Day 61

Breakfast: Omelet with nutmeg, bell pepper, broccoli, mini tomato, bread, and low fat milk.

Started the day early again, thanks to my son. Finished with exercise by 6:30 a.m. 

Day 60

It's already day 60, 30 days to go!

I started early today. My son woke me up around 4:45 a.m., and I finished the exercise by 6:30, even finished feeding him breakfast, before my husband and daughter got up.

Nice weather on a national holiday, we took a long walk back from Shibuya to Hiroo, including my son's nap and a coffee break at Starbucks. My daughter snatched my egg white...!

Lunch at Homework's: chicken Caesar salad. Needed some carbs, so bought a brown rice ball sold at National supermarket. I should load up some of the brown rice at home...

Day 59

Managed to finish the exercise. Got a little better with Kungfu sit ups and could do the first 2 sets OK, the rest were shaking....

Day 58

Did my exercise before laving the house, leg ups are so heavy...

Day 57

My son's been waking up reasonably early these days: 5:45 a.m. Fed my kids, saw them off to school, then I did my exercise. Lots of leg works made me sweat a lot. Can tell the difference of mainly shoulder/arm day and leg day by the speed of me start sweating. More muscle, more sweat. Interesting. Also made me a little bit less fat than yesterday :-)

Day 56

Did jump rope before breakfast. I feel I'm fat when I don't have exercise...

Day 55 - Indulgence #2

Did the exercise before breakfast in the morning, headed to Nishiazabu to meet up with a friend for lunch at Fiorenza. Here's my indulgence #2 - chicken liver pasta. I'm sure some of you don't like liver, but I love it. And I love this restaurant, too. They offer reasonable and good food even on Sundays. We enjoyed our lunch with a good friend, kids enjoyed their tomato sauce pasta. My jew husband didn't like it but it was my fix for another a month or so.

It was a beautiful weather and we went to park after the lunch, walked around the area, and went back to docomo shop again. Oh, the saga of my mobile phone. I had to let them ship it to LG for their check up, and I off course got a spare phone to take back home while they figure out what's wrong with it...

So, I skipped afternoon tea snack as I was still stuffed, and had dinner, then went to bed, skipped night time snack again...;-)

Day 54

My son woke up around 5 this Saturday morning.... I was dog tired last night, couldn't get up after putting kids to bed, I missed my evening snack.... So, I was very hungry this morning, had to eat first. Then did exercise. Leg ups are killing my back.

It rained all day, couldn't go out at all. So decided to bake some muffin for kids. I off course could enjoy the smell of baking, but that's about it...

I haven't had my indulgence as I can't really tell what I want. Strange but I don't have cravings for any particular food these days.

Day 53

Still mobile phone is not coming back, had to run to the docomo shop again this morning. Got a new battery though it won't charge up this time..... Had to go again in the evening, let them charge the battery, then pick it up again after picking up kids..... I've decided no more LG products.

Anyhow, exercise wise, my shoulders are sore, and thanks to the 3 trips to the docomo shop, I added some more walking for a day.

Day 52

My mobile phone dies last night and I haven't been able to take photos and upload on the blog.... already went twice to docomo shop (mobile carrier), even changed a phone itself, but it died again. Have to get a new battery first thing tomorrow..... garrrrr....

The pull ups are killing me....! I still can't do the regular pull ups and go with the incline ones, but still it's a lot.

Day 51 Lunch

Neba neba soba (sticky buckwheat noodle): buckwheat noodle, sea kelp, squid, shrimp, cucumber, long leak, and dried seaweed on top. 

Outside curl was a lot harder than it looks.

Day 50

Exercise after kids went to school. Davinci, there you were...!!  I weighed myself, and I lost almost 6 kg. My body weighs almost same as when I was in high school.

Wow, all you can eat vegi for lunch!?

Day 49

Strange to say this but I don't feel right if I did not do exercise now.... not that I enjoy it; it still is painful and troubles me with walking all day long.

Indulgence #2 - did not expect to have this opportunity so soon. What should I get this time? Think think think....

Day 48

My son woke up around 5:30 this morning, I could start my exercise around 6:00 after feeding him breakfast, then finished by 7:00. Good to start early.

Packed up my lunch (pasta with shrimp, bell pepper, roasted mushroom, broccoli, with thyme) and fruit snacks, we went to Asakusa. The station doesn't have elevators (or have to go to the other end of the station which is far from Sensoji, where the temple is), my husband had to carry two strollers up and down.  It was off course crowded as usual in Sunday, but very few tourists. Smell of sesame oil from tempra restaurants, sembei (rice crackers) with soy sauce, ningyo yaki (doll cake), all kinds of goodies smell were in the air....;-)

Had my lunch at the sample's food vendor area while kids were eating sausage from there, we went back home as kids were getting grumpy.

Cooked vegetables for next week while kids were napping.

Day 47 Lunch

Finally I could have my very own, alone lunch today. 

Cooked sardine with tomato, turnip and its green, bell pepper, and a slice of brown bread. Colorful like an Italian flag!

Day 47

Breakfast: sweet potato, asparagus, bell pepper, whole wheat bagel, and Greek yogurt with cinnamon and honey.

Finished exercise before breakfast! Kung fu sit up...!? I had to touch the ground every time not to swing.

Day 46

Today's discovery - mini bagel + low fat Greek yogurt = bagel + (almost) cream cheese.

Kids watched Ponyo at breakfast time, while eating bagel and ham just like Ponyo herself (Ponyo loves ham), it kept them busy, so I could do my jumps and exercises before my breakfast! Though Davinci killed my shoulders and it was soooo hard to push stroller in the afternoon. I also can not walk faster pushing it....!

My daughter's fever went down to almost normal, and I hope she can go back to school from next Monday. 

Day 45 lunch@park

It was a shame to stay home despite of such a beautiful, summary day today with a sick kid. So, packed up our lunch, put a sick kid on a stroller, off we went to a park to enjoy the almost ending cherry blossom. There are many people who had the same idea of having lunch outside, including a big group of school kids. 

Day 44

So, my daughter has a type B flue.... that means she has to stay home another 2 days after her fever goes down, which means I have to cancel all my appointments this week and stay home with her.... Joy of parenting. This is a challenge on top of the physical challenges of PCP exercises and the diet.

Day 43

Breakfast: avocado and boiled egg on toast, bell peppers, and low fat milk.

My daughter still has fever so had to stay home with her. Managed to finish the exercise while she becomes grumpy sometimes.... Maybe I need to take her to hospital tomorrow morning. 

Day 42

My daughter had fever this morning. Luckily I had my parents stayed over last night, left her with them, dashed to and from work in one hour to do some urgent stuff, and came back home to stay with her. 

She asked for chocolate chip mint ice cream which I couldn't find at any supermarkets nor convenient stores around in my neighborhood, I put her on a stroller and went for Buskin Robbins. 

It was such a beautiful day, perfect weather for cherry blossom watching. Some even started falling like snow, which is my favorite. It's so dramatic. 

For lunch, we went to Luca Deli in Hiroo. My kids' school cater lunch from them, and it's very good.  They have veggie dish, and the photo is the entree, vegetable pate. I off course had it without the sauce, and it was very good, and the portion was right. Purple sweet potato, pumpkin, string bean, lotus roots, tomato, and yellow zucchini, wrapped with leak. It came with carrot soup, which I had to pass, rosemary focaccia, italian salad without dressing, coffee and desert, which, again, I had to pass. It didn't have protein so I had some shrimp after we got home. 

Finished jump rope while my daughter was napping. I feel fat by not having the exercises though...

Day 41

Breakfast: boiled egg, mushroom, broccoli, turnip, pumpkin, bread, low fat milk, and low fat yogurt. 

Exercise in the morning before going out. I think I hurt my left thigh during the pistol squat.... oh no!

Went out to Akihabara with my family to help another family just moved from UK to get electrical appliances for their house. Didn't have much options at lunch unfortunately, we ended up at Tonkatsu (deep fried pork) which is the most NO-NO food on PCP. Luckily they had deep fried fish plate, so I had a salad and bread crust stripped fish, scalp, and one bite of shrimp before my son snatched it. It was sooo scary to put the fried food into my mouth although the oily parts are already taken off...!

Anyhow,  made my day with the other meals, I was so exhausted and put kids in bed before 8 pm. 

Tomorrow is just a jump rope day, yeah!

Day 40

Did my exercise in the morning, kids helped me in their own ways....

Went to a movie "King's speech" in the evening with my husband after leaving the kids to my parents. Very good movie, and several scenes made me cry as I have kids and imagined what he had been though in his early days.

BTW, the smell of caramel popcorn at the theater was a torture.

Day 39

Breakfast: tomato omelet, asparagus, whole wheat bread, and low fat milk.

Day 38

My shoulders are heavy from yesterday and now my thighs are in pain. Walking down and up the stairs of subway is painful.

Day 37

Shoulders work outs are  killing me....!

My husband made a video the other day. Me and my son exercising.

Day 36

Breakfast: carrot salad (carrot, lemon juice, white balsamic, and thyme), steamed leak and spinach, egg, mini bagel, and low fat milk.

Exercise - OMG! Pistol squat %$&'#"!? Bicycle, WF!?!?

Day 35

Walking up the stairs of Oedo line subway, people back in the days used to walk pretty much everywhere, but they didn't have such a deep subway systems, nor tall buildings you can't really take stairs up.... Due to the save on electricity consumption in Tokyo, almost the half or even 1/3 of the escalators/elevators/ticket machines, etc., are not working. So, you get to walk a lot more, and bonus burden to my legs...;-)

Day 34

Went to Patrick's for a quick photo shoot and check up. I'm so happy to see those numbers despite of the trip in US! Have to keep up on what I've been doing!!

Day 33

Breakfast: poached egg and asparagus on a toast, bell pepper, sweet potato, and low fat milk.

I've been really cold, probably because I'm losing fat in my body....? It reminds me one of the exhibitions at CA Science Center. It's an icy glacier wall with several insulations, which are cotton, fleece, hair, something like those, and FAT. If you have fat between your hand and the glacier, you don't feel it's cold at all. The power of fat. 

Day 32

Couldn't get up early this morning, did the exercise after kids left for pre school. I hate you, Davinci....! Also, tried the 8 Min Abs before evening snack. The core of my neck and head hurts. Maybe I'm doing it wrong or posture try to watch on the video was not helping.