HealthyTJG Week 2

Ok. I guess week 2 is a little easier than week 1. It's not because I technically had two days of cheat days. I have a good excuse for that. My family from Kyoto was visiting me/Disneyland on Friday and Saturday. So I wanted to have a good time with my family. You know what I mean...


Here is my gym and diet(mainly dinner) record of week 2.

Weight: started with 48.8kg(107lbs). There were small ups and downs during the week. Then, ended with 48.8kg(107lbs).

Exercise
Monday:       Ran 30 mins with 5.5 miles/hour

Tuesday:      No gym

Wednesday: Ran 20 mins with 6 miles/hour & workout (arms&abs)
Thursday:     Work out (leg day) & 10 mins walk on the treadmill *My right ankle is not happy recently 
Friday:          No gym, but walked around all day at Tokyo Disneyland
Saturday:      No gym
Sunday:        Ran 40 mins (First 15 min was interval training)


Diet
I usually eat a salad bowl for lunch. I used to eat whatever I want for dinner, so I changed it to healthier dinner.

Monday: Chicken fajita with an avocado

Tuesday: Quesadilla (no meat; onion, bell pepper, spinach)

Wednesday: Gapao rice(brown rice) 
I forgot to take a picture. I was so hungry!

Thursday: Skillet lasagna
I used half of the cheese amount from the recipe. And I did not use oil to cook it.

Friday: My family from Kyoto was visiting Tokyo Disneyland, so I joined them... It was hard not to eat all kinds of sweets and snacks there. I managed to eat unhealthy food minimum.
Here are what I had at Disneyland. I did not eat white rice in the photos.

Isn't it so cute? It's a Mickey Mouse shape chicken nuggets!

Saturday: Cheat day
Another day with my family :-)

Sunday: yogurt & granola for dinner




If you know easy low carb recipes, please leave comments! I'm going to repeat some same dishes next week, so if I can get more ideas for dinner, it'll be very helpful :-)

See you next week!

Healthy TJG

I'm on week 2 of being on healthy diet. And I'm going crazy! I cannot stop thinking about food(not healthy food. I'm talking about.... Popeyes!!)!!
I've decided to share my healthy diet journey with you to keep myself sane. And hopefully it encourages you to be healthier and feeling good about yourself.

Why am I doing this?
I'm not afraid of aging, but I'm terrified to age badly! I want to feel good about myself. And I want to age well.
I thought that having a healthier life would help me to age well.

I'm a food lover and a couch potato. So my plan is not hardcore like fitness freaks.
My plan is eating healthier meals for 6 days and one cheat day and going to the gym every two days. As a result, hopefully I can lose some weight.
As you see, losing weight is not my main focus. I quickly get tired of worrying about my weight. And it's unhealthy to worry about the weight!
Having said that, I needed a goal to keep my motivation. So my goal for now is to be 45kg(100 lb). I was 49.6kg(109.3 lb) when I started last Monday, Feb 15th. My current weight is 48.8kg(107.5 lb), so I've already lost 0.8kg(1.8 lb). Not bad, right?
Let me tell you how short I am. I'm 148cm(4.85 ft). I'm super short! So 100 lb shouldn't be too bad. And I'm not saying that I'm gonna try to lose that much in a week or month. I'm going to take my time :-)

Now you know what I'm trying to do here. I'd like to share what I've done in week 1.

Exercise 
Monday:       No gym

Tuesday:      Ran for 30 mins before work

Wednesday: No gym
Thursday:     Ran for 30 mins before work
Friday:          Ran for 40 mins after work
Saturday:      No gym (I had my hair salon appointment! I need to be pretty to be healthy. Being healthy is feeling good about yourself, right?)

Sunday:        No gym (My excuse is... I didn't want to sweat and wash my hair right after I get my hair color retouched.)

Diet
Monday - Saturday: grilled chicken breasts, vegetables.... etc
I did not plan to share this, so I took only one picture of the meal on Monday. I will do a better job from this week!!

Sunday: Cheat day!!!!!! My boyfriend and I went to China town and had dim sum buffet!! Then, we found a new Hotteok stand on our way home, so we got it as well. We felt guilty to eat that much even we were on the cheat day, so we had smoothie for dinner.
*Hotteok is a Korean winter street snack. It's like a small pancake with cinnamon, sugar, nuts inside.

We can see the results together. I'm looking forward to seeing what kind of changes I can see on my body! I hope it gives you some ideas what you can try too. Since I'm a beginner of this healthy life stye, I'd love to hear your stories!!

See you next week!