We’ve reached the end of week 1! How was your progress towards no sugar intake? Took a few days to get into the groove?
Me too. I realized that going cold-turkey when it is also the start of school, meaning testing the water for how my study schedule, is not going to work like it had during the summer when my routine was already created. Since it was rush week for this business fraternity I was hoping to get in, every night I had to prepare both lunch and dinner for the next day as I am a commuter. Meal prepping definitely helped me control what I took in. I did not crave banana bread or lemon cake from the school cafe’s like I use to.
However, due to the stress of rushing & the major MID-AUTUMN FESTIVAL (you CANT not eat mooncake!), the moment I got home and sat down to do homework, I would sneak a poor biscotti that would snowball into a peanut butter breakfast bar, a homemade mooncake, dried mango slices, a handful o’cashews… into my room and nibble mindlessly. I saw the ramification of this inexcusable behavior on the scale yesterday– 4 lbs heavier than 2 weeks ago! Combined with getting eliminated after the 2nd round, I felt devastated at my failures that night I received the email.
On the bright side, I did meal prep healthily. I mainly rummaged through the fridge for random raw vegetables/fruits & paired it with proteins like eggs and chicken & grains like lentils. Here are 3 lunches from this week (those are one kind of mom’s homemade mooncakes):
Lunch 1: Green lentils, carrot sticks, persian cucumber, homemade mooncakes, grapes
Ugh, it’s 11:30PM and I am craving these non-existent mooncakes…
Lunch 2: Boiled egg, leftover rice, persian cucumber, grapes, cashews, banana (not pictured)
Lunch 3: Dried dates, lettuce, green lentils, cashews, REAL GOOD chicken
For all my dinners, I made my kale salad (lame attempt at having a meal completely carb-less).
All my meals are pretty fast to whip up, huh?
Man, I concocted this marinade for chicken that makes it so tasty I almost finished them right after I cooked it at 12 AM. Let me know if you are interested in the recipe!
Anyways, since there is nothing to do about not getting a bid, I can only take this 6 months to focus on improving my public speaking and creative thinking before rushing again come spring. This is my biggest failure so far this year, but I am glad I tried and had fun in the process! Sometimes failure is what kicks us in the butt to get going again, like determination in disguise.
“Get ready for Isabel 2.0 >:D” -CHEESEY IZ
See you next week!
Healthy Iz 