Advance Happy Easter
I cannot believe this, I survived 44 days without rice, any kind of meat, chocolates, soda and junk foods/chips. In 2 days time, I will celebrate Easter with all the food I missed :). I must say that the sacrifice was all worth it.
Today is Black Friday and I am still working, yes no Holy Week holiday here in my neck of the woods. But I promised myself to leave an hour earlier today, I just hope that my research on this Topamax lawsuit will be finished asap. In the meantime, here's wishing you all a Happy and Blessed Easter!
New Workout from Jillian Michaels
Remember this Jillian Michaels' 30 day Shred workout entry I wrote about early last year? Sad to say I am still on Level 1. I keep going back to doing level 1 because I cannot sustain level 2, much more level 3. But since I have already been working out in the gym for a good 3 weeks now, I guess I can move up to Levels 2 & 3 and eventually buy this--->the newly released Jillian Michaels: Banish Fat, Boost Metabolism. (yes, I am willing to punish myself like that just so I can avoid diet pills for women :P) 
Obviously, I am a huge fan of Jillian Michaels, why? Because she has this commanding voice tone that makes me never want to give up once on it. This new workout DVD is said to be super HARDCORE with a total of 59 minutes of plyometric exercises combining them with circuit training and explosive jumps! According to various reviews, this new one makes the 30-day shred like a small time exercise routine yay!!! Now, are you ready for it? Check out this workout details as lined up by MakeUpAndBeautyBlog.com:
The workout
- Warm up: arm circles, toe touches, arm swings and jogging in place
- Circuit one: squatting side kicks on the right side, squatting with alternating punches, squatting side kicks on the left side, a jab-cross-hook-elbow combination and alternating front kicks
- Circuit two: burpies, plie hops (the former dancer in me loves these, they totally make your butt burn), a punch-hop combination, 180-degree jumps and single-leg hops
- Circuit three: butt kicks, high knees, jumping jacks, oblique crunches on the right side and oblique crunches on the left side
- Circuit four: mountain climbers, lower back and leg raises, pike crunches, oblique twists and a walking plank (hurts so good!)
- Circuit five: swing kicks, uppercuts, back kicks, squatting with a jab-cross combo and knee crunches
- Circuit six: jump squats, cross-country skiing, scissor kicks, skaters and standing mountain climbers
- Circuit seven: twisting jumps, standing ab crunches, knee crunches on the right side, knee crunches on the left side and jump rope
- Cool down: a five minute cool-down stretch
MY DIET FILES: My Lenten Sacrifice
- Rice
- Chocolates
- Junkfood
- Meat (beef, pork and chicken)
- Soda
Oh My Mangoes!
Since I have been missing out a lot of fun in my food list this Lenten season, I make sure to stock up with a lot of fruits. Name every fruit in Costco or Sam's and I have eaten them in heaps of volume last month and this month. Then 2 days ago, while we were looking for a step stool at Sam's, these I saw!!!
Not at par with the Philippine Mangoes but good enough to satisfy my sweet tooth cravings :).
almost there
As I have mentioned HERE, my Lenten sacrifice includes skipping rice, chocolates, soda, all meat-chicken, beef and pork and junkfood. A colleague asked me while we were making college flags if I have gone crazy already hee hee. I admit that there are days my mood swings are bad, read: cranky and I lack energy at the end of the day but all for the Glory of God. I just cannot wait for Easter Sunday because I know DH will treat me to an Eat-All-You-Steak Easter lunch hee hee :P.
How's Lenten Sacrifices going?
