Day 11: working, not talking!

First of all, thanks to everyone who left sweet and warm comment yesterday. Your words helped me immensely. As you can imagine, I was low after knowing the news and tried my best to keep the positive attitude, and your encouragements really made me feel better. THANK YOU! I did a little research on the topic, as many of you pointed out, a lot of people live a normal life with Diabetes, they just need to be more careful about what they eat. A healthy lifestyle will definitely be a MUST and not a choice for Dad.
Fortunately I had a lot of work to do so I didn't have to think about the issue all day long. I worked about 10 hours, talked less than 10 words during the whole day and had a headache most of the day (woke up at 4am). What a day! Anyway, I am sure I'll be positive soon, I just need some time to digest the news. Bare with me if I don't sound as positive as I've been lately.
Working too much didn't help on creating stellar food.
Breakfast was amazing. Thanks to Krista, I finally tried the famous Flax seed porridge and I love it!!! It's sooooooo creamy and so filling. I had 1 serv. (1/3 c) with almond milk, 1 tbsp pumpkin, 2 tbsp egg white. Topped with black berries and Cinnamon Swirl PB.Fabulous combo!
AM snack: pumpkin seeds.Lunch Salad: another first try. AVOCADO. Can u believe that I've never had it before? I know a lot of people like it, but I don't find it so tasty. However, it has great nutritional values, especially healthy fat. So, I'll definitely have it more often. Salad also contained greens, tomatoes, yellow pepper, alfalfa, edamame, broccoli and mushroom. Dressing: olive + lemon juice. And 1/2 of oatmeal bagel from Krista.It was a delicious lunch but didn't hold me for long. After 3 hours, I had the super powerful combo: the other half of the bagel with microwaved egg white.And then, 3 hours later I had this half blooded orangeDinner came late (I finished doing a 90 min yoga at home around 8pm): so I fixed the dinner in 15 min. I used 1 cup of homemade tomato sauce, 4 oz. grounded turkey, 1/2 onion, 1 cup of broccoli and some kale to make a sauce over "hair angel". It was a lot of food, not pretty but delicious.Dessert: dairy free chocolate pudding. I only used 1/5 package and I wish I had used more.... love it!Today's to-do list:
- teach
- meeting with a professor
- work
- spin
I guess my talking Hiatus ends today.

Question: Do you need talking Hiatus? How often?

Lots of pics and snacks! ^_^

I just realized when I was importing pics from yesterday that I still have pics from Argentina that I haven't show you. Since my yesterday's eats wasn't so amazing, I guess I'll post them to make this post more visually enjoyable! ^_^
Before moving into that, a quick recap of yesterday. I worked all day long (>9hs) organizing a HUGE dataset.. which made my neck and back sound cranky when I stand up. Oh.. man.. this part of the research isn't fun! And that's the reason I wanted to do as much as I can to get over with it. Others thing that I did? the very needed 30 min nap because I was up at 4am all fresh and awaken. But the lack of sleep did make me snacky all morning!!~~ You'll see. Finally after a long day sitting and working, I craved a sweaty workout. So I went to the gym and run 4 miles and did 15 min of Elliptical for some magazine reading. That felt GOOD!!
Breakfast: no toast but oatmeal, and a pretty one! I cooked 1/3 c. of steel cuts, 2 tbsp wheat bran, 2 tbsp wheat berries, almond milk for 25 min and then blended 1/2 c. tofu with 1/2 c. blueberries. And a tbsp of PB. Look this beauty:It's stunning, isn't it? Unfortunately it didn't help to avoid massive snack later.

Snack 1: almond breeze with wheat berriesSnack 2: Better Whey yogurt with Tj's fiber worms.Snack 3: instant McCann's oatmeal with PB.Obviously after all that I had a late lunch, around 2pm (I had my breakfast at 6am) and carb free. I found in the freeze a sauce that I made (1 month ago?) with meat, onions and green onions. I added some more homemade tomato sauce and white pepper, and a package of shirataki noodles.It was sooooo tasty!!!!!!! I enjoyed it so much despite all those snacks that I had.
Dessert: POM jelly. A few of you asked how I make it. It's extremely simple. I use a bottle of POM juice, add 3 cups more of water and 2 tbsp of agar powder. Boil for 2-3 min, pour into the container and refrigerate it for about 4 hours. I have no more POM juice, so I'm thinking what other flavor I can make. You'll see! ^_^
PM snack before hitting the gym: sliced apple + toast + PB. It seems that I can't live without toast now! ;)
Dinner: a massive salad with a new dressing that I made: 1 tbsp olive + 2 tbsp balsamic + 1 tbsp BBQ sauce. It was surprisingly good!And a gigantic steam corn.Dessert: Plain Oikos + blueberries + flax meal (inspired by Heather).
Now, pics from Argentina. This is a lunch we had in the Hotel Four Seasons.Life is good in Argentina. I miss it!~

Question: When do you feel especially pretty? I definitely feel prettier when I am with my Star! I don't know, some people say that love makes us beautiful, I can certainly feel it, but why?

Today's plan:
- yoga (?) not sure, it's raining
- work
- movie (?)

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