The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Today I was very active like yesterday after breakfast I worked for a while in the catalogue design, then I did 1: 20 hours workout, I felt really energic this time. I did laundry and cleaned some the house.

I started to germinate the beans. I let them in water last night then today I rinsed the beans many times to remove the inhibitors. After that I put them in a jar which has tulle fabric in the top so that the rest of the water can drain. I cover them so they won't have light.





8 hours later I did the same and the mung beans are already growing!



I have to keep rinsing the beans every 8-9 hours, draining the water and cover them again. I think 1 or 2 more days and they will be ready to eat.

I also did some butter with walnuts, cashew nuts and almonds. It's really easy to do, healthy and you can have it in the fridge for weeks.





Afternoon snack!



I also cooked beans and quinoa to make salads for dinner and tomorrow lunch with grilled chicken.



I took a shower then I did my beauty routine. Now I'm writing while I let the nailpolish dries up.

This week I'm going to do the diet in the right way. I read it and I understood about how to do the phases. So on Monday I started it.
Although the first week I did it wrong, I lost 1.8 pounds, 0.78" of waist and hip, and 0.39" of thigh and arm. Not bad at all anyway! 

Records before start:
Body measurements:

Hips (the widest part): 38.9"
Waist (at the level of the navel): 32.28"
Thigh: 22"
Arm: 9.44"

Weight: 129.19"

What I ate yesterday and today:

Breakfast: strawberries, blueberries, pineapple, kiwi, peach with oatmeal
Morning snack: mango / pineapple
Lunch: cooked fish with lemon and oregano, and brown rice / grilled chicken with salad (mung beans, adzuki beans, egg and tomato) / strawberries
Afternoon snack: apple
Dinner: grilled chicken with salad (mung beans, adzuki beans, egg and tomato) / zucchini omelette

I have to say that I'm enjoying this new way to eat and the things I'm trying!

With the beans I did a salad and I really liked it, I want to try to make an omelette with them now to see if this is good





This time I did not cook the fish in the oven. I put 2 portions of fish in a plate and added lemon juice and oregano, then I covered the plate with a film and cooked it in the microwave for 10 minutes.. easy, fast and tasty. 




Today I cooked the snacks for the next 2 days which are the hardest days on the diet. I can not eat fruits nor grain legumes so I chose for snacks chicken soup, chiken and eggs. It was my first time cooking chiken soup, I always cook vegetables soup. I put in a pan: water, a chicken thigh, white and red onion, spinach, garlic podwer, pepper, oregano and vegetable bouillon. It taste delicious! And the chicken I cut it on cubes to eat alone I also cooked the lunch for tomorrow so basically I spent the afternoon cooking, and I enjoyed it so much!!!

Both days I did bike

Again I had bad sleep. Anyways I get up earlier than usual and I cooked pancakes for breakfast: with dulce de leche for Martu and with blueberries and strawberries for me. Of course I drank coffee. I really like pancakes but it is not something I could eat every morning






It was a busy and stressful day at work. The good news is that this month I got again a little pay rise. It is just $170 but it's good to see that my boss notices how much I am doing. 

After work I went to the greengrocery, again! and I bought 2 mangos, then I went to the butcher's and bought chicken. For dinner I grilled chicken and cooked potatoes in the microwave, healthy and delicious. Maybe I'll start to look for recipes to cook more healthy and tasty food.

Today I won't do bike or workout, I feel tired so I'm going to the bed to study before sleep. 

 Today is mother's day. I wanted to go to my mom's house but I felt terrible all day long so I stayed at home. I have spasms and it hurts like if they are contractions... I don't know why. At 3 pm I decided to get up to see if that relieves the pain so I cleaned the house a little and I cooked brownies. When they were ready I made a big cup of coffee to give myself a moment of happiness in this painful day.





I finished another course of web programming and joined 12 courses to improve my English.

Michael and I wanted to do something together so we played Magic Online in Steam. I don't work tomorrow so probably I will play a little more while I do bike to burn the calories of the brownies, then go to bed to read until fall asleep.

 I went to the hairdresser, it took forever! The girl worked on my hair for 2 hours but it totally worth, my hair is smoothed and silky for the next 6 months 

I came back to home, I had lunch then I cleaned the house. 

After it I tried the recipe of Blueberry pancakes. It was my first time cooking pancakes, I like them! 



Of course I had coffee with the pancake 

No way to do workout after that, so I did 1 hour stationary bike. Now I will study programming and maybe before sleep I will watch some serie on Netflix. Today I am having good time with myself  

 It was a good week. I didn't feel anxious at all, it is my second week without anxiety?
It was a normal week at work. I'm working with my boss in different strategies to reactivate the sales. Because I am also who design our websites, newsletter, brochures, etc she told me if I need to work overtime at home she will pay me for this 
I did workout on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. It seems I'm doing well because I can feel some pain on my muscles.. not that kind of pain when you get injured but some pain that make you know you worked your body... like Eminem's song says: a beautiful kind of pain! For tomorrow I'm going to try to wake up at 6 a.m. to do workout before go to work, let's see if I'm able to get up when it is cold.
In order to be able to do exercises without feel exhausted, I'm trying to improve my eating. I want to eat more vegetables and fruits and I need to have decent breakfast. Last 2 days I had fruits, yogurth, cereals and toast. I don't think I can eat eggs at morning but fruits is something that my body accept without get sick. And it looks very delicious for me!



Mike and I calculated how many calories it has and this breakfast has around 300-400 cal and all is non fat. I know nothing about nutrition but I guess it is good food to get energy at morning to face the day. 
ANother thing I have to do about my health is drinking less coffee. I know I have wrote this a lot of times on this journal, but I really need do it. I researched why my vertebral discs are dehydrated and if there is something I can do to hydrate them again. And guess what? vertebral discs get hydrated by the water you drink, and obviously they get dehydrated for the same reason all your body get dehydrated too, so this mean that if you drink much coffee, alcohol, you smoke, etc etc your body and the discs will lose water.  
I started to drink 3 big cups of coffee every day (sometimes 4 or 5) because my eating and sleeping are bad, and I use coffee to get fast energy (and I love how it taste to be honest). Althought I drink 1.5 to 2 liters of water my body is dehydrated always. I need pee every 1-2 hours. The good thing is that I dont suffer fluid retention even on summer but the bad thing is that this affect my whole body. I start to drink collagen again and I'm going to cut slowly the coffee. If I can wake up early to have a healthy breakfast I can skip the first coffee. The second coffee I can replace for green tea and just drink the coffee I have at 3 p.m., when I start to feel sleepy at work. It seems stupid that I can't stop drinking coffee but I think I'm addicted, so I need to stay strong to get this goal. 
Yesterday I cleaned the house even when I felt tired, I'm happy I did so today I can spend my time on beauty rutine and do my HTML course. At night I worked on the website of my client with the last changes he asked me to do and I studied English. Mike invited me to watch together the last chapter of dragon Ball and I did, I like this anime. I fell asleep 2 a.m.
Today I woke up 8.30 a.m. on panic because I was late for work, it took me few minutes to understand why I didn't set any alarm for wake up... it's Sunday I fell asleep again until 1 p.m. then I got up and I had a delicious breakfast (and after it I had a coffee )

We woke up early to do the check out. I still don't understand why we booked the hotel from Saturday to Saturday when we will stay from Sunday to Sunday
Michael used some application in his iPhone to book another hotel, most hotels were full. We went to Lake Buena Vista, to the hotel Hilton Orlando but they didn't have any avaible room even when the app said they had. We saw some geckos around the hotel, I love them.

There a pic of the entrance to Disney





Hilton Orlando



So bad all the hotels around were full because we end in a horrible and expensive hotel called Ecco Suits in Lakeland. I'm really disappointed with that hotel. The furniture is old, the bethroom was smelly, The pool is very small. And the room cost like $120-140 when Vacation Village Hotel the cheaper room wich is very comfortable, full equipped, cost $130.... and you can't compare this shit with the hotel we always book. Of course I wrote my opinion about this awful hotel in Google Places. I won't recommend this place at all!!!!! The only good thing here is that I saw a squirrel









We take a long nap.. or Mike did, I couldn't sleep so much there. At 5pm we went to eat something to Applebee's. I wanted to eat fat food I  don't know why so I had a burguer with cheese and tomato. We had too some tacos wich I liked. Mike ate pasta with shrimp sauce.






The food isn't great but cheap. Isn't a place I'll go back but we didn't have many options around. After the food of course I wanted drink coffee so we went to Starbucks and we bring the coffee to the hotel. We watched Pirates of the Caribbean: On stranger Tides then we played Magic cards. I don't know what time we went to bed.
Even when the place was not nice we made this day worth it  

 Today we woke up late... well not me, because someone started to call and made my phone sound nonstop, so I woke up 9am but I stayed in the bed a little more. It were like 4 different people calling me this morning, annoying. Since they didn't let me sleep again I got up and I had coffee and greek yogurt for breakfast, then I took a shower. I let Michael sleep untill 1 or 2 pm. 

Since it was late to go to the beach, we did shopping. We went to  Toy Rust store, I got Minecraft Legos for Martina and some toys from Five Night at Freddy. Mike bought some toys too for her. After it we went to Target and I couldn't help... I bought 5 nailpolish, 4 eye brushes, another Eos lip balm coconut flavor and clothes for Martina.

some of the nailpolish, in love with this brand, a little expensive but cheaper than in my country



When we done at target we went to Khol's and we chose clothes for me. I was looking for some clothes for winter but Florida isn't a good place to get this kind of clothes, there is never so cold. Anyway I got some sweaters, shirts and also a Levi's jeans wich I love how good the fabric is and how it feels. I saved $130 

When I was done doing shopping Mike drove to the game store... we ended with our 3rd box of Magic Cards!!! I told him... this is the last we will buy for now.

 This weekend I did almost nothing... I cleaned the house after a long nap then cooked pasta and I got a drink... yes I was in mood to drink. I watched the serie "The OA" on Netflix until chapter 6. The story was interesting and I wasn't tired but 3am I went to bed. 
On Sunday I went to the weekend house with mom, Flor and her friend. I couldn't swim because it was still raining so I made coffee and I watched more episodes of The OA. Mom acted like a normal human so it wasn't so bad  

I didn't go for a walk this time because the weather





I was so tired and lazy that I didn't cook dinner, but I got delicious fruits