Day 31

I couldn't have my night snack as I couldn't get up after putting kids in bed last night... So, I psyched myself up for early morning exercise at 5:30 a.m. And, the leg ups - I just could not do it after 2 sets. So, had to divide into 2 sets of remaining 2 sets, so 4 sets, to complete ;-)

Breakfast was a slimy quaternion of sea kelp, yam, okra, and mushroom which I found at a supermarket, with rice and onsen tamago ("hot spring egg", york is cooked and white is half cooked and soft).  I forgot to take a photo, and I'm sure it's really hard for the most people to imagine what the heck I was eating, but it was pretty good. Next time if I have a chance, I'll put it up.

Findings from the past a couple weeks:
1. The jeans I bought last week is already loose and falling.
2. My shoe size became 7 from 7&1/2, or only that the retail made the size slightly smaller so that the consumer won't feel bad about buying something in size M which is really size L...?
3. I miss fruit selection I had in West Coast.

Day 30

I made a perfect boiled egg! Others are spinach, asparagus, tomato, sweet potato, mini pitas, low-fat milk, and coffee.

I couldn't do chest dip; barely moved my shoulders to sink.... ouch! 

Day 29 - it will be a long day today

So, I was up since 3 a.m.ish this morning from the flight. 

Checked e-mail and got a menu for this week, and started the breakfast: tomato and egg, corn and whole grain tortilla, and low fat milk. 

While my husband took out kids to run errands, I run laundry machine 3 times and did the exercise. Davinci is my enemy now.

It's very interesting to see at supermarket that some isles were empty, and even the toilets didn't have toilet papers. What's up with the people buying THAT much of toilet papers?? Read somewhere that people tend to avoid row fish these days, and chicken meat supply tends to be running short due to the rolling black outs that factories can't operate preparing the chicken meat. Mmm, maybe that's why I see many "discount" red tags on fish packages. I should buy some more and just cook and freeze them. 

Kids started become grumpy after dinner around 5:30 p.m. I put them down around 6:30 p.m., then had my dinner of an apple, banana, egg white, and low fat milk. It looks more like a snack, rather than a dinner...

Anyhow, it's good to be back at home, and everything looks normal in Tokyo. I think I have to go down soon... oh, wait, have to have veggie snack before that!

Day 28 - home sweet home

So, we took flight back to home in Tokyo from LAX midnight. Jump rope was the only exercise for the day, which was huge relief in such a busy day. Loaded up the luggages, bathed kids, packed up my snacks and low fat milks for the flight, went out for dinner, and left for the airport. Kids off course became grumpy as they were too tired from waiting, we had to take a bus to the air plain, etc. But once we got on board, there was no way out. So, after 10 hours, with about 8 hours on and off sleep, I had a breakfast of bread, chicken to substitute egg, salad, and low fat milk.

Landed Tokyo around 4:45 a.m. Still dark, a lot less traffic, kind of surreal.

Day 27

Might be because of missing night snack, I was VERY hungry this morning. Did exercise before breakfast. Double Katana was so difficult.

Packed up my lunch and dinner before heading to airport to catch a flight to LAX. Then we are heading back to Tokyo Sunday midnight (technically Mon morning....). I miss Japanese food! Whole Foods and Farmer's Market, etc. healthy stuff are fun but there are so many choices, or too many.... I guess all are good but why do you want to eat Soy Jerky when you have an access to regular good tofu...? Or just have more option means a freedom of your eating...? Or simply it's part of a marketing...? Anyhow, the amount of products they have is overwhelming.

Day 26

Indulgence! How long was I waiting for this day! We were supposed to meet with a family friend over lunch, so I decided to have that my opportunity. We drove to friend's house and ordered Vietnamese food for lunch. It's less oily, lots of green and rice noodles, plus, tasted soooo goood!! So I think I had almost 2 meals amount (oops....) and felt pain in my stomach. It was a strange pain that my stomach could not get any bigger because of the muscle around it. And I felt so contempt after having good amount of carbs! It filled me up good I didn't become hungry until late in the evening. It was an experiment that how much carbs could get me going. Very interesting.

We also met up with another 2 families for dinner. I had my usual PCP dinner and one of the husbands even cooked me PCP dinner as he's done it last year (thank you, Todd!).

I was too tired from the day and fell asleep without evening snack...!

Day 25

It was a terrible rainy day today.

Tried a new item for breakfast - corn and whole grain tortilla with omelet, bell pepper, and broccoli. Not bad.

In the terrible rain, we went to a Farm Fair which had petting zoo, peek a compost (no, thank you.), promotion of less water use, etc. We were drenched head to toe. So, I was really cold for the entire day. Maybe it made me burn some more calories than usual, I was extra hungry and tired the rest of the day. Good that I had my exercise in the morning before breakfast, otherwise I wouldn't be able to finish it.

Lunch was at a sandwich restaurant at a mall. I had my lunch with me, left over from last night, all scaled, so felt comfortable what I was eating.

Dinner was chicken breast steamed with tomato and basil, asparagus, frilled zucchini and mushroom. Grilled mushroom was a success! Even non PCPer liked it.