My Paleo Diet

I've embarked on this getting healthy journey a few times, and every time I seemed to fail and return to unhealthy practices, much like my previous smoke quitting attempts.

After I finally was able to quit smoking, which turned out to be incredibly easy with the help of Allen Carr's book "The easy way to quit smoking", I realised I can so a lot of thing I previously though I wouldn't be able to do. Loosing weight, eating healthy and becoming fit were a few of those things.

Since I decided to spend more money on buying healthier and better quality food, I've enjoyed very tasty food that was easy to make and easy to clean up after cooking.

In the mornings I have a shake made up of two powders. One is a multivitamin with added probiotics, spirulina, and other good for you things. The second powder is a protein powder to give me the required 30grams of protein for the morning meal.

These are the two powders:

I bought them from iherb.com and they were delivered to my house, right up to my door within 1 week. Not expensive to buy, not expensive to ship. Great products.

Then, for lunch and dinner I usually have a piece of meat, either beef, chicken or fish, some sauteed vegetables and a salad. I haven't been getting enough protein during these two meals, and I've decided to add 1 or 2 eggs to each of these meals as well.

Now, like many other people I'm sure, I like to buy fresh vegetables in the hope that I'll use them in my every day cooking. But, again, like many people, I get lazy sometimes, or I don't have the time, and some veggies stay in the fridge far longer than they should, and subsequently go bad. Yes, I'm sure we've all done that. Well, with the help of the fabulous online shopping available throughout Korea, I've found a couple of online markets that cater to foreigners, and who sell frozen vegetables and frozen meat.

One wonderful site is www.fatbag.co.kr (very ironically titled), and the other is www.nicemarket.net.

From fatbag I order my veg, and from nicemarket I order my meat. 

Here's a regular breakdown of the things I buy, and their prices. I the end, I think they are cheaper than their fresh from the butcher or the local shop alternatives, and a hundred times more convenient and easy to keep and easy to use in my daily cooking. 

And then, besides the frozen things that are very easy to defrost either overnight, or just in the morning and have ready for lunch, I buy the salad ingredients from the local market. It doesn't cost a lot per week. I buy onions, garlic, salad and carrots. 

This last one is a lot bigger than I would have made it voluntarily, but I was told that I'm not getting enough protein, and that the Paleo diet requires a lot more meat than you'd regularly eat. So, instead of eating two steaks, which would be just too much, I added some eggs. LOVED IT.

I've been really enjoying this food, and it takes me 15 minutes to cook each meal, including the prep time. So, when I come home for lunch, and only have 1 hour, I've got plenty of time to cook, eat and relax a little.

This is only the end of the first week, so it's still new and exciting, but next month I'll be getting one of the Paloe cook books and I'll see what other combinations are possible with my available ingredients.

Another difficult decision

Should I stay or should I go?

There are so many positives, and negatives for both those options.

I have about 3 or 4 more months before I have to make the final decision.

But, whatever I choose, I know I'll make it work.

New Picture

So, I'm back in Korea, and back at school. Classes haven't started, but I still have to be here. No word from my co-teacher, so I'm assuming it's still all the same.

Here's my new favorite profile picture. The light was just right. This was in Thailand, in Bangkok, the last evening before going back to Korea.

I'm making a list of things I need to do, and am planing to actually use my time productively. I've got so much free time, I really need to put it all to good use.

Thailand - Jan 2012

After an incredibly stressful trip in Vietnam, I finally arrived in the land of my dreams, Thailand.

I met up with my sis and her boyfriend Mihai, and together we went on a mad journey through the awesomeness that is Thailand.

I deleted my previous picture because it showed my face when I was till fat. None of that now!! 

We are on the small plane going to Surat Thani. Usually, I take the bus package that takes me all the way to the island, but because of time limitation, we chose to fly there.

My sis and her hat.

We arrived at Surat Thani. YAAY!!

From the airport to the pier we had to go up these roller-coaster-like roads. A few years back, these were just muddy jungle roads. Now they are paved but still going up and down like crazy.

I wouldn't like to run/cycle/walk these roads.

At the pier, waiting for our boat to take us to the island of awesomeness. Koh Phangan.

Once on the island, we took a little boat with a car engine strapped to the back to take us to our bay, Haad Tien.

We're here!!

The beach, and the boats dropping people off.

This is our bungalow. Aircon, hot shower, TV, sofa! Very classy!

Our patio. 

The inside.

I was exhausted!! 

We went for a walk around the area. 

Eden, oh... the memories :)

This was an awesome restaurant up there on the cliff. Amazing food!!

    

 

We ate here very often. 

Still tired.

Awww, that's so pretty!!

The stairs leading up to Horizon Muai Thai Boxing Camp where I was a few years ago.

  

That was my view for 1 month before.

And there's a new puppy there. I'm not surprised with how much attention that pretty dog got.

The end of the walking area, where there's another little resort that doesn't like fasters because they can't appreciate their delicious food.

That looks so good!

Beach puppies taking up the chairs.

Black and white playing together.

Spirit shrines. 

After a couple of days of relaxing, we went on 2 day trips. It was kinda difficult leaving our area, just because there weren't any boats there in the morning. 

I don't remember which trip was which or in which order we saw the places, but well, these first pictures are about the lagoon we visited.

Insanely steep stairs.

But the view was definitely worth it. We couldn't swim in it because it was a protected park.

We also visited a Chinese style palace. It was beautiful. 

This is how pineapples grow.

We also went snorkeling a lot, but the camera with the pictures was lost :(

In the afternoon we went to this beautiful beach. 

On the last day, we left the Sanctuary, and came to main beach, the Full Moon party beach called Haad Rin. We stayed there at a hotel because we had to catch a ride in the morning to catch the plane and get back to Bangkok.

They had Papaya trees on their property. I love Papayas, these fruits were huge!!

Back in Bangkok, we had one day and night of debauchery before we had to go our separate ways.

It was a strange time.