Diet Log Day 13-15 Jan 21-23, 2011

Jan 21 Friday 2011
Breakfast : half toast, 2 cups of coffee
Snack : Forgive me, I bought a piece of white bread and a can of coffee waiting for the train to go to Fuchu. Really hungry after the early webex meeting.
Lunch : Chicken breast with potatos
Snack : Chicken breast with potatos
Dinner : Large bowl of seaweed salads
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Jan 22 Saturday 2011
Breakfast : half toast, 2 cups of coffee. Man, I had a gift from the colleague, that is a 40g primkles potatos chips. Yummy. I was feeling relaxed on Saturday morning, bright sunnny day outside, surfing the web and I unconciously ate the whole package!!!
Run : run 9K to Asakusa, feeling really hungry while strolling around the temple, I ate a Gomadanko (胡麻團子) before heading back. Many thanks for the carbs, I was really losing all energy when running 4K to Asakusa. The sweet made me to run back to Nishonbashi without problem.
Lunch : My fermanted pickled Chinese cabbage is really yummy. I cooked myself a delicious pickled cabbages, tofu, chicken breast and mushroom hotpot.
Snack : I went to buy some faba beans and edomame frozen packages that are on sales. Ate 20 or 25 Faba beans as snack.
Dinner : I bought a piece of nice fish jaw (ぶりかま), ate a half piece, very yummy. But I drank a bit of the shoju (いも).
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Jan 23 Sunday 2011
Breakfast : half of toast and 2 cups of coffee
Rollerblade : Running out of the house trying to catch up the City Stroll program, already slept through the Ueno start, I thought I can at least catch the gang in Tokyo station at 10:30. When arriving at Tokyo station, man, there is no one. It was only 10:20 pm, the faster skaters should be at the meeting point before 10:15. Feeling frustrated, I considered different activities, thinking about the Koto-ku(江東区) area. So I rollerbladed over to Oshiage to see the under-constrution sky tree. Man, it was cold and I was hungry.
Lunch : heading back to Nygyo-cho by train (sorry, it is really too cold to go home blading). I went to eat the 回転寿司, quite an interesting concept. I ate 4 plates and a soup. Went home still feeling the craving for carbs and suger.
Snack : Polished off the left over Faba beans, feeling really like some sweet. I cooked the yam with ginger and suger. Devoured the whole pot in one go.
Run : Went out for a 6K run before the sunset. The sky is bright and it was such a nice run. I think I finished it less than 35 minutes. Joey, good girl!
Snack + Dinner : coming home starting my non-stop snacking. I first boiled some Edomame, cooked the taro/potato/chicken breast stew, ate a tangerine, apple. A pack of Natto (納豆). Feeling bored, so I ate the radish salad. I continued to cook a piece of ぶり. Yummy! As you have guessed, I poured myself some shoju to go with all these food.

Weight : <57Kg

Diet Log Day 12 Jan 20, 2011

Run : Oh my god, I am missing out another run today.
Breakfast : half piece of toast (78KCal) and 2 cups of coffee
Snack : finished off the mixed nuts
Lunch : 50g of spagetti with minced pork, scallion and mushroom
Snack : 50g of spagetti with minced pork, scallion and mushroom and some bean salad (140KCal)
Dinner : ???
Weight : < 57Kg

Diet Log Day 11 Jan 19, 2011

Run : Woke up 8:30am because my mobile phone was set to silent mode and, therefore, no alarm at 5:45am, Joey, very good execuse.
Breakfast : Half piece of English Muffin, a small piece of cheese, one egg sunny side up and 2 cups of coffee
Snack : Office is really sinful, there are so many sweets lying around. I ate a piece of candy and a small cookies
Lunch Part 1 : The lightly pickled radish
Lunch Part 2 : As soon as I finished the veggie, my colleagues are going to the very nice sushi restaurant for the lunch special. The Chirashi (100000000 KCal) is so yummy. So I followed the crowd thinking I will definitely get out of work early enough to do a run or swim.
Snack : Back to the office, there are so many cookies around. My brain is not really functioning with all this hunger signal sending through my whole nerve system. I think I picked up a couple of cookies unconsciously.
Dinner : Pickled veggies and 8 tiny tangerine.
Weight : <57Kg

Diet Log Day 10 Jan 18, 2011

Run : Finished 6K within 40 minutes, a bit slower than usual. I must be hungry.
Breakfast : Feeling extremely empty inside my tummy after the run, I had to devour half toast very fast, 2 cups of coffee later, another half. Man, that is 156KCal.
Snack : I am really bad, I started to chew on the nuts I secretly hid in my handbag while reading books during my long-a** commute to Fuchu (maybe 80KCal?). I also bought a nice whole wheat bread while waiting for the bus. I finished the whole thing before lunch time. That must be around 350KCal.
Lunch : 2 pieces of chicken meat and some potatoe slices, I will save the rest as snack later.
Snack : Someone just offered me the chocolate candies and cookies in the office, I shared them with my colleagues as much as possible but still ate some.
Dinner : One egg with lots of veggie salad. Lightly pickled raddish.
Weight : 57Kg

Diet Log Day 9 Jan 17, 2011

Run : Waking up really late 7am, not enough time to go running because my phone didn't ring since the battery is dead (what a perfect execuse). I determine to get back home before 10pm such that I can wake up early enough to run tomorrow.
Breakfast : half toast (80Kcal), 2 cups of coffee
Snack : a piece of rice crackers (80Kcal) and a candy (10000000 KCal) - forgive my little indulgence, I really want to eat that chocolate... 2 piece of chicken breast meat and some potato slices (250KCal??)
Lunch : 100g spagetti and onion/carrot stir-fry (400KCal)
Snack : The remaining chicken breast meat (20g - I only took 2 bites) and some potato slices
Dinner : Veggie salad and chicken breast meat without dressing.
Weight : 57.5Kg

Diet Log Day 8 Jan 16, 2011

Breakfast: a piece of Toast - this is my running energy, have to get something down my system.
Run : going for 6K run, feeling really good
Lunch : a pack of tofu, veggie miso soup, 2 tangerines and an apple
Snack 1 : a tiny crossant
Snack 2 : 50g of chicken breast, a small taro, mushrooms cooked with microwave oven. Dried ika chewing while watching YouTube.
Swim : going for a 2K swim
Dinner : A can of diet beer (sorry, I am really weak), a plate of stir-fried veggitable, many cherry tomatos, an apple.
Weight : 57.5 Kg

Diet Log Day 7 Jan 15, 2011

Waking up so tired and exhausted (shoju is really strong, we had to carry one of our colleagues under our arms and throw her into the Taxi).
Breakfast : half the toast, 2 cups of coffee
Lunch : going to the yakiniku restaurant on the 42 floor in Shiodome, the view is excellent. The food is neat and clean. half bowl of rice, 200g of wagyu beef (very fatty), a bowl of salad with light dressing, a bowl of hot beef soup. Man, this is calories vacation but the food is really delicious.
Dinner : feeling bad about the Yakiniku dinner, but still got hungry during dinner time. A pack of Tofu with soy sauce, a bowl of veggie miso soup.
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Lazy day passing away, no exercise at all. Really have to go running tomorrow.
Weight : 58Kg

Diet Log Day 6 Jan 14, 2011

Run : still not able to do any run this morning, I slept through the jogging time. Joey, very bad.
Breakfast : half of toast, 2 cups of coffee. 100g spagetti with 4 thin slices of pork and onion. A number of cups of tea.
Lunch : 80g spagetti with 4 thin slices of pork and onion
Snack : 50g of chicken meat with egg plants
Dinner : Lots of mutton barbeque and veggies, 2 glasses of red wine and 3 glasses of shoju.
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This is really a break of my diet (ok, I have a very weak mind), I was originally planning to go swimming. But working until 6ish and thought I should have relaxed a bit. Um, drank a bit too much...

Weight : 57.5Kg

Diet Log Day 5 (second half) Jan 13, 2011

Dinner : 100g spaggeti with 4 thin slices of pork and onion
8pm snack : bean salad (120Kcal) and green leaves salad (160Kcal)
midnight snack : 2 glasses of chilled herb tea and 2 leaves of joey-made pickled Chinese cabbages
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really feeling tired after getting home around 1am. I have a new understanding with exhausion. That is, you lost the ability to make judgement and become slow in response. I was holding the glass of herbal tea, walking to the bathroom, cannot decide whether I should move the heater to the bedroom or brush my teeth first. As the result, I was walking between the bathroom and bedroom for about 3 times holding my glass.

Diet Log Day 4.5 (first half) Jan 13, 2011

Run : Worked until 1am last night, self-pity stopped me to jump out of the warm bed and run into chilly riverside in the dark. Joey bad, bad, bad.

Breakfast : really rushing running out of the house, getting late as usual. I had 2 cups of coffee only. Arriving at the client site in Fuchu, getting really hungry. I ate 2 pieces of chicken dark meat (50g), one small yam and half thick toast. The hunger is hitting me with heavy blow, I am not sure how I swallowed the whole list of items within 5 minutes.

Weight : 57Kg. This is really amazing. I can even feel that the fatty lump in my tummy disappearing. Oh man, I need to run tomorrow.

Diet Log Day 3 Jan 12, 2011

Breakfast : half thick toast, a tangerine, 2 cups of coffee
Lunch : 50g of white fish with fresh mizuno and mushroom. Really too hungry, so I ate the 2 small yams prepared as snack. Still feeling the hollow in stomach, continued eating 2 piece of chicken breast strip (100g)
Snack : working until 5pm at client site, waited for the time slot no one is bothering me, quickly devoured the remaining chicken breast strip.
Dinner : 100g of spagetti with 3 pieces of thin port slices and veggie, N cups of tea (really hungry).
Weight: 58Kg
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Really feeling very weak to change into my running gear this morning, no jogging today. Worked too late at client site, cannot make it to the swimming pool before 7:30pm.
Um, drinking tea is as good as drinking beer, Joey, well done!

Diet Log Day 2 Jan 11, 2011

Run 5.2K for 40 minutes (really slow today, I guess I was tired and hungry)
Breakfast : A thick toast and 2 cups of coffee
In the train : really hungry, so I finished off the almonds left from yesterday
Lunch : Still hungry, ate the chicken breast salad (100 Kcal) and Soya milk soup (153 KCal) - feeling slightly better :-)
Snack : Empty a bowl of soba noodles with some chicken (250 KCal)
Dinner : A rice ball - I am really really hungry, I have to eat!
Weight : 58Kg
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Went to Tokyu Hands to buy the scale finally, everyone should have one at home, it is the upmost dangerous thing not to weight yourself constantly.

As I walked out of the store, I picked up nice massage cushion (had an eye on it for ages). The best part of it is that you can move your body around it so that it can be the neck, shoulder, upper back, lower back, or legs massager. But I think I used it too much last night, I woke up with sore back and neck, I think I had bruised them.

Diet Log Day 1 Jan 10, 2011

Breakfast : 100g spagetti with scallion fish stew sauce,2 cups of coffee
Run for 5.5K in 40 minutes
Lunch : salmon carpaccio with raw onion and celery slices. A Apple and a tangerine. 2 cups of tee
Snack : Almonds and calorie free Vitamin drink
Swim for 2K in 55 minutes
Dinner : Veggie stew. A can of calorie free beer (man, it doesn't taste good). A tangerine and a few almonds.
Weight:58.5Kg

Diet Log Day 0

With my running regime starting last year, my guard of food intake has dropped since. Hey, running 5K every day should allow me to eat as much as I wish. The end result is that my weight silently creeps up the scale and that didn't alarm me at all. I went to the local hot spring, enjoyed the bath and saw the electronic scale that is not broken (the one in my swimming pool is constantly out of order), I finally weighted myself after the body check up in June. The number was unbelieveable, I gain 2.5Kg in 6 months. Though all my trousers fit alright, I think there is a serious problem.

I need to start a rigid weight loss program, no more self-indulgence (How I treat myself some sweets after meals from convenience stores) and no more beer drinking. I need to shed at least 7 pounds/3Kg before going back to Taipei for Chinese New Year. Oh man, 3 weeks to go.

Happy New Year

Year of 2011, nothing really special happening during the days off. Japanese are fully westernized, fathifully following solar calendar after meijin revolution. This is very interesting, most of the population of Japan are doing the farming business, and lunar calendar is more accurately capture the change of season. The 12 or 24 seasonal timings for first rain in spring (realy spring), which is good for seeding the farm. The awake of sleeping insects, and the summer thunders. This calendar is still followed by Chinese, Taiwanese and Koreans. Perhaps Japanese farmers have found a way to cope wiwith it.

Up to the last day of the year, I was working away from Fuchu and Shinkawa, being torn between 2 projects as usual. I was only too happy that this is the year end, only thinking I can have a day off tomorrow relaxing. The next day I leisurely ran, took a walk to the Asakusa shrimps, and called my Ducth friend for dinner (really not quite sure he is in down, most foreigners are away for X'mas and New Year's holidays). Surprisingly he is still around but will be flying to Amsterdam the next day. Happily I agreed to a dinner then clubing. The party is nearby Nihonbashi, which is where I live, that's great.

In the night club, people were so excited during the count down which I don't quite understand. I walked home around 3pm, thinking how I can wake up early enough for my end of year Oedo-line Tokyo skate run. Setting the alarm on my mobile phone, then I realise this is really the 1st of Januarary, oh my god, I have missed out the run and totally missed out the last day of the year.