Food Log (21 February 2012)

Today is the first day that I'm feeling better, so I was able to do yoga again I can tell it's been about a week since I last did yoga, as I felt so weak. It's amazing how quickly the body gets lazy and becomes sluggish.

Tonight I made Korean food, so it's healthy food but ate way too much.

Breakfast: Oat porridge with raspberries, flaxseeds, sunflower seeds, cinnamon, agave syrup and milk.

Lunch: 2 slices of rye bread, hambuger, tomatoes, and lettuce.

Snack: Japanese green tea and some karintou.

Dinner: Korean style pork, spinach, bean sprouts, green lettuce, and tofu with barley/oat/buckwheat/rice mix.

Exercise: Pushups, crunches and 30 minutes of yoga.

Food Log (17 February 2012)

So I've been kicking in high gear on low GL the past couple of weeks.  I was hoping to lose at least a pound a week, but for some reason I barely miss the mark.  I know I should be happy for any loss, but it's not so fun when I'm trying hard and being good, and it still doesn't hit the mark.  Oh well, at least now I'm only 1 lb away from the weight I was before Christmas. 

Me hitting goal weight by summer seems really far away now:(


Here's the 33rd weekly weight update:

-0.8 lbs (-.36kg)


Total amount since started: -20 lbs (-9.09kg)

Food Log (16 February 2012)

I went over to a friend's get together today. Hints the naughty lunch and snack. Hopefully the damage won't be too bad for tomorrow's weigh in. I don't like having naughties right before weigh in. Though I tried to keep the damage to a minimal while I was there.

I'm cold and tired today. I over did myself a little yesterday. So for the next couple of days I'm going to have to be a little careful. Did I mention omg I'm sore!

Breakfast: Oat porridge with raspberries, flaxseeds, sunflower seeds, cinnamon, agave syrup and milk.

Lunch: 1 and 3/4 Polish pancakes with cream thingy and orange marmalade. Two small bites of chocolate cake.

Snack: Japanese green tea and a few Kyoto style crackers.

Dinner: Korvstroganoff with barley/oat/buckwheat/rice mix.

Food Log (15 February 2012)

Today I did both shoveling snow and yoga. Whew I feel wornout, maybe it was a little too much for me. I'm sore, cold and tired now, I should be able to sleep really well tonight. I have to becareful to not over do it.

Breakfast: Oat porridge with raspberries, flaxseeds, sunflower seeds, cinnamon, agave syrup and milk.

Snack: 1 clementine.

Lunch: 2 slices of rye bread, one with reindeer cheese and one with lucentia (spicy ajvar).

Snack: 1 piece of dark chocolate.

Dinner: Korvstroganoff with barley/oat/buckwheat/rice mix.

Exercise: 25 minutes of shoveling snow, pushups, crunches and 30 minutes of yoga.

Food Log (14 February 2012)

I was hoping to doing yoga this afternoon, but I had a surprise visit from my mom-inlaw. It was really nice that she stopped by, we chit chatted and had some tea together I don't feel too bad that I didn't do yoga today, as I shoveled snow again today.

Breakfast: Oat porridge with strawberries, flaxseeds, sunflower seeds, cinnamon, agave syrup and milk.

Lunch: Beef, mushroom, and bell pepper with spelt pasta.

Snack: 1 piece of dark chocolate, with Japanese green tea.

Dinner: 2 slices of rye bread with peanut butter and jam, and a clementine.

Exercise: 37 minutes of shoveling snow.

Food Log (13 February 2012)

Last night the weather report said it would be -6 celsius this morning. But when I woke up and went to the car it was -13. I wasn't able to open the garage door to get the car out. I struggled with it trying to lift it open for almost 5 minutes. It was completely frozen shut. I was finally able to get it open, but boy oh boy does my back ache today. Needless to say I wasn't really in the mood to cook tonight.

Breakfast: Oat porridge with strawberries, flaxseeds, sunflower seeds, cinnamon, agave syrup and milk.

Lunch: Japanese curry with barley/oat/buckwheat/rice mix.

Snack: Cottage cheese with pumpkin seeds, 1 piece of dark chocolate, with homemade sobacha (buckwheat tea).

Dinner: 2 slices of rye bread, one with reindeer cheese and the other with peanut butter and jam.

Food Log (12 February 2012)

It was a leftovers kind of day

Breakfast: Oat porridge with strawberries, flaxseeds, sunflower seeds, cinnamon, agave syrup and milk.

Lunch: Spicy chicken, cabbage, carrots, mushrooms, leeks, onion, and garlic stirfry. With barley/oat/buckwheat/rice mix.

Snack: clementine, 1 piece of dark chocolate, with homemade sobacha (buckwheat tea).

Dinner: Spicy chicken, cabbage, carrots, mushrooms, leeks, onion, and garlic stirfry. With barley/oat/buckwheat/rice mix.

Exercise: Shoveling snow for 30 minutes, counts for something.

Food Log (11 February 2012)

Tonight's food was a stirfry made from things I had in the fridge. It came out really yummy.

Breakfast: Oat porridge with raspberries, flaxseeds, sunflower seeds, cinnamon, agave syrup and milk.

Snack: (Ate them throughout the day) 1 slice of rye bread one with reindeer cheese, clementine, 1 piece of dark chocolate, with homemade sobacha (buckwheat tea).

Dinner: Spicy chicken, cabbage, carrots, mushrooms, leeks, onion, and garlic stirfry. With barley/oat/buckwheat/rice mix.

Exercise: Pushups, crunches, and 30 minutes of yoga.

Food Log (10 February 2012)

Pretty weird to think another week has gone by. At least this time the weightloss was closer to a pound

Breakfast: Oat porridge with strawberries, flaxseeds, sunflower seeds, cinnamon, agave syrup and milk.

Lunch: 1 slice of rye bread one with reindeer cheese, and grapes.

Snack: clementine, 1 piece of dark chocolate, with homemade sobacha (buckwheat tea).

Dinner: Grilled ham and cheese on two rye slices, with tomato and basil salad.

Thirty-Second Weekly Weight Update!

This week I've been trying really hard to be a good girl.  The scale moved down all week, but stopped moving the other day.  Sort of a bummer because I was really hoping for a nice loss this week of at least one pound.  I can't be too picky since a loss is still a loss, and I'd much rather take a loss than a plus.  So it's a happy sad victory for me this week. 
I don't trust my scale, and am a little worried that when I finally do get that wonderful new scale  (when it's back in stock), that the new scale's readings will be a huge shocker.  Of course it'll be nice if it gives me a minus.  But it will be horrible to find out that my old scale now has been lying to me this whole time. 


Here's the 32nd weekly weight update:

-0.8 lbs (-.36kg)    


Total amount since started: -19.2 lbs (-8.73kg)

Food Log (9 February 2012)

I have a new non-scale victory today! I did 50 guy pushups! Yippie!!! Though I think I'm going to be a bit sore tomorrow>_< I'm so happy that I can do 50 guy pushups now, I've been dreaming of getting this far. Unfortunately, my arms aren't cut and muscled out as I would want them to be. Too much fat on my body still .

I'm actually surprised that I can do that many guy pushups as I'm still quite heavy, and that's a lot of junk in the trunk to pushup. Tomorrow is weigh in day, I'm hoping it will go well. I've been behaving myself all week, but it's always a surprise when weigh in day comes. I still don't really trust my scale, hopefully I will be able to get that scale I want sometime in the near future.


Breakfast: Grilled ham, cheese, tomato, and mushroom sandwich; made from 2 rye slices.

Lunch: 1 slice of rye bread one with peanut butter and jam.

Snack: clementine, 1 piece of dark chocolate, with homemade mugichi (barley tea).

Dinner: Grilled ham and cheese on two rye slices, with tomato and mushroom salad.

Exercise: Pushups, crunches, and 30 minutes of yoga.

Recipe for Japanese Grain Teas; Sobacha (Buckwheat tea) and Mugicha (Barley tea)

They're really good and caffeine free. Depending to how dark you roast them will have an effect on how robust they are You can toast them on a pan for about 5-15 minutes on medium heat until the grains are a nice dark brown. Don't forget to move the grains around, or else they'll be burnt on oneside.

Depending on how strong you want your tea, you can use about a ½ tablespoon - 1 tablespoon of soba(buckwheat) or mugi (barley) for each 1 cup of water. You boil the water, then let the mugi or soba simmer for about 20 minutes on low heat. Then turn heat off and let it sit for about 5 minutes. Use a strainer to take the grains out of the tea.

You can drink them cold or hot. I usually make a big huge pan full of tea. I then put the rest in the fridge in a pitcher or mugs. It can last for days this way, and if you want to drink it cold you can or pour it into a mug and microwave for hot tea

I also toasted a good amount, so I don't have to keep toasting them every time I want to drink the tea. I'm storing them each in their own plastic bag in the fridge.

I kow mugicha can be an acquired taste. When I was a kid I didn't like it so much, but as I got older it grew on me. Sobacha was easier for me since it tastes similar to soba noodles, but in a nutty tea way. Both teas have a nutty smooth flavor. If you have something spicy to eat or a sore throat, they really help to sooth the throat.

Food Log (8 February 2012)

Today I decided to make myself some homemade Japanese teas. They're called sobacha (buckwheat tea) and mugicha (barley tea). In Japan you usually get sobacha when you're at a soba restaurant. Mugicha is something we usually drink cold during summer. Though at Korean restaurants they serve it hot during winter.

It's been a long time since I drank these teas, and I actually miss them. I just roasted some barley for the mugicha, and roasted some buckwheat for the sobacha. I think tomorrow or the next day I'll try out the sobacha.

Breakfast: Oat porridge with blackberries, flaxseeds, sunflower seeds, cinnamon, agave syrup and milk.

Lunch: Grilled ham, cheese, tomato, and mushroom sandwich; made from 2 rye slices.

Snack: clementine, 1 piece of dark chocolate, with homemade mugichi (barley tea).

Dinner: 2 slices of rye bread, one with peanut butter and jam, and the other with reindeer cheese. Also a clementine.

Exercise: Pushups, crunches, and 30 minutes of yoga.

Food Log (7 February 2012)

I bought some fruits yesterday, I thought it's better to eat fruits than some naughty things. I'm trying to be better this week. So I passed up buying a semla, which looked really good, and got grapes instead.

Brunch: Grilled ham, cheese, tomato, and mushroom sandwich; made from 2 rye slices.

Snack: clementine and grapes.

Snack: clementine, 1 piece of dark chocolate.

Dinner: Grilled ham, cheese, tomato, and mushroom sandwich; made from 2 rye slices. With a handful of grapes.

Exercise: Pushups, crunches, and 30 minutes of yoga.

Food Log (6 February 2012)

It was a leftover kind of day today I can't complain about that. I have to admit that the curry was really yummy.

Breakfast: Oat porridge with strawberries and raspberries, flaxseeds, sunflower seeds, cinnamon, agave syrup and milk.

Lunch: Chicken tandori, kale curry with a boiled egg, basmati rice/barley/oat mix.

Snack: 2 clementines, 1 piece of dark chocolate.

Snack: 1 slice of rye bread with reindeer soft cheese.

Dinner: Chicken tandori, kale curry with a boiled egg, basmati rice/barley/oat mix.

Food Log (5 February 2012)

Tonight's food was really yummy. I was actually hoping to make spinach curry, but I didn't have any spinach. What I thought was a bag of frozen spinach was a bag of frozen kale. My OH thought kale curry sounded horrible, but in the end it turned out really yummy Doesn't hurt to try and experiment with what's in the house

Brunch: Oat porridge with apples, flaxseeds, sunflower seeds, cinnamon, agave syrup and milk.

Snack: clementine.

Snack: 2 clementines, 1 piece of dark chocolate.

Dinner: Chicken tandori, kale curry with a boiled egg, basmati rice/barley/oat mix.

Exercise: Pushups, crunches, and 30 minutes of yoga.

Thirty-First Weekly Weight Update!

I need a new scale.  So I'm a bit iffy on what it reads.  I make sure jump on the scale several times to see what it reads.  I went to look for a scale today, though the one I wanted was sold out.  It's one that does the fat and muscle reading, and saves your info.  I almost bought the other one that was there, and my OH reminded me that I wouldn't be happy with it, since I already have my mind set on the nice one.

I've decided to wait a couple of weeks, and hopefully by then they will have the scale I want back in stock.  My scale isn't perfect, but I can wait for the scale I want:)    

Here's the 31st weekly weight update:

-0.4 lbs (-.18kg)   Totm

Total amount since started: -18.4 lbs (-8.36kg)

Food Log (2 February 2012)

I woke up really sore today, so I didn't do my exercise. My scale seems to be broken, one of the legs is wobbly and moves. Looks like I'll have to go find a new scale, hopefully I can do that this weekend.

Not sure how tomorrow's weigh in will be. Also not sure if I can really trust what the scale says. If you move it around it jumps in weight like 25 lbs. So we'll see how things will look in the morning.

Brunch: Veggie and sausage soup with two slices of rye bread.

Snack: clementine, 1 piece of dark chocolate.

Snack: A slice of rye bread with peanut butter and jam.

Dinner: Veggie and sausage soup with one slice of rye bread.

Food Log (1 February 2012)

My shoulder felt better today so I did my exercise. I didn't get to do the whole routine, but some is better than none. My shoulder does feel much stiffer now.

I decided to make soup today. It's getting colder here, and I thought that soup would be very comforting. Also it helps keeps me warm.

Breakfast: Oat porridge with strawberries, flaxseeds, sunflower seeds, cinnamon, agave syrup and milk.

Snack: Apple and ham.

Lunch: Veggie and sausage soup with a slice of rye bread.

Snack: clementine, 1 piece of dark chocolate.

Dinner: Veggie and sausage soup with two slices of rye bread.

Exercise: Pushups, crunches, and 21 minutes of yoga.