Tuesday break~~ ^_^

Is it too soon to give me a break???? It's not even mid-week!!!! Maybe, because I needed so I gave it to me. Well, actually it was a short break, it began at 4pm. This afternoon I had to attend a lecture, a seminar, a meeting with a professor (in which the only thing I was thinking about was food..... I was so hungry!!!), and then I had a tea and some chat with a friend in his office. Back home around 5pm, starrrrrrving!!!!
Okay, first rewind to the early morning.
How did I sleep last night? You'll figure it out in just a second.
I had a three-part breakfast.
First: 3.45am, pita bread + laughing cow+ginger cookies and a cup of almond breeze.Second: 5.45am the usual oatmeal combo

• 1/4 cup Tj's 5 grains
• 1/4 cup oat bran
• 1/4 cup frozen blueberries
• 1/4 cup frozen strawberries
• 1/2 banana
• 1 tbsp flax meal

Third: 6.45am baked kabocha! TONS!!!!! (no pic! I was so busy having them ^.^) I guess I had about 1 pound of it!!!! so stuffed afterward. Definitely a overload of vitamin A! I need to cut back on pumpkin, seriously, no more pumpkin until next year, otherwise I'll become pumpkin!!!! (the true worry is getting a yellow tint on my skins, specially my palms, which is a little bit scary)
Now reason for the three parts brekkie. #1 was to convince my body to go back to sleep. (failed) #2 was official brekkie even though I wasn't hungry at all, but just wanted to begin my day properly. #3 was remedy for my terrible headache. (not true remedy, I just wanted to have something that I really like and hope my headache will magically disappear afterward. Obviously that never happened!)
Despite the morning big-brekkie-headache issue. I did work properly from 7 am to 11.30 am. Have a quick lunch. I made chili last night, so I had one cup of the chili, throw some spinach, mushrooms and the final leftover chicken soup. Heat them all together and lunch was served. (<5min)with a pita breadI packed more ginger cookies as dessert (I had them in the seminar, making funny noises! Erin, I told you, I don't have a educated mouth either! ^_^)
Now, forward until 5pm. Back home, starving, I had one apple (heated in the microwave as Magpie suggested), 1/3 cup cottage cheese and a slice of Tj's 3 seeds bread. Along with REAL SIMPLE!!!! I finally got it! I've been waiting it for weeks and it finally arrived! 5 min finished all those, I still felt hungry, so another slice of bread with laughing cow. I know you guys like Real Simple a lot, but I must say that I am a little dissapointed. Too many ads and too few real articles. I really don't like when an article's content is about recommending products....... for that, I prefer simply just Ads. I don't know, maybe it's december, the holiday month, so there are more ads than usual. I hope so!
I also received two new books that I ordered right after I finished Eat, Pray and Love. These two are very popular as well......Hope I'll like them too. I think finding a book that you really like is a matter of luck. Dont' you think? Because whatever your best friend likes doesn't imply that you'll like it too, book taste is so personal.
I didn't feel needing a big/complex dinner after that big snack. But I wanted to have an early dinner because my lack of sleep last night finally caught me!!! So I made a stir-fry veggies (mushrooms, romaine lettuce and broccoli) with grated ginger, soy sauce, 1 tbsp of sugar and 1 tbsp of sesame oil. And 1 block of baked tofu. I love loading tons of veggies ^_^ (except pumpkin)
Dessert was 1 bowl of fage with PB and 1 bowl of fage with cinnamon. FABULOUS!!!~~~~~~ It's interesting how suddenly my mood is better even though none of my research issues have been resolved, the lack of sleep last night, the terrible headache this morning....... none have affected me! I guess when nothing can be worse you begin to see the world with other lens. Rebonding from the lowest point can make you become more optimistic. Does it make sense what I'm saying? Or I began to dream already??? I guess it's time for me to say good night! I love you all! Hope you had a great day! Tomorrow is Wednesday, mid-week day~~~~~~~ uuhuuuuuuuuu!!! And I need to begin to write down my model!!! so fun!!!~~~~ Question: What's your favorite chinese dish and why?

long long day~~~~~~~ but GREAT!

First, I'm so glad that you guys liked my story about my weight ups and down. I feel like there are many girls out there who is suffering as I did in that period of my life and I really want to help them to get out of that dark episode of life and begin soon to fully enjoy their lives. Life is so beautiful! There are so many pleasant and lovely things to do before focusing only and exclusively on our weight. My resources to help them is limited, by sharing my story in this blog I think could be the first step. So, if you reader or anyone that you know who's having this problem and you think I might be able to help, please let me know.

Today is a long day of work, I did my research this morning until 12pm, had a quick lunch and went to school all afternoon...two long seminars about financial crisis! Not so encouraging! But I did have a good workout after seminars. It was a 55 min spinning class which made me sweat despite the freezing weather.
About food....today's a day for leftovers. Two reasons: one I had no time to cook, second I have to finish most of my leftovers, because someone very special is coming to visit me this weekend. MY DADDY~~~~~~~~~~~ He's going back to China (from Argentina) and will make a stop to visit me. I'm so excited!!!!!!!! I haven't seen him for 10 months!!!!
Lunch was leftover lentil soup with last three turkey meatball and frozen okra with some aduki rice.

Didn't have time for dessert so I grabbed a marroc on my way to school.
Simple but very satisfying!

As I was going to spent all afternoon in school....I packed one sliced apple with cinnamon and 1 cup of mix of granola and cereal.
I also had one cup of coffee with soy milk from co-op and without sweetener!!!! And I kind of liked it!~~~~~~ ^_^ A big progress.

Before dinner I had a cup of almond breeze. Dinner was leftover pumpkin polenta chili with a handful baby spinach. On the side I had some baked squash. (acorn and butternut).
Dessert was 1 cup of Fage 2% with 1/2 cup of blueberries with more EnjoyLife granola + peppermint tea.
mmmmmmmmmm.........I will never get tired of this dessert!!!!

And the best part of today: I received two books that I ordered. I am 100% sure that ALL of you will like one of them!
DADAAAAAAAAAAA~~~~~~~~~~
cooking with Pumpkins and squash
I saw this book in MissTiffie's blog and couldn't resist and ordered it right away!

The other is the popular book of Heidi Swanson: Super Natural Cooking.

Hope everyone had a good wednesday~~~mine was busy but great!

Tortilla pizza night~~~

I finally made it!!!! yes, tortilla pizza which I've been craving for days, specially after seeing other bloggers having it.

Well... before that, afternoon snack.... Back home around 3.30pm I needed some warm and comforting food. Maybe it was the cold weather that made me need more fuel.... So I had a mate tea and a zucchini muffin........so yummy~~~~
And another one ....... ^.~
I studied for 3 hours more and did one hour of flow yoga (usually I go to sacred space yoga at Tuesday night, but as I studied until late, I missed that class. But my body is programmed to have yoga session today, so I did it on my own). Even though I was so excited about my tortilla pizza plan, I finished the final relaxation part (which I just began to understand/feel its importance)

Well....finally I made this delicious "pizza". I used Tj's rice tortilla. I toasted it a little bit in the oven while I prepared the veggies. I used one shredded zucchini, half medium onion, half red pepper, handful of baby spinach (basically what I had left of fresh veggies). I microwaved them with S+P for 4 minutes. By then, the tortilla was crispy, so I just spread some tomatoes sauce and then the veggies, finally 1/4 cup of mozzarella. Boil for 10 min and the amazing tortilla pizza is done!!! So Yummy~~~~~~~~~~~

I also had sauteed romaine lettuce and mushrooms as yesterday.
I finished it all and totally satisfied.
I was a little bit stuffed to have dessert, but I had it anyway, because it's squash+Fage. How can I resist it?
I'm going to bed early tonight because I bought two books this afternoon. After I finished "factory girl" which was really interesting, I felt I regained my crave for reading. I haven't been reading no-school books for long time and forgot how pleasant and healing is reading. Fortunately that wonderful feeling is back......and I'm so happy about it!
well...... now the books:
1. The famous and so popular Eat, Pray and Love. So I don't have to introduce it to you.
2. Plato and a Platypus walk into a bar... understanding philosophy through jokes. It's national best selling book. I read the introduction and it totally catched my interest. It's so fun and so deep at the same time.
and I also got Yoga Magazine! so many to read~~~~~~~~~