Beach Trippin'

Finally back where we belong! After the longest time we were able to go back to San Juan Batangas. That's Marta, John, Me, Joanne, Frances, and Sarte in the peechur. We were just 6 but nevertheless the whole trip was awesome and worth-while. It would have been fun if more people from our barkada came plus Joson the flaker. Haha joke lang twix! Anyway, I'm making a separate entry for the last weekend's beach trip since i have to share a major story. Overall the beach trip was really so much fun and tiring at the same time but of course! BEACH over FATIGUE any given day! Summary of the trip:

1. John gets skips our lipa exit and gets lost the second time.
2. John was very happy with the trip.... bakit kaya??? (Peace bro ;p)
3. King's Cup??? Shaggedy, HIP BANG, Simon Sez, Bottle
   
4. Beach ba KAMO? Beach nga KAKO! KANYA nga beach eh!! (Inside joke)
5. Sarte's skull and mine got crushed because of soldier boy. (X_X)
6. Frances super sleepy head and Marta hurting head.
   
7. GREAT beach day - weather and water.
   

I'm stopping there since it's gonna take forever. Let me just mention the most unforgettable experience during the trip. My friend RJ SARTE lost his slippers while throwing the frizbee forward and trying to catch again. I mean who the heck loses his slipper in the sand while having em on?!!?! And who plays frizbee alone anyway???!!! He was doing it for 10 seconds then he realizes nawawala na isang slipper niya. He looked for it the whole afternoon and never found it. The only thing he found was the quick way to get sunburn. After realizing that his slipper probably dug a whole and escaped his hobbit feet, nowhere to be seen forever, SARTE decides to sit under the shade of a tree and decides to rub sand all over his body.... thats just weird.. but laugh trip nonetheless. Sarte, that goes to my record book! CHEERS! (Retard...)

With regards to THIN ROUTINE.... WTF is "Thin Routine"???? It was totally abolished that weekend. Liempo and rice galore!!! then chichirya and our own version of sober club after!! Partaay! Speaking of food, it's still abolished up to now and i know i'm gona hate myself for taking a long bad break from it come wager time. Owell moving on... Today was a TOTAL DISASTER for my deit shmiet stint. I stayed in Heritage Hotel the whole day and it was buffet galore... i don't think i want to describe what happens next. Tomorrow is our last of training there and i'm probably going to inlfate myself again with cholesterol and calories.... sucks for me......... but after seeing the beach pics and I'm proud to say i finally see my jaw back and according to Therese some cuts (Yeah yeah she was sarcastic.... so what she still said it!), I feel like i really do have a chance to go back in time. Maybe.... After all it's doesn't look so far away from before..... :-)

Conclusion - ROUND 2 here we come!!!!! By then, I'd be fit as hell. (-_-) Zzzzzz

My stick figure friend...

Confidence... heh... more like a bluff. After all my trash talking last time, i am very humbled to say it was all but a pile of crap. Tuesday went well but a.k.a superwoman treated me Burger King, double cheeseburger with go large REGULAR drink and fries. What a friend! Yesterday was also relatively ok. Hit the gym, and drank a large ZAGU. Demmit. I just had lunch today and I had a rib-eye steak and a vanilla almond Haegen Daz ice cream bar for dessert. (WOW rich... that's coz my dad paid for it). No matter how hard I try, and i believe i can stop eating, certain EVENTS just make me eat. When people treat me, i don't want to be rude so i HAVE to eat. So to everyone out there PLEASE treat me all you want after Dec 19. Heck i'll even treat you!

On a positive note though, it's been around 2 and a half weeks since i started THIN ROUTINE - i haven't been that strict with myself (not at all actually) but after i weighed in yesterday...

----DRUM ROLL PLEASE----

I have lost 3 pounds and I am officially 162lbs as of now. Woohoo! Probably behind schedule but 3 pounds for me is like 1 MELYON! this calls for a celebration!!!! PIZZA NIGHT!!!

So that's what's up with me. I'm feeling a little great about losing 3lbs, feel bad for having a few pitstops with my diet but hey, all's well my friends. I am STILL very confident i'll make 15lbs by Dec 19.

Now this part is for MJ LIMIN. For those who don't know him, he's my kabarkada who headed to Canada because of his surpassing intelliegence with IT related materials... lets leave it at that. Now we have oppositve problems. He can't seem to gain weight. My dear brother, I will switch bodies with you anytime.... Ok I'm just joking you scrawny bastard. MJ = stick figure. He asked me how the EFF do I motivate myself and requested if i could motivate him with my words. So here goes my friend listen up and listen well. You'll be back here by April, that's about 7 months away. In 7 months i believe you can EASILY gain around 10 to 15lbs? Hell I'm losing 15 by Dec so i'm giving you an easier time. I don't think simple words can motivate you to lose weight so here comes the pain.

IF YOU DON'T GET TO GAIN WEIGHT BY APRIL... YOU WILL...

1. Give the barkada a ps3.
   
2. Treat us 5 lunch meals and 5 dinners of our choice.
3. Get beaten up.
4. LAStly, I will upload all the videos I made for you here, in multiply, facebook, and youtube for everyone to see. (X_X)
   

So to you my friend! GODSPEED.. You can negotiate the terms if you want. NOT!!!!!

SHUR WIN!

Today I woke up feeling a lot better thanks to extra strong strepsils. It's good that i feel 80% better because this week is going to be hell. Not because of work or something. I'm just really motivated to lose just a little weight for saturday's beach trip (FINALLY!). Anyway today has been perfect so far! Had oatmeal for breakfast, chicken breast salad for lunch, banana cupcake made with splenda for dessert and lots of water, and jogging/pushups/situps later when I get home. Weird, can't believe I'm motivated... Not that I'm complaining. I had the easiest time today refusing to order a FREE triple cheeseburger. Yes I was tempted but it's not like I was drooling or anything. Looking at that picture... maybe a little... (this sucks)

For those who bet against me, don't worry so much. Today's sudden spike of motivation is my little cover up for the weekend. Since i was recuperating (love that word) from my illness which limited me from jogging the whole week, I HAD to answer to my tantalizing (nice word too) cravings last weekend. It's a psychological medicine so sush. My weekend could be best explained by the following: Uncle Moe's Shawarma - damn fine way to have bad breath. Inihaw na liempo - SOLIDO. Doube smores cookie creamwhich - heaven. I'll show the pictures so you can feel what I felt. (^_^)

Man oh man I do not regret any moment of it! I may have gained a few more pounds and screwed myself all over again but HEY! How can you say no to that!!! MAIN POINT IS, I am very much focused today and tomorrow and probably until the bet ends so for those who doubted, too bad so sad!!! Don't worry guys, when I get the wagers by Dec. 19, we can all have dinner somewhere, my treat. NOT! Bwahahahahaha... You guys say goodbye to your money as early as now. Or better yet, give up and pay me half. Bwahahahahha...

TODAY (Sorry for the lack of creativity)

So sorry for the delay! The host has been under maintenance for the longest time! ( ok I'm lying... forgive me host) Truth is i just got lost in words. Sometimes you're brain just stops working and all the creative juice dries up. Right now I'm making this entry coz as usual I'm bored and secondly I'm hoping this acts like a sparkplug to my brain...

*SPrrrr
*SPArrrrrrrr
*SPAAAARKKKK!!!!!!

There you go! I feel a part of it coming back (^_^). So let me start by saying I got sick. I had a very tiring weekend but it sure heck was fun and worth every little second of it! I speak for John and Sarte too. **Wink wink** On the downside though, i did push myself to the limit and ended up getting sick. Tried to go to work last Wed but my body just wasn't cooperating. I ended up calling in sick yesterday too (and NO it's not to watch ADMU-DLSU finals: well maybe it was 20% of the reason. OK 50%) But SERIOUSLY I was sick. 'Nuff said.

Instead of being weak from being sick, and having my illness as an advantage for my financially "deadly" wagers, I FEEL like it was more of a disadvantage. It's like a step down from my goals. Since i had toncilitis, i wasn't able to eat that much for the past two days but TODAY, my oh my it's a different story. There's something about today that just made me snap. Today i lost the battle again. I'll use bullet points to describe my failure:

• Office mates asking if I'm ok na and saying "Pumayat ka na" (temporary happiness)
• lunch time, my lunch group wanted to eat liempo again... I COULD'NT HELP IT!!!!!
• merienda, (i just had it now btw), i ate balut and penoy. Balut as ugly duckling as it looks tastes soo good. On the other hand WTF is penoy????
• 9pm shawarma rice, chicken kebab, ox brain, keema, and "All-my-tea" dinner plan

I'm still drooling for shawarma rice... shawarma rice with lots of veggies and sauce... I CAN'T WAIT! I'll take a pic of it later and repost it here.

DEMMIT! I honestly feel like i've already lost a few pounds but it's making me lose my focus. I got a month and a half to go and it's too early for me to celebrate. I may be on track but i am very much on that thin line between chubby and "just right". I gota to be stronger. I have to hold on. Have to hide my money somewhere so i stop buying food. I just have to....

Next weekend I plan to head to the beach with some friendly friends... figured to make it a short term goal. A "for-the-meantime" motivation. I'll worry again after that. I don't want to be a fat-ass dugong bouncing off the shore.

The Break Up

Crispy pata, Lapid's chicharon, Liempo, Triple Decker Cheeseburger, Shawarma rice, Coke light... just like Adrianne, Stigmatized and Wherever you will go... What's the resemblance? They're all CALLING!!! Get it? The Calling? .... (X_X)

Pardon the corniness but the "Thin Routine" is really hurting me bad. For the past 4 days i have been very "disciplined" with eating and running and honest to goodness my friends, i think I'm actually doing it. (sucks for those who bet) There have been nothing but oatmeal, water, brown organic rice, tofu, banana, and around 31/2 hours of jogging so far. Well i did have one bottle of beer yesterday coz i can't refuse my boss but other than that, i had NOTHING. I swear this thing's killing me... makes me wonder if all the wagers i made can compensate the sacrifice i'm doing...

Last night while eating, or may i say "drinking" soup, my oh soo nice sister bought a plastic of chicharon and left it on the table. Contrary to what you think, i did hold it and stare at it but I didn't give in. This was the scenario:

Lapid's Chicharon: Hey baby, come! come!, lets do it!
Burns: Umm... errr...
Lapid's Chicharon: C'mon now... you know you want me...
Burns: Umm... err... I'm sorry. It's just not gona work out....
Lapid's Chicharon: But why? I though i was your favorite??? :'C
Burns: It's not you... It's me...
Lapid's Chicharon: At least take one?
Burns: WIND WALK!
Lapid's Chicharon: WOAH! OMGZOR Where where where??

-------END-------

I copied the "It's not you" line from my friend John Policarpio by the way. Moving on from my schitzo moment, another temptation came my way. In the freezer, there's a super loaded rocky road and god darnnit! I love ice cream. That one hurt me bad. The freezer was like a trap, where a kung fu midget will suddenly pop out and kick me in the balls. I still can't get over it.... Hope that ice cream burns in hell...

Oh man... Breaking up with FOOD, REAL scrumptuous and hefty food that is, is REALLY hard. It drains the living life out of me and eats me inside... I'm looking forward to running again though...

*Btw my I started out 165lbs.

SHOW ME THE $$$

BET: From 165lbs (based on medical so I'm not cheating), i have to lose 15lbs
by Dec 19, 2008.

John Policarpio - 2k
Silver Surfer - P500
Bayunca - 1k
Emgay - $50
Mom - P500
Pia - undisclosed
Dunkin Donut - P50
John Harold Chua - P500
TOTAL ---------> P4600

"Motiva... tio... tio... FOOD!"

Last weekend, I worked out like hell. I was sweating all over the place, losing weight and burning calories. I played badminton, basketball, went jogging for 2 solid hours and *****SNAP*****
Yeah yeah it was all a dream... more like a fantasy... My weekend can be best described with 1 word, SCRUMPTUOUSLYHEFTY. That self-made word speaks for itself. Days go by after i gave myself a problem - "Thin Routine". Instead of becoming something that could inspire me to go and move my sleazy butt, i ended up casting a curse upon myself, a burden. Now i feel bad every time i eat. BUT it's not stopping me from eating. See what boredom does? It makes you crazy and you end up screwing yourself. I screwed me big time.

So i ask myself, what happend to optimism? I just can't seem to get motivated enough to freaking follow my own checklist and there are a lot of factors stopping me from being active - bad weather stops me from jogging, traffic drains the living life out of me, etc etc. WHAT TO DO??

Maybe i can...
1. throw up every time after eating? (too desperate)
2. keep a video copy of two girls one cup on my phone and watch it to lose appetite? (too much..)
3. place a pic of mark nelson's abs on my cubicle? (too gay...)
4. get money for sacrficing food... PURFECT!!!!!

That's it! As much as i would regret it in the long term I would look for someone who wants to make a bet. Honesty system works? I guess for this bet, actions will speak louder than words. I am currently at the 165lbs range and assumingly someone takes my bet, losing weight says it all. Today is September 16, given 3 months before christmas comes, (gawd all the yummiest food in the world...) I should be able to lose around what? 10 pounds maybe? Hopefully...

Before I get myself into more trouble, i should probably shut up now eh? Boredom bites back hard. But since I already said it, and my word is as strong as a Wooly Mammoth, I WILL look for someone to bet with. Any takers?

Thin Routine update: from a +20 something % last week, I'm guessing I'm -15% right now. (X_X)