Our last meal was Sunday evening but had free fruit meal Monday morning.  Result?  3 pounds lost.  I have 32 weeks to attain my ideal body weight on 1000 calorie intake per day.  So that is roughly 350 calories per meal.    I hope this lost pounds will be lost forever.  hahahahaa .  There will be another session that will begin on Saturday just to avoid eating a lot during the long holiday.  But I am not going to join for I have many payables at the end of the month.

Here are some of my photos during the Monday morning.

–complimentary breakfast–

–Yay! Me with big smile ^^ –

–The some of us with our Clinical Dietitian!
5 of our DAREmates are not in this photo –

Can you guess who lost the most?  It’s Nonoy, the guy in this group.  The one and only guy.  He lost 10 pounds as he combined the diet with exercise.  Monday was still their 6th day and he has already lost that much.

Join us next time!

There will be another batch that will begin on Saturday, October 29 and then another one in November.  You may call 221-3029 and have it connected with the Nutrition and Dietetics Department.  Look for Ma’am Lai. 

DARE is an acronym for Dietary Approach to Reduce Excess Weight and a program of the Nutrition and Dietetics of Mindanao Sanitarium and Hospital.  I am obese grade 2.  I have 32 weeks to gain my ideal body weight as long as i coupled my diet with exercise.  This is a caloric diet.  I am allowed to eat 1000 calories per day and that is barely 350 calories per meal.  So those who have enrolled have to familiarize how much calories we are going to store if we eat food.  It is not really dieting to become skinny but it is more on becoming responsible and conscious on anything that we put into our mouth.

All foods served throughout the week is either raw or cooked water-based.  The juices are all fresh fruit juices: beetroots, watermelon, tomato, carrots, and a combination of two or three of these fruits.

I missed Sunday breakfast because I slept morning already and I was not able to wake up on time for breakfast. ^^

Shown are our foods during the last three days:

FRIDAY -

SATURDAY -

SUNDAY -

Your stomach shouldn’t be a waist basket.  ~Author Unknown

 A diet is the penalty we pay for exceeding the feed limit.  ~Author Unknown

This post also serves as my entry for:

The power went off. I stayed in bed.  Got bored.  Found something to eat. Marty’s Cracklin’ Vegetarian crackers.  I got the big pack and oh my I can’t eat them all. My stomach started to feel queasy and I feel like puking. Arghhh no! I need something sweet.  I folded the big pack of junk foods, hid it away and I tried looking for something sweet.  There was none except this:

This is so sweet!

This is a fruit with good cholesterol and the calories? I checked it out, there is 357 for 1 serving.

Here is my serving size:

That’s two seeds only. =)

Now i feel better.

How about you?  Do you love Durian?

For me I love Durian.  The fruit.  Since I started eating the fruit, I don’t like the candies anymore.  I give the candies to kids but i enjoy the fresh meat, the ice cream, and the fruit shake.  Burp!  Yummmm

I dunno why others feels like they are in hell when they are near this King fruit.  But I don’t blame them.  There are really varieties whose fragrance really kills. lol!  So if you are one person who hates Durian and even the smell of it, then don’t mingle with Durian lovers when they are feasting on Durian.

Read more about DURIAN.

Today is the fifth day of our DARE program (don’t ask me the meaning now because i forgot but am going to post the information of the program later) and we call this tomato day.  All our food comprises of tomatoes (fresh and a bit cooked).  Check out the photos ^-^

BREAKFAST

LUNCH

DINNER

Because it is Saturday, a special day, we had tomato bread and tomato juice.  I so love the juice. I had 3 medium glasses of it.  So i end up going to the bathroom almost every 20 minutes when i arrived in the dorm.

The juices today are:

BLENDED PURE TOMATOES

We had this tomato juice for lunch. I thought I will not like it but I did.  The ice cold temp made me love it more.  That’s made up of ripe tomatoes.

NOTE: All foods are vegetarian.  We had some egg in the morning together with the tomato salad but it was just egg white.  The tomato bread is made up of wheat flour.

WATERMELON TOMATO JUICE

We had this for dinner.  But the taste is common as I can taste it like watermelon shake.

So that’s our food for today and everyone looked forward to the next meal.  Tomorrow, it’s carb loading day and I will share my photos for weekend eating. ^-^

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Another type of buko salad. I guess this is more colorful compared to the buko salad i posted before. Though this one is more meaty and my previous post was with more buko water.

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