Love talk & New Challenge!

Thanks to your supportive comments on yesterday's post. I'm especially touched by Gina's comment: "Well just smile because if you think about it, you are so lucky to have someone in your life you miss so much! Whenever I miss Nick, I always remind myself how lucky I am that I have someone who I can truly miss so much, it must mean he makes me incredibly happy and I'm a lucky lucky girl. Every time you miss Star remind yourself how good you have it. I mean, not all women get such wonderful spur of the moment gifts! That was so thoughtful." She's so right! I should be grateful of having Star in my life instead of being sad of not be able to be with him all the time!
One thought that I had after I left the airport was that no tears, no special words, no apparent emotions doesn't mean No Emotions, No sadness inside us! When I see people who just say goodbye in airport without any emotion, not hugs, I used to judge them as insensible people! But yesterday I realized that I was wrong... maybe they didn't express themselves more because they were afraid of making the other person feel bad and sad too. I don't know if I'm saying it right.... do you know what I mean? I could feel that Star smiled to me and didn't show his emotions not because he wasn't sad of being apart of me, but because he didn't want to make me feel worse! And I felt the same way!!! That's a new kind of feeling about love, which I think it's wonderful! Have you ever experienced something similar?

Okay. End of love talk and let me move to June's Challenge:
Because I'll be working from 9-17.30 for the next two months, I won't have the flexible schedule that I had for the last 3 years. So, guideline for workout

• Monday/Friday workout at the gym: cardio for 45 min
• Tuesday/Thursday yoga at home: 45 min
• Wednesday: Resting day
• Saturday: yoga and/or swimming
• Sunday: vinyasa yoga at yoga studio

Eating guideline:

• Cleaning eating as the one I did a while ago. Basically no process food and eat everything in its natural form as much as possible.
  
• One green oats per day, which is also part of Maggie's Whole Life Challenge
• Use at least 3 items from the pantry, inspired by Maggie too
• Continue with the Challenge that I was already on: cut back on veggies, more healthy fats and proteins, early dinner and smaller desserts.

Would you interested on joining me on any of these? Let me know!

Finally, recap of today. As day 1 of the challenge and because I didn't workout yesterday, I set the alarm to 5.45am and went to the gym to run 4 miles on the treadmill. Once showed I felt wonderful!!! Morning workouts are the best!!! But I didn't have time to have breakfast at home. Quickly I packed food to go. Two pots of green oats: one with spinach, and the other one with brocoflower. For each of them I used 1/2 cup oat bran, 1/2 cup almond milk, 2 tbsp flax meal and either spinach/brocoflower (topped with chinese dates). For breakfast I packed 1 low fat plain yogurt, blueberries, puffed kamut flakes with mixgranola. For snack I packed an apple and some cherries. All packed in my new lunch bag! ^_^I enjoyed them along the day and didn't feel hungry.
Dinner was more elaborated. Stir-fry tofu with black fungus, baby corns, broccoli with sesame seeds, soy sauce and sesame oil.Stir fry soy bean sprouts with mushrooms and pickles.And porridge made with white fungus, black rice and aduki beans.Dessert: dairy free chocolate pudding!Overall, day 1 of the June's Challenge was well accomplished.
I need to catch up with your blogs people! see u tomorrow!~