. The process involves placing a metal anchor into the jaw bone and allowing the bone and the anchor to fuse. The prosthetic tooth is then fixed to the metal anchor. However, one has to consider that the process is time consuming and the rates are really expensive. In the end, it is extremely important to take care of our teeth in order to avoid having tooth decays at such an early age. Brushing daily, drinking milk (for calcium), regular dental check-up and avoiding sweets and smoking are just one of the few ways on how to keep your smile from hiding =).
*Join me in this fun quiz tag and add yourself in the list. Tag all your foodie friends too. Take the quiz here: What Kind of Wine Are You?
Tagging along foodies: AGGIE, JANE, YEN, KATHY, & WENG.
WINE DRINKERS: 1.) Living the Healthy Life is a chardonnay; 2.) YOU!
I am glad I am a chardonnay because I sure love chardonnay. I hope we can visit Napa Valley in December and so hubby could enjoy the wine tasting there. It's his 1st time and I'm pretty excited about it =)
You Are Chardonnay
Sometimes adulthood responsibilities are just overwhelming and taxing. There are just times that I want to go back to my childhood where it's free to be carefree and spontaneous without thinking of endless bills and stressful juggling of different adulthood roles and responsibilities. I was talking to a friend just this morning who called in primarily to ask about a certain recipe but we ended up talking about adulthood woes and other serious issues. I have devoted a single day for telethons because, as you know I am such a busy mom and I can't spare an hour talking on the phone on ordinary days. However, she needed me and the issue on which she consulted me interest me. She was asking my opinion whether it is really a good thing to get their own place as in invest on buying a house or renting forever without thinking of amortizations and home insurance. While some would invest on a house instantly, others would keep their money in the forms of bank savings, time deposits or stocks. They say, now is the right time to purchase one when the country is having an economic crunch and where real estate are really down. I told her that honestly should we have the money to buy a house, I would want to own one rather than spending on rentals. However, comes with owning one is endless bills on house maintenance and home insurance. But for me, the best decision a family could ever make is invest on a home. No other form of security can outlast having your own roof called home.
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