Tuesday, June 10, 2014
6/6/2014 Lunch Outside
We finally had a nice day here in MN. So, I went outside for my lunch break. This was my salad....
Baby greens with eggs, avocado, cherry tomatoes, shitake mushrooms, and a touch of French dressing. I wouldn't do a dry salad if I can help it.
Memorial Weekend 2014 Eating Tour
This Memorial Weekend my friends and I decided to go on a food tour of Chicago. I know, I was on LLGD, but I couldn't just pass up some good food. Remember, I did say I LOVE eating.
This isn't the recommended way of starting a diet, but, actually, I started in February ;-). This was just a weekend off of LLGD.
Squid, ribs, and chap chae at Joy Yee
Stuffed pizza from Giadorno's
Samgyupsal from San Soo Gab San
Japanese ramen from Kayabe in Mitsuwa
Greek medley of foods from Greek Island
This isn't the recommended way of starting a diet, but, actually, I started in February ;-). This was just a weekend off of LLGD.
What is the Lazy Lazy Girl Diet (LLGD)?
To be honest, I don't know. I'm not a nutritionist, I don't have any special knowledge of how the body burns fat. I'm not a chef (this is the most important part of my Lazy Lazy Girl Diet), so I don't have special recipies. And, I am far from being a doctor, so what I'm doing is just doing my best to intake enough calories to keep my body going, nutritioned. I'm taking from the universe the various recipies, exercise routines, and time management to try to make this Lazy Lazy Girl Diet works for me.
I'm the first to scream "I'M LAZY" when it comes to cooking. Ok, the truth is, I HATE cooking. I just don't see the pleasure in cooking for hours to enjoy the meal. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE food. Especially tasty, yummy, dripping, food. I've had my share of traveling the world just to eat a certain dish just because I heard it was delicious. I love eating, but I hate cooking (not to mention cleaning). This is where the idea of my LLGD was born. What can I eat that does not involve me spending a lot of time in the kitchen?
One of the basis for my LLGD is the Raw Food Diet from Dr. Oz. I saw on one of his shows in the past something about "eating raw" such as salads, fruits, and veggies. And I LOVE LOVE this idea, but I am not a vegetarian, I needed to get my meat me. *wink* I love ribs, burgers, and all kinds of meat. Also, in my culture, it's almost impossible to truly be vegetarian. We consume LOTS and LOTS of meat at family gatherings and if you don't eat the meat, people are going to start thinking you don't love them.
Using Dr. Oz's Raw Food Diet, and others I've heard about via the internet, I am including more veggies/fruits into my daily diet. Previously, I consumed a LOT of sweets and carbs. Growing up, my mom would set in the middle of the table a huge bowl of white rice and around it was two or three dishes that would be meat based. A bit of veggies. And of course, the one item that is NEVER EVER left off of a Hmong table, the hot pepper sauce. This was our normal meal, 3 times a day. Rice, and rice, and MORE rice. Therefore, I grew up eatting a lot of rice. Once I went to college, I stepped away from the rice, mainly because I am a lazy person, I don't like to make rice. (I know, the electric rice cooker has made that chore so much easier, but I still hated using the rice cooker to make rice.)
So, since February, 2014, I have really stepped up trying to eat more salads, fruits, or veggies for lunch. Breakfast was oatmeal or a fruit (I read somewhere on the internet that eating oatmeal 3x a week helps to lower cholesteral). I have been eating more eggs, sometimes without the yoke. But I'll make scrambled eggs in the morning on weekends and sometimes boil an egg or two for my salad at lunch. This is the extent of what I want to cook ;-). I bumped my salad eating up to 3x a week, minimum, in May, 2014 and made a vow to drink more water.
To make water drinking more enjoyable, I picked up the Target brand Market Pantry strawberry, orange, and banana powder to mix with my water. Trick: It also helped to have a clear water bottle so that I can "see" how much water I am drinking.
Finally, since I have such a high sweettooth, I have vowed to friends that I am going to cut down on my sweets. Two small pieces a day. For me, this is something really hard to do. I can sit there and eat the entire cheesecake or bag of fun size snickers. So, taking it down to two small pieces... is a challenge.
In conclusion, the LLGD is really in essence, the lazy person's eating habit changes. Eat more raw foods and drink more water and stay away from the sweets. At least for THIS lazy person.
I'm the first to scream "I'M LAZY" when it comes to cooking. Ok, the truth is, I HATE cooking. I just don't see the pleasure in cooking for hours to enjoy the meal. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE food. Especially tasty, yummy, dripping, food. I've had my share of traveling the world just to eat a certain dish just because I heard it was delicious. I love eating, but I hate cooking (not to mention cleaning). This is where the idea of my LLGD was born. What can I eat that does not involve me spending a lot of time in the kitchen?
One of the basis for my LLGD is the Raw Food Diet from Dr. Oz. I saw on one of his shows in the past something about "eating raw" such as salads, fruits, and veggies. And I LOVE LOVE this idea, but I am not a vegetarian, I needed to get my meat me. *wink* I love ribs, burgers, and all kinds of meat. Also, in my culture, it's almost impossible to truly be vegetarian. We consume LOTS and LOTS of meat at family gatherings and if you don't eat the meat, people are going to start thinking you don't love them.
Using Dr. Oz's Raw Food Diet, and others I've heard about via the internet, I am including more veggies/fruits into my daily diet. Previously, I consumed a LOT of sweets and carbs. Growing up, my mom would set in the middle of the table a huge bowl of white rice and around it was two or three dishes that would be meat based. A bit of veggies. And of course, the one item that is NEVER EVER left off of a Hmong table, the hot pepper sauce. This was our normal meal, 3 times a day. Rice, and rice, and MORE rice. Therefore, I grew up eatting a lot of rice. Once I went to college, I stepped away from the rice, mainly because I am a lazy person, I don't like to make rice. (I know, the electric rice cooker has made that chore so much easier, but I still hated using the rice cooker to make rice.)
So, since February, 2014, I have really stepped up trying to eat more salads, fruits, or veggies for lunch. Breakfast was oatmeal or a fruit (I read somewhere on the internet that eating oatmeal 3x a week helps to lower cholesteral). I have been eating more eggs, sometimes without the yoke. But I'll make scrambled eggs in the morning on weekends and sometimes boil an egg or two for my salad at lunch. This is the extent of what I want to cook ;-). I bumped my salad eating up to 3x a week, minimum, in May, 2014 and made a vow to drink more water.
To make water drinking more enjoyable, I picked up the Target brand Market Pantry strawberry, orange, and banana powder to mix with my water. Trick: It also helped to have a clear water bottle so that I can "see" how much water I am drinking.
Finally, since I have such a high sweettooth, I have vowed to friends that I am going to cut down on my sweets. Two small pieces a day. For me, this is something really hard to do. I can sit there and eat the entire cheesecake or bag of fun size snickers. So, taking it down to two small pieces... is a challenge.
In conclusion, the LLGD is really in essence, the lazy person's eating habit changes. Eat more raw foods and drink more water and stay away from the sweets. At least for THIS lazy person.
How It All Started
At my highest weight, I weighed in at 178 lbs. I'm not tall, barely 5'1, so being this weight pushes me into the obsessed section of most health records. So, starting February, 2014, I made a committement to myself to start eating healther and to get back into exercising.
In my twenties, I was very athlectic. I played sports and participated in martial arts along with just being more active in general. As I entered my thirties, life got in the way and I didn't get to the dojo as often and sat on my butt for 8-10 hours a day with a job in front of a computer. That's how everything started going downhill, or should I say, spread out.
But, the most important reason for me to try to get back in good health is the death of my mother. She passes away March 18, 2014 of kidney and congestive heart failure due to diabeties and colon cancer. Her struggle was for almost a year and caused much strain on the family as a whole. Watching her health deteriorate in that last year of her life really started me thinking about where I want my health to be when I get older.
I made a promise to myself to be healthy into my more mature self. Even though I do not feel "old", my body is starting to lose the bounce it once had. Starting to feel "sore" in places that shouldn't be sore. Just the wear and tear of an almost 40 year old body. This year, I am 37, turning 38 in a few more months. My mother died at age 55, that's not too far off for me to make sure that I am in good health.
So, now you know, that's how all this was kicked off.
This is me, May 2014
In my twenties, I was very athlectic. I played sports and participated in martial arts along with just being more active in general. As I entered my thirties, life got in the way and I didn't get to the dojo as often and sat on my butt for 8-10 hours a day with a job in front of a computer. That's how everything started going downhill, or should I say, spread out.
But, the most important reason for me to try to get back in good health is the death of my mother. She passes away March 18, 2014 of kidney and congestive heart failure due to diabeties and colon cancer. Her struggle was for almost a year and caused much strain on the family as a whole. Watching her health deteriorate in that last year of her life really started me thinking about where I want my health to be when I get older.
I made a promise to myself to be healthy into my more mature self. Even though I do not feel "old", my body is starting to lose the bounce it once had. Starting to feel "sore" in places that shouldn't be sore. Just the wear and tear of an almost 40 year old body. This year, I am 37, turning 38 in a few more months. My mother died at age 55, that's not too far off for me to make sure that I am in good health.
So, now you know, that's how all this was kicked off.
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