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So since I'm always eating Hong Kong... always eating pork and deep fried things and carbs carbs carbs, I have decided to start writing down what I'm eating again. Prepared to be appalled. I decided to start writing today because so far, it's a good start. I guess I'm gonna be in a world of pain when I go back home. Except I probably won't and I'll be so accustomed to eating all the time that I'll eat all the time at home and not walk anymore and get even grosser. At least here I'm walking daily.

I've started playing Inselkampf, even though I previously shunned Adam for playing it. I got envious of the big community so I caved, dammit.

Food entry:
1. One bowl of dragon fruit (cubed) with strawberries (quartered)
2. A few toffee cashew cookies
    that are delicious and super thin and caramel-y and omg
3. One 250mL tetrapak of taro flavored Vitasoy
4. Eight chocolate crush Pocky sticks
5. Sushi bar lunch
    -salmon, yellowtail, and tuna sashimi
    -one shrimp tempura piece with this delicious light japanese mayonnaise dressing
    -deep fried squid pieces [uh, about a million of them] with the same dressing
    -sea eel with rice 
    -one warship style sweet shrimp sushi
    -half a piece of deep fried salmon skin
    -green tea
6. Northern Chinese dinner
    -peking duck in wrappers, deep fried sweet and sour fish, vegetarian noodles, shrimp, etc...

I ate a piece of KFC just now, leftovers. Ugh.

[edit: i did 30 minutes on the elliptical machine to make up for it. it so did not make up for it.]

So, I have four exams to cover, not much time in between to study. I never paid attention in class so I don't have knowledge to wing things on, and yet I keep watching the Office and screwing around online. Huh. I intrigue myself.

As for the food entries, I forget what I ate recently. But I've been progressing rather well with the no bad foods, that is until my mother made me jump over an offer of McDonald's, then New York Fries, and eventually some KFC with an ice cold beer... So I cracked, but alas. No beer, it turned out, we accidentally drove past the Beer Store, and I felt sick after the KFC. Then the next night I had some Lay's Salt and Vinegar chips. Yikes. I am currently starving.

( If you've read the book... find out your daemon! )

My first exam is tomorrow. I'm starting to feel ill about it. What I'm really worried about is... no, I'm just worried about them all. I've lost a few pounds though and don't feel as bloated lately. No way! Looking at my past food lists I think I've practiced quite a bit of self restraint. Even with that can of cream soup in my cupboard...

Yesterday's food entry:
1. One green apple
2. Two chicken breasts and one drumstick - Tandoori style with chili sauce
3. Green peas
4. Stir fried rice with egg
5. Strawberries and mango fruit salad
6. A few bites of coconut cream pie
7. Purple rice and pumpkin flavored soup ball desserts
8. Blue corn chips with Tostitos mild salsa

Today's food entry:
1. One over easy egg with half a slice of toast and chili sauce
2. Two green apples
3. Half a slice of coconut cream pie
4. Chinese dinner (noodles, deep fried crab claw, and veggies)

So I can't sleep even though I wanted to go to bed at like, 12:30AM. Maybe green tea before bed wasn't such a hot idea.

Yesterday's food entry:
1. One tandoori chicken drum stick
2. Fish
3. Spinach
4. Basmati Rice
5. Chicken broth
6. Apple juice
7. Ginger ale
8. Uh... wtf did I eat for lunch? Shit.

Today's food entry:
1. One mango
2. Pork and shrimp dumplings with hot sauce and soy sauce/rice vinegar dipping sauces
3. Romaine lettuce salad with green apple and mango with an olive oil balsamic dressing
4. Apple juice
5. One cup of ginger ale
6. Blue corn chips with Tostito's Mild Salsa
7. One mug of green tea with honey
8. One Chewy Chocolate Chip granola bar

Two days ago - food entry:

1. Two packs of instant noodles
2. A Sour Apple/Grape Slushee
3. One chocolate chip cookie
4. Two steak burgers with ketchup, mayo and chili peppers
5. Salad

Yesterday's food entry:
1. Three breakfast burritos with scrambled egg, cheese, avocado and tomatoes with lime juice
2. Small salad with French Dressing
3. One everything bagel with lettuce and turkey
4. Potatoes with swiss meatballs and gravy
5. One small glass of diet coke
6. One mug of tap water
7. Half a Mr. 2 Big chocolate bar

Today's food entry:
1. Ginger ale
2. Tea
3. A few bites of congee
4. A bowl of instant noodles
5. A few bites of mango

Today's food entry:
1. A few sips of cold chamomile honey tea
2. Dim Sum from the Sky Dragon Restaurant
          -2 Shrimp Dumplings
          -1.5 Beef Balls with Worcester Sauce
          -1.5 Steamed Noodle Rolls with Shrimp
          -1.5 Pan Fried Pork Dumplings with red vinegar
          -Curry Baby Octopus
          -1.5 Steamed Pork Buns
          -sips of Coke and some tea
3. One rice pudding dessert from a Chinatown bakery
4. Half of a green jelly Thai dessert
5. A Slushee (Half Sour Green Apple/Half Fanta Grape)
6. Korean Dinner
            -One coke
            -One Coors Light
            -Half a Labatt Blue
            -Small serving of fries with ketchup
            -Three pieces of calamari
            -Half a hot dog sausage with mustard (no bun!)
            -A few pieces of fruit in some kind of soda
            -Bean curd with sauce
            -Half a grilled mackerel fish
            -Fish cake soup
            -A few pieces of red snapper sashimi
             -Half a portion of the tiniest omelette ever
             -Corn with cream and cheese on top

So, it is through this list of food that one discovers one's "strict diet" is not going as planned. Nor is one's exercise regime going as planned. But how can someone diet with exams coming? That's the one benefit if I had stayed at home instead of residence: a gym. But I want to enjoy freedom while it lasts.

I'm really getting lazy with these food entries, my beverage entries are really inaccurate. Plus I finished Justice League last night. I am sad.

Yesterday's food entry:

1. One cup typhoo tea
2. A few cups of Allen's low acid apple juice
3. One Granny Smith Apple
4. Holt Renfrew chocolates
5. Two cups of white rice
6. Coconut and panko covered porkchops with a red pepper/coconut/papaya sauce
^I made it! :D
7. Cucumber slices, carrot sticks and red pepper slices with sour cream/onion dip
8. Half a cantaloupe
9. One glass of chocolate milk
10. One turkey sandwich on whole wheat bread with lettuce and cheese and sour cream
11. One brownie

Today's food entry:
1. Half a cantaloupe
2. Egg tofu with soy sauce
3. One cup of green tea
4. Several cups of apple juice
5. Carrot sticks with sour cream/onion dip
6. Two bowls of home made pasta with a cream mushroom sauce and shrimp

Today's food entry:

1. One bowl of one minute oatmeal with condensed milk
2. One tiny bowl of instant noodles
I'm not just being modest here, it was literally the size of a sauce bowl, my mom gave me some of hers.
3. One grande green tea from Starbucks with honey
4. One Minute Maid Soda
5. A few glasses of water
6. A LOT OF MEAT from the Korean Grill House on Bloor + squid and shrimps
7. One Chocolate White Coconut Donut
8. One large peppermint tea from Tim Hortons
9. French fries from Future's Cafe
10. Half a cantaloupe (out of guilt from all the meat at dinner)
11. A few stolen Holt Renfrew chocolates (I provoked Ana into taking them from the cafe)

Day before yesterday:
-ended up finishing a whole liter of mango juice. I also shook it with the lid not screwed on properly and juice went flying. Why me?

Yesterday's food entry:

1. One rice pudding cup from Magic Moments
2. One cup of Typhoo Tea
3. Two mini bagels with whipped cream cheese and smoked salmon
4. Peking Duck Dinner at Grass Mountain Villa

Today's food entry:
1. Two rice pudding cups from Magic Moments
2. One Typhoo Tea with soy milk and brown sugar
3. One tea with lemon
4. One bowl of borscht
5. Lean Pork with Spaghetti and Tomato Sauce
6. Half a cantaloupe
7. Granny Smith Apple Slices and Cheddar Cheese
8. Two Beef Patties :(
9. Veggie and Duck dumplings with chili oil
10. Lotus Root Soup
11. One cup Apple Juice

Dear God, please don't let me procrastinate horribly for studying for my exams.

So tired. But all my essays are done for the year! Thank God. I went to bed at 5AM last night and woke up again at 8AM to finish my essay. So unfair, the other tutorials got to hand it in five hours later than us! Anyways, the day before yesterday I ate extra things, so here's an additional food entry for 2 days ago:

1. 3/4 of a snack bag of Doritos Tandoori Flavor
2. One cup of Mr. Noodle Vegetable Flavor Soup
3. A few blue Sour Straws
4. 2-3 squares of Ritter Sport Praline and Yogurt Chocolate
5. Half a bottle of Jones Soda - Cane Sugar - Fufu Berry Flavor
6. One bottle of Green Apple Green Tea

Yesterday's food entry:
1. One bottle of Green Apple Green Tea
2. One small cup of Sprite
3. One herb baked chicken thigh
4. Mashed potatoes with gravy
5. Steamed carrots and mixed string beans
6. One small serving of poutine
7. 1/4 of a snack bag of Doritos Tandoori Flavor
8. One bottle of Sobe Lizzard Lightening Peach Mango drink with Guarana and Wolfberry
9. 2 Squares of Ritter Sport Chocolate

Today's food entry:
1. One Grande cup of mild coffee from Starbucks
2. Half a bottle of Green Apple Green Tea
3. Half a bowl of Chicken Rice Soup with Curry and Coconut Milk Broth
4. Chicken breast, lettuce, and avocado with mayo on a bun
^ the above three at the Holt Renfrew Cafe
5. Three servings of rice dim sum with hot sauce
6. One cup of mango juice

Late on the food updates, let's see if I can remember what I had yesterday to eat.

Yesterday:
1. One cup of chamomile tea
2. One third of a whole grain power bar
3. One bowl of rice noodles
4. One bottle of Gatorade
5. One Michelina's Penne Arabiatta with Italian Sausage (frozen processed food--bad.)
6. Half a can of corn
7. Half a can of Habitant's Bean and Ham soup

Today:
1. One roast beef sandwich with lettuce, no cheese
2. One mango banana smoothie
3. One Grande Refresh Tea from Starbucks
4. One bottle of Nestea Lemon Green Tea
5. One Terriyaki Chicken Breast with white rice

I intend on having a few more snacks and drinks on Winston's behalf. :) Winston just scolded me for writing down everything I eat. "The anxiety is making me want to eat more." Hahaha.

So... I was almost disastrously locked out of my room today. Apparently it's because I had paper carrier bags hanging from the inside but that -totally- wasn't a problem before. Anyways, we spent like five minutes swiping my stupid card, then tried taping it with scotch tape cause that works on credit cards etc... Let me say, it was a bitch getting that scotch tape off. Then my don tried his master key, didn't work, called up the porter, her master key didn't work either and the PHYSICAL key didn't work either.

I seriously thought that I was going to have to sleep in the common room. But then my don came back and figured out a special way to open it. He wouldn't tell me what it was, I assume it was stupid and embarrassing. But he was really nice about it, so was the porter. And so after dragging my res phone across the room trying to test to see if the lock was fixed, it was great success!

Today's food entry:

1. One glass Allen's Apple Juice (Two thimbles according to Adam)
2. Two slices of smoked ham with blueberry sauce
3. Three mini bagels with whipped cream cheese and smoked salmon
4. Pieces of pineapple
5. Some (like one or three of each) buttoncap mushrooms and green beans
6. Two coconut soy milk tetrapaks
7. Home made leek, carrot, potato soup
8. One coffee with one teaspoon sugar and a splash of cream
9. Candy, go figure

I don't think it's necessary to mention but I'll state it anyways for future reference: I did not work out today. Big surprise.

I was totally planning on writing a big rant about the shitty amateur restaurant I went to tonight. But now I have eaten candy and am already having a sugar crash so... I'll just say that they couldn't make things on the menu because it was "too difficult."

Today's food entry:

1. One bowl of oatmeal (Anne, haha for you.)
2. Half a small bagel with whipped cream cheese and smoked salmon
3. Candy
4. A Northern Chinese dinner with two bowls of white rice
5. Two brownies
6. One cup linden flower/green tea
7. Half a cup of water

I really do suck with the liquids. I can't help it. Why did Adam give me so much candy? This is bad for me. It's not shitty candy either like Laura Secord Fruit Jewel things, it's Sweet Tarts and Laffy Taffy and Nerds and a Chocolate Orange. I whacked it but haven't eaten yet. I just kind of want to keep hitting it against the wall.

Again, I didn't work out. I figure I have two important essays due, no time. But I suck. I think I'll be saying I suck for the next three weeks everyday.

I suck. Today I didn't work out and I ate junk. Kill me now.

Today's food entry:

1. One bowl of Grain Shoppe cereal with 2% milk
2. One coconut soy milk tetrapack
3. A few Jones' Soda Green Apple Carbonated Candies
4. One McDonald's Big Mac meal with a diet coke. I was pissed, poor and hungry at the time. I should have been stronger!
5. One dried apricot
6. Chicken, broccoli, tofu, pork/spinach broth soup, and white fish

I hate people. I wish I could go to a really nice spa.

Today's food entry:

1. Gnocchi with a tomato/cream/basil sauce
2. One small lemon Perrier
3. One Cosmopolitan
4. One Grande Black Iced Tea from Starbucks
5. Turkey Chili
6. 2 Hamburger Buns
7. One Boston lettuce leaf salad with cucumbers and yellow tomatoes, oil dressing
8. One square of butter cream vanilla cake
9. One glass of milk
10. SO. MUCH. FREAKING. CANDY.

Edit:
-One glass of linden flower/green tea
-Crackers and cheddar cheese (I caved, dammit! I need a midnight snack.)

By the way, I clearly don't drink enough liquids still, I'm going to try to fit in a cup of tea before I go to bed. And I didn't work out today. D00Mzors.

1. I need a new livejournal layout
2. I'm trying to lose weight for Hong Kong because:
a) exercising is healthy and I never do it
b) eating lots of processed foods etc. can't be good for moi
SO I'm going to try writing down what I eat here so I can see if I'm being a pig or not

Thus... today I had
1. Fat-free blueberry yogurt
2. One cup linden flower/green tea
3. Blue corn chips with tostitos mild salsa
4. Garlic basil lamb chops with risotto and mushrooms
5. One cup water
6. One fiji apple and three slices of cheddar

Workout
-Ran 10 minutes
-Walked 5 minutes
-3 sets of 50 crunches, 50 leg raises, and 50 bicycle twists

...DEFINITELY tempted to eat more. I need to drink more fluids, that so much is clear. Let's see how far this goes, haha.