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Ok, So I've been a bit MIA this weekend because... * commence drumroll * I just had LASIK procedure done on Saturday morning! Oh man, I have to be honest, it was bit nerve-wrecking and scary but I swear practicing a bit of yoga meditation and calming breaths really helped. It was also great that my surgeon told me step-by-step what he was doing and what to expect while in a calming, encouraging manner. "It's going to go dark right about now" "Focus on the green flashing light" "You're doing great" "My assistant will be holding your hand at this next part" "That was the hardest part" (The part when you feel pressure and know they're cutting a flap on your cornea X.x Oh gawdddd) I pretty much slept all day and night of Saturday. It would've helped me tremendously if I saw the tylenol in the post-op kit... my eyes were stinging and they were tearing while I waited for the ambien to kick in. Yeupp. so

Everyday I'm trying to make my mom do squats . HAHA do you remember starting out with body weight only and then gradually adding more as you progress? Oops, I immediately started her off with 10 lbs and she said she'll be sore tomorrow. Oh mother, you are so dramatic. You guys should make your mamas do some body weight workouts if they have not yet started. I worry about brittle bones, and loss of calcium, and osteoporosis. So even though my mom may not be proactive about her future health, I will be her enforcer! >:) When on a Keto/Low-carb diet  initially it's quite easy to lose weight. But I think it's definitely mostly water weight. but still great 2 lb loss in less than a week. wooo hoo. I was craving pizza today. But, Willpower  dammit. So I knew there was some leftover rotisserie chicken and a floret of broccoli at hand. Baked it in the oven with cheese and turkey pepperonis! Pasta with this would've been so good x.x :) Rawr, Dianasaur

okk, little confession, I didn't work out yesterday because I told myself I would sprint in the evening after work.. But, the sun keeps setting earlier and earlier and well my mind and body thinks I should get ready for bed soon Z.z haha. At least I got a lot of studying done instead I either need to make my willpower stronger or move my sprinting schedule to earlier. Knowing myself completely, I will have to do HIIT/sprints earlier. One advantage of not having the gym for lifting seshes is that I am more strict on my low carb/keto diet. Before I'd say ohh I can burn off the ice cream or this slice of pizza or eat my burgers with buns since I'll make today a squat/deadlift day. But now I'm really trying to limit carbs to about 50g or less a day. I don't think I burn nearly as many calories doing cardio as I did when I lifted. But it's A-OK. I still eat well :) Example: this steak fajitas wrapped in lettuce because I was craving tacos and burritos. And

MOODY Mondays It seems like people are grumpier on Mondays? They are probably recovering/withdrawing from the festivities of the weekends and are sad they have to start the weekdays all over again. I notice my tutees are grumpier, stubborn and I also notice drivers are more impatient and irritable it seems on Mondays. so strange.. So.. I'm officially gym-less right now. It feels so weird and bittersweet. I'm not sure what gym I will be going to next since my 2 year 24 hour fitness costco membership has finally terminated. I think it's time for me to check out MMA! But I also love lifting and making sure my muscles don't atrophy. haha I hope I don't lose my butt gains this week since I will mostly be doing cardio and HIIT/ Sprints . Pictures like this definitely motivate me to do sprints over long-distance jogging. Remember FAST twitch muscles, we want to fatigue them :)! Furthermore, since I am no longer lifting (for the next two weeks most likely wh

I don't really know how to explain what my workout was this morning.. I put  Insanity and Despicable Me  in the background then put in my earphones to an EDM station. For the span of one Insanity workout I basically shuffled-danced around, gyrated, booty-popped (or as much as I could with my baby cakes) and did jumping jacks and jump ropes and high knees in between. SO. MUCH. FUN. I think the best explanation I could give is possibly a hype girl or go-go dancer at a rave + mesh of work out moves?.... hmmm but not that sexy, but just as energetic. I swear dancing is good for your abs :) interestingly, I am currently watching some go-go videos on youtube for some inspiration & moves. hahah xD :) Rawr, Dianasaur

Thursday I believe I just ran around the neighborhood and wasn't very proactive with my working out. So I won't count this day. Day 14 Friday .  I spent most of the morning getting my eyes checked out and then immediately after I went to the gym for  Volume training  Squats! -warmup with the bar -add the 25 plates and do a set -make it 35 plates and do two sets -make it 45 plates and do as many reps. I take rests in between since I don't have anyone to spot me and every time I don't succeed in completing my squat I have to take the plates off and raise the bar again LOL.  -afterwards go back down to 25 plates and do volume training I also did some deadlifts, I couldn't resist. Then did Adbuctor machine before heading home. Oh but first, let me take a selfie I'm telling you  Squats > Deadlift  for booty growth. Trust me, I like big butts and I want one too. Day 15 Saturday .  Today I got to workout and teach my friend what

Day 13 Oh Wednesday , you hump. So on this day the first thing I did after waking up was to do some fasted  HIIT uphill sprints . I made sure to make Wednesday a successful workout day since I knew later in the evening I would be indulging at a Yelp event o:) Why yes, I am on  Yelp elite!  It's quite awesome although this year I haven't taken advantage of the title. I think I will have to warmup jog before sprints next time. Last time I jogged around the neighborhood while listening to my spotify playlist and that made my circulation get going and my endorphins and enthusiasm at a high. But when I ran full speed right into sprints after waking up from my slumber, I was a bit sluggish. After the sprints, I had breakfast while recuperating then eventually went to the gym to workout my back and Sauna. Back and biceps were thoroughly sore on Thursday! I think my favorite back workout ( well other than deadlifts, but I'm laying off on that since my dislocated rib is bother

Halloween is in two weeks. Time to hone in diet and I know keto works the fastest for me. Wish me luck :( carbs taste even better when you restrict them *Breakfast option: fruits (I am not going to take fruits out of my diet, instead I will allot myself to have them in the morning) and/or protein shake -nuts -hardboiled egg -peanut butter Avocado, egg toast Chili cucumber noodles Wedge salads Cucumber roll ups Baked parmesan zucchini Cucumber chicken salad sub wrap omelet wrap Low carb sausage bake Bean sprout "noodles" SNACK: Blue diamond almonds. smokehouse flavor is my favoriteee This is such an awesome alternative to chips, albeit it is a bit salty. However I need some flavoring in my life since I kind of eat my food on the bland side. Sometimes I feel like I don't get enough electrolytes, namely sodium, in my diet. But then of course when you eat packaged food (like even sandwich meats)

Jk I probably have that mentality because today I had an exam and yesterday I didn't have work so it kind of feels like my Monday right now. I just want to listen to music,  watch tv and drink some wine right now. But I have work and a planned CHESTSHOULDERTRIS workout + cardio. wine and tv shall have to wait o:) mmm I love Okinawa purple sweet potato. It's sweet and the color is so gorgeous. I'm gonna say.. this is nature's  way of making pastry or cake . I do love me some cake, but I'll take this alternative since I want abs please. However, I didn't plan on eating okinawa today so that carbiness kind of skewed my diet plan a little. Improvise right! So here we have the deli meat wrap (honey ham, cucumber, swiss cheese, avocado, topped with sriacha sauce). not bad not bad

Weekends are for indulgences , right? hehh because on Saturday I had carby Chinese food deliciousness for lunch, then late at night hung out with friends and ate a couple Trader Joe's lemon bars & wined on some pink moscato. and then on Sunday, I had Taiwanese breakfast for the first time! My friends ordered in Chinese but I believe we ordered: turnip cake, shredded pork rice roll, scallion pancake, shrimp omelette (it was pretty wet), pig in a steamed bun (pork belly was so soft), and to wash that all down, soymilk. Going on food adventures and having such a satisfying, delicious experience without spending much at all makes me Super happy  I knew once I got home after eating that satiating meal, I'd want to crawl onto my bed and watch Tv while relenting to the food coma.  So I dragged myself to the gym for Day 10   (Sunday) workout: -Did more SQUATS because my glutes were not hurting from Saturday's sesh. Did my damn volume training! -Leg Abduction

Been watching  Chuck  and seeing the female protagonist, Sarah Walker (Yvonne Strahovski) do killer moves and kick ass with hand to hand combat. All of a sudden I want to learn martial arts and become a certified BADASS.   I think it would also be awesome to have the skill to use a stick, pole, katana, sword. >:) So, I am adding become a badass  into my goals. Pretty excited! Day 9 (Saturday) I woke up well-rested and decided I didn't want coffee! On days I feel a natural motivation I try to stray away from unnecessary caffeine. I heard caffeine addiction and withdrawals are not so cool. Anyways Saturday was supposed to be a SQUAT day but this day I realized it really means = do every other workout while waiting for the squat rack . I had a great workout sesh however: -wide grip lat pulldowns -close grip lat pulldowns -deadlifts -then finally some squats.  Unfortunally by the time I went to the squat rack I was a bit tired, understandably, so I was onl

Lost count of workout days.. Had a lackluster past weekend with a mild case of FOMO. Had to study for test and also help my students study for theirs as well. Furthermore, since I worked out on and off throughout this week, my shower schedule was off and adding onto the mismanagement of my time I slept a tremendous amount. Zzzzz I wish I could carry over the excess hours I sleep. I saw this fact somewhere and thinking about the amount of time we spend sleeping fascinated me. 25 years if you sleep 8 hours on average. haha wow. So if you're 75 years old, you only really have 50 years of life experience :P, since 25 years were spent sleeping like Sleeping Beauty. so.. although I have been working out throughout the week but not as diligently as I would've liked, I'll call today's post Day 8 of workouts I am still penguin waddling around from two days ago when I did 10x10 volume training on squats. woo! Although I had a great squat session, I was pretty irrit

So today my daily routine has been all screwed up. Essentially what this meme is. And I know how I started my day off 'incorrectly'. Woke up refreshed and ready to workout. I had my lemon, cayenne tea but decided not to make any coffee since I really don't want to develop a caffeine-necessity. Tried to log onto netflix but internet was too laggy to even connect to a page :(. Then I realize how dependent I am of internet/streaming tv and also realized I am not interested in doing Insanity if I am not able to watch tv.. # firstworldproblems Decided to just make a nice sandwich and soon after started reading on my bed and eventually took a nap. Woke up groggy and grumpy. Drove to work grumpy and contact lens drying up on eyeballs. Day dreamt about coffee for the next three hours. Went to Mcds to get a black coffee for a pickmeup. Had dinner with family.. started watching an episode of Chuck . And couldn't find the elusive motivation to go to gym and do my dam

This is my morning ritual nowadays (wait, but the Chai tea is a new development). the orange-y drink on the right is the cayenne pepper +lemon + cinnamon drink, right in back of it is the fresh black coffee using my Teavana perfect tea maker  because my Bodum  coffee press has been long-shattered :( and then the Chai tea! mmm lots of liquids to jumpstart my body. Then off to Insanity while watching Once Upon a Time and then P90x Ab Ripperx

It takes about 21 days to establish a habit. I still am trying to establish my current daily routine, so I can't wait for the post " Day 21:" !! :D Drank Lemon Cayenne powder + Lemon + cinnamon (new addition that I kind of like), then made a fresh cup of black coffee and brewed uncaffeinated peppermint tea Checked out Insanity's Cardio Recovery and wanted more cardio. I have this routine written on my mirror and decided to do this while watching Once Upon a Time . I was also strapped for time so this was perfect. AestheticDianasaurus Cardio while TV watching Jump rope 100  150  200 High knees 75 Body Squats 50 Pushups 25  10 Jumping jacks 75 Ab wheels 25   10 Butt kicks 75 Tpday's eatery : had korean bbq mmm all that protein. And spent most of today digesting. Then came home and was just craving carbs and