Ripe mango for supper

I have been eating ripe sweet mangos for supper. One piece can always do. I made this as an alternate for red pomelo. I eat fruits on empty stomach and its the best time. I bloat if I eat them right after meal.  I usually eat supper around 6 PM and sleep after three to four hours. If I stay very late I just nibble on biscuits before going to bed.

I was traveling the usual route and I was bringing with me one ripe mango I bought the night before and took the remaining Ensure powder because I would arrive late in my destination. Because my imagination was to eat the mango with some Ensure powder on it. When I arrived at the hotel room I requested for a spoon and plate, no need for a knife all you have to do is to use the spoon to slice the meat of the mango.

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Blood tests are normal

When you are above forties you are required to have series of blood tests to check if you have no UTI, kidney infection at the same time checking out if cholesterol levels are borderline and or above range. I just had these tests yesterday: cholesterol; triglycerides; blood uric acid; blood urea nitrogen; creatinine; HDL cholesterol and LDL cholesterol. All were within normal. I am sure my physician would be pleased to know. I may not know the exact implication to this but all I can grasp is all the results are within the range.

As I look at the results I was thinking of the food that I took for the past weeks. I eat small rice, few meat and poultry, coffee and biscuits in the morning, took some Anlene, Ensure and Green Barley, I also drink some hot chocolates with mild. I ate plenty of red, seedless sweet pomelo, grapes, apples, mango and banana. I only eat rice, vegetables or fish during lunchtime. I walked for 20 to 30 minutes during the last four mornings prior to the tests.

Let me share some comparison:

                                        Sept. 1, 2011                                                May 7, 2012

                                     Results       Reference Range                    Results          Reference Range
Total Cholesterol           231.20           150 - 200                           145.10             0.000 - 220.4
Triglycerides                  137.30           10  - 150                             84.99             0.000- 151.9
HDL Cholesterol             53.00           45  -   77                              44.58             0.000 - 65.02

LDL Cholesterol            150.60          108 - 130                              83.8               0.000 - 150.9

These things I did made me feel good and light. I may be losing weight but not as much as the ideal one. But nevertheless these things I did made me feel better, not grasping for breath to the third floor by the stairway (as if there is another choice like elevator or escalator).

I am healthier today.

Liquid Food

I am still overweight by 3 kg as per BMI standard. I tried to lose weight by taking liquid food in exchange for solid food. One liquid food that i tried is Ensure. This is not a dairy product, contrary to most people's belief. This is simply a complete nutrition food. Ensure is also in powder form.

Another liquid food that I tried is the new product on the block: Green Barley. It is in powder form and all you have to do is add water on it, shake and put in on a fridge. It is tastier when chilled.

Wow Coffee

I have been drinking coffee for the last 5 years and discovered other products such as 3 in one to 12 n 1. I usually have coffee and biscuit in the morning but i have no particular coffee in mind. I just buy what is good for me like slimming coffee or sometimes I go for a coffee that has relaxation agents. I am fascinated with this giant coffee company's playing with lots of coffee varieties just to enhance coffee industry to keep at par with rising of the tea industry. But this big company have not produced yet 12 n 1.

Look at this newly discovered 12 n 1 coffee. Just mix half of the sachet in a cup of hot water, you can survive hours without solid food.

I did

Believe me, I was able to do the 3.2 km run. I am not into running nor jogging. Just let me walk. But for the past two weeks I was able to jog, walk and run. Why would not I? It was fun doing it with others and it was a compulsory training! I am truly blessed. That was a very rare opportunity and a lifetime to remember. For two weeks we were on square meals, obeying, on formations, watching our actions, working as a team, gaining merits as well as demerits. Waking up early 3.30 AM was an agony for me, then do the jog was another agony. Then weekend came for the 3.2 km run. I did. Thanks for the team mates. And not only that, I was able to  "cross the bridge" on two ropes. Two hands clasp on the upper rope and your feet on the lower rope, then slowly I made it to the other side. Then this unforgettable "commando crawl" where I fell to the ground on the first try, then I have to fix myself again and try again. Believe me, I did and have a lifetime to tell the experience was totally different. Believe me. I did.

Sweat it out

Today's activity was spent solely inside the office, sitting down doing some emails.  So I decided to go down to the gym for a dance exercise just to sweat out. In a matter of one week I lost half kilogram and fascinating enough.  Before we started a lady doctor in the group was talking about the daily consciousness of what to eat in a daily basis for those who really want to reduce in weight and the alkaline in the Calamansi juice. I somewhat agreed with her and agreed all the more that we should only eat rice during lunch. Then Besy  (I just knew her name after the dance when we walk together outside) was curious about the things that made her a bit fat. And I confirm that other ways to slim down is to drink Calamansi juice. Pure. No sugar added. No water added. No salt. as in pure. I also gave her advise that she can start 5 to 10 pieces every morning and increase it gradually until she reaches 28 pieces. And some ways is simply to sweat out.  I enrolled in the dance exercise not to become a dancer (that would be too late for a dream) but to simply sweat it out. I feel better.

What I ate inside SM City Mall

I had breakfast in Pier Uno of peanut bread, fish and coffee (3 in 1) enough for the brief appointment in the morning and then afterwards I have to go somewhere to stay while waiting for my boat ride back to the office.  And SM seemed to be the only place to stay.  Why I love SM because there are plenty of things to see and think about. There are plenty of foods to eat around from Thai to Japanese to Filipino foods.  And of course there are these never ending fast foods of the century.  But if you have another diet plan in mind you can skip all these. I went directly to "Fruit and Salad Medley"  and my usual choice are the combination of grapes, mango and honey dew. But there were no grapes, mango nor honey dew this time so I picked some vegies instead like lettuce with matching cucumber of two varieties. No salad dressing. A friend went over to see me so I decided we have lunch at Sunburst, that means a plate with the stuff of chicken, vegie with noodles and some shanghai thing. Then we ate later the fresh vegetables I just bought from the supernarket. Then supper time I popped on two handful of cornflakes which I bought from the grocery earlier.
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