what are we meant to do?

I've bought and read the book about 4 years ago and just got the time to finally see and hear the author.

beautiful brain talk - "Powerful Stroke Of Insight"

trying out pilates for 2 weeks

testing 3 exercise routines to see which brings the best results

Kites can fly in the rain. Faith knows the way home.
Kites can fly in the rain. Faith knows the way home.
Kites can fly in the rain. Faith knows the way home.
Kites can fly in the rain. Faith knows the way home.

my affirmations for today

Daily Antioxidants Vitamin C & E

Scurvy may not be as rampant today as it was in the 1700's but it has taken Vitamin C into the spotlight as a necessary daily vitamin to cure the deficiency.


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Vitamin C is vital in the strengthening of ligaments, tendons, and bones apart from being a major player in basic cellular functions to produce much needed energy. Its antioxidative properties boosts up your body's defenses helping in the prevention of coronary heart disease, stroke, and to an extent, even cancer.

Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA): 90-120 mg/day.

Vitamin C sources:

Food	Serving	Vitamin C (mg)
Orange juice	¾ cup (6 ounces)	75
Grapefruit juice	¾ cup (6 ounces)	60
Orange	1 medium	70
Grapefruit	½ medium	44
Strawberries	1 cup, whole	82
Tomato	1 medium	23
Sweet red pepper	½ cup, raw chopped	141
Broccoli	½ cup, cooked	58
Potato	1 medium, baked	26

from: Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University

alpha-tocopherol or Vitamin E is a fat-soluble vitamin that protects vitamin A, and reduces risks of cardiovascular diseases and cancer. Similar to Vitamin C, Vitamin E are antioxidants that helps the body in getting rid of free radicals. The presence of free radicals in the body increases a person's health risk for cancer in general.

Recommended Daily Allowance: 200-300 iu/day (synthetic form)
Should be taken with ample amount of fat-containing food. People on a low-fat diet can have difficulty absorbing Vitamin E.

Vitamin E Sources:

Good Sources of Vitamin E
Food	Serving Size	Milligrams	% RDA
Egg, whole, fresh	1 large	0.88	5.8
Almond oil	1 tablespoon	5.3	35.3
Corn oil	1 tablespoon	1.9	12.6
Corn oil (Mazola)	1 tablespoon	3	5
Cottonseed oil	1 tablespoon	4.8	32
Olive oil	1 tablespoon	1.6	10.6
Palm oil	1 tablespoon	2.6	17.3
Peanut oil	1 tablespoon	1.6	10.6
Safflower oil	1 tablespoon	4.6	30.6
Soybean oil	1 tablespoon	1.5	10
Sunflower oil	1 tablespoon	6.1	40.6
Vegetable-oil spray	2.5 second spray	0.51	3.4
Wheat-germ oil	1 tablespoon	20.3	135.3
Tomato juice	6 fluid ounces	0.4	2.6
Apple with skin	1 medium	0.81	5.4
Mango, raw	1 medium	2.32	15.4
Macaroni pasta, enriched	1 cup	1.03	6.8
Spaghetti pasta, enriched	1 cup	1.03	6.8
Almonds, dried	1 ounce	6.72	44.8
Hazelnuts, dried	1 ounce	6.7	44.6
Peanut butter (Skippy)	1 tablespoon	3	5
Peanuts, dried	1 ounce	2.56	17
Pistachio nuts, dried	1 ounce	1.46	9.7
Walnuts, English	1 ounce	0.73	4.8
Margarine (Mazola)	1 tablespoon	8	53.3
Margarine (Parkay, diet)	1 tablespoon	0.4	2.6
Mayonnaise (Hellmann�s)	1 tablespoon	11	73.3
Miracle Whip (Kraft)	1 tablespoon	0.5	3.3
Avocado, raw	1 medium	2.32	15.4
Asparagus, frozen	4 spears	1.15	7.6
Spinach, raw	1/2 cup	0.53	3.5
Sweet potato	1 medium	5.93	39.5
Tomato, red, raw	1 tomato	0.42	2.8
Turnip greens, raw	1/2 cup chopped	0.63	4.2

from: the Ohio State University Extension Fact Sheet

Take Note!!
Vitamins can be lost during meal preparation, cooking, or storage. To avoid this, use sealed containers and avoid exposing the vitamins to high temperature or direct exposure to sunlight.

"Be Daring"

"where are the breaks?"

Positivity works!

this is it... good team work is the key :-)


Each day brings a lot of surprises. I woke up on a Monday intending to go on my weekly routine. But due to an impromptu holiday declaration i ended up kayaking with friends in a nice Pacific inlet with peaceful waters and hospitable locals.

Now, I can definitely relate to Jim Carey's character in Yes Man —where he committed to saying "Yes!" to everything for a year. I didn't have the same wacky, coincidental and fortunate mishaps similar to Carl Allen but I think I got the moral of the story.

Adapting a positive outlook in life brings good tidings back and surrounds you with laughter, fun, and confidence to try anything new!

Eating Right and Guilt Free

Being in a diet regimen and getting off after a few days or weeks after seeing little or no results won't help anyone achieve the right weight or even a healthy condition. Food intake needs to be closely monitored. Nobody said committing one's self to a healthy lifestyle is easy.

After hours (and days) of reading through health tips and diet suggestions, i found one common problem in all of them--the programs are rigid which makes it all the more difficult to comply. In the long run it can get really frustrating once a person following a particular diet fails to follow one meal program for a day, say you hadn't had enough time to pass by the market to grab all the healthy ingredients you need for a healthy meal or you just felt like having more of the required serving. I'm saying the guilt has to stop!

Know one basic rule in healthy eating--eat the right food. If you chose your food right, you won't have to fuss over eating a little more than what is necessary. For starters, choosing fruits and vegetables is a good way to go. You won't have to think about creating a gourmet fruit or vegetable salad which you may only end up not consuming (wasting the precious vitamins in them), especially if you're only preparing for yourself. Choose your favorite and what is available at hand.

a healthy and heavy, heavy snack.. no more dinner for me :)

opening new doors

After over 15 years of defying the rules on eating the right food, doing the right exercises, and inviting 'unhealthy' habits like cigarette smoking and drinking, my life just seem to find its way back to how it was before—healthy.

I'm getting my way around to doing it since all the paths in my life leads to the one end point (perhaps back to how it all began). Having been raised by parents who are both in the medical field, you pretty much get the idea of the life I was exposed to—balanced meals, enough time for rest, play, ballet, and school, and ample time for spiritual matters.

Not that I'm complaining. My college course is in the medical field, and at the rate I'm putting on pounds (135 lbs at 150cm height- no big secret), starting a healthy life will probably be the best decision I could be making.

Through this blog, I'm documenting my progress towards finding a personal weight loss program, living a healthy life, without regrets or resentment, and achieving happiness and peace. My blogs will contain all the things I learn along the way as I achieve these goals, with notes on food, exercise, and definitely moral and spiritual upliftment and everything else related.

Who knows, in the long run, if I'm successful, I could influence people to take on the same road.

On my next post, my current health status, one healthy habit I'll willingly impose upon myself, or a photo of me. You'll know which of these three options will be favored in a few days.