Shredded beef with sayote

Since i just need to eat something healthy and dont know how to cook. I just toss beef and sayote. Cut the beef to thin slices, then saute it to onions. Wait until its tender. Add some seasoning and patis. Then add the diced sayote. I hope its good. In fairness, it looks edible.

Pastillas at Pulvoron ni Ate

I'm really a sucker for sweets, so despite Ate Rose (she brought food to our office for a considerable charge) expensive dessert I still bought some. 5pcs/P10 for Pastillas and 3pcs/P10 for the Pulvoron. Goodluck again to my diet! Will just fast tomorrow :)

In between Fast

I ate at Inengs after a 24hour fast, then off to gym. Since according to the Eat-Stop-Eat book, we could go on for 3days fast without slowing down the metabolism. And so, I'm trying to fast again for another 24hours. I'll be eating tomorrow at 4PM. Hopefully, I'll lose more pounds. I had Saging and Sago Con Yelo + Pork Barbeque with Ensaladang Talong. So yummy!

My appetizer and dessert (Saging and Sago Con Yelo)

Pork Barbeque with Ensaladang Talong

First try: Eat-Stop-Eat by Brian Pilon

I’m trying to do the Eat-Stop-Eat of Brian Pilon. I read the book (pdf format) and basically it was telling us that to lose weight we need to restrict ourselves with the calorie intake. I think the 6 small meals are really effective, if you get to plan and prepare your food. But for normal employees who ate usually at fast foods that will be a tough job to do. I tried the 6 meals but I was not able to lose weight instead I gain 5-10 lbs. L It’s because it’s really not small meals, though healthy sandwiches they are still calories. The Eat-Stop-Eat is an intermittent fasting of 24 hours. It can be done once a week or twice a week. Then all the stored calories will be used during the fasting hours. Our body won’t slow down the metabolic rate as per his research since our bodies can go on for 3days without any food. 

I originally plan to do this yesterday after lunch. But my colleagues invited me to eat Isaw at UP :( and so I gave in. I ate 11 sticks of Isaw and 1 big cone of Ice Cream (avocado, Mango, Cheese). I so I just started right after that (6pm).

And now I’m having another temptation, a colleague offered a brownie, I got two and decided to hide it first and will eat it later.  ^-^

 Patience is virtue ^-^

Shrimp Cheongfan

I'm craving for something salty and spicy so I went to Le Ching to buy a dimsum. But the usual dimsum is quite expensive with very little serving. So I just ordered a different dimsum and it's the Shrimp Cheongfan. It's like a HAKAW but it's not enclosed. It costs only P88 while hakaw has the same value.

Cranberry Juice for UTI -- Effective or Not?

I got a Urinary Tract Infection last week. I was given Ofloxacin (Inoflox) 400mg this cost around P107 each. I need to take 2 tablets per day. I just finished taking the medicines that was prescribed. However, it feels like the UTI will reoccur. Upon research cranberry juice is good for preventing UTI. However, I got this contradicting findings:

Cranberry juice fights UTI

The researchers discovered that in petri dishes, cranberry metabolites in the juice prevented E. coli from sticking to other bacteria, limiting its ability to grow and multiply. If E. coli is able to connect with other bacteria, such as the bacteria found in the urinary tract, it forms a layer or "biofilm." This allows the bacteria to multiply and produce an infection. 

Science-Based Medicine: Cranberry Juice

In the end, I would conclude that cranberry juice probably does not prevent UTI, and any effects are likely of little clinical value, given the relative rarity of organisms for which it could be effective. It would require a much larger study to prove or disprove efficacy, and not having proper microbiology renders all the studies to date probably worthless for coming up with worthwhile conclusions.

Other reference:

Cranberry juice fails to prevent recurrent urinary tract infection: results from a randomized placebo-controlled trial.

So is Cranberry juice effective for UTI or not? I wanted to buy Cranberry Juice pa naman, but I guess I will just stick to water. Lots and lots and lots of water. No alcoholic drinks, juices, fruit juices, soda, dairy drinks, yoghurt, etc. But I hope tea is okay. ^-^

Diet wrecker

If I will based the blog's URL, this blog should be more about a nutritional food blog. However, I was not able to update it with the nutrition facts and why it's really a diet wrecker. Anyways, I love food and it's really wrecking my diet.

Just like today, I plan to just eat minimal amount of food. I have a cucumber readied in case I got hungry. I ate just 1 cheese cup cake and 1 piso-pack of happy peanuts. But but but but.... my colleague offered a chicharon. And it totally ruined my supposed to be diet. Anyways, I only get 1piece which I think is roughly 200calories. :( And so, here I am drinking tea. ^-^

1 cheese cup cake is 110 calories, the piso pack Happy peanuts is 45 calories. Cucumber 45 calories, and the chicharon.

 As for my calorie requirement....   Goodluck!

Contis

I went to Contis Trinoma to buy Mini Mango Bravo cake (P550) for Achi's bday.

I also ate there for my super late brunch.

I ordered Mango Salad Royale - P90 (solo)


Roast Beef Log (P150) & garlic rice (P25)


Here's whats left of my plate,
I should have ordered mango crepes since I just ate the mango.



Food is great at a reasonable price with no service charge.