A lot of you know that I work in a hospital as a doctor and one of my med carts in the office broke and so I had to request for a replacement since the cart cannot function anymore and the office needs one for storage. I applied for a request today and hopefully they will put action by next week and have it replaced by then. Right now, the papers and some medical stuff have to sit on top of the extra office table that we have in the office. I am planning to clean up and organize the office soon.

I’ve been busy too for a career change. Well, I will still be working in the same field and same office but hopefully praying for a career growth soon. I guess, it’s about time and I hope God guides me through this. Papers need to be filed plus I need to organize so much when I came back from my leave, not having the internet access for 2 days helped and now that everything is back to normal, I got internet again and I can relax and surf online plus blog. I miss blogging!

I am not a nurse but I am most comfortable in wearing scrubs at work, why? Well, you see I work in a hospital and I am an Optometrist and we are allowed to wear scrubs like the ones that nurses usually wear. My aunt was bragging about Marcus medical scrubs and she told me that she wants to give to me. I am so glad because I need new ones actually. I think I will be buying myself as well, I visited their site and they accept paypal payments which is very convenient for me. I pairs with these styles for the top…

I want plain with pipings.

Some people are already asking me if I took weight loss pills because as of today, I gained too much weight and it’s pretty obvious. Before my serious diet, my weight is 128 and my cholesterol levels were too high. I wasn’t too conscious about my weight but I was alarmed when I received my blood chemistry results. I am very proud of myself, 18 lbs. is not a joke especially for a lady who loves food. Imagine 18 lbs. for a year, it was a struggle for me at first because I didn’t have the discipline. Last June 2010, I’ve decided to quit eating meat, that’s beef and pork but my weight was going up and down the scale because I was struggling of healthy living. Then just this year, around May, if I remember right, we had the blood chemistry and that’s when I decide that I will take this seriously. Target weight is 105 lbs. but I think 110 lbs. is what I can whip up as of the moment. Maybe after the Holidays, I will try reaching my goal. We’ll see. Anyway, here is me today…

All in all, I had light meals, just veggies and fish, if I can remember that right. I lost a pound and 1/2 inch to my waist and though I don’t feel any different, just the feeling of being cleansed, people said I had that tint of glow, I guess healthy diets, are known to give you that. Here is my after diet photo…

My eyebags obviously shrink a little, maybe fluid intake is indeed the solution to my genetically HUGE eyebags.

Will I ever do the JUJU Juice Cleanse again?

Most definitely! Next year, I am planning to do it in Holy Week.

Sorry for the delay of posts, while the husband is busy with his auto wheels and bumper thingies, I am busy as a mom during our 4-day weekend so I have less access online, just using the iphone once in a while to keep me updated. Anyway, enough with the intro.

For fresh start, JUJU Juice advised to drink warm tea, Ms. Kat included a pack of mint leaves to add in your tea so I had lemon tea with mint leaves…

After which, I went with my usual Saturday morning, feeding my son his breakfast while I put the 1st bottle of JUJU in front of me, psyching myself that I can gulp in that green stuff and so I did…

Green Bomb. I love celery and definitely, this has celery in it, and there is that distinct powdery taste that I cannot really describe. This can be very hard to drink especially to people who hate veggies, but luckily, I love veggies so, even if this is not that awesome, it is very doable for me.

So you have to wait for 2 1/2 hrs. to drink the next bottle, at around 9:30, I got really hungry and I was feeling a bit dizzy, I dunno if this is psychological since I am used to skipping my breakfast but just to be sure that I can last the whole day, I ate a banana and 2 of these…

And then at 10am, I drank the 2nd bottle…

Spicy Limonada. A favorite of mine, I plan on making this as a substitute to my usual lemonade drink. It gave a kick with that cayenne pepper and I love how it made me feel very full.

In between, I am drinking water to help me feel fuller, so this also means, frequent trips to the loo.

VERY IMPORTANT ADVICE: Never go out while you’re on with the diet.

At around 12:30pm we left home to meet somebody at 2pm around South area so I just brought the juices that I needed for the day and put it in the JUJU bag with their ice pack and put more ice in a ziplock to make it cooler.

Red Giant. We were in the car and were in a hurry to get out that I wasn’t able to savor the taste, but I like the taste of this one. Not really my fave, but can definitely grow on me, if only I had time to drink it real slow.

Still no hunger pangs. Still not getting dizzy and no headaches. But I brought bananas just in case.

Alkazest. I drank this earlier because we had to go down again to our next stop and I don’t want to carry it in the mall. I love the taste of this one, my 3rd fave actually. I was a bit scared because I know this has coconut water and pineapple, just like the Green Bomb and I might need to do Number 2 in a public bathroom, but I am so happy that I didn’t need to.

The bad part is that, we were in the mall really late and I had to take the 5th bottle at 6pm and I was getting really hungry so when my boys decided to have dinner at Conti’s, I had to order this…

My cheat. It has chicken and dressing. Oh my!

Then at around 8pm, I drank the 5th bottle which is the Green Bomb again, it was easier to gulp that time maybe because I kinda got used to its taste.

I was supposed to drink the last bottle at 8:30pm but I had to adjust the time and drank it at 10:30pm and this is my 2nd fave among the 5 drinks…

Salaba’t Lemon. I always love the ginger tea I drink at The Spa (their usual ginger tea there), so this is a treat for me. I took it cold but I felt the heat in my tummy after drinking my first sip and I had a nice sleep after.

To all of you who wants to know if I had frequent trips to the loo to do Number 2, well, it all happened the next day, I did it 3 times, one in the morning, the other was after lunch and then the last one was in the evening. I felt really cleansed.

While I know for a fact that I will never fit into a school girl outfit because unlike before that I am very slim and slender, I am a mom now and no matter what I do, I will always have that post pregnancy figure that all mothers will understand. But as much as I would love to be 100 pounds again, losing a few more from my current weight is enough plus I am aiming for the detoxification part of this cleansing, not the losing weight part because a 1 day cleanse will not lose too much number.

As instructed by JUJU Cleanse in preparation for the cleansing day itself, I will have to observe the following:

Reduce your intake of the following to prepare your body:

1. Animal protein and processed foods
2. Salt, refined sugar and carbs
3. Carbonated sodas, and other caffeinated drinks
4. Alcohol and nicotine

Recommend that you increase your intake of:

1. Water or herbal teas
2. Fruit and vegetables
3. Sleep

Anyway, here is my post about it:

That’s 112 lbs on the gym scale last Thursday

August 12, 2011:

Breakfast I only had these:

a cup of coffee with whole wheat bread with spreads of Filippo Berio’s Sun Dried Tomato Pesto and Tomato and Ricotta Pesto

For lunch:

little rice, pansit, 1 small cut of chicken adobo and pinakbet then I had water (a close military personnel celebrated his retirement from the service and had free lunch for the whole hospital staff)

Just before dinner, I had a soothing massage:

That’s with my son, posing while I was having my home service massage.

My dinner:

That’s grilled fish, brown rice with tomatoes and onions (raw) and a bowl or mushroom soup with veggies.

And as for my sleep, this one I think I failed. I watched movie with my husband until about midnight and I woke up early.

I have been reading and thinking about this for weeks. I read tons of bloggers posting about it and I got to be sure that this is really safe before putting myself into it. My right pinky finger helped me decide faster and I’ve decided that doing it for a day wouldn’t hurt.

At first, I was considering of doing it for 3 days but then my husband suggested that I do it 1 day first and if my body responds to it really nicely then maybe I can plan better next year. So here is my plan, if this thing is really nice just like what I read from the all feedback, then by next year, I will do it twice a year. One after Christmas, to cleanse my body from all the binge eating and the other is in June just to prepare myself to all the binging again that can happen from celebrations like my husband’s birthday and the Holidays.

So let me tell you a little bit about the JUJU Cleanse:

What is JUJU Cleanse?

All fresh, delivered to your doorstep, and ready to go, the Juju Cleanse is a no fuss, all benefits approach to juice fasting.

We don’t just make it convenient for you, but take your existing lifestyle or dietary history into consideration as well by providing you with three cleansing levels. Consider level 1 as an introduction to the world of detoxification and level 3 to be for the hard-core cleanser in you. The choice is yours, cleanse as you feel.

Each of our Juju Cleanse kits contain a day’s worth of detoxifying drinks which keep you nourished while you put aside your spoon and fork for the day and give your digestive system that much needed break.

So give yourself that health kick and get cleansing with Manila’s only juice fast delivery service. For all of you serious about squeezing a little bit of health into your non-stop schedules.

So today is my Pre-Clanse Day and how do I prepare for tomorrow?

At least one day before beginning your cleanse, we suggest you reduce your intake of the following to prepare your body:

1. Animal protein and processed foods
2. Salt, refined sugar and carbs
3. Carbonated sodas, and other caffeinated drinks
4. Alcohol and nicotine

We then recommend that you increase your intake of:

1. Water or herbal teas
2. Fruit and vegetables
3. Sleep

Which Cleanse is right for me?

The JUJU Cleanse has 3 Levels. I was thinking of doing Level 2 for Day 1 and Level 3 for Day 2 but I changed my mind and settled for Level 1. I got really scared of going to the loo several times and end up being too woozy so I think for starters, I will be on Level 1.

Level One:

Designed to ease you into the program gently, this cleanse does its best not to overwhelm you with too much green veggie goodness, while still providing you potent juices packed with tremendous enzyme power.

If you have had one too many drinks (again), have been packing on the pounds, or are generally feeling over-worked and fatigued – then this cleanse is the “picker-upper” that you need to jump-start yourself back into a healthier routine.

For more details of JUJU Cleanse, visit their site here.

My Level One JUJU Cleanse will be delivered this afternoon. I will update you of this experience soon.

I did mentioned here that I bought an eyeshadow primer to enhance my eye make up and though I am really scared of using dark colors, I think the primer helped in really enhancing the color of the eyeshadow I used. I am using MAC’s eyeshadow palette that my Aunt gave me when she came for a vacation here from Illinois. Anyway, I promised to try using darker colors next time to see how effective the eyeshadow primer is, but so far this eye make up lasted for 5 hours, not bad right?

Just early last year I am fighting with my weight of 128 lbs. I tried so hard dieting and exercising only to find myself going back to 128 lbs. and having 28 inches waistline, before the year ends I am 125 lbs. Then just this February we had our blood test and I got really scared that my cholesterol increased another notch so I promised myself to really change my lifestyle. Before getting in my program I weighed in the gym and recorded 123 lbs. and 27 inches waist. I started my strict diet last March 5. After 2 weeks of doing cardio regularly and eating right, I dropped 2 1/2 lbs. and happily read the weighing scale…

After a month of my continuous healthy eating, with 2 weeks of leave from doing exercise. I thought I gained weight so I weighed last week at home and was surprised that I am only 10 lbs away from my ideal weight of 105 lbs but I thought that it was too good to be true, 115 lbs. after a month with no exercise for 2 weeks is impossible so when I got back to the gym this week, the first thing I did was go on the scale and I knew 115 lbs. is unimgineable!

I am now 117 lbs. still not my ideal weight but also not too far from my target weight. I am steadily dropping my pounds and I am doing it in my healthy way. My waist you want to ask? I am now 26 inches not bad from being a 28.  For those who are aiming to lose weight, nothing is impossible, we just need, DISCIPLINE. Good luck to us, I am hoping that by the end of this year, I am back to 105 lbs. and maybe 24 inches waist is not too far too?!? Who knows right?

I had to wake up earlier than my usual wake up call for work. We are tasked to go early for some activities in the camp and while I wanted to sleep in a little more, I lifted my butt as hard as I could to go in the shower. My body was aching from the busy activities I had this weekend, I really need to look for a massage therapy program online that really works because the simple home service just doesn’t work for me and going to a nearby spa can be very expensive. Anyway, I will have to ask my husband to maybe massage my back later tonight just for temporary remedy. So, after the early activity this morning, which we have to wear this shirt by the way…

The message is very timely by the way.

I came back to my post to attend to some patients and had late lunch because I needed to manually count the number of patients we had during 2010. Bummer! I sure hope the bosses will plan on making our system computerized because this record system we are using is so jurassic already. I had to take a nap during lunch break because my head was throbbing and thank goodness I feel better now. I hope the afternoon will bot be too hectic. Wish me luck!