9 down 1 more to go. Mastercleanse

I think the most difficult part of my cleanse is where I am right now. I'm at the point where i'm done and I am so close to ending the cleanse but I still have more than 24 hours til I can eat something different besides tea, lemonade, and water, but i'm glad that I actually did it. for the last 9 days I've learned 2 important things during my cleanse.

1. How important food is in our life and I mean the HEALTHY ones as much as there's so many really tempting yummy fried and fatty foods I've learned to crave for the healthy one because of drinking the laxative. The laxative just makes my tummy ache coz of all the toxins in my stomach or my digestive system, that made me realize how important it is to watch what I eat and not settle for what I'm just craving. 
2. Cleansing or Detoxifying really helps not just in weight loss the weight loss part is just a side effect its main purpose is to cleanse our colon and digestive system which I never really thought for the last few years of eating unhealthy food. 

I'm almost done and here's my journey to the end of the cleanse...

Day 7:

By day 7 I've lost 6 pounds and been wondering why am I delayed in losing? then I realize I still lack more work outs, I never really thought that working out was a big factor in losing. Yes, I was detoxified but I also wanted the side effect to work and that's to lose so, I continued with my 30 minute work out to see if  I could still lose. Today, was the best day out of all the days because I never craved one bit nor was I hungry I even drank 6 glasses because I was to full already. 

Day 8:

Checked my weight and instead of losing just 1 lb I lost 2! Finally my work out paid off!:) Need I say more?:) But then even better news I had my monthly thing so my bloat won't affect my cleansing anymore. I know (TMI) but, that was a big factor in my cleanse. I was happy of the results so at the end of the day I decided to take a yoga session to ease my tension and stress from my mastercleanse and just loosen it up. 

Day 9:

Today I lost another 2 lbs! Finally I can breath! I feel so inspired now to have my 5 day recovery meal on Sat June 7,2012. Which is a Menu of very healthy meals, thank you. My hunger pangs are all gone and my consumption of lemonade has lessen. I get really full when I drink one glass at one sitting already. I usually have 2 at a time because I don't get filled up easily now I felt like my brains works well with my tummy in terms of communication no more late reaction or blockage to send the message to my brain. 

One more day and I am toxin free! Ciao!:) 

Halfway through Mastercleanse

It has been a roller coaster for me for the last few days! day 3 to 5 seems so crazy. I've been losing then eventually stopping at a certain weight and even worse in the middle of it all I felt bloated more than ever.  Although, waking up this morning (day6) I seemed to lose, look and feel thinner here's the low down.

Day 3:

Today, I started working out a little to see if it's okay to exercise with only the lemonade in my system.
I recommend that you do exercise because I had enough energy to fill a 3 kilometer run. That's a plus with mastercleanse also, my sweat starting pouring the first 15 minutes of just cardio.

Then, I found out I was going to have my monthly thing next week so imagine how bloated I was during the cleanse. That news was a bummer but still I'm in it to win it.

Day 4:

It's been 3 days and I only lost 3 lbs i'll be honest it wasn't motivating checking my weight to see how my diet was resulting into less. Here's the thing my friend lost about 7 lbs in 4 days so to see that I wasn't going in that direction I needed to make things better.

The answer to my problem: 

• Take the lemonade as your breakfast, lunch and dinner 
• drink tons of water 
• exercise every other day if possible 
• make a fresh squeeze every glass 
• consume about 10-12 lemons a day 

after that being said let's go to...

Day 5: 

I drank as much water and freshly squeezed lemon for every glass. My hunger pangs didn't bother me as much and I was more energetic. Ever since I started the cleanse I've been waking up extra early and sleeping extra early. Through out my mastercleanse I had to get a doctors check up to see how my vital organs

 are doing. My blood pressure went down but still normal I was normally 115/90 today, It was 99/65 still normal. 

Day 6: 

woke up lighter and now I officially lost 4 lbs! partida i'm bloated and having my monthly thing real soon. 

I feel lighter my face looks smaller as they say, and my shoulders too. Tonight will also be my work out which would be a 30 minute jog and a bit of biking. 

4 more days and i'm free from toxins!:) 

more updates! Ciao!:) 

Mastercleanse Diet Beginners

I got to say I tried a million diets in my life name it I almost had it all but this detoxifying was least of my priorities then. My friend,  Mae introduced me to this lemon cleanse at first I was so hesitant to try it since it required me not to eat any solids and only have a recipe of lemonade and laxative tea everyday. As I did my further studies for this cleanse I also learned it's one way to detoxify my body in a sense that all my toxins such as plaque in the intestines form all the unhealthy and oily foods I ate can be washed away by doing this 10 day cleanse. I thought to myself it didn't hurt to try in ten days, right? Wrong those 10 ten days will be my test of FIRE. It meant not eating all the food that I wanted, watching everyone eat. 

I then decided I guess 10 DAYS is better than 2 years of trying to lose the same amount of pounds. Now on my 3RD day and i'm still alive so here's my first 2 days. 

P.S here's the link to the site for more info: http://www.thelemonadesite.com/lemonade-diet-recipe.html 

Before DAY 1: 

Soft diet 

My menu for today: Breakfast: oatmeal, Lunch: Caesar salad and brownie Dinner: laxative tea. 

It may sound way better but this was the day that my body was suppose to get used to the whole no food in the tummy thing. It was difficult and painful not eating at all but alteast I had a taste of what to expect for the next 10 days. 

DAY 1: 

The schedule for this day was intense WEDNESDAY. We had lunch with tito jem at Blufish eastwood oh boy I was all googly eye over the food! day 1 was pretty easy because I was definitely motivated to start my cleansing. Althoug, I noticed  I wasn't able to bring extra supply of lemonade so I ended up losing energy by 5PM and fot home like 7pm. When I got home I drank 1/3 of my bottle and luckily my drink kind of made me drowsy so I slept a bit early than the usual. 

Day 2: 

If yesterday was bearable this day killed me! Had lunch with Mia at Bonchon the everything at steak with Noy and what's worse was he craved for cheesecake there. Ya'll get the point but, luckily I wasn't like going wild or anything I was quite calm with the fact that I wasn't all ready to give up. the cleanse made me go to the bathroom more often doing so much number 2 it felt like I had diarrhea but all of them were just the parasites and toxins in our system so I guess that's a good sign. 

All in all i'm still very hungry at times and if I do I just drink the tea, I'm not very disciplined at this but in desperate times we call for desperate measures. In hoping to finish this cleanse I hope I can achieve something far better that loosing weight. 

All my ingredients are from healthy Options and the lemons can just be bought at the Grocery. 

Will keep you posted for the next 7 days!:) Ciao!:) 

Happy 30th months today!:)

Our First Enchanted Kingdom
More Firsts to come!:) 

Ready for take off

Its been a while since I've blogged and that means months because of the hectic schedule of a bum fresh graduate. I've had my days of happy moments and days where I felt confused and hopeless of what I really want. I prayed really hard and learned that my patience made a big difference. I thought rushing into things made it better since they say don't rest after graduation. I was wrong I tried finding a job but then my heart and body even mind didn't seem like wanting it as much. It was difficult starting all over again the interviews felt like auditions and casting made me more nervous than ever. I went to all my interviews and believe it or not each one of them is different from one another. I tried applying as a beauty consultant, Teacher, Marketing assistant, reporter, and finally a flight attendant. I mostly Aced them and fortunately was just rejected by one. The choosing part was the blessing I didn't know which one to choose from. They were all different, it was a matter of what I really wanted in my heart to do FIRST. They're all part of my dreams and so, to top them all off in the middle of my dilemma then came my high school best friend who is forever my inspiration in life told me the simplest thing and the sign I've been waiting for. Back in high school she reminded me of our little book of goals and dreams and on that list it was written with my handwriting emphasizing "To become a flight attendant" with that everything fell back to it's place like all things floating in my mind suddenly fell on the ground and knew that I need to fulfill that little high school girl's dream. I'm glad that almost all my dreams and goals in that list are slowly getting that small little check marks, it wont stop until every item in that list will be checked and in time it's my turn to help my little boys and girls do a list of they're own to fulfill like mine. As of now my adventure awaits me I'M READY FOR TAKE OFF.:)

2nd year Anniversary Date

The simplest but one of the best dates I had with Noy, we really enjoyed the tire-less, stress-less,and  pressure-less date just to celebrate our anniversary date. We didn't plan out anything at all and it ended up pretty sweet. By 6pm we decided to just have our dinner date at the Fort since they have a variety of good restaurants there and we ended up at  Serendra Sentro a Filipino cuisine  (Noy's Fav).

pika-pika platter

fried kesong puti 

sinigang na corned beef 

grilled honey glazed pork 

Four our starters we had the pika-pika platter which was composed of chicken lolipop, bangus rolls and Chorizo Noy liked the chicken lolipop because of its strong taste the other appetizer was the fried  Kesong Puti and oh my gosh it was so good I really recommend that.


For the Main course we both had brown rice with the grilled  Honey glazed Pork and corned beef sinigang, weird huh? but no! it was really good! what I liked about Sentro was the service. Before having our sinigang they gave us a portion of the sinigang's soup to try the "asim" level and asked us if it was enough for us and the taste tester was really good already.

After that dilectible meal, we decided not to have a heavy dessert since the dinner itself was satisfying already and we needed to have long walk before the night ended so grabbed some Jamba Juice!:)
It's our first time to try it and thankfully we tried it together!

The date will definitely be a memorable one! We had plan A til C but we ended up just making it spontaneous since we forgot that it was Tues and his car was coding on a Tues. This two years being with Noy helped us grow not just as a couple but as individuals we realized that despite being together almost every other day we give each other room to grow as individuals and as partners we learned to help support each other in our own endeavors and that's one way that made our relationship last and hopefully last even longer. Morever, the most important one of all other factors is the fact that we put God at the center of our relationship he make us even stronger day by day and I couldnt thank him ebough for giving me such a wonderful boyfriend in Noy. Only God can make us stronger with his love and faith we learn to be more at peace with him and strive to be better partners to each other. 


HAPPY 2ND ANNIVERSARY GUMMY!:)  Thank you for the love and all else that comes with it!:) 

Our Day/Date at Iloilo and Bacolod

Calea 

Our day Started a 4:15 am at they airport when they told us that they vlosed our flight 4:10 already. We missed the 4:55 am flight from MNL to BCD.  Imagine me and Noy anxious to get to Bacolod first thing in the morning and there we were at the airport with nothing to do but catch the Iloilo 8:30 am flight since next flight that was available and nearest place to BCD.

playing games the whole time

I just woke up here 

3 hours at the airport 

 We then headed of to Iloilo for a very short while, straight to the pier to ride the super cat ferry. Oh boy, was I almost sea sick. After an hour and a half at the boat we finally arrived to Bacolod!:) Before anything else, we were hella hungry! Noy brought be to his fav steak place there at Pendy's!:)

My Rib-eye steak 

after 

Noy has Pendy's steak 

after 

I loved the steaks a Pendy's I had the Rib eye with the tomato sauce base, Noy had had Pendy's steak and oh my gosh both orders were amazballs! all my dull tired eyes beacame alive again! haha The Price was just right for the big serving compared here in Manila. The quality and flavor of the beef was really good the beef melted on our mouth. For dessert we tried the famous Half moon cake, it was very popular there and we just had to give it a try. We shared just one slice cause i'm saving my tummy for other goodies.:) The half moon cake was like yema on a mamon it wasn't so sweet at all just right:)

Half moon cake

after doing some business there, Noy toured me a bit in his hometown saw his elementary school and met one of his grade school teachers. Our last stop was.. drum roll please! CALEA! :) I ordered the chocolate cheesecake, it was really sweet and chocolatey. Noy ordered the Chocolate mousse he's been trying to bring me one from Bacolod but they won't allow it since it would melt easily. But, the chocolate mousse was delectable it wasn't as sweet and you can definitely finish a whole slice without finding it too sweet. We also tried the Ice cream cake and BINGO! that was the best for me! It beats a lot of the ice cream cakes that I've tried already. The ice cream cake's sweetness level was just right for it to be mouth watering. 

 

chocolate mousse 

ice cream cake

 We arrived at Manila around 9:30 pm it was really tiring but this one day trip was definitely worth it even if it was only for a day. Noy was really happy I was able to visit his hometown and I was even happier that I was able to really experience his stories about Bacolod first hand. I'd love to go back there anytime of the year since I missed a lot of places to visit, food to try, and a lot more in our list. I heart Bacolod already!:)