July 27 - Aaacchooooooo!

Weight: 164 lbs.

Height: 5'5

Cigarettes: 0

Alcohol: 0
Vitamins: 1,000mg Vitamin C
Other Medication: 0

I KNEW IT!! I woke up today with a cold!! Sigh... But I didn't feel run down in any way like I used to before I stopped smoking. Getting a cold used to be crippling, but now - I felt great! Well, apart from the stuffy nose and scratchy throat, I was hoping that I would be able to workout with my personal trainer but she sent me home to rest! Darn!! But I was able to do my cardio workout and a few mat exercises for the abs.

My activities today:

- Elliptical Machine

Time: 20:00

Distance: 1.20k

Calories burned: 167

- Mat Exercises for Abs & stretching

Time: 15 minutes

BREAKFAST

1 cup Nestle honey almond wheat cereal

1/2 cup Skim milk

1 cup assorted fresh fruits (oooh! I made this one this time! Recipe at the bottom of the page later)

SNACK

1/2 serving of Goolai prepared salad with Mango Vinaigrette

SNACK 2

1 pc. Banana

LUNCH

1 pc. Gilled Cajun Chicken Breast Fillet

1/2 cup brown rice

1/2 cup summer pasta salad with garlic vinaigrette (this is my recipe too! The recipe is at the bottom)

SNACK

Turkey Sandwich on Wheat Bread with Yellow Mustard

DINNER

1 cup summer pasta salad with garlic vinaigrette

1 cup assorted fresh fruit cup

Ugh! I was bed ridden the whole day... Well, I did go to Landmark and bought a new griller!! Hehehe... But after I cooked and had lunch, I was in bed the whole day watching 11th hour... I did still manage to eat my snacks so I won't be too weak!

Don't think that I am going over board with my diet, the reason for the light dinner is because I didn't have an appetite to eat anything! But according to my trainer (and the countless health/diet websites I have read) skipping meals is NEVER a good way to lose weight or be healthy!

Assorted Fresh Fruits Recipe

Choose 4-6 kinds of fruits you would want to include in your fruit cup. I chose these fruits:

Honey Dew

Watermelon

Mango

Papaya

Pomelo

Pineapple

Rustan's FRESH sell fruits that are pre-peeled and that's what I buy. I just slice them up into cubes and distribute them in individual snack size cups that are reusable. I keep them chilled so I just grab a cup when I get hungry.

Grilled Cajun Chicken Breast Fillet Recipe

Chicken Breast Fillets

1 packet of McCormick's Grill Mates Cajun Mix

1/2 cup flour

I didn't follow what the packet said because it involved a lot of oil. So what I did is dilute the seasoning in flour so that the salt and taste won't be too strong. Mix 1 packet of Cajun Seasoning Mix and the Flour and coat the chicken breasts. Heat your griller and grill away! Serve with either corn kernels or yummy brown rice!

Summer Pasta Salad with Garlic Vinaigrette

Yield: 4 servings

2 cups uncooked wheat spiral pasta noodles

6 pcs. crab sticks

1/2 cucumber sliced into strips

For Garlic Vinaigrette:

2 Tbsps chopped garlic

2 Tbsps Apple Cider Vinegar

Fresh Ground Pepper

1/2 cup olive oil

Cook the pasta noodles and set aside to completely cool. Shred the crab sticks and add to the noodles with the cucumber. Set Aside. In a medium sized mixing bowl, combine garlic and vinegar and mix well until the vinegar tastes like garlic. Continue mixing and add olive oil in small portions. Add ground pepper and mix.

Add the dressing to the salad and mix well until everything is well coated. Chill before serving.