tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87099168115900673952024-03-19T04:12:12.797+00:00Creativity and inspiration is all around us~A lifestyle blog filled with photos, stories, food and other artsy bits! Lina Beeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02590376992066346069noreply@blogger.comBlogger93125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8709916811590067395.post-27179981959493410192024-01-14T18:42:00.001+00:002024-01-14T18:42:21.039+00:00Life & Weight Loss (December 20th - 26th)<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Coming Soon;">Christmas is finally here and I can't wait for it to be over lol.</span></h3></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Call me a grinch all you want but I do not like Christmas. There are some nice aspects about it but in general it completely sucks. Having worked in hospitality and customer service for 10+ years really leaves a mark on you because over this decade I noticed that the Christmas craziness starts earlier and earlier. I'm talking to the point that we're setting up table talkers and a designated Christmas table with flyers and stuff in JULY. No, just no. Of course it's nice to see beautiful lights and nicely decorated town centres but this year (2023) has been different. I don't know whether it's just my area but everywhere I went within Worcestershire, UK, the decorations have been pathetic. That's literally one of the only few things I enjoy during Christmas and it's been extremely disappointing. Couple weeks before Christmas I wanted to go to a Christmas market because I love me some good German sausage (lol) but I was shocked to find that even bigger towns around us (as in, 30-40 minute drive radius), had Christmas markets that only last 2-3 days over specific periods and some even finished in November! What happened to Christmas markets beaming during 2-3 weeks leading to Christmas? What a disappointment... And since we were working on Christmas Day this year, we decided to cancel Christmas altogether lol.</span></p><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Coming Soon;">Week 7 weight loss progress</span></h3><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Coming Soon;"><b>Day 1</b></span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Coming Soon;">+ 0.4 kg / + 0.4 kg weekly weight gain / -1.4 kg total weight loss</span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9J8Ufx-EMZlb9t9PR5mFrohOUIf1NUQhVD7ogGrm4_bPgqVFSzFd0jjVajZXmxPRdZ3dzKi6jXxdd24QkfLtK67dw-YPqiN6hmGISRW13dwOy-24LhdmpxIYbTXXEQDAA0dmzl-JxHPuvTTKxppnY8_M-nBf_oD3-z54RM9dixDa6xcludZc3P0atPcfl/s750/IMG_5482.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="543" data-original-width="750" height="464" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9J8Ufx-EMZlb9t9PR5mFrohOUIf1NUQhVD7ogGrm4_bPgqVFSzFd0jjVajZXmxPRdZ3dzKi6jXxdd24QkfLtK67dw-YPqiN6hmGISRW13dwOy-24LhdmpxIYbTXXEQDAA0dmzl-JxHPuvTTKxppnY8_M-nBf_oD3-z54RM9dixDa6xcludZc3P0atPcfl/w640-h464/IMG_5482.PNG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">My viral TikTok video is getting even more popular</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">I genuinely thought that 700K or something will be the end but it clearly hasn't as I kept waking up to crazy numbers lol. <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@rinatsuchan/video/7311455847555665185?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7304342011351434785" target="_blank">My TikTok video was still blowing up.</a> </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlBDch1Wbe2PmY5lB64bWR8eNNuGLNGHwBf_ZevSirrh-Aeuj1jMX2DMy6rtOIJhELwcLCyvqWBz6dElF2HshPwxt9uWWn4BMcw6lKY0674xnJS_CY3IovSaKa2e7LGTHG8g6IRvy1uKPOEmYMA3CxVSxVWm-QwX9u6OS8lK5sVBa5_mRlvrwAa6FFqsz2/s1284/IMG_5479.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="246" data-original-width="1284" height="122" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlBDch1Wbe2PmY5lB64bWR8eNNuGLNGHwBf_ZevSirrh-Aeuj1jMX2DMy6rtOIJhELwcLCyvqWBz6dElF2HshPwxt9uWWn4BMcw6lKY0674xnJS_CY3IovSaKa2e7LGTHG8g6IRvy1uKPOEmYMA3CxVSxVWm-QwX9u6OS8lK5sVBa5_mRlvrwAa6FFqsz2/w640-h122/IMG_5479.PNG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Loid Forger like my TikTok video 😂</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Also I was happy to see that Loid Forger has liked my video. If you can't understand the reference then I can't help you. 🤣</span><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span></p><div><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Coming Soon;"><b>Day 2</b></span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Coming Soon;">+ 0.2 kg / + 0.6 kg weekly weight gain / - 1.2 kg total weight loss</span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJxyPe-Y8uYnmS8IKAjWUzSnSs7IZlapmadZvHcvOamcYI3UVrYznAfTetpWvGWNy5eg5cxOVHq6aWCtHvx93Axb9CCcRqKIfzvA-knLL6EFGgGpRoSuJy-NXMdfd4lLbEtSgVjbjqi5rw_4sLHDWWhlTkzkZ1VExHPitBlIyzfKjhVEYseOmIaXeqAYUX/s618/IMG_5501.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="618" data-original-width="453" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJxyPe-Y8uYnmS8IKAjWUzSnSs7IZlapmadZvHcvOamcYI3UVrYznAfTetpWvGWNy5eg5cxOVHq6aWCtHvx93Axb9CCcRqKIfzvA-knLL6EFGgGpRoSuJy-NXMdfd4lLbEtSgVjbjqi5rw_4sLHDWWhlTkzkZ1VExHPitBlIyzfKjhVEYseOmIaXeqAYUX/w470-h640/IMG_5501.PNG" width="470" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">My viral TikTok video hits 1 million views</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">My viral TikTok video has hit 1 million views at this point but it was expected by the way it was going. My TikTok was blowing up every time I opened the app lol. It's good that I have my notifications disabled on all social media platforms, at least my phone wasn't going insane haha.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg-7KXkiTpW2ENo3oXtyWFvsju1GooGymnBbnmRDbrSeizDnFSMoL5gd8y1COXM-VRt-lmIHphlRgmZrMekUV7PL5ySAVwvKa3UTzoKA0pYNDlPGP-U-Hgl_oMhw-2TEnpQ4oCypN1OgTZGY-ic1Xu_mDfGFJ1wDPjEpQ0OrVCRjoOtQjdNtBfbb_CJx9K/s2180/IMG_5507.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2180" data-original-width="1089" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg-7KXkiTpW2ENo3oXtyWFvsju1GooGymnBbnmRDbrSeizDnFSMoL5gd8y1COXM-VRt-lmIHphlRgmZrMekUV7PL5ySAVwvKa3UTzoKA0pYNDlPGP-U-Hgl_oMhw-2TEnpQ4oCypN1OgTZGY-ic1Xu_mDfGFJ1wDPjEpQ0OrVCRjoOtQjdNtBfbb_CJx9K/w320-h640/IMG_5507.PNG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">30 day weight chart</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Weight wise I really wasn't happy what was going on. Even Happy Scale can't even hide the fact that the weight is going up and the green weight loss markings were slimming down. I haven't been the best at eating healthy but also I haven't been drinking much water so I'm trying my best to fix that. </span><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span></p><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Coming Soon;"><b>Day 3 </b></span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Coming Soon;">+ 0.1 kg / + 0.7 kg weekly weight gain / - 1.1 kg total weight loss</span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9GFo-zjulj51KOInVhKAJBxgrmgP2_tzqllcAWoOZ703m8J-L5Zy6zSGgM_f0Ps4g1l_mqo5vL-mbk5P9AE10zQzJjySnd0h3Gl0NIcfj7BBR6yTKe-X_vyfk1gEJeSyTbMx8RgQcQQn5n7m2Kcu7VOfqisgPzw82f4c0qymJyD5kSDhm5_8xZfI6uwYF/s4032/IMG_5522.HEIC" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9GFo-zjulj51KOInVhKAJBxgrmgP2_tzqllcAWoOZ703m8J-L5Zy6zSGgM_f0Ps4g1l_mqo5vL-mbk5P9AE10zQzJjySnd0h3Gl0NIcfj7BBR6yTKe-X_vyfk1gEJeSyTbMx8RgQcQQn5n7m2Kcu7VOfqisgPzw82f4c0qymJyD5kSDhm5_8xZfI6uwYF/w480-h640/IMG_5522.HEIC" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Lemon Posset for a private event</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: Roboto;">I didn't think I would but I actually have been enjoying working with my husband doing private chef events. Most of the main prep is done at home so I barely need to leave the house (apart from shopping for inventory) and I love being at home lol. I also get to have a go at making new things that I haven't made before. One of them being lemon posset dessert. It's basically lemon cream. I can't believe how incredibly easy it was to make it. I haven't made enough the first time as the event was for 11 people but I only managed to squeeze out 8. So I made another batches and you can see that even my pour improved the second time. In the photo above two columns on the right is the first batch and two columns on the left is the second batch. Improvement within 30 minutes or so lol.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@rinatsuchan/video/7316987234865925409?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7304342011351434785" target="_blank">I even made a TikTok video about making lemon posset.</a></span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzGmXd9vFZlLMk4iaZ4oM4mBWd0-xjMzs1m2y4msuUqb_UHCp07r27c12u3VItkb5grwESN0ik6CoGsNZVX6lGY1LTfRxghvaTcjeocd8rdMB25LPclchdxorUvvV18vGMdvWymTI-LSPwfmMjZN-zszZvM-17-XrsFflqw9kS8OweqE3rlOOGa-57r378/s4032/IMG_5525.HEIC" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzGmXd9vFZlLMk4iaZ4oM4mBWd0-xjMzs1m2y4msuUqb_UHCp07r27c12u3VItkb5grwESN0ik6CoGsNZVX6lGY1LTfRxghvaTcjeocd8rdMB25LPclchdxorUvvV18vGMdvWymTI-LSPwfmMjZN-zszZvM-17-XrsFflqw9kS8OweqE3rlOOGa-57r378/w480-h640/IMG_5525.HEIC" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Growing pea shoots for garnish</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Coming Soon;"><b>Day 4 </b></span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Coming Soon;">- 0.5 kg / + 0.2 kg weekly weight gain / - 1.6 kg total weight loss</span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4f8xiN0yL6Eml5sSTMmwdz6o3wDhGU2fEMMrYp479n3AS2tcT_M-xzYH-gJUgAjeESCM3miut5IgtzBQ2Piw5ny8TPBIsY44cy-dguxw5nWV-H9hYJ3lboNgOhrbWz-FSAJSGTRM-vJDE5CXxmrPAcMiilI7fhSoKFk3Ic3wzvgd-MSUAbDTf-G3EoWXV/s4032/IMG_5550.HEIC" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4f8xiN0yL6Eml5sSTMmwdz6o3wDhGU2fEMMrYp479n3AS2tcT_M-xzYH-gJUgAjeESCM3miut5IgtzBQ2Piw5ny8TPBIsY44cy-dguxw5nWV-H9hYJ3lboNgOhrbWz-FSAJSGTRM-vJDE5CXxmrPAcMiilI7fhSoKFk3Ic3wzvgd-MSUAbDTf-G3EoWXV/w480-h640/IMG_5550.HEIC" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Poke bowl lunch in between prep work</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">One of the few positive things about Christmas is that raw salmon gets a very reduced price at Morrisons. And salmon is one of my favourite fish due to incredible taste. I just can't get enough of it. Having lovely raw fish means time for poké bowl! Poké bowl is a Hawaiian rice bowl dish with raw marinated salmon. I think my favourite combination is salmon, kimchi and spring onions. I could eat that every day.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Not gonna lie, looking back, that bowl had a lot on it, probably not the best for my weight loss and I didn't weigh anything at all...</span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVqgMbum1RQSFbl2jFxsDnDPpz1uK1ViZBxJ1n18xnbqb1VpEXnYswKGn4jP6fcn3ckzNKw96rFURQM5btl7gpx1YPhQ_K5OLskEDBhL9uIM5_avsGGaslwRy5QpHJ50rypBAlL_YqG_wUNuOoWG2FTWe3_kY_Fy1A1qUMH6rbFI023YxZFJ5qXH9pVCQT/s4032/IMG_5563.HEIC" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVqgMbum1RQSFbl2jFxsDnDPpz1uK1ViZBxJ1n18xnbqb1VpEXnYswKGn4jP6fcn3ckzNKw96rFURQM5btl7gpx1YPhQ_K5OLskEDBhL9uIM5_avsGGaslwRy5QpHJ50rypBAlL_YqG_wUNuOoWG2FTWe3_kY_Fy1A1qUMH6rbFI023YxZFJ5qXH9pVCQT/w480-h640/IMG_5563.HEIC" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Making caramel hazelnuts</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Another new thing that I've made was caramel hazelnuts. I was proper freaking out because I've never made caramel before and I've read some horror stories of people messing up caramel but it was actually pretty easy and I made it perfectly first time! There was only one problem... It was meant to harden but for whatever reason once it sort of hardened it started melting again. It didn't make sense because it was stored pretty cold. Our conservatory is just slightly warmer than outside. We stored half of them in the conservatory and half of them in the fridge. But the result was the same no matter the location. In the end I had to make fresh caramel hazelnuts on site which is not the best as clean up is a right pain. But at least it was solid when it arrived at the client's table. I never learnt what the reason behind this melting episode was lol. Anyway, <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@rinatsuchan/video/7318455575497624864?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7304342011351434785" target="_blank">I did make a TikTok video about my caramel hazelnuts</a>. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Coming Soon;"><b>Day 5 </b></span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Coming Soon;">+ 1.3 kg / + 1.5 kg weekly weight gain / - 0.3 kg total weight loss</span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHz4H0TFMf3DiPACdu7nSH69J_bENpvt_2T_7OGfHLOfRRMEI16MnWuno0ycEE2aaM9q_jXfBOEWnjHyrOtYP0UnJy3HPIxE96nF17FEqo4Px7h39ZvKl5A_ZHCcOvYZmhhnrBRW5cOlybV8-IW8G7FJVbTak5Ish-buswKRuo0GWbvc1gBIJAf6MLoUaN/s4032/IMG_5571.HEIC" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHz4H0TFMf3DiPACdu7nSH69J_bENpvt_2T_7OGfHLOfRRMEI16MnWuno0ycEE2aaM9q_jXfBOEWnjHyrOtYP0UnJy3HPIxE96nF17FEqo4Px7h39ZvKl5A_ZHCcOvYZmhhnrBRW5cOlybV8-IW8G7FJVbTak5Ish-buswKRuo0GWbvc1gBIJAf6MLoUaN/w480-h640/IMG_5571.HEIC" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">A little whisky on Christmas Eve morning lol</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: Roboto;">It was my husband's day off before the big Christmas event and the day was filled with prep work again. After we were mostly done we quickly popped to Morrisons to see if we can get any last minute pre-Christmas deals and we were not disappointed. Loads of meat was on sale! </span><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRxzvXq0gBPaAcKXKC7ciBn9KmyGvNt1wtbXWTU4UcQCqNjskapCjx8Lae4pG6FHT6DruXPHDBcv5bp-xcB4LYuffVhe7vWAVaagaJm9USP8KNi87dMGVq2MDyF105OONERoxCcoMcayrE2oQQJ32-Y9_y6QbVeLtW8Q4IdmrmmA_UDCeTLTk0yNU6Kg8K/s4032/IMG_5597.HEIC" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRxzvXq0gBPaAcKXKC7ciBn9KmyGvNt1wtbXWTU4UcQCqNjskapCjx8Lae4pG6FHT6DruXPHDBcv5bp-xcB4LYuffVhe7vWAVaagaJm9USP8KNi87dMGVq2MDyF105OONERoxCcoMcayrE2oQQJ32-Y9_y6QbVeLtW8Q4IdmrmmA_UDCeTLTk0yNU6Kg8K/w480-h640/IMG_5597.HEIC" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Raw Steak Tartare</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Of course we grabbed the best looking bits and we had a feast of raw steak tartare. What a treat!!!</span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUmpWbnN8zs9T44lYcKKCvu6RTfiUosL-p8ftLlLMGGFR6NgcDIhQQTbZYs9coDIWqnvxg5gHZbPQQ7OXQ6hkc6j9TzeMIbqZfsAAMO3UjNboABfIi2qj69kwj19b4ycSXLtpT8easwBOnHxj9ESnvaSePOcmoBBKYhXZEtUy7OJpEXyv7qGaJdsnnn5QW/s4032/IMG_5598.HEIC" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUmpWbnN8zs9T44lYcKKCvu6RTfiUosL-p8ftLlLMGGFR6NgcDIhQQTbZYs9coDIWqnvxg5gHZbPQQ7OXQ6hkc6j9TzeMIbqZfsAAMO3UjNboABfIi2qj69kwj19b4ycSXLtpT8easwBOnHxj9ESnvaSePOcmoBBKYhXZEtUy7OJpEXyv7qGaJdsnnn5QW/w480-h640/IMG_5598.HEIC" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Great evening sorted: Delicious wine from Naked Wines and anime</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Coming Soon;"><b>Day 6</b></span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Coming Soon;">+ 0.4 kg / + 1.9 kg weekly weight gain / + 0.1 kg total weight gain</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">It was finally Christmas and we departed home around 11am for the big event. The whole thing took so long and by the time we left the client's house it was around 6.30pm. I was exhausted but we have planned a hangout with my friend who was spending Christmas by herself. Plus we had a ton of leftovers so no cooking needed! We may or may not have drank a bit too much that day and we may or may not have suffered from hangover on Boxing Day lol...</span></p><p><b style="font-family: "Coming Soon";"><br /></b></p></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><p style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: "Coming Soon";">Day 7 </b></p></div></blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: Coming Soon;">- 1.1 kg / + 0.8 kg weekly weight gain / - 1 kg total weight loss</span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWECfzvZNpIsSOdtWoVoyggexLxWnteK0q-N5MdmRJBQ4n0OBrlUZ8fDyx6fP9-A72BnWPBuDmgNXKK0ZRtGt1kJ-CiQorEczI9VREIfc-x56GU87GjulmeG5qtT0q0SALrURRt9TKECFLeCYhg_kP696BOac26J9gl0DfqRI0LQjqjH85FxDu1VHvui7m/s1807/IMG_5972.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1807" data-original-width="1098" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWECfzvZNpIsSOdtWoVoyggexLxWnteK0q-N5MdmRJBQ4n0OBrlUZ8fDyx6fP9-A72BnWPBuDmgNXKK0ZRtGt1kJ-CiQorEczI9VREIfc-x56GU87GjulmeG5qtT0q0SALrURRt9TKECFLeCYhg_kP696BOac26J9gl0DfqRI0LQjqjH85FxDu1VHvui7m/w388-h640/IMG_5972.PNG" width="388" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Week 7 weight loss chart</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Well, it's the end of Week 7 and the chart is looking very much disappointing. I blame the business Christmas season to be honest. Working loads and prepping and maybe indulging too much on alcohol. All you can do is just do your best and keep pushing. Let's go!</span></p></div><div><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span><p></p><h4><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: Roboto;">My Podcast: </span><a href="https://apintofrice.libsyn.com" target="_blank"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Coming Soon;">A Pint Of Rice</span></a><span style="font-family: Roboto;"> | My IG: </span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Coming Soon;"><a href="https://instagram.com/rinatsuchan" target="_blank">Lina B 🦭</a> </span><span style="font-family: Roboto;">| My TikTok:</span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Coming Soon;"> <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@rinatsuchan?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc" target="_blank">Lina</a></span></i></span></h4><p><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: medium;"><i>Byeee~</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: Roboto;"></span></i></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"></span></p><h4><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Coming Soon; font-size: large;"><b><i>Lina (Rinatsu)</i></b></span></h4></div>Lina Beeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02590376992066346069noreply@blogger.com0Worcestershire, UK52.2545225 -2.266838223.944288663821155 -37.4230882 80.564756336178846 32.8894118tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8709916811590067395.post-72222301126625554412024-01-10T18:47:00.004+00:002024-01-10T18:49:00.430+00:00Life & Weight Loss (December 13th - 19th)<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Coming Soon;">Well, week 5 was rubbish... Change in tactics?</span></h3></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">I can't lie, the dedicated weighing and food input to MyFitnessPal has been getting a bit to me. While it does help me watch what I eat, it's also making me too fixated on it. It almost felt like a full time job, just constantly thinking about what my next meal should be and how many calories I've got left. It was affecting my mental health and not in a good way. So I had to make some changes. Do I want to count my calories for the rest of my life? Not really! Nothing has changed in terms of portion control. After many years of learning about nutrition at specialised institutions, doing my own research and testing out things on my own I understand the portion sizes and dietary requirements so whether I input data somewhere or not makes no difference. So I say bye-bye to MyFitnessPal for now while I work on something else. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">One of the great things I noticed is the accountability while writing this blog. Even if nobody reads this I still feel responsible. Mostly because I've been in the position of trying to find somebody's story, day to day life details when reaching certain goals. I like reading blogs for topics I'm interested in. I'm back to blogging after so many years and it feels really good to be creative in the writing area again. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Another new thing is that in the past couple of weeks I've been pretty busy as my husband took on a new work opportunity as a private chef. He was originally planning to do it all by himself but after some deliberation and we realised that it would be very difficult for him to do it all by himself (confirmed after the first event) so I joined him in this venture as a manager / chef de partie / waitress / kitchen porter. 🤣 </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">So, my updates from now on will be general weight loss and life updates because I don't want the fight for weight loss to consume me too much and that to define me. I'll be sharing food photos/videos and interesting life updates.</span></p><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Coming Soon;">Week 6: December 13th - December 19th</span></h3><p></p><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Coming Soon;">Day 1: </span></h4></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Coming Soon;">- 0.4 kg / - 0.4 kg weekly loss / - 2.2 kg total loss</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">The craziest thing starter happening to me. Couple days before Week 6 of my weight loss started, my husband got inspired and decided to make a video for this dish he came up with. The dish is sort of like Hawaiian Poké Bowl / Japanese Donburi inspired Surf & Turf style rice bowl. It consisted of ribeye steak cooked blue/rare, salmon fillet and some veg on a bed of rice. I was responsible for all the filming. So after we ate and finished up the meal I made a quick silly video from all the footage I've got and uploaded it on TikTok. Since my husband started his private chef job he wanted a bigger social media presence so I've been uploading things here and there but nothing very consistent. I'm not also not very keen on TikTok. So when I uploaded this video I didn't think too much of it:</span></p>
<blockquote cite="https://www.tiktok.com/@rinatsuchan/video/7311455847555665185" class="tiktok-embed" data-video-id="7311455847555665185" style="max-width: 605px; min-width: 325px;"> <section> <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@rinatsuchan?refer=embed" target="_blank" title="@rinatsuchan">@rinatsuchan</a> When professional chef only cares to make one photo op worthy dish. It progressively gets worse and worse. 🤣🤣 <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/cheflife?refer=embed" target="_blank" title="cheflife">#cheflife</a> <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/chefsoftiktok?refer=embed" target="_blank" title="chefsoftiktok">#chefsoftiktok</a> <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/chef?refer=embed" target="_blank" title="chef">#chef</a> <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/cookingathometiktoktv?refer=embed" target="_blank" title="cookingathometiktoktv">#cookingathometiktoktv</a> <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/cookingtiktok?refer=embed" target="_blank" title="cookingtiktok">#cookingtiktok</a> <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/cookingvideo?refer=embed" target="_blank" title="cookingvideo">#cookingvideo</a> <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/cookingvideos?refer=embed" target="_blank" title="cookingvideos">#cookingvideos</a> <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/cookingshow?refer=embed" target="_blank" title="cookingshow">#cookingshow</a> <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/cooking?refer=embed" target="_blank" title="cooking">#cooking</a> <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/professionalchef?refer=embed" target="_blank" title="professionalchef">#professionalchef</a> <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/privatechef?refer=embed" target="_blank" title="privatechef">#privatechef</a> <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/music/Música-de-Comidas-para-Video-7111443985851238402?refer=embed" target="_blank" title="♬ Música de Comidas para Video - Carabina Sounds">♬ Música de Comidas para Video - Carabina Sounds</a> </section> </blockquote> <script async="" src="https://www.tiktok.com/embed.js"></script>
<p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@rinatsuchan/video/7311455847555665185?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7304342011351434785" target="_blank">If video isn't playing you can watch it here.</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Pretty much immediately after I uploaded it, the views started climbing much MUCH quicker than before so I knew that something is different this time. 2 days after the upload we were looking at 303K views:</span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw7bjwwlIww2aA-hvsFyjL_YSw2-F5Dc_mo_JMxvRALPbioO6bTwHSbEmQL9ojRXn94QaTbRgRJYZgKYpBZYO_v6ERiE3O0uiGIRbKfCvVdV1GNcwcj9CKa1w3xjbkviiFk2rNntKrh9Bpg3I2cDhWtG4HO1mrJpBfGtDqvMh9yS4k2-PMPhTIdJ-fi2Xc/s646/IMG_5273.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="646" data-original-width="462" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw7bjwwlIww2aA-hvsFyjL_YSw2-F5Dc_mo_JMxvRALPbioO6bTwHSbEmQL9ojRXn94QaTbRgRJYZgKYpBZYO_v6ERiE3O0uiGIRbKfCvVdV1GNcwcj9CKa1w3xjbkviiFk2rNntKrh9Bpg3I2cDhWtG4HO1mrJpBfGtDqvMh9yS4k2-PMPhTIdJ-fi2Xc/w458-h640/IMG_5273.PNG" width="458" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">My TikTok video started going viral</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">I've been uploading all sorts of things throughout my life to social media. From nature photography, make up videos, to crafts and funny easy going stuff but I never had any video go viral like that so I had to grab this opportunity and do something about it. I started making videos about the food myself or my husband makes. Before this my phone only had fancy food photos every week weeks. Now it started to become every few days kind of occurrence lol. </span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhH-UYyZzH1ba7kyy7ImKhrzmaLfOtjYZoYbIWR3L-2MzH32im9Dy72NdYvqFRgL9CQCTv8qZP_FCL0ns2N2wlJj5JlopeIOjs_gYurOl8GTCozX1n_wjjD3PkE4SJL4llFnYldjMUEcURkQe_mgUDM_z5ZYL-sJyaqa1mm3CGENpsJ2UzN8V6AkCj5erQ/s4032/IMG_5294.HEIC" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhH-UYyZzH1ba7kyy7ImKhrzmaLfOtjYZoYbIWR3L-2MzH32im9Dy72NdYvqFRgL9CQCTv8qZP_FCL0ns2N2wlJj5JlopeIOjs_gYurOl8GTCozX1n_wjjD3PkE4SJL4llFnYldjMUEcURkQe_mgUDM_z5ZYL-sJyaqa1mm3CGENpsJ2UzN8V6AkCj5erQ/w480-h640/IMG_5294.HEIC" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Homemade wontons with mushroom dashi. This is actually my husband's bowl as it looked better lol<br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p></p><p> </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Coming Soon;">Day 2: </span></h4></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Coming Soon;">+ 1.1 / + 0.7 kg weekly gain / - 1.1 kg total loss</span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDmRJAAYFgEIwahuolQaZQ4Yyud8c8Zshv-8YLvlojh6VGHMR1sT7zpGHMjJ6cb7PW-hZYZmTxaRdObx3I6uMs7QYvAHserOdCPXgKMBV9uCrRDtK9qcA2P5KMcNoXA0zqb7nu2qsInY_djaZr6rYh1jQ5ma7BVIVr2Ur6EsNQjwumeEgK93sx1dBapxRn/s4032/IMG_5307.HEIC" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDmRJAAYFgEIwahuolQaZQ4Yyud8c8Zshv-8YLvlojh6VGHMR1sT7zpGHMjJ6cb7PW-hZYZmTxaRdObx3I6uMs7QYvAHserOdCPXgKMBV9uCrRDtK9qcA2P5KMcNoXA0zqb7nu2qsInY_djaZr6rYh1jQ5ma7BVIVr2Ur6EsNQjwumeEgK93sx1dBapxRn/w480-h640/IMG_5307.HEIC" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">I had to get these tiny tools at The Range. As funny as they look, they've been very useful at our private events</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdGnpQkOu2vDUfkIwRA79PiBzUIQeX__RdHdE8q1OZPBaQUsolOrW-6bEFzI15mz6bWZlz-5NBZYEaHY0Kyv4rVoa3zqG2tKR3Rfzk1lib-YYQHlsTms83atNnIwMmgypVJQczAeTSELVdnY_DQBe_oZotzNfXrPkyheQP4Cp1ZIQUj_D6Elq2hxS8VkZI/s4032/IMG_5322.HEIC" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdGnpQkOu2vDUfkIwRA79PiBzUIQeX__RdHdE8q1OZPBaQUsolOrW-6bEFzI15mz6bWZlz-5NBZYEaHY0Kyv4rVoa3zqG2tKR3Rfzk1lib-YYQHlsTms83atNnIwMmgypVJQczAeTSELVdnY_DQBe_oZotzNfXrPkyheQP4Cp1ZIQUj_D6Elq2hxS8VkZI/w480-h640/IMG_5322.HEIC" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Salmon poké bowl</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: Roboto;">I love fish. Or seafood. Either one. I think they're amazing. If I have to choose between meat or seafood I'll definitely choose seafood. The amount of flavour in seafood is actually insane. You can't get that just by eating steak. Don't come at me, it's the truth lol. I love sushi but it's a pain to make and eating out in UK can be very expensive so I love making a sort of deconstructed version of that. It could easily be called salmon donburi, as donburi stands for rice bowl with toppings. But we like to jazz it up a little bit and make a dish more similar to poké bowl, consisting of different veg and seasonings. It must be one of my favourite homemade foods.</span><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Coming Soon;">Day 3: </span></h4></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Coming Soon;">+ 0.6 kg / + 1.3 kg weekly gain / - 0.5 kg total loss</span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib5rbSkghyphenhyphenRVXpUpgfQu9XtK0AqH0tVXCDO9e5JgVNe9Lvg6B0b8u4uC3_yGctVkgG4FwoBwrlPj0cMpJpLD3eJyfyyHZSnPSIk2g9yxqThenLCZan2dQhAGRBqo7zpbtbDeUAQ0Ti3LPPRZRdJh4BWyQYfRo1MA9ioYt87X4y6VctsHFtev7seaA328yv/s4032/IMG_5324.HEIC" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib5rbSkghyphenhyphenRVXpUpgfQu9XtK0AqH0tVXCDO9e5JgVNe9Lvg6B0b8u4uC3_yGctVkgG4FwoBwrlPj0cMpJpLD3eJyfyyHZSnPSIk2g9yxqThenLCZan2dQhAGRBqo7zpbtbDeUAQ0Ti3LPPRZRdJh4BWyQYfRo1MA9ioYt87X4y6VctsHFtev7seaA328yv/w480-h640/IMG_5324.HEIC" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">You know you live a good life when you know an Egg Man 😁</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Coming Soon;">Day 4: </span></h4></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Coming Soon;">- 1.1 kg / + 0.2 kg weekly gain / - 1.6 kg total loss</span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHolQ6CcwoLAOWkAIkc4s2ylqQz8L6VUj1XI44onw2-AVA4KIIbvcM6YzTSixuJApJV8_kFMCl8JfXlpRu2stDKQcCmTyf7FG_gp4BujIkZevX7HVdC8uTYjLhQTqcaK4uu750Tf373m6tX2kxbFKkz-ZTF7ic3JH6eYPKWm_9biY9-eWxIR5GQgfHziuh/s4032/IMG_5393.HEIC" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHolQ6CcwoLAOWkAIkc4s2ylqQz8L6VUj1XI44onw2-AVA4KIIbvcM6YzTSixuJApJV8_kFMCl8JfXlpRu2stDKQcCmTyf7FG_gp4BujIkZevX7HVdC8uTYjLhQTqcaK4uu750Tf373m6tX2kxbFKkz-ZTF7ic3JH6eYPKWm_9biY9-eWxIR5GQgfHziuh/w480-h640/IMG_5393.HEIC" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Thai inspired coconut curry with salmon</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Coming Soon;">Day 5: </span></h4></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Coming Soon;">0 kg / + 0.2 kg weekly gain / - 1.6 kg total loss</span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfaybPwls89XLzz_GQaCuspYN3gqsjuUvt-OF2mh3foRb5HyS-r4c9Pes1KF7S0QQpdRFFrlXNlQLzqcdyZ3mBOwIlA3HcIcuCRMfZFEDKQXbFGrY-zwG1R1PlZwrrz5_yEIKJQs6l46KwCOmZcIk_2NpVexbKsVoXVAN3rf1bOgA3oiUxNhDFH8BenqDm/s4032/IMG_5432.HEIC" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfaybPwls89XLzz_GQaCuspYN3gqsjuUvt-OF2mh3foRb5HyS-r4c9Pes1KF7S0QQpdRFFrlXNlQLzqcdyZ3mBOwIlA3HcIcuCRMfZFEDKQXbFGrY-zwG1R1PlZwrrz5_yEIKJQs6l46KwCOmZcIk_2NpVexbKsVoXVAN3rf1bOgA3oiUxNhDFH8BenqDm/w480-h640/IMG_5432.HEIC" width="480" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Pan-fried salmon with brandy cream sauce</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Coming Soon;">Day 6: </span></h4></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Coming Soon;">- 0.8 kg / - 0.6 kg weekly loss / - 2.4 kg total loss</span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtpLqMh_eLkVRBSdyStjzVnaepcBGXTUcWnSMliV81KcDIa0sHYcckgjI3R379aM9SQLNExtv9HLIrCW0xK-RmBnRHC7IjZVvXekOIMKOIvhf8lL9iW9rJ0xmkSJeB0MisV0lmWZZbproQHlUxWacyuKJHG2Q9u_Db3nBI8iU7z7O3rAZ9uJ0KfLh_9MWc/s4032/IMG_5452.HEIC" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtpLqMh_eLkVRBSdyStjzVnaepcBGXTUcWnSMliV81KcDIa0sHYcckgjI3R379aM9SQLNExtv9HLIrCW0xK-RmBnRHC7IjZVvXekOIMKOIvhf8lL9iW9rJ0xmkSJeB0MisV0lmWZZbproQHlUxWacyuKJHG2Q9u_Db3nBI8iU7z7O3rAZ9uJ0KfLh_9MWc/w480-h640/IMG_5452.HEIC" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">His name is Murphy!</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: Roboto;">My friend recently got a puppy. I drove her to pick him up and he's the cutest. I feel like a proud auntie. He loves me so much and gives me so much attention. My heart is happy. 😁</span><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Coming Soon;">Day 7: </span></h4></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Coming Soon;">+ 0.6 kg / 0 kg weekly loss / - 1.8 kg total loss</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Coming Soon;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO94Wib4cCSaIQhyphenhyphenC27nBq5FQuVRGekyasEl_crcPDc41LqNi0P3J6tA68FzfGfFFp-cdGMCsAv7puVjwg9nqx-y93ATg4rV-ZlveYJgqmgTBJdf5cAy4lbyPNO3eZrloecpQr7Awqex4WOfFACX5GbZ6ws26T4U-4veDHw8EvbYPOG-wh8BIsB8UXh0nB/s1529/IMG_5898.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1529" data-original-width="1099" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO94Wib4cCSaIQhyphenhyphenC27nBq5FQuVRGekyasEl_crcPDc41LqNi0P3J6tA68FzfGfFFp-cdGMCsAv7puVjwg9nqx-y93ATg4rV-ZlveYJgqmgTBJdf5cAy4lbyPNO3eZrloecpQr7Awqex4WOfFACX5GbZ6ws26T4U-4veDHw8EvbYPOG-wh8BIsB8UXh0nB/w460-h640/IMG_5898.PNG" width="460" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Week 6 weight loss chart</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj18tnaVEETyLW9FO9FWvDOSuMiAkx52fidXGqWQN407EjXbvTv_FDVuA5g3HRHMLKgnjQHx16mZNSpGcyNpg62ItQw3jkg6qwfRaX5CWKBxOn0WbgT4qpe1AS6a4Bag0b9-IbSDPzr-4nFapsR0r3j80qx8-UV0oXgumMfuXRbq6Kvi2zZz47rh8TnUhpx/s4032/IMG_5467.HEIC" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj18tnaVEETyLW9FO9FWvDOSuMiAkx52fidXGqWQN407EjXbvTv_FDVuA5g3HRHMLKgnjQHx16mZNSpGcyNpg62ItQw3jkg6qwfRaX5CWKBxOn0WbgT4qpe1AS6a4Bag0b9-IbSDPzr-4nFapsR0r3j80qx8-UV0oXgumMfuXRbq6Kvi2zZz47rh8TnUhpx/w480-h640/IMG_5467.HEIC" width="480" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Two sets on a row machine completed</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: Roboto;">It's the end of week 6 and I feel frustrated again as there has been no changes all week. Apart from usual jumping up and down, at the end of the day I'm at 0. To release my frustration I went to the gym and done a cardio workout. I absolutely hate cardio but I know that I really need it. The problem is that I'm easily distracted and I get super bored really quickly. So if I'm on a treadmill (I usually do an incline walk for a period of time), I watch a show on Netflix lol. My heart is weak af so to make it pump I went on a row machine for the last 5 minutes to really make myself sweat. Well, that was definitely achieved. </span><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgDrDaK6wqiI3nZ8kG2blJwS4mN81ElcDRdTb0Bj2xcrPNBSJUsltXwHR9RxN39UQeHbkc0CZpp0p56tmqGTundv67MXqMffRmNkiRhHiNBVU2LvNFah9Kb_ULFFcxqiDeuiXTtvU1KvS9e2DrAq6U8YjO1cBOuc-mWp9kYVpRue9IoDGnTWmcY48WGwBD/s634/IMG_5470.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="634" data-original-width="475" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgDrDaK6wqiI3nZ8kG2blJwS4mN81ElcDRdTb0Bj2xcrPNBSJUsltXwHR9RxN39UQeHbkc0CZpp0p56tmqGTundv67MXqMffRmNkiRhHiNBVU2LvNFah9Kb_ULFFcxqiDeuiXTtvU1KvS9e2DrAq6U8YjO1cBOuc-mWp9kYVpRue9IoDGnTWmcY48WGwBD/w480-h640/IMG_5470.PNG" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Already at 702K views!</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: Roboto;">At this point my viral TikTok video has doubled up in views and my profile was blowing up with likes, comments and follows. The most shocking part would be waking up in the morning, checking TikTok after 8 hours and seeing crazy numbers lol.</span><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo4VhAJeOj6pMnRPZD4OXLlT0k9u46FS_wI0d1eiEnUWzUe1gPMZm3vvvwcXisCuxAfW09KYecqUy3F9oxDSizldaHwk5PgiUJf7QUdT1xD0-mLum3tYz_c5O-iy28W2R9v2yUZhgFR91OYxRQ0iU2bhLkbeAMMXxRVQ1NujnVkgIzjFNOZQQxq-7VnCZ7/s754/IMG_5464.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="754" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo4VhAJeOj6pMnRPZD4OXLlT0k9u46FS_wI0d1eiEnUWzUe1gPMZm3vvvwcXisCuxAfW09KYecqUy3F9oxDSizldaHwk5PgiUJf7QUdT1xD0-mLum3tYz_c5O-iy28W2R9v2yUZhgFR91OYxRQ0iU2bhLkbeAMMXxRVQ1NujnVkgIzjFNOZQQxq-7VnCZ7/w640-h424/IMG_5464.PNG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Waking up to crazy numbers</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Well, that definitely didn't stop there but I'll tell you more in my next blog post. It's been a rollercoaster week (just like my weight loss lol). And while I didn't achieve anything in the weight loss area I definitely had some interesting events throughout the week. Let's see what next week brings!</span></p><h4><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: Roboto;">My Podcast: </span><a href="https://apintofrice.libsyn.com" target="_blank"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Coming Soon;">A Pint Of Rice</span></a><span style="font-family: Roboto;"> | My IG: </span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Coming Soon;"><a href="https://instagram.com/rinatsuchan" target="_blank">Lina B 🦭</a> </span><span style="font-family: Roboto;">| My TikTok:</span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Coming Soon;"> <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@rinatsuchan?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc" target="_blank">Lina</a></span></i></span></h4><p><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: medium;"><i>Byeee~</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: Roboto;"></span></i></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"></span></p><h4><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Coming Soon; font-size: large;"><b><i>Lina (Rinatsu)</i></b></span></h4>Lina Beeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02590376992066346069noreply@blogger.com0Worcestershire, UK52.2545225 -2.266838223.944288663821155 -37.4230882 80.564756336178846 32.8894118tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8709916811590067395.post-50595881067246601402023-12-19T17:14:00.001+00:002023-12-19T17:14:15.381+00:00Weight loss journey - Week 5<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Coming Soon;">Week 5! C'mon this has to be better... I can do it! </span></h3></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Wow, what a disappointing <a href="https://rinatsu.blogspot.com/2023/12/weight-loss-journey-week-4.html" target="_blank">week 4</a>... You know what? I could spend my time complaining but I won't! Despite the fact that I gained 0.3 kg last week, I can actually feel a positive change in myself. My belly has shrunk quite a bit. You know that "pouch" that women tend to have? It's perfectly normal and nothing to be ashamed of, but as somebody who has endometriosis, it can get quite prominent to the point that it makes me look borderline pregnant. 🤦♀️ It's an actual nightmare for me so it became one of my biggest insecurities. Luckily, in my situation, the pouch is caused by a bloat, which can easily be fixed by finding the right diet, and doing this for the past 4 weeks has definitely helped a lot. My legs seems to be looking pretty decent too but I'm not sure whether it's a change in my body or my black leggings giving me a false sign lol. But then again, my jeans are loose again which is amazing news. Before I started this, most of my jeans were pretty tight. Not to the point that I can't fit in them, but definitely tighter than before. That has changed now! So the moral of the story is, even if you're not seeing desired numbers on your scale screen, take a look at what you're seeing in the mirror and overall wellbeing. I know I'm definitely changing for the better! </span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTwdqy7CjhalplqN0HUOHLKHTsBHOB1Dwg5HU22KOuJyyiHM0pB4dMmG-qoG2k9J3mpSb4boHh3tmunyFQfXlrAH2UB0z3SdjGNWzzPHbrGHXvqsKQFiaClS3eq5QryrHcF78HkWWTn3JMHY9U0w2mxOLCudLcnrS5pjlz_MF-9Jua8O9uMHIcMwpPJgZ3/s1505/IMG_5146.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1505" data-original-width="1079" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTwdqy7CjhalplqN0HUOHLKHTsBHOB1Dwg5HU22KOuJyyiHM0pB4dMmG-qoG2k9J3mpSb4boHh3tmunyFQfXlrAH2UB0z3SdjGNWzzPHbrGHXvqsKQFiaClS3eq5QryrHcF78HkWWTn3JMHY9U0w2mxOLCudLcnrS5pjlz_MF-9Jua8O9uMHIcMwpPJgZ3/w458-h640/IMG_5146.PNG" width="458" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Week 4 weight loss chart</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Just looking at the chart above frustrates me a little bit not gonna lie lol. Look at this flat line! Frustrating as heck. I'm hoping that this week will be better. As mentioned at the end of the <a href="https://rinatsu.blogspot.com/2023/12/weight-loss-journey-week-4.html" target="_blank">previous week's post</a>, I've spoken to my friend about my lack bad habits of not drinking enough water and she gave me some advice on how to work on that. Throughout the day, as we do bits and bobs, maybe working or doing chores, it's a great habit to get into by drinking water between the little jobs that you do. So if you finished washing dishes - drink some water. You just folded the laundry - drink some water. And so on. I only just stated doing it so we'll see how that goes. Hopefully this will help the water retention that my body is dealing with right now. Contrary to what people might think, water retention doesn't happen when you drink a lot of water. Quite the opposite actually. When you don't drink enough water, your body panics and starts retaining it. So interesting! Also, contrary to popular belief, your body does not go into starvation mode and start retaining calories if you eat less calories than you normally do. As long as you cut your calories in a healthy way and still eat enough to get all your recommended minimum caloric intake you'll be perfectly fine!</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje5twkXr_4Wtr3tM9Nk_YP8nuYYtieQLuAJCNKI0apqg90_NRMpb3WgQ1xAYG5_GeX2bSS2q5i8wz3HK14T0or-afHnLig1jud6Cp8wIEmxnUEDOSKWIl2ewRD51rWgsn8skYLpQsDDLN9JYOxSct_S6YQ5TGDGFGGQeyvjR6u4CjkLZjDvLxrN4oGkv_e/s2233/IMG_5147.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2233" data-original-width="1130" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje5twkXr_4Wtr3tM9Nk_YP8nuYYtieQLuAJCNKI0apqg90_NRMpb3WgQ1xAYG5_GeX2bSS2q5i8wz3HK14T0or-afHnLig1jud6Cp8wIEmxnUEDOSKWIl2ewRD51rWgsn8skYLpQsDDLN9JYOxSct_S6YQ5TGDGFGGQeyvjR6u4CjkLZjDvLxrN4oGkv_e/w324-h640/IMG_5147.PNG" width="324" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Monthly weight loss chart</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: Roboto;">I have started this weight loss journey on the 8th November, so it's now been a month and it's interesting to look back on the monthly chart. It's been a pretty stable downwards line except for last week when it sort of went up a bit and now back down. It's still not back to the lowest point, which happened at the end of <a href="https://rinatsu.blogspot.com/2023/11/weight-loss-journey-week-3.html" target="_blank">week 3</a> but hopefully the downwards line will continue steadily from now on, otherwise I'll lose my 💩.</span><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span></p><div><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><h3 style="text-align: left;"> <b style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Coming Soon";">Week 5 Day 1</b></h3></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Weight</b>: -0.2 kg (-0.2 kg weekly weight loss; -2.6 kg total weight loss).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Breakfast</b>: 2 scrambled eggs with 2 pork sausages, leftover pasta, broccoli, cherry tomatoes. </span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Snack</b>: 3 mini macarons. </span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Lunch</b>: homemade soup with a dollop of high protein greek yoghurt and soft boiled egg.</span> </p></blockquote></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Snack</b>: 5 mini macarons. </span></p></div></blockquote><div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Dinner</b>: mushroom gnocchi with preserved truffles and a glass of sauvignon blanc.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Total</b> <b>calories</b>: ~1826 kcal.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Workout</b>: no workout today.</span></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><h3> <b style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Coming Soon";">Week 5 Day 2</b></h3></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Weight</b>: +0.6 kg (+0.4 kg weekly weight gain; -2 kg total weight loss).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Breakfast</b>: high protein granola with half banana, dried cranberries and oat milk.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Lunch</b>: 2 pork sausages, 2 eggs, sautéed mushrooms, tomato and red bell pepper.</span></p></blockquote><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAquSqjiiqy6LbMLofAUYtV9RBpA4AMBtYyfi34pwsjkZChtpiDH2p7GjBLRwhZAAnDKvZlMp2AMCLyhq8L4T6f0dewp6UwpCdnJVWlYHw1_f4pbG1FCnhf-CayEgvLFnFhJfNaDFTdLF3bc5_OW5TSzOfqqkvozDg4hyphenhyphenc3exTcxyytzlrTraPwZNhYnOk/s4032/IMG_5167.HEIC" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAquSqjiiqy6LbMLofAUYtV9RBpA4AMBtYyfi34pwsjkZChtpiDH2p7GjBLRwhZAAnDKvZlMp2AMCLyhq8L4T6f0dewp6UwpCdnJVWlYHw1_f4pbG1FCnhf-CayEgvLFnFhJfNaDFTdLF3bc5_OW5TSzOfqqkvozDg4hyphenhyphenc3exTcxyytzlrTraPwZNhYnOk/w480-h640/IMG_5167.HEIC" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Week 5 Day 2 dinner</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Dinner</b>: mushroom noodles with sriracha peanut sauce and soft boiled eggs.</span></p></blockquote></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Snack</b>: lobster cocktail crisps. </span></p></div></blockquote><div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Total</b> <b>calories</b>: ~1549 kcal.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Workout</b>: 50 minute workout session at the gym (elliptical, bench press, pec deck machine, chest press machine) ~197 kcal burned.</span></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><h3> <b style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Coming Soon";">Week 5 Day 3</b></h3></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Weight</b>: +0.1 kg (+0.5 kg weekly weight gain; -1.9 kg total weight loss).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Breakfast</b>: 2 scrambled eggs with onion, mushrooms, tomato, 2 pork sausages and a little bit of ketchup.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Lunch</b>: homemade veggie soup with fried egg.</span></p></blockquote></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Snack</b>: a few mini macarons. </span></p></div></blockquote><div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Dinner</b>: peanut butter noodles.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Total</b> <b>calories</b>: ~1432 kcal.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: Roboto;">Workout</b><span style="font-family: Roboto;">: no workout today.</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"></span></p><p><br /></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><h3> <b style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Coming Soon";">Week 5 Day 4</b></h3></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Weight</b>: +0.5 kg (+1 kg weekly weight gain; -1.4 kg total weight loss).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Breakfast</b>: 2 pork sausages, 2 eggs, sautéed mushrooms, tomato, red bell pepper.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Lunch</b>: a few goats cheese bonbons, 2 roasted potatoes and custard.</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">So I was once again running a private dinner event with my husband so all of those things mentioned above weren't actually consumed at the same time, okay? I wasn't dipping my potatoes into custard. 🤣🤣</span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Dinner</b>: peanut butter noodles.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Total</b> <b>calories</b>: ~1106 kcal.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: Roboto;">Workout</b><span style="font-family: Roboto;">: no workout today but I walked a lot due to work.</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"></span></p><p><br /></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><h3> <b style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Coming Soon";">Week 5 Day 5</b></h3></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Weight</b>: 0 kg (</span><span style="font-family: Roboto;">+1 kg weekly weight gain; -1.4 kg total weight loss).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Breakfast</b>: leftover peanut butter noodles.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Snack: </b>a few glasses of beer.</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">I ended up skipping lunch as I wasn't hungry at all and went to meet my friend at the pub instead lol. </span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Dinner</b>: spaghetti bolognese.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Total</b> <b>calories</b>: ~1271 kcal.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: Roboto;">Workout</b><span style="font-family: Roboto;">: no workout today.</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"></span></p><p><br /></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><h3> <b style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Coming Soon";">Week 5 Day 6</b></h3></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Weight</b>: 0 kg </span><span style="font-family: Roboto;">(</span><span style="font-family: Roboto;">+1 kg weekly weight gain; -1.4 kg total weight loss).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Breakfast</b>: homemade veggie soup with a dollop of high protein yoghurt. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Lunch</b>: 2 eggs, 2 pork sausages, sautéed mushrooms, tomato.</span></p></blockquote><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO3sfnoAVDK9qNijrbCPQq5Xw5VKXgS4vRcFvLgRmKcVEB2yLDps4NiOssHeW1CnsKIxa7Rbw0om7poT6cqeQfFqF_7o_pJfEEAesxtSkAWtwXk8Ce1CVWgpkuwbvAi-7PEJri5H5AeGmIXr8n_dkxhyuZEsDpB6530pbeEp1jYovBDWv1eyTL8_OOkpLl/s4032/IMG_5246.HEIC" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO3sfnoAVDK9qNijrbCPQq5Xw5VKXgS4vRcFvLgRmKcVEB2yLDps4NiOssHeW1CnsKIxa7Rbw0om7poT6cqeQfFqF_7o_pJfEEAesxtSkAWtwXk8Ce1CVWgpkuwbvAi-7PEJri5H5AeGmIXr8n_dkxhyuZEsDpB6530pbeEp1jYovBDWv1eyTL8_OOkpLl/w480-h640/IMG_5246.HEIC" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Week 5 Day 6 Dinner</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Dinner</b>: surf and turf rice bowl (white sushi rice, pan seared salmon, ribeye steak, pak choi, radish, avocado).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Total</b> <b>calories</b>: ~1374 kcal.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: Roboto;">Workout</b><span style="font-family: Roboto;">: 40 minute workout session at the gym (10 minutes on elliptical, pull ups, lat pulldowns).</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"></span></p><p><br /></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><h3> <b style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Coming Soon";">Week 5 Day 7</b></h3></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Weight</b>: -0.4 kg (+0.6 kg weekly weight gain; -1.8 kg total weight loss).</span></p></blockquote></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Snack</b>: 2 digestive biscuits. </span></p></div></blockquote><div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Breakfast</b>: leftover cooked pasta stirred fried with 2 pigs in blankets, mushrooms, green beans and 2 eggs.</span></p></blockquote></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Snack</b>: 1 banana with peanut butter, apple cider at the pub. </span></p></div></blockquote><div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Lunch</b>: Burrata with pigs in blankets, sautéed oyster mushrooms and 1/4 avocado.</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Can you tell I'm eating leftovers? Lol. </span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Dinner</b>: homemade wonton soup.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Total</b> <b>calories</b>: ~1371 kcal</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: Roboto;">Workout</b><span style="font-family: Roboto;">: no workout today.</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"></span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg36MgOygKq_noOhAMf292LTKoxT7l3hyHyYO8Tf75BFsVHElm9IX_Kq0DwvJdfjDbM7xq08ZzEuMlo-XGUgjuBzAe5ymcZCeqkkf72GgbZ-C4_PV9M9lfSIAw-wABrn4IVmNg2YJeMchLBkUjri8V-6CYiBx9aIhMqvX97TbubGB5CbHl7H3iHy11rkK93/s1304/IMG_5255.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1304" data-original-width="1082" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg36MgOygKq_noOhAMf292LTKoxT7l3hyHyYO8Tf75BFsVHElm9IX_Kq0DwvJdfjDbM7xq08ZzEuMlo-XGUgjuBzAe5ymcZCeqkkf72GgbZ-C4_PV9M9lfSIAw-wABrn4IVmNg2YJeMchLBkUjri8V-6CYiBx9aIhMqvX97TbubGB5CbHl7H3iHy11rkK93/w532-h640/IMG_5255.PNG" width="532" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Week 5 weight chart</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: Roboto;">What can I say? It hasn't been the best week and I don't really know why. There were days when I wasn't eating the healthiest way and I did have a few beers but I've always stayed within my calorie range ~1850 kcal (+whatever burned during workout if needed). My husband says that it could be muscle. Because I'm definitely seeing my belly much smaller so there's no way that I have put on fat while living and eating like this. Once again, I'm thinking that it could be water issue? I haven't been drinking enough water which has been causing me some headaches. I have nobody else to blame but myself for that lol. But in the past few days I have been walking around with a pint of water in my hand while I'm around the house lol. Let's hope this helps?</span><p></p><h4><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: Roboto;">My Podcast: </span><a href="https://apintofrice.libsyn.com" target="_blank"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Coming Soon;">A Pint Of Rice</span></a><span style="font-family: Roboto;"> | My IG: </span><a href="https://instagram.com/rinatsuchan" target="_blank"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Coming Soon;">Lina B 🦭</span></a></i></span></h4><p><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: medium;"><i>Byeee~</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: Roboto;"></span></i></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"></span></p><h4><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Coming Soon; font-size: large;"><b><i>Lina (Rinatsu)</i></b></span></h4></div>Lina Beeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02590376992066346069noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8709916811590067395.post-58396612864052046032023-12-06T13:40:00.001+00:002023-12-06T13:40:30.603+00:00Weight loss journey - Week 4<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Coming Soon;">After a successful week 3, I'm back and ready to achieve even more! </span></h3></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">So, last week I managed to achieve an impressive 1.5 kg weight loss, which made my current weight loss rate on Happy Scale become 0.94 kg per week. After such impressive calculations, I'm being shown that I'll achieve my weight loss goal in 7 months, July 2024! Wow, that's really promising, since my weight loss goal is quite big. But we'll see! </span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2gxzCxAYdOIYIFTq3q7XprvfZ8aF0hGmi6VQI0zhy03Z7Hgvg2Xe2Fb5nsMzgqyPwJGQ-Xki9Nsr88N_hf8z1Af2rwB0FOP8mgtpWZYo1oQ9REqBwZCGY_MQ9LvdhQavVxHJlNDqCJVdSTFuOW1TC6dneVPEj_Eb7sF1jT9pYvN379GmPmAPLTBPE7QyO/s2099/IMG_5065.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2099" data-original-width="1138" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2gxzCxAYdOIYIFTq3q7XprvfZ8aF0hGmi6VQI0zhy03Z7Hgvg2Xe2Fb5nsMzgqyPwJGQ-Xki9Nsr88N_hf8z1Af2rwB0FOP8mgtpWZYo1oQ9REqBwZCGY_MQ9LvdhQavVxHJlNDqCJVdSTFuOW1TC6dneVPEj_Eb7sF1jT9pYvN379GmPmAPLTBPE7QyO/w346-h640/IMG_5065.PNG" width="346" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Week 3 weight loss chart</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Loving the steep line on my weight loss chart. Not only I can see a difference on the scales, but I'm also seeing a difference on myself. My belly has shrunk massively. I'm not sure whether it's the extra water weight or the bloat. I bloat really easy since I have endometriosis. I can also be an emotional eater. I noticed that since I started eating much smaller portions and my stomach kinda shrank (probably to its normal size lol), I started listening to my body more. If I'm not feeling hungry, I simply don't eat. There's no point sticking to that strict frame that you HAVE to eat 3 meals a day, if your body can't tolerate it. Stick to what your body tells you.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Coming Soon; font-size: medium;"><b>Week 4 Day 1</b></span></p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Weight</b>: +0.4 kg (+0.4 kg weekly total; -2.3 kg total).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Breakfast</b>: kimchi sandwich (2 slices of buttered white bread, 1 Cumberland style plant based sausage from Tesco, a few leaves of spinach, generous bunch of homemade kimchi) with a bit of tomato ketchup.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Lunch</b>: 2 slices of white bread with smoked salmon and cucumber.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Dinner</b>: homemade spaghetti carbonara and a glass of ale.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Total</b> <b>calories</b>: ~1284 kcal</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Workout</b>: no workout today.</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Coming Soon; font-size: medium;"><b>Week 4 Day 2</b></span></p></blockquote></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"></span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Weight</b>: +0.3 kg (+0.7 kg weekly total; -2 kg total).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Breakfast</b>: leftover high protein noodles with miso aubergine and kimchi.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Snack</b>: fresh croissant from Lidl. </span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Lunch</b>: 2 pork sausages, 2 eggs, 1 tomato, sautéed mushrooms.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Snack</b>: couple pints of ale at the pub. </span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Dinner</b>: homemade spaghetti bolognese.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Total</b> <b>calories</b>: ~1684 kcal.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Workout</b>: 50 minute workout session at the gym (5 minutes on elliptical; assisted pull ups, bicep curls); ~220 kcal burned.</span></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Coming Soon; font-size: medium;"><b>Week 4 Day 3</b></span></p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Weight</b>: -0.6 kg (+0.1 kg weekly total; -2.6 kg total).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Breakfast</b>: kimchi sandwich.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Lunch</b>: 2 pork sausages, 2 eggs, sautéed mushrooms, 5 cherry tomatoes.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Snack</b>: fresh pain au raisin from Lidl. </span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Dinner</b>: homemade spaghetti bolognese and mulled cider.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Total</b> <b>calories</b>: ~1719 kcal.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Workout</b><span>:</span> 50 minute workout session at the gym (focusing on legs - deadlifts, RDLs, adductor machine, abductor machine, leg press); ~336 kcal burned.</span></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Coming Soon; font-size: medium;"><b>Week 4 Day 4</b></span></p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Weight</b>: +0.5 kg (+0.6 kg weekly total; -2.1 kg total).</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">I'm so done with this weight jumping. 🙃 The current weight loss chart has flatlined and my weight loss rate is in shambles. What is happening. 😭</span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Breakfast</b>: 2 pork sausages, 2 eggs, sautéed mushrooms, spinach and cherry tomatoes.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Lunch</b>: a small piece of mushrooms strudel. </span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Once again husband and I were running a private event so didn't really have time to eat. 🥲 </span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Dinner</b>: homemade spaghetti bolognese with homemade mulled cider.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Total</b> <b>calories</b>: ~1205 kcal</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: Roboto;">Workout: </b><span style="font-family: Roboto;">no workout but many steps taking due to work.</span></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Coming Soon; font-size: medium;"><b>Week 4 Day 5</b></span></p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Weight</b>: 0 kg (+0.6 kg weekly total; -2.1 kg total).</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Oh gosh this is like week 2 all over again. 🥲 Even Happy Scale can't make this look good. The weight loss has completely flatlined this week and weight loss rate is down to 0.61 kg per week. Weight loss goal is now predicted to happen in 11 months. Ugh this sucks!</span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: Roboto;">Breakfast</b><span style="font-family: Roboto;">: banana, high protein granola, oat milk.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Lunch</b>: 2 pork sausages, 2 eggs, sautéed mushrooms, cherry tomatoes. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Dinner</b>: homemade spaghetti bolognese; lemon tart for dessert; a glass of pale ale.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Total</b> <b>calories</b>: ~1727 kcal.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: Roboto;">Workout: </b><span style="font-family: Roboto;">no workout today.</span></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Coming Soon; font-size: medium;"><b>Week 4 Day 6</b></span></p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Weight</b>: 0 kg (+0.6 kg weekly total; -2.1 kg total).</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Pre-breakfast</b>: leftover spaghetti carbonara.</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Right, so it's a bit of a weird one. I had a lot of errands to do in town and I was also helping friend collect her new puppy, so in the morning I had a quick bite of leftover spaghetti carbonara (only about 120 kcal worth) and had a proper breakfast when I came back home, that's why I called it pre-breakfast lol. Talking about pre-breakfast, this is actually something that <a href="https://apintofrice.libsyn.com/apor-ep2-breakfast" target="_blank">my husband and I discuss on our A Pint Of Rice podcast, Breakfast episode</a> lol. You can find us on any podcast platform you use!</span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Breakfast</b>: 2 scrambled eggs with potato, plant based sausage, tomato and turkey.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Lunch</b>: homemade spaghetti bolognese; lemon tart for dessert.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Dinner</b>: </span><span style="font-family: Roboto;">high protein granola with banana and oat milk.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Total</b> <b>calories</b>: ~1589 kcal.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: Roboto;">Workout: </b><span style="font-family: Roboto;">no workout today.</span></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Coming Soon; font-size: medium;"><b>Week 4 Day 7</b></span></p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Weight</b>: -0.3 kg (+0.3 kg weekly total; -2.4 kg total).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Breakfast</b>: leftover spaghetti carbonara with cheddar cheese.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Snack</b>: maple pecan pastry while shopping. </span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Lunch</b>: homemade spaghetti bolognese.</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">You might be wondering why I'm eating so much bolognese... Well, Lawrence made a 4litre worth tub of bolognese so I'm kinda forced to lol but it's making me quite heavy and bloated so I think I need to go back to my soups lol... The beef mince he got was also super fatty so it's causing me heart burn. You'd think that heart burn is an older adult issue but I actually had it since I was a teenager... 🙃</span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Snack: </b>maple pecan pastry, a few mini macarons.</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Today was a damn mess. I was shopping for an upcoming event and running errands and my whole daily schedule ended up being a complete mess. So I ate lunch really late and wasn't hungry but then started craving sugar, which is bad. So I had a few snacks. This is probably my biggest slip up since the beginning of this lol. </span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Total</b> <b>calories</b>: ~1617 kcal.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: Roboto;">Workout</b><span style="font-family: Roboto;">: no workout today.</span></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">So, haven't had the best week. My weight has stalled and my current weight loss rate is 0.5 kg a week, which is technically what I initially have set up to do. Unfortunately, I have gained weight this week, although very little, which is not great, but I'm not too upset. I know my diet hasn't been very balanced this week. I've been eating a lot of fatty foods and definitely not drinking enough water. My friend has given me some tips and tricks on how to drink more water so I will be trying those out starting now! Week 5 better be a good one!</span></p><h4><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: Roboto;">My Podcast: </span><a href="https://apintofrice.libsyn.com" target="_blank"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Coming Soon;">A Pint Of Rice</span></a><span style="font-family: Roboto;"> | My IG: </span><a href="https://instagram.com/rinatsuchan" target="_blank"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Coming Soon;">Lina B 🦭</span></a></i></span></h4><p><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: medium;"><i>Byeee~</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: Roboto;"></span></i></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"></span></p><h4><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Coming Soon; font-size: large;"><b><i>Lina (Rinatsu)</i></b></span></h4>Lina Beeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02590376992066346069noreply@blogger.com0Worcestershire, UK52.2545225 -2.266838223.944288663821155 -37.4230882 80.564756336178846 32.8894118tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8709916811590067395.post-22316979392556583512023-11-30T11:00:00.001+00:002023-11-30T11:00:00.130+00:00Adventures in Hong Kong! The Journey<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Coming Soon;">If you're looking for recommendations on places to visit in Hong Kong or just want to see some cool stuff then the Hong Kong adventure posts are for you!~</span></h3></blockquote><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">When I <a href="https://rinatsu.blogspot.com/2023/11/imback.html" target="_blank">re-started this blog a couple weeks ago</a>, I did a thorough read through my old posts and confirmed my passion for adventure. Look, as a teenager and young adult I was full of drive to try new things, but either didn't have enough funds or time. After I moved to UK 10 years ago, I finally managed to visit a couple countries. I briefly visit Copenhagen, Denmark (which didn't leave the best impression on me...), and done a road trip across West of France. I'm not a person who is interested in travelling the world. I'll be honest, some countries I'm not interested at all. When I travel, I love to immerse myself in their culture, so if some country's culture is not my cup of tea I simply don't fancy going there. I don't think there's anything wrong with that as it's simply a preference. Social media has instilled this image in our heads that we MUST travel around the world, visit every country, just constantly be on the go. But in the real world, it's not quite that easy if you're not financially well off, or people simply do not have interest, as, let's be honest, it kinda sounds like a chore lol (as much as it is controversial to say lol).</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">My husband is originally from Hong Kong and he grew up there. So when we finally managed to travel to HK earlier this year, I was over the moon. We treated it as a honeymoon trip, even if it was 2 years late lol. I've got to meet some of his family, visit his favourite childhood locations and experience an amazing culture. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4we8hwzbr1MEJACuxFx7j6nvJSoKIUrh7FzpLg3KiG72aW7iZPEjr_xVElo_9Bn9hkX3HvcehYbw_KExw7A5zNiTMEYwNAMd8pzOkmh84b6gA4UqEgmZWIUdCT16TW98M0ackJaYUqMRU4jkgrpbpoaeNZVWLA4HpF-7yLHdc6W3FcZ36Hr0LIfbPcdxi/s4032/IMG_1688.HEIC" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4we8hwzbr1MEJACuxFx7j6nvJSoKIUrh7FzpLg3KiG72aW7iZPEjr_xVElo_9Bn9hkX3HvcehYbw_KExw7A5zNiTMEYwNAMd8pzOkmh84b6gA4UqEgmZWIUdCT16TW98M0ackJaYUqMRU4jkgrpbpoaeNZVWLA4HpF-7yLHdc6W3FcZ36Hr0LIfbPcdxi/w480-h640/IMG_1688.HEIC" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Our favourite plushies always travel with us</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">It used to be so easy when we lived in Milton Keynes. London is just down the road and all airports are easily reachable. Over the years we moved around a couple of times for business and we're currently residing in Worcestershire. So nowadays Heathrow airport can be 2 hours + car drive away. 😩</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">I've never been on a long haul flight. My longest flight has always been UK - Lithuania / Lithuania - UK. Only 3.5 hours long! Barely any time to even get a drink! Not that I do anyway because purchasing anything on the plane is ridiculously expensive. 🙃</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLDwS2BJcBGpiCVwMpbmfbJphcO_R-wX49Igd_oD4-U8Rmd2CxDZR4saVGX9v6gV_8Np50GKsu2EdSfgA-ppcrOQEJOWRt8lgcpeHL1ZG3AZ7OPAOPN-VO-2GujoI4l4SN0KG_9S-FKPSwaKB1Apg-SpK7aRl0Zkf0ARvf6cA7j-puwFoAcFW4ru_bg6Vm/s4032/IMG_1701.HEIC" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLDwS2BJcBGpiCVwMpbmfbJphcO_R-wX49Igd_oD4-U8Rmd2CxDZR4saVGX9v6gV_8Np50GKsu2EdSfgA-ppcrOQEJOWRt8lgcpeHL1ZG3AZ7OPAOPN-VO-2GujoI4l4SN0KG_9S-FKPSwaKB1Apg-SpK7aRl0Zkf0ARvf6cA7j-puwFoAcFW4ru_bg6Vm/w640-h480/IMG_1701.HEIC" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">This wasn't our plane but it looked cool haha</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Twelve hour flight sounds terrifying but free snacks, drinks (including alcohol) and 2 mealtimes really make up for it. Don't forget all the movies you can watch that haven't been placed on Netflix yet! 😂</span><p></p><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFR1U7e8lJtRWWuGpcFL15I1slrmvyJnolHIJ6e3y-4J1pqhFXwbp-tVt0aYdKapfcgwQlpF9Z8lWBPsT_uwJLAU-K3fuZygcJnBVslbWKH1vUtKr7-PXxMcNvIsz-RIx-lYOqxigeoOOHSo88Phao8yCq2jpSA_dbkZH-nUVcqkzruB_QLGQBWWJZZ414/s4032/IMG_1707.HEIC" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFR1U7e8lJtRWWuGpcFL15I1slrmvyJnolHIJ6e3y-4J1pqhFXwbp-tVt0aYdKapfcgwQlpF9Z8lWBPsT_uwJLAU-K3fuZygcJnBVslbWKH1vUtKr7-PXxMcNvIsz-RIx-lYOqxigeoOOHSo88Phao8yCq2jpSA_dbkZH-nUVcqkzruB_QLGQBWWJZZ414/w480-h640/IMG_1707.HEIC" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">A glass of Prosecco before takeoff</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Ok, I can't say that everything was exactly perfect during the flight. We were located next to this makeshift wall that separated premium economy (where we were sitting) from business class and when the turbulence started, the separator broke and slammed down opening up the place. The turbulence was nothing like I've ever experienced before. It felt like we were falling down and I legit thought I was gonna die. The stewardess running around and trying to put the separator back up made everything look a lot worse because they couldn't stand properly and it looked like an emergency when it wasn't. My husband was asleep and everyone seemed chilled while I had streams of tears running down my face cos I was so scared lol. I could definitely tell that I was the only one there who has never experienced anything like this. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPKdwbiOuEOdt21biCrxuytq5yJtKf1_Z7vs7NcBCEXzpqI1VJ_gD8Soj62tnarIXjcAqm6ZD5lN72flYqy_YrvD8r7rAlvRQGClNxv9_tKVL17m7wvWyMwPK_IV1v2eosVDNdhHvSvEEE2HxSv-3sWskcT4QB6cEOrEsmUJceJdNHjpvPz-CyWJYFtDxf/s4032/IMG_1710.HEIC" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPKdwbiOuEOdt21biCrxuytq5yJtKf1_Z7vs7NcBCEXzpqI1VJ_gD8Soj62tnarIXjcAqm6ZD5lN72flYqy_YrvD8r7rAlvRQGClNxv9_tKVL17m7wvWyMwPK_IV1v2eosVDNdhHvSvEEE2HxSv-3sWskcT4QB6cEOrEsmUJceJdNHjpvPz-CyWJYFtDxf/w480-h640/IMG_1710.HEIC" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">One of the meals during the 12 hour flight</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: Roboto;">I've watched so many videos about plane food, I couldn't wait to try it myself. It wasn't bad but it wasn't great either. I have heard that they have to salt the food a lot more to make it have taste, because our taste buds get affected by high altitude but honestly it was way too much. the prawn and corn salad thing seen in the photo above was ridiculously salty. I could barely finish it. Was I correct at the saltiness level or are my taste buds that sensitive to salt? Who knows lol.</span><p></p></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqeWbq-9Gre2UE7AkS0QviG8LM5op7d_Vb0IFaUDLhcTVZ0xiBuhIcuY9LSwnQZCWf8BHZeHc9T7nryoo1IhpUGw1Uc3sW37Bq43TMX6vSe28waR_5nto_xhwdlIgMUz8m6f-WSZut2cbEXiLayHbddB29VCfcGctoKBLNQJdcqTdAZSu0rdZ_OR7xtVJ5/s4032/IMG_1711.HEIC" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqeWbq-9Gre2UE7AkS0QviG8LM5op7d_Vb0IFaUDLhcTVZ0xiBuhIcuY9LSwnQZCWf8BHZeHc9T7nryoo1IhpUGw1Uc3sW37Bq43TMX6vSe28waR_5nto_xhwdlIgMUz8m6f-WSZut2cbEXiLayHbddB29VCfcGctoKBLNQJdcqTdAZSu0rdZ_OR7xtVJ5/w480-h640/IMG_1711.HEIC" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Betsy craft beer by Gweilo brewery</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Twelve hours on the plane was so exhausting, I couldn't wait to get off. But once I started seeing the mountains through the windows, I couldn't hold my excitement! I kept looking around but people weren't looking through the windows at all, which was shocking. I wanted to sit by the window to see everything but I was sitting in the middle. People were wasting such a precious opportunity. I'm definitely sitting by the window next time we're going to HK! </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhd_KryY0XH1WT3GB6hGjeIW0FufCrxT7EpVbvqUyeLHM7pw6BzAaxo13_41s1aEGMSCQ4X0_I_g3CqZ7UKsm6Arj3PgGNNZQjgakEAUhzK_EVYsGAx2HRDFV5yfo6tPID70Rz5eSm8v28Ch6ahDiJaVNs9NUhoSzhVYS1rmFludPGPiHHS2S-4D0sdh87/s4032/IMG_1712.HEIC" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhd_KryY0XH1WT3GB6hGjeIW0FufCrxT7EpVbvqUyeLHM7pw6BzAaxo13_41s1aEGMSCQ4X0_I_g3CqZ7UKsm6Arj3PgGNNZQjgakEAUhzK_EVYsGAx2HRDFV5yfo6tPID70Rz5eSm8v28Ch6ahDiJaVNs9NUhoSzhVYS1rmFludPGPiHHS2S-4D0sdh87/w480-h640/IMG_1712.HEIC" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Meal 2 during UK - HK flight</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Actually the meals were really filling. We flew using Cathay Pacific and it was really decent. Next time we'll be using Economy class so we'll see if the meals are still alright. I loved the little jam jars and chocolates. I couldn't' even finish them all as I'm not used to eating so many sweet things for my meals! </span><p></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyeYwx7Go3ECjwKdlMTmKECzIKXigN86DX5VIAPhPfMF1eQqi4v7yFyObAfNRl91EzdmD64BhnZWlV_t1hyr854RsKLDL5_ljJm8I7n4HVuBIG5o9oqvqP4xotcui0pJU-5y9Gs9qVKo2beK-tu-CwwCvym-wveBFGeWV7f9nTiTDPhcKSUgwWueurT37A/s4032/IMG_1715.HEIC" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyeYwx7Go3ECjwKdlMTmKECzIKXigN86DX5VIAPhPfMF1eQqi4v7yFyObAfNRl91EzdmD64BhnZWlV_t1hyr854RsKLDL5_ljJm8I7n4HVuBIG5o9oqvqP4xotcui0pJU-5y9Gs9qVKo2beK-tu-CwwCvym-wveBFGeWV7f9nTiTDPhcKSUgwWueurT37A/w480-h640/IMG_1715.HEIC" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Mountains surrounding the International Hong Kong Airport</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Landing in Hong Kong was like a dream. I know it might sound silly but it truly felt unreal. I've never left Europe so finally fulfilling my dream and coming to Asia at age 31 was something else. I tried to keep my cool because I didn't want my excitement to come across as odd and have border security detain me. 🤣 Luckily it all went perfectly fine. I was really looking forward getting a stamp in my passport because I've only been to Schengen zone countries so I never needed any visa or stamp, but unfortunately they have changed their system recently and you only get a little piece of paper with your details printed, as well as the date when you have to legally leave if you only come as a tourist. Hong Kong has different rules for different countries, but generally your stay is limited to somewhere between 1 and 6 months. Hopefully next time we can cross into China too and I can finally get my stamp lol. </span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjI89UdnozG_FhUrxTHknK8RpUE_aNFKzqJgcNPizWcPd3uk5q9xICUeJGQ-X2M_JOh3DdYH2dmFpzq_WbrkdLjwxuj7n8lVSlX-hUaFFl20OD3BqMECMPzuZwcKOXMohZ4ZtCCHKYTCpQ_iMXIQ8G-ndiDnIHQBkEg9UIRYFsHeJRsPwK29AV28H_NJrQ/s4032/IMG_1719.HEIC" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjI89UdnozG_FhUrxTHknK8RpUE_aNFKzqJgcNPizWcPd3uk5q9xICUeJGQ-X2M_JOh3DdYH2dmFpzq_WbrkdLjwxuj7n8lVSlX-hUaFFl20OD3BqMECMPzuZwcKOXMohZ4ZtCCHKYTCpQ_iMXIQ8G-ndiDnIHQBkEg9UIRYFsHeJRsPwK29AV28H_NJrQ/w480-h640/IMG_1719.HEIC" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">International Hong Kong Airport exit towards taxi car park</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Make sure to follow my blog as I'll be posting a lot more adventures from Hong Kong and really cool locations to visit!~</span><p></p><h4><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: Roboto;">My Podcast: </span><a href="https://apintofrice.libsyn.com" target="_blank"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Coming Soon;">A Pint Of Rice</span></a><span style="font-family: Roboto;"> | My IG: </span><a href="https://instagram.com/rinatsuchan" target="_blank"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Coming Soon;">Lina B 🦭</span></a></i></span></h4><p><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: medium;"><i>Byeee~</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: Roboto;"></span></i></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"></span></p><h4><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Coming Soon; font-size: large;"><b><i>Lina (Rinatsu)</i></b></span></h4></div>Lina Beeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02590376992066346069noreply@blogger.com0Heathrow Airport (LHR), Hounslow TW6 1QG, UK51.4679914 -0.45505129.684826082786167 -35.611300999999983 73.251156717213831 34.701198999999988tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8709916811590067395.post-38448256494727471822023-11-29T13:42:00.003+00:002023-12-06T13:41:05.036+00:00Weight loss journey - Week 3<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Coming Soon;">Well, last week was disappointing. Let's make this week a good one since week 2 was unsatisfactory lol~</span></h3></blockquote><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Here we are, already at week 3. While <a href="https://rinatsu.blogspot.com/2023/11/weight-loss-journey-week-1.html" target="_blank">week 1</a> was pretty decent, <a href="https://rinatsu.blogspot.com/2023/11/weight-loss-journey-week-2.html" target="_blank">week 2</a> turned out to be a massive disappointment. Weight kept going up and down and only went down on the last day. Let's make sure things are a bit better this week. I think what I learnt from last week is to be mindful eating the last meal of the day. Keep on top of calories and don't eat too late, which is essential if you want to see a difference on the scale in the morning. </span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTf1cSdEpCkgtA3s7ZDlpqGcu92VIKPessG2T6uuJEpvu3TZ8ZYT35noL5jA6rBZS8SsD_OSHY2va9qw9HtFuAvjZd4vcceGEef8NkKrYJ3EehQrYJvUBxMb0aNE59M_OPCeRvuXt_kouptLtfsAartspYgcwelYj7tDielqEcpn4IMYMkFc8c2ag-vVNr/s2097/IMG_5012.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2097" data-original-width="1035" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTf1cSdEpCkgtA3s7ZDlpqGcu92VIKPessG2T6uuJEpvu3TZ8ZYT35noL5jA6rBZS8SsD_OSHY2va9qw9HtFuAvjZd4vcceGEef8NkKrYJ3EehQrYJvUBxMb0aNE59M_OPCeRvuXt_kouptLtfsAartspYgcwelYj7tDielqEcpn4IMYMkFc8c2ag-vVNr/w316-h640/IMG_5012.PNG" width="316" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Week 2 weight loss graph</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">As you can see, week 2 has had a rather flat line. I only lost 0.2 kg, which is hugely disappointing. So believe me, I'll be eating lots of soup this week lol.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Coming Soon;"><b>Week 3 Day 1</b></span></h4></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Weight</b>: 0 kg (0 kg weekly total; -1.2 kg total).</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Breakfast</b>: kimchi sandwich (2 slices of white bread, thin slice of spam, tomato, homemade kimchi wrapped in 2 beaten eggs, all cooked in a pan. I really need to make a separate post about it lol).</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Lunch</b>: homemade veggie soup with 2 plant based sausages and a dollop of soya yoghurt; 1 digestive biscuit, 1 clementine. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Dinner</b>: homemade veggie soup with a dollop of soya yoghurt; 500ml lager.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Total</b> <b>calories</b>: ~1155 kcal.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Workout</b>: no workout.</span></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Coming Soon;">Week 3 Day 2 </span></h4></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Weight</b>: -0.6 kg (-0.6 kg weekly total; -1.8 kg total).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Breakfast</b>: homemade veggie soup with a dollop of soya yoghurt.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Snack</b>: croissant.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Lunch</b>: 2 eggs, 2 plant based sausages, 2 tomatoes, sautéed mushrooms, yellow pepper.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Snack</b>: banana with peanut butter. </span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Dinner</b>: white rice, 2 soft boiled eggs, wakame, homemade kimchi, tobiko, and a glass of ale.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Total</b> <b>calories</b>: ~1479 kcal</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Workout</b>: 50 minute session at the gym (mix of elliptical, T-bar row, single arm lat pulldowns; ~216 kcal burned. </span> </p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Coming Soon;">Week 3 Day 3</span></h4></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Weight</b>: 0 kg (-0.6 kg weekly total; -1.8 kg total).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Breakfast</b>: 2 eggs, 2 pork sausages, tomato, sautéed spinach, red pepper.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Lunch</b>: a small piece of turkey, 2 small roasted potatoes.</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">So, technically I skipped lunch because husband and I had a private chef event and we did not have time or ability to eat, so I munched on a couple of potatoes and turkey slice lol.</span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCkpcnT-ghtVH1k-iRLZfpO0PrxdReVyyt1DStIxRLVjHUis_edw2m-OozGDdJdSKfhOiL-_m4l_en7upt6fNhTbYjHF9Ui-EvLLHlmCQDM0TfTJogusWkVokKqBhMGBGXPFPbH4-cnA-lia3E1pEEJ9KVJ0FVywSsB-ySEXGjqmczaD83tQp_gaMvqgfj/s4032/IMG_5025.HEIC" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCkpcnT-ghtVH1k-iRLZfpO0PrxdReVyyt1DStIxRLVjHUis_edw2m-OozGDdJdSKfhOiL-_m4l_en7upt6fNhTbYjHF9Ui-EvLLHlmCQDM0TfTJogusWkVokKqBhMGBGXPFPbH4-cnA-lia3E1pEEJ9KVJ0FVywSsB-ySEXGjqmczaD83tQp_gaMvqgfj/w480-h640/IMG_5025.HEIC" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Cute dog at the client's house</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Dinner</b>: ramen noodles.</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">That's so unhealthy and 400+ calories in one pack. Not my usual choice of dinner but it took us an hour to get home after the event and we came home really late. Tiredness got the better of us. 😩</span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Total</b> <b>calories</b>: ~1070 kcal.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Workout</b>: no workout but done a lot of walking and lifting things around during the event. My workout watch estimated that I've burned ~300+ calories within the evening. </span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Coming Soon;">Week 3 Day 4</span></h4></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Weight</b>: -1 kg (-1.6 kg weekly total; -2.8 kg total).</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">OMG I can't believe I've lost one kilo overnight! I even had ramen around 1am last night. 🥲 I really thought this will ruin it. But crazily enough everything worked out amazing! Almost 3kg overall loss and I hit another milestone! Only 0.4 kg until Milestone 3. Really excited.</span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSvDnU3ptkn5rE8c9d69DYUCK1r5eFA6rglkZvOlCnz0ELmSlE8ZeMtYu3wIE40VQd6OB_DX81b7_jiFdusrT-_3xPaEhwcIKg8GKFRMOXJR4dfu72lnwuUxHfMvjJNrMba4XW_Rqi6eRl5UEnhm1VbSCoyqaoVIY-zoJYgELiJxCTxPT2D_ENQeKiH5TY/s1629/IMG_5040.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1629" data-original-width="1284" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSvDnU3ptkn5rE8c9d69DYUCK1r5eFA6rglkZvOlCnz0ELmSlE8ZeMtYu3wIE40VQd6OB_DX81b7_jiFdusrT-_3xPaEhwcIKg8GKFRMOXJR4dfu72lnwuUxHfMvjJNrMba4XW_Rqi6eRl5UEnhm1VbSCoyqaoVIY-zoJYgELiJxCTxPT2D_ENQeKiH5TY/w504-h640/IMG_5040.PNG" width="504" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Milestone 2 reached on Happy Scale!</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Current weight loss rate is 0.81 kg per week and the estimated goal reach is in 8 months. Getting there! </span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Breakfast</b>: 3/4 of a cup of roasted potatoes with 2 scrambled eggs, kimchi and a bit of tomato ketchup.</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">In the next couple of days I'll be eating weird stuff (as in, not my usual foods), because we have a lot of leftovers from the event and I don't believe in food waste lol. It is all pretty calorific so I'll just be eating small portions of things. </span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Lunch</b>: smoked salmon with Crème Fraîche and rocket mix on toast, Pommes Anna, small cube of stuffing (private event leftovers).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Dinner</b>: lemon tart.</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">So, technically the lemon tart wasn't a dinner but a dessert after lunch. I just wasn't really hungry and didn't eat dinner lol. </span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Total</b> <b>calories</b>: ~1159 kcal.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Workout</b>: no workout today.</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Coming Soon;">Week 3 Day 5</span></h4></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Weight</b>: +0.2 kg (-1.4 kg weekly total; -2.6 kg total).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Breakfast</b>: </span><span style="font-family: Roboto;">3/4 of a cup of roasted potatoes with 2 scrambled eggs, small cube of stuffing, tomato, kimchi and a bit of tomato ketchup.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Lunch</b>: </span><span style="font-family: Roboto;">3/4 of a cup of roasted potatoes with 2 scrambled eggs, small cube of stuffing, tomato, kimchi and a bit of tomato ketchup.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Dinner</b>: homemade veggie soup with a dollop of soya yoghurt and spring onions; a bottle of porter. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Total</b> <b>calories</b>: ~1012 kcal.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Workout</b>: no workout today.</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Coming Soon;">Week 3 Day 6</span></h4></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Weight</b>: +0.6 kg (-0.8 kg weekly total; -2 kg total).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Breakfast</b>: large Yorkshire pudding.</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">I was heading out to run some errands and didn't really have time to eat anything else, don't judge lol. </span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Lunch</b>: white rice with miso aubergine.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Snack</b>: 2.5 pints of ale, curly fries with ketchup. </span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Dinner</b>: 1 clementine and 1 apple.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Total</b> <b>calories</b>: ~1167 kcal.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Workout</b>: no workout today.</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Coming Soon;">Week 3 Day 7</span></h4></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Weight</b>: -0.7 kg (-1.5 kg weekly total; -2.7 kg total).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Breakfast</b>: peanut butter sesame noodles with tofu and kimchi.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Lunch</b>: Pommes Anna, 2 fried eggs, small cube of stuffing, 2 roasted carrots; lemon tart with berry coulis.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Dinner</b>: banana with peanut butter</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Total</b> <b>calories</b>: 1478 kcal</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Workout</b>: no workout today.</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">So, overall I've lost 1.5 kg this week, with the grand total of 2.7 kg loss. I take it as a great win and I'm very proud of myself, especially considering that I only lost 0.2 kg last week. I managed to achieve 1 milestone and my current weekly weight loss rate is 0.94 kg, which predicts that I'll reach my final goal in 7 months! <a href="https://rinatsu.blogspot.com/2023/12/weight-loss-journey-week-4.html" target="_blank">Stay tuned for week 4</a>! </span></p><h4><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: Roboto;">My Podcast: </span><a href="https://apintofrice.libsyn.com" target="_blank"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Coming Soon;">A Pint Of Rice</span></a><span style="font-family: Roboto;"> | My IG: </span><a href="https://instagram.com/rinatsuchan" target="_blank"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Coming Soon;">Lina B 🦭</span></a></i></span></h4><p><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: medium;"><i>Byeee~</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: Roboto;"></span></i></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"></span></p><h4><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Coming Soon; font-size: large;"><b><i>Lina (Rinatsu)</i></b></span></h4>Lina Beeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02590376992066346069noreply@blogger.com0Worcestershire, UK52.2545225 -2.266838223.944288663821155 -37.4230882 80.564756336178846 32.8894118tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8709916811590067395.post-27790880193733557912023-11-21T21:00:00.002+00:002023-11-30T17:43:43.723+00:00Weight loss journey - Week 2<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Coming Soon;">Hello and welcome to Week 2 of my weight loss journey!~</span></h3></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">So, after a pretty successful first week (1 kg weekly weight loss in a sustainable, no extreme calorie cuts is pretty good in my opinion), I'm back with week 2. Not gonna lie, coming back to blogging after a damn long time has really boosted my creative inspiration and documenting is holding me accountable so I can't drift too much as I'll have to write it down here. <a href="https://rinatsu.blogspot.com/2023/11/weight-loss-journey-week-1.html" target="_blank">You can find my week 1 progress post here.</a></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFruazsUiw-5m-Xui88A4nFuOFOxKagcw1tTB0rF7qCQDemHdHRZ3SCm9IWOG0ZWVk1z5N-Re2eqd7mpH_3lOGqTlD1YqcRBl9TxeJ1Jmq-rm6LXWCEPCvf8ULVEE_Kaz4wHtMHMhweuTHWSU7N7amzNTs1zlA7qIhLAqjP6XP3QlsQ6AO59vTgScmVQe9/s1751/IMG_4937.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1751" data-original-width="1007" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFruazsUiw-5m-Xui88A4nFuOFOxKagcw1tTB0rF7qCQDemHdHRZ3SCm9IWOG0ZWVk1z5N-Re2eqd7mpH_3lOGqTlD1YqcRBl9TxeJ1Jmq-rm6LXWCEPCvf8ULVEE_Kaz4wHtMHMhweuTHWSU7N7amzNTs1zlA7qIhLAqjP6XP3QlsQ6AO59vTgScmVQe9/w368-h640/IMG_4937.PNG" width="368" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Week 1 Weight Chart</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">So, what you see above is last week's weight chart. The app I use is called Happy Scale and I've been using this for many years. Since 2019, to be precise (I'm not sponsored, I just love this app very much lol). It tracks your weight and shows you future predictions based on your current weight loss trends. You can set your own target and split your weight loss into smaller milestones. What's great is that the app calculates averages, therefore if your weight goes up and down (because it's normal and it happens a lot during weight loss), you will still be in the green because on average you are losing. Every time you have a new goal to work on, you can just hide old entries and start like it's new (that's why my chart only shows 7 entries). So the goal that I've set myself is to lose 0.5 kg per week (being realistic here, but obviously anything over that is a bonus!). But the app has made some calculations and my current rate is 0.8 kg per week, therefore I should reach my final goal in about 9 months (yikes lol). Anyway, if you'd like to check it out, here's their website: <a href="https://happyscale.com" target="_blank">Happy Scale</a>. Unfortunately, it's only available on iOS for now. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Coming Soon;"><i>Week 2 Day 1</i></span></h3></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Weight</b>: no change (0 kg weekly total, -1 kg total). </span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Breakfast</b>: jollof rice with spinach and 2 eggs. </span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Lunch</b>: homemade veggie soup with a dollop of soya yoghurt; banana with peanut butter.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Dinner</b>: egg fried rice. </span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Snack</b>: mini scone with butter, apple. </span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Total</b> <b>calories</b>: ~1442 kcal</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Workout</b>: no workout today.</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Coming Soon;"><i>Week 2 Day 2</i></span></h3></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Weight</b>: +0.2 kg (+0.2 kg weekly total, -0.8 kg total).</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Breakfast</b>: jollof rice with loads of spinach and 2 eggs.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Lunch</b>: homemade veggie soup with a dollop of soya yoghurt; banana with peanut butter.</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">I'm doing a pretty low calorie day today because I want to accelerate the losing a little bit. Also my husband is home for the weekend and if we decide to cook something nice, I can't resist it lmao. The macros for the day ended up quite high in carbs, but only cos of beans and potatoes in the soup. Either way, it's very good for you so there's no need to worry about a little bit of carbs. Also that soup fills me up so much, I can't believe it's so low in calories!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">By the way, I'm tracking my macros and calories through MyFitnessPal (still, after many years lol). I'm using a free version. Since I'm not a body builder or anything like that I don't see the need to use full functions just for my personal non-professional use lol.</span> </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Dinner</b>: homemade veggie soup with a dollop of soya yoghurt, homemade beer.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Total</b> <b>calories</b>: ~1190 kcal</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Just as I was typing how I'll be reducing calories, husband comes back and offers to have a glass of my homemade beer together (yes, I brew beer) and I simply can't resist haha. I still ate pretty well and stayed within the calorie range I planned to. </span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Workout</b>: no workout today.</span></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Coming Soon;"><i>Week 2 Day 3</i></span></h3></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Weight</b>: -0.2 kg (no change in weekly total, -1 kg total).</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Breakfast</b>: oat porridge with peanut butter, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, dried cranberries and bee pollen. </span></p></blockquote><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk0FrZ6dWp3okCbt2T8rMm_qN8CpwHfLHwzmabo4RmH4tjHKE_ch06RAcOA3TRcOanvY1W6aCK3xPnmwyv78VsDNYzGDlUgnLQDM-fOxHRcSXxSqHvEsNCbzVwgVGgInrFRgo-EJo-fIW4DD13vtoBwVGMyNzU_XdC6tVcr77FrMjuXaUvBShmsnxA1A6I/s4032/IMG_4956.HEIC" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk0FrZ6dWp3okCbt2T8rMm_qN8CpwHfLHwzmabo4RmH4tjHKE_ch06RAcOA3TRcOanvY1W6aCK3xPnmwyv78VsDNYzGDlUgnLQDM-fOxHRcSXxSqHvEsNCbzVwgVGgInrFRgo-EJo-fIW4DD13vtoBwVGMyNzU_XdC6tVcr77FrMjuXaUvBShmsnxA1A6I/w480-h640/IMG_4956.HEIC" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Week 2 Day 3 Breakfast</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Husband made way too much porridge. Since I started tracking my food and reducing calories a week+ ago, I have a very little appetite so this was a huge bowl for me and I didn't feel hungry for 5 hours straight after eating this, which is honestly impressive. 🤣</span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Lunch</b>: homemade veggie soup with 2 plant based sausages and a dollop of soya yoghurt.</span></p></blockquote><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe-RuiBl9sAuc696DLpCY5HG-7fcpm0LZH6jbVBeqQFgNcaUb0YYu2xT-1Vx7Ml-RCP-yD9Orw0QWaVIqtQfzqO_0xHfVjh8hIVSzRJtiFmvCUB3Bo_YlEiRhhkJbglyt-HVtr2lbmgQStGTYahesUnSADzNSJ4svuZQpjuF8nNKZJjaJk24Rk0D3Fahe6/s4032/IMG_4957.HEIC" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe-RuiBl9sAuc696DLpCY5HG-7fcpm0LZH6jbVBeqQFgNcaUb0YYu2xT-1Vx7Ml-RCP-yD9Orw0QWaVIqtQfzqO_0xHfVjh8hIVSzRJtiFmvCUB3Bo_YlEiRhhkJbglyt-HVtr2lbmgQStGTYahesUnSADzNSJ4svuZQpjuF8nNKZJjaJk24Rk0D3Fahe6/w480-h640/IMG_4957.HEIC" width="480" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Beans for a new batch of soup</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">I've just finished my last batch of soup I made a couple of days ago so I soaked a mixture of 4 dried peas and beans. First time using black beans. Didn't realise they dye other beans. My normally white cannellini beans are now purple. </span><span style="font-family: Roboto;">🤣</span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju2ocHihUdqB3QSBBONp-ocVgpU8m3jbd-X0QPGZZ-_GDxJO6jtSXrvj-Q1eqRcSdkOa7oV2B5-BDYKrTOqmU_Y0z_hxdPEmpP_jZwdTismI_P_N20RbPtqu7FE4tHOAPELHB1kZdba8BJDpxRNSVK5PZGEbOgSEqpbBbFyfgq84l66-ZgIJqZZpOVN2PJ/s4032/IMG_4962.HEIC" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju2ocHihUdqB3QSBBONp-ocVgpU8m3jbd-X0QPGZZ-_GDxJO6jtSXrvj-Q1eqRcSdkOa7oV2B5-BDYKrTOqmU_Y0z_hxdPEmpP_jZwdTismI_P_N20RbPtqu7FE4tHOAPELHB1kZdba8BJDpxRNSVK5PZGEbOgSEqpbBbFyfgq84l66-ZgIJqZZpOVN2PJ/w480-h640/IMG_4962.HEIC" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Week 2 Day 3 Dinner</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Dinner</b></span>: <span style="font-family: Roboto;">a small ladle of new veggie soup to taste; egg noodles with spam, peppers and a side of homemade kimchi. </span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Total</b> <b>calories</b>: ~1036 kcal.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Workout</b>: no workout today.</span></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Coming Soon;"><i>Week 2 Day 4</i></span></h3></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Weight:</b> +0.4 kg (+0.4 kg weekly total; -0.6 kg total).</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">So, even though I ate quite a small amount of calories yesterday, I did gain, which is the result of me eating dinner really late. Something to watch out for in the future! </span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Breakfast: </b>homemade veggie soup with a dollop of soya yoghurt.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Snack</b>: croissant. </span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Lunch: </b>2 plant based sausages, 2 eggs, sautéed spinach and mushrooms, tomato, chunky chips with some ketchup and mayo.</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Here I started feeling some issues. I felt extremely bloated and heavy after eating this lunch. The issue is, that this used to be my normal lunch so I thought that this is probably just my endometriosis playing up but unfortunately, the heaviness lasted all day long. </span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Snack</b>: 2 pints of HPA ale at the pub. </span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Not really a snack per se, but we do have to consider that alcohol contains quite a lot of calories. </span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Dinner: </b>homemade carbonara with mushrooms and spam; homemade tarte tatin aux pommes with vegan custard. </span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">This was so good. I haven't made carbonara for a while so made it too runny and didn't take any photos but it was delish. Husband made a homemade tarte tatin aux pommes, which is an upside down apple tart and it was so good. 🥲 Consumed way too many calories than it was planned but it's all worth it lol.</span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Total calories:</b> ~1761 kcal</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Workout: </b>50 minute session in the gym (a mixture of cardio on elliptical machine, barbel rows, curls, lat pulls). ~428 kcal burned.</span></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><h3><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Coming Soon;"><i>Week 2 Day 5</i></span></h3></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Weight: </b>-0.2 kg (+0.2 kg weekly </span><span style="font-family: Roboto;">total; -0.8 kg total).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Breakfast: </b>homemade veggie soup with a dollop of soya yoghurt. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Lunch: </b></span><span style="font-family: Roboto;">2 plant based sausages, 2 eggs, sautéed spinach and mushrooms, tomato, chunky chips with some ketchup and mayo.</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">So, once again, after eating exactly the same lunch as yesterday, I started feeling heaviness/upset stomach. After having a discussion about this with husband, we started suspecting chips. Basically after closing the last business, we had a lot of potato chips leftover, so we've been eating them to try and make some space in the freezer. Normally potato chips don't cause me such a reaction but I'm assuming that due to the fact that this lunch is normally quite filling in itself, the chips just kinda make everything too heavy and my body might be reacting badly. It's also important to note that I do have a sensitive stomach. So, from now on I won't be having any chips on my regular lunch and I'll see what comes out of it. What a learning experience... 🙃</span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Dinner: </b>miso glazed aubergine, spam, sesame seaweed, homemade kimchi with white rice; homemade tart satin aux pommel with vegan custard; a glass of homemade ale. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Total calories:</b> ~1471 kcal.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Workout: </b>40 minute session in the gym (a mixture of cardio on elliptical machine, squats and hip thrusts. ~168 kcal burned.</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Not very happy how this week is going to be honest. It's almost the end of 2nd week and I haven't made any progress at all. There were a couple of evenings where I ate quite late and a couple of days where I didn't make the healthiest choices. Even though the calories aren't high and they're definitely below my BMR (basic metabolic rate, a.k.a. calories that you body burns to function), I don't seem to be losing weight. What a learning curve. Even after so many years of trying different diets I'm still learning something new and trying to improve. I hope I'll see some results in a few days... </span><span style="font-family: Roboto;">🙃</span></p><p> </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><h3><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Coming Soon;"><i>Week 2 Day 6</i></span></h3></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Weight: </b>-0.1 kg (+0.1 kg weekly total; -0.9 kg total).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Breakfast: </b>homemade veggie soup with 2 plant based sausages and a dollop of soya yoghurt. </span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Snack</b>: digestive biscuit. </span></p></blockquote><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtEI7ceoOCgqzysuHskSmOj8gKa-EsirTv2FHcnHb_sFLC9EgHlgshLvzaYCCCr_aZ_H0q5yb5mgueHV7OVVB0zHq6dcUf5lJY2GRaD4-UGnTfTklZLLtR8JHYF0OMyi33VUck5De5DFYXQYzujbbMmQWwR58mLQcl4qgn9DCmAShVGot5a-DRaLdjGZkE/s4032/IMG_5004.HEIC" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtEI7ceoOCgqzysuHskSmOj8gKa-EsirTv2FHcnHb_sFLC9EgHlgshLvzaYCCCr_aZ_H0q5yb5mgueHV7OVVB0zHq6dcUf5lJY2GRaD4-UGnTfTklZLLtR8JHYF0OMyi33VUck5De5DFYXQYzujbbMmQWwR58mLQcl4qgn9DCmAShVGot5a-DRaLdjGZkE/w480-h640/IMG_5004.HEIC" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Week 2 Day 6 Lunch</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Ok this sandwich is the best. I randomly came up with it using a traditional French omelette as an inspiration. Basically folding things into an egg. It's so filling and is only around 450 kcal. I might need to make a video about it at some point haha.</span><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Lunch:</b> kimchi sandwich.</span> </p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Snack</b>: clementine and butterfly pea tea latte. </span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Don't get too confused about the tea latte thing. It's simply this blue tea from flowers that I picked up in Hong Kong made with lots of milk haha. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Ok tomorrow is the last weigh-in for Week 2 and I'm desperate to see some results. I'll need to be strategic for my dinner for Day 6 as I'm already at 991 kcal. At least I'm not feeling heavy and bloated today!</span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Dinner: </b>white rice, soft boiled egg, kimchi.</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Kimchi is loaded with good bacteria and is great for your gut. In fact, any fermented foods is really good for your gut, so I highly recommend adding that to your diet! </span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Total calories: </b>~1298 kcal</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Workout: </b>no workout today but lots of housework to keep me moving lol.</span></p></blockquote><p> </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><h3><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Coming Soon;"><i>Week 2 Day 7</i></span></h3></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Weight: </b>-0.3 kg (-0.2 kg weekly total; -1.2 kg total).</span></p></blockquote><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPpjoFYaohLNK0bgVTHGTlnjHuCNQXogA2qSTSUsC5RjVhEQeMhyuGbn2p-3U8QTTWBawP__FF1IYSKA76CWhoOZJ6pnLE0v2lPEI8TcS4Nn7DjJJkJALpgqNU-WUhQs_CJ6EtpGQFu1KuujUMaKDGNshpjAjET5NMVNtKX6svZVvR7ABq9vW0JtR5ADpq/s1645/IMG_5008.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1645" data-original-width="1284" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPpjoFYaohLNK0bgVTHGTlnjHuCNQXogA2qSTSUsC5RjVhEQeMhyuGbn2p-3U8QTTWBawP__FF1IYSKA76CWhoOZJ6pnLE0v2lPEI8TcS4Nn7DjJJkJALpgqNU-WUhQs_CJ6EtpGQFu1KuujUMaKDGNshpjAjET5NMVNtKX6svZVvR7ABq9vW0JtR5ADpq/w500-h640/IMG_5008.PNG" width="500" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Milestone 1 achieved!</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Yay! Milestone 1 hit! Apologies about the hidden numbers. I will share it once I've achieved more, but at the moment I'm very self conscious about it. Happy Scale has a brilliant function where you can divide you main goal into smaller milestones. I basically used a lot of increments to make 30 milestones. Seems excessive but I need that hit of serotonin when I reach a milestone. And they're in rather small increments that the new dose of serotonin isn't that far away haha. That sounds like an addictive personality but as long as you stay on track and do it in a healthy way, you'll be fine.</span></p><div><div><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Breakfast: </b>kimchi sandwich.</span></p></blockquote></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Snack</b>: 1 clementine and 2 digestive biscuits. </span></p></div></div></blockquote><div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Lunch: </b>homemade veggie soup with a dollop of soya yoghurt. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Dinner: </b>small bowl of homemade veggie soup with a dollop of soya yoghurt; banana with peanut butter.</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Probably had too much peanut butter to be honest, but I was feeling a little hungry and thought that after eating soup for lunch and dinner, I needed something a little bit more substantial. </span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Total calories: </b>~1218 kcal.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Workout: </b>no workout today.</span></p><div><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b><br /></b></span></div></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Week 2 is officially over! Due to rubbish week, my weight loss rate has dropped to 0.53 kg instead of 1 kg like it was, which predicts milestone 2 to happen in 2 weeks which is definitely not good enough, so believe me, I'll be working hard to fix this next week! </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><a href="https://rinatsu.blogspot.com/2023/11/weight-loss-journey-week-3.html" target="_blank">Read my week 3 progress here!~</a></span></p><h4><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: Roboto;">My Podcast: </span><a href="https://apintofrice.libsyn.com" target="_blank"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Coming Soon;">A Pint Of Rice</span></a><span style="font-family: Roboto;"> | My IG: </span><a href="https://instagram.com/rinatsuchan" target="_blank"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Coming Soon;">Lina B 🦭</span></a></i></span></h4><p><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: medium;"><i>Byeee~</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: Roboto;"></span></i></p><h4><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Coming Soon; font-size: large;"><b><i>Lina (Rinatsu)</i></b></span></h4></div>Lina Beeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02590376992066346069noreply@blogger.com0Worcestershire, UK52.2545225 -2.266838223.944288663821155 -37.4230882 80.564756336178846 32.8894118tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8709916811590067395.post-8181363949923644382023-11-16T16:18:00.002+00:002023-11-21T18:28:04.899+00:00Show review - Doona! (Netflix)<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Coming Soon;"> Did I binge this show? Yes. Am I frustrated? Also yes.</span></h3></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Coming Soon;">* * * Please be aware that there will be spoilers here as I do not watch what I say, especially if I'm ranting lol. Make sure that you're okay with spoilers or come back after you've finished watching the show. * * *</span></h4></blockquote><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blog.asianwiki.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Doona-cpSM1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="592" data-original-width="800" height="474" src="https://blog.asianwiki.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Doona-cpSM1.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Doona! poster</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: Roboto;">So for the couple of weeks I've been watching a new Netflix show - Doona! It's a Korean drama that was released on October 20th, 2023, so only a few weeks ago. It has 9 episodes, each around 45 minutes long. It has hit top 10 lists in 67 countries, which is pretty impressive. Although, nowadays Korean obsession has hit the whole world like a storm so it's not that unpredictable. I'm reminiscing of the days 10+ years ago when I had interest in Korean culture and people wouldn't really say much about it. Nowadays people just make silly comments once they find out "Oh So YoU'rE oBsEsSeD wItH bTs ThEn? 🥴" - No, I actually don't really listen to them, I simply have different interests than yours, surprise. 🙄</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">I'm not really that surprised about the success of this show, considering the main actor is Bae Suzy, a member of the now disbanded Kpop girl group miss A. I was actually a fan of that group, since it was so different at the time (2010), especially their debut song. So pretty sad they've finished their career as a group. 🥲 </span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.pinimg.com/originals/77/30/88/7730880870c5ba817ba6ab88885d1e5d.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="589" data-original-width="800" height="471" src="https://i.pinimg.com/originals/77/30/88/7730880870c5ba817ba6ab88885d1e5d.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Kpop girl group - miss A</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Suzy was definitely one of the most popular members of the group towards the end of miss A's reign and the group was often labeled as "Suzy and friends", this usually occurs when one member of the group becomes significantly more famous and having a much larger fanbase than the rest. I am not into digging too much about the intricacies of Kpop (I rarely read into idol's personal lives), so I can't give you much more in terms of knowledge or perspective. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/kpophelp/comments/z6ycyo/what_exactly_was_the_suzy_situation/" target="_blank">If you're interested to find out more, you can read an interesting thread about it on Reddit.</a> </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blog.asianwiki.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Doona-tp.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="540" height="640" src="https://blog.asianwiki.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Doona-tp.jpeg" width="432" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Doona! poster</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: Coming Soon;"><b>Yays of the show:</b> </span><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: Roboto;">If you watch K-dramas, you know how notorious they can be when it comes to product placement. If the drama is extremely well anticipated and got good investors, you bet you'll see product placement from episode 1 onwards. Thing is, when it happens they're not even subtle about this. You'll get full on 5 minutes of different angles and sometimes even "how to use" section or even discussion between characters. Please make it stop. 🥲 Surprisingly I didn't see (potentially, unless I missed) any of that. I was slightly concerned at the beginning of it, when the male protagonist first moves to his shared apartment and finally sits on his bed and grabs some juice/vitamin (?) drink and mentions the flavour. I was slightly confused on the purpose of that scene but we didn't get a full on shot of the product he was drinking so even if it was a product placement, I can let this one go lol.</span></li></ul><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Realistic relationship scenes. I can't believe we are finally seeing more and more realistic relationships in Korean dramas. I'm so tired of the fish lips and dry kisses. "Oh, I'm so passionate about this girl, I'm burning with love and desire, let me just touch my dead, motionless lips onto hers with my eyes wide open". Yeah... That's definitely what happens... 😐 Well, surprisingly Doona! offers a pretty good look into realistic passionate relationships with ACTUAL decent kissing scenes. Maybe just tone down on the extremely OTT overdub of the kissing sounds. As somebody who despises ASMR this sounded like nails on the chalkboard to me. 🤣</span></li></ul><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Talking about the issues within the entertainment business - manipulative managers, extreme binding contracts, destructive scandals, family issues.</span></li></ul><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Coming Soon;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Coming Soon;"><b>Nays of the show:</b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">I'm sorry but what the heck is that ending??? Here I was, eating my breakfast and before I even took 3 bites the show was finished?! I didn't even realise I was watching the last episode! I was so confused, I thought maybe there was a glitch and there is another episode still, but nah, that was it. So then I went on Google trying to find out whether there's more episodes coming in the next weeks or what, because you can't tell me that's it. I can accept the fact if it doesn't get renewed for season 2 as it's such a common occurrence but you can't tell me that the writers decided "yeah this ending will do". I even read some articles stating that it had a "bittersweet conclusion". What conclusion exactly? Ok so the main characters can't/won't be together for whatever reason, and then they pass each other while in different country on business trip. The end. Eh??? That is neither bittersweet nor conclusion. I don't care what anybody says. 🙃 This felt so unfinished and unresolved! Look, I'm not opposed to some good old bittersweet cliffhanger to finish the story forever, the situation where you kinda have to create your own ending and ponder the character's lives. But this is just not it, no. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">The show wasn't on the top of my list anyway, considering some recent stuff that I've loved like "The Glory" or "Mask Girl". So at least I've expected some sort of resolution, a more defined ending. Call me fussy if you like. 🙃 </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Ah, I'm just a little bit disappointed. I need to find something new to watch. So I started watching another K-drama called "Agency" and I'm already not sure lol. Within the first 15 minutes we had 2 very obvious product placements. Ah, please tell me this will get better and wish me luck. </span><span style="font-family: Roboto;">🙃</span></p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: Roboto;">My Podcast: </span><a href="https://apintofrice.libsyn.com" target="_blank"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Coming Soon;">A Pint Of Rice</span></a><span style="font-family: Roboto;"> | My IG: </span><a href="https://instagram.com/rinatsuchan" target="_blank"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Coming Soon;">Lina B 🦭</span></a></i></span></h4><p><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: medium;"><i>Byeee~</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: Roboto;"></span></i></p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Coming Soon; font-size: large;"><b><i>Lina (Rinatsu)</i></b></span></h4><p></p><p></p>Lina Beeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02590376992066346069noreply@blogger.com0Worcestershire, UK52.2545225 -2.266838223.944288663821155 -37.4230882 80.564756336178846 32.8894118tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8709916811590067395.post-14483199109950517092023-11-15T13:07:00.008+00:002023-11-28T13:53:12.492+00:00Weight loss journey - Week 1<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;">
<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span><b><span style="font-family: Coming Soon;">Keeping with the traditional from 8+ years ago, here I am with another dieting journey. Kinda same but so much better this time!</span></b></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Roboto;"><span>So over the years I've been struggling with my weight. It seems like no matter what I do I just need to watch myself all the damn time. I cannot let myself go at all because I'll just gain weight. Sometimes it makes it seem like if I'll gain weight from drinking water. It's ridiculous (hello, body dysmorphia).</span>
<span> Throughout these 8 years of me being away from blogging I've tried so many diets and workouts and I think I came to the conclusion that my genetics are basically crap. I'm currently biggest I've ever been and I cannot stand myself (did I mention body dysmorphia?). It seems like I'll never be able to just chill and I pretty much need to watch what I eat 24/7 and do workouts every single day. So that's what I'll be doing now and I'll be sharing my progress with you. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Roboto;"><span>Something to note is that within last 3 years I was also diagnosed with endometriosis. To really simplify it, it's a chronic illness that messes up your hormones, causes pain and can mess your body up massively. I don't have a proper confirmation because of how under-researched this illness is, but I'm pretty certain it is also making my weight control much more difficult.</span>
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<span style="font-family: Roboto;"><span>Also to note, I won't be going on any super crazy diets. I had a look at my last diet post on here from 2015 and I was a little bit scared how some days I was eating as little as ~700kcal. No wonder I was complaining about fatigue. Wtf... 🙃</span>
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<span style="font-family: Roboto;"><span>Sooo...this time I'll try doing something a bit more sustainable. I'll try doing a more drastic calorie cut on some days and having more normal meals on others. This will depend on my activity levels - if I'm just working on the computer I'll probably eat less, but if I'm moving around a lot, I'll eat more. The idea is to get into a habit of being mindful and making it into a long term thing. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Roboto;"><span>If you think about doing a calorie deficit diet, pls pls pls make sure that you're not overdoing it. Especially if you're doing it for more than 2 days. It can really hurt you so please be careful and look after yourself. A great way to get a guideline on your calorie cut is finding out your BMR - basal metabolic rate. It's basically how many calories you'll burn even if you did absolutely nothing. You can calculate it yourself using a formula but it's much easier to just use one of the many calculators online. I found out that my BMR is ~1800kcal a day. Once you do that you can easily just take away 100-300kcal for a safe weight loss. Try not to go below 1200kcal as it can really affect your body. I am not a dietician. I have got a nutrition certification but I'm not confident on actually doing the nutrition work professionally on others lol. Most of the knowledge I have is through the many years of research and testing the theories on myself. </span>
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<span>: 2 mini scones with butter, 2 digestive biscuits.</span> </span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">So I skipped lunch today because I sort of got busy during the day and when I finally started getting hungry it was a little bit too close to dinner so I just decided to skip it and have only dinner so I don't overdo with calories. I did have 2 mini scones and 2 biscuits in-between so I wasn't completely starving myself lol.</span> </p>
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<b>Dinner</b>: Egg noodles with beef and mushrooms in soy, hoisin and oyster sauce; mini scone.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Total calories</b>: ~1239 kcal </span></p></blockquote>
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<b>Workout</b>: 18 minutes of Kiat Jud Tai Chinese workout ~126 kcal burned. </span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Coming Soon;"><b><i>Week 1 Day 2</i></b></span></h3></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Weight</b>: -0.1kg</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">As much as I would love to see an instant change (especially after quite a low calorie amount yesterday), it's not gonna happen overnight so I'm just keeping positive. Also don't forget to drink enough water! I definitely haven't yesterday. When you're dehydrated your body can actually start storing water in your body which will make you weigh more and look bloated! </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Feeling pretty good today but also my biceps are </span><strike style="font-family: Roboto;">dead</strike><span style="font-family: Roboto;"> sore lol. The exercise that I've done yesterday involved a lot of arm action. Not sure why my biceps in particular would feel sore but then again, I'm not too knowledgable about workouts lol. 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They work great!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Coming Soon;"><i>Week 1 Day 3</i></span></h3></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Weight</b>: no change.</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">So normally when I start a restrictive calorie diet I get really upset when I don't lose any weight but this time it's actually different because before I started this diet I've been doing these Chinese workouts (they're on YouTube) and even though I can't see any difference on scales I can definitely feel it! I feel more energetic and stronger and can definitely feel the effects the next day (my biceps are on fire lol). It's a win for me so I'll definitely take it!</span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Breakfast</b>: a very small (probably only 1/4) leftover portion of last night's noodles.</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">I had things to do this morning so had a quick bite of leftovers and left the house. Just over 200 kcal. After running errands hubs and I popped to the gym. There's no need to go to the gym to lose weight. You can easily do that using Youtube workout videos and phone apps. I do like weight lifting and building strength so enjoy a trip to the gym a few times a week.</span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Lunch</b>: 2 eggs, 2 sausages, tomato, 1/3 cup sautéed mushrooms, a few chips with a small amount of ketchup and mayo.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Dinner</b>: roasted beef with jollof rice.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Total calories</b>: ~1823 kcal</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">So today I went to the pub with hubs, which is why the calorie count is higher than my goal. This is not something I recommend and you should definitely watch what you eat and reduce/eliminate alcohol from your diet but I believe that being realistic is important and I wouldn't want to lie to people who are possibly trying to achieve the same thing as me. 😉 I think being realistic about different lifestyles is more important, especially when trying to create a sustainable, long term diet. </span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Workout</b>: 50 minute session at the gym (a mixture of cardio on the elliptical machine, pull ups machine, seated row machine and curls) ~300 kcal burned.</span></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Coming Soon;"><i>Week 1 Day 4</i></span></h3></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Weight</b>: -0.6 kg (-0.7 kg total)</span> </p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Surprisingly enough I did lose weight even though I had a pub session lol yay! </span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Breakfast</b>: 1/2 banana, a few black grapes, sunflower seeds, high protein granola and soya yoghurt. </span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Lunch</b>: </span><span style="font-family: Roboto;">2 eggs, 2 sausages, tomato, 1/3 cup sautéed mushrooms, a few chips with a small amount of ketchup and mayo.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Snack</b>: 1 Royal Gala apple. </span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Dinner</b>: roasted beef with jollof rice.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Total calories</b>: ~1512 kcal</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Workouts</b>: 50 minute session at the gym (a mixture of cardio on the elliptical machine, deadlifts, RDLs, grip training and lunges) ~209 kcal burned.</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">The day went pretty well apart from the headache due to last night's drinks lol.</span></p><p><br /></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b><i><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Coming Soon;">Week 1 Day 5</span></i></b></h3></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Weight</b>: no change (-0.7 kg total)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Breakfast</b>: 2 eggs, 2 sausages, tomato, 1/3 cup sautéed mushrooms, a few chips with a small amount of ketchup and mayo.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Snack</b>: mini scone with butter.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Lunch</b>: roasted beef with jollof rice, 1 digestive biscuit.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Dinner</b>: homemade flatbread with Sriracha mayo, roasted beef and spinach.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Total</b> <b>calories</b>: ~1754 kcal</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Workouts</b>: no workout today.</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Coming Soon;"><i>Week 1 Day 6</i></span></h3></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Weight</b>: +0.6 kg (-0.1 kg total)</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Not too worried about this one. I've seen this happen in the past. Weight often goes up and down, it's just the matter of staying on track and being resilient. </span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Breakfast</b>: Oat porridge with peanut butter, sunflower and pumpkin seeds.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Lunch</b>: 2 eggs, 2 sausages, tomato, 1/2 avocado, 1/3 cup sautéed mushrooms and spinach, a few chips with a small amount of ketchup and mayo.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Dinner</b>: bulgogi beef with white rice.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Total calories</b>: ~1248 kcal</span> </p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Workouts</b>: 50 minute session at the gym (a mixture of cardio on the elliptical machine, shoulder press and dips) ~203 kcal burned. </span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Coming Soon;"><b><i>Week 1 Day 7</i></b></span></h3></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Weight</b>: -0.9 kg (1 kg total)</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">See? Told you lol. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">So yesterday I had some health issues and due to nausea I'm taking it slow today. I won't be eating much but because I want to make sure I'm getting a decent amount of nutrients I've made a nice vegetable soup. 2 ladles worth of soup is only 75 calories but 3.6 g of protein since I've added bunch of different beans and peas. I do need to eat more soup so that sorts it lol.</span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Breakfast</b>: Jollof rice with spinach and 2 boiled eggs.</span></p></blockquote><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgisQbA4Kyn7HJo_Lmik06kgm16e9ijWSaRfqsOy2oSFHWq79LANpi7dDOop-pfud9LZFlrLpzIHdH24s5ZNDooDHXENja4MRXAGu3ymMGhXwypP516ZVLC10qNcveLKV-CnGZx1SF3xMdD1LNwACtCg6gr5tHAReztcOtNi2_kNT6lbBfpqsLpBca0lAA1/s4032/IMG_4933.HEIC" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgisQbA4Kyn7HJo_Lmik06kgm16e9ijWSaRfqsOy2oSFHWq79LANpi7dDOop-pfud9LZFlrLpzIHdH24s5ZNDooDHXENja4MRXAGu3ymMGhXwypP516ZVLC10qNcveLKV-CnGZx1SF3xMdD1LNwACtCg6gr5tHAReztcOtNi2_kNT6lbBfpqsLpBca0lAA1/w480-h640/IMG_4933.HEIC" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Week 1 Day 7 lunch</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Lunch</b>: homemade veggie soup with a spoonful of soya yoghurt.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Dinner</b>: egg fried rice (or more like bin rice since I just used whatever leftovers and veg I had in the fridge lol).</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Total</b> <b>calories</b>: 1287 kcal</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Workouts</b>: no workout today because I'm not feeling well. ☹️</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Aaaaand week 1 is over! I think I've done really well. It was pretty effortless and I think it's a very sustainable way to lose weight. I'll be continuing this and documenting my progress. It's a great way to track your success and keep your accountability in place. This is what I've missed when I was looking at people's weight loss stories. A lot of the stories I've read had very minimal documentation or unsustainable methods. I hope you enjoy this, let me know if you have any questions in the comments below and I'll update you all on my progress in a week's time! </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><a href="https://rinatsu.blogspot.com/2023/11/weight-loss-journey-week-2.html" target="_blank">Read my Week 2 journey here.</a> </span></p><h4><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: Roboto;">My Podcast: </span><a href="https://apintofrice.libsyn.com" target="_blank"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Coming Soon;">A Pint Of Rice</span></a><span style="font-family: Roboto;"> | My IG: </span><a href="https://instagram.com/rinatsuchan" target="_blank"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Coming Soon;">Lina B 🦭</span></a></i></span></h4><p><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: medium;"><i>Byeee~</i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: Roboto;"></span></i></p><h4><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Coming Soon; font-size: large;"><b><i>Lina (Rinatsu)</i></b></span></h4>Lina Beeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02590376992066346069noreply@blogger.com0Worcestershire, UK52.2545225 -2.266838223.944288663821155 -37.4230882 80.564756336178846 32.8894118tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8709916811590067395.post-17586871580632066652023-11-12T16:57:00.002+00:002023-11-21T11:39:41.324+00:00Experiencing discrimination in the UK<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Coming Soon;"><b>We have a lot to catch up on, so why not start with something that happened most recently?</b></span></h3></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">One of the reasons for coming back to blogging is my craving for creative work. For the past few months I had to abandon everything because my husband and I started a new business together. As we have worked in hospitality for many years, and been in higher up, management positions in the past, as well as having a drive for business (we also ran a business together in the past), we decided to have a go at running a pub. To save ourselves from too much risk we decided to get into a special "partnership" agreement with a massive PLC brewery (although it's not really a brewery anymore, more like a corporation that manages real estate), let's call it M (I'm not trying to hide anything, we haven't signed any NDAs, I simply don't want to mention any specific names for the sake of my own peace). </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmZ-f42ncjmk8RFz9AIAzIPieullU85f1aHtjSItnLIJuoUmTpdjyp0CMU6OLNbXzyoT5Yse0nFoUTUjgEGeddLiY97GSkhV1MRt2x4cdGkjxSM_Ac6H_HtmDd8yd92StBDTYBdw6jIvcT4OaJYz7fRvKWTWMtXabyXRhRpfqT1XpG4IyKC86hXsUvcmqn/s4032/IMG_3323.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmZ-f42ncjmk8RFz9AIAzIPieullU85f1aHtjSItnLIJuoUmTpdjyp0CMU6OLNbXzyoT5Yse0nFoUTUjgEGeddLiY97GSkhV1MRt2x4cdGkjxSM_Ac6H_HtmDd8yd92StBDTYBdw6jIvcT4OaJYz7fRvKWTWMtXabyXRhRpfqT1XpG4IyKC86hXsUvcmqn/w480-h640/IMG_3323.HEIC" width="480" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">We decided to take on a pub that was in desperate need of new management. It's an amazing 600 years old Grade II listed building and was in the most beautiful village we've ever seen. The village the pub was in was rated as the poshest village in the country by The Telegraph, and they were spot on. We thought it was a great location, and surely being in a posh place means lots of polite, well mannered people, that will help us create a great atmosphere for everyone. Well, we couldn't have been more wrong...</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiet9V562LjcdpZGmXqjdix5HK0ZOVObvfwQA8KTFaUgdUjP6KNsh8XZI25CSf0iBLAw2wB60ILaaQqDt67kfy2OueJZyBCpc-vxarzuMzolblCT6f6XJjpey71vImANv-HSXGHY0dwtD0wfQCGyfsnzt42wffx6xM2CkObM34GyDexnn3qsjpgiVyNeaPB/s4032/IMG_3268.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiet9V562LjcdpZGmXqjdix5HK0ZOVObvfwQA8KTFaUgdUjP6KNsh8XZI25CSf0iBLAw2wB60ILaaQqDt67kfy2OueJZyBCpc-vxarzuMzolblCT6f6XJjpey71vImANv-HSXGHY0dwtD0wfQCGyfsnzt42wffx6xM2CkObM34GyDexnn3qsjpgiVyNeaPB/w480-h640/IMG_3268.HEIC" width="480" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Let's get one thing out of the way - we've done so well. In the matter of almost 3 months we've managed to build the reputation back up, pretty much double the profits and create a great atmosphere for the visitors, as well as staff. But we were absolutely destroyed. Both mentally and physically. For almost 3 months straight we worked nonstop. Can you imagine working 3 months straight, doing 14-16 hour days with not a single day off? I can not only imagine it, but I've lived through it. It was hell. We simply couldn't find staff. We had plenty of young students and casual staff who wanted to work, but we couldn't find anybody who treated hospitality as a serious job. Oh, how the times have changed from when I worked as a simple waitress many years ago in a restaurant. Plentiful of staff - full time, part time, casual. Whatever you want! Oh, you're leaving? That's ok cos we'll have somebody else replacing you tomorrow lol. I'm not saying it's good, as there was a lot of competition for jobs before Brexit but now you don't even have the workforce at all. What is better? Definitely not this what we have now...</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">But the thing that hurt me the most was the mistreatment I've received from people...</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">I know my beer and I understand it. I'm not some top class expert in every single thing and I'm open to learning new things (which I do), but the fact that men wouldn't accept my word or wouldn't trust my recommendations, constantly talking over me was ridiculous. Mate, you do realise I'm the one who orders this beer, tries it, does the research, cleans the lines, looks after the cellar? I was the only one in the pub that had knowledge to do all of that and more. Your beer belly does not define your knowledge, or even intelligence, and yet here we are, dealing with the audacity...</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXw_djl-O13R-0P8mWAsuhV8ntJ-ZwetSVnhqy6LIitc_Js6O5ojcu7g0BKapBUKed7KlrMj_m1qjEEPNCpseYJE8Nz348astX2puYkI6xqZvWWeJWiDNVNdfFIVykjtZuAIYQvH4VmZOz51RC5zBlHibvTbKorgT77zRySBibZ5V_1ZwzAGU-67icWYdN/s4032/IMG_3506.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXw_djl-O13R-0P8mWAsuhV8ntJ-ZwetSVnhqy6LIitc_Js6O5ojcu7g0BKapBUKed7KlrMj_m1qjEEPNCpseYJE8Nz348astX2puYkI6xqZvWWeJWiDNVNdfFIVykjtZuAIYQvH4VmZOz51RC5zBlHibvTbKorgT77zRySBibZ5V_1ZwzAGU-67icWYdN/w480-h640/IMG_3506.HEIC" width="480" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Roboto;">It wasn't just the ignorant men that made my life living hell. Ever since Brexit happened in this country something changed. People became much more hostile. I'm fluent in English. I barely speak my first language on a day to day basis, as I do not have any Lithuanian family or friends around and I find it easier to express myself in English. Yes, I have an accent because I came to this country as an adult. I'll always have an accent and I'm okay with it. I don't feel the need to go to accent classes or whatever to change it because my pronunciation is great and everybody understands me. 🤷♀️ Well, that's not what some Brits think. You have an accent? You must be an <strike>idiot</strike> unintelligent person! The amount of times I've had people slow down their speech as soon as they heard my accent is actually insane. If don't speak a lot people don't even notice my accent! But no, those pesky "r" rolls, and undefined "v"s and "w"s means I'm <strike>dumb</strike> clueless, of course! </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">"What made you come to Europe?" - I've lived in Europe all my life. "Do you like it here?" - It's okay. "Only ok???!!!". These are only some of the legitimate questions I've gotten. The "what made you come to Europe" actually made me speechless for a second lol.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3UKO8mLY-35aduOWWFzynQMdOZMnfuNfQIJ0O0yiK1OgNZQehmi-tiJbm9IBExCkwliam7F7oNO4pWIvkPY0e5NJDfXmLRXRXk2gXkKD7e_KlnF9eoVP1tq7QSMSnBkmL4wsDTtyUIVbmsTUGY1ML2RqyD9-8se4DcZW49u12jTlAY9MJLCg_zgiI4KvZ/s4032/IMG_3371.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3UKO8mLY-35aduOWWFzynQMdOZMnfuNfQIJ0O0yiK1OgNZQehmi-tiJbm9IBExCkwliam7F7oNO4pWIvkPY0e5NJDfXmLRXRXk2gXkKD7e_KlnF9eoVP1tq7QSMSnBkmL4wsDTtyUIVbmsTUGY1ML2RqyD9-8se4DcZW49u12jTlAY9MJLCg_zgiI4KvZ/w480-h640/IMG_3371.HEIC" width="480" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Look, I get it, this might not sound like a lot because I'm retelling things that happened months ago. As always, my trauma response is to slowly delete the events from my memories so all I have left is the very uncomfortable and hurtful feeling, which will happen eventually lol. I wish these things were discussed more widely, that's why I need to share this. The British are always put on such a high pedestal, as such a perfect country yet the members of the society are often racist and xenophobic. It's not a perfect country - far from it, just look at the news. We're allowed to criticise the government but we should also be looking at the people. What happened? I've been here 10 years - that's a whole damn decade. I felt more at home when I had a stronger accent and worked rubbish jobs to survive in my early 20s. I'm now in my 30s, with an extensive CV and experience, yet I feel more out of place than I've ever been.</span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC6Sc9bGtESYoz5oTMjtKn8vc4UkruZ0k0Ma9UoSkefWMvClbJhve9LkYzv6NJOdJObAHYpKGy_bBZ1U5ULYwhn_xWKgHSM7JqMLQ0UvB1EzFcyZnp3DIaKFqmNBTP6uIEVezu5NYbIhgPhF1VPiGeAbkYQaxBlpnkmdvDVWFhpiScuFXxbPUI3vmRwRFi/s4032/IMG_3322.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC6Sc9bGtESYoz5oTMjtKn8vc4UkruZ0k0Ma9UoSkefWMvClbJhve9LkYzv6NJOdJObAHYpKGy_bBZ1U5ULYwhn_xWKgHSM7JqMLQ0UvB1EzFcyZnp3DIaKFqmNBTP6uIEVezu5NYbIhgPhF1VPiGeAbkYQaxBlpnkmdvDVWFhpiScuFXxbPUI3vmRwRFi/w480-h640/IMG_3322.HEIC" width="480" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">"Don't like it here? Why don't you leave??" - a common expression from a regular Brit. You know what, mate? It's a good shout, I might do in a few years, who knows where my life will take me. </span><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Don't get me wrong, I've met hundreds of amazing people throughout this decade. But this experience was like a concentrated version of all the hatred people have to offer, which really left a bad mark on my soul. I'll rise above it, as always, I just didn't deserve this experience, that's all. Nobody does and nobody will. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">But for the time being I'll stay here, in the UK, mind my own business, as usual, and see what life has got to offer because the country is not completely 💩 yet and there's still some nice people around. Peace. ✌️</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: medium;">My Podcast: <b><a href="https://apintofrice.libsyn.com" target="_blank"><span style="color: #38761d;">A Pint Of Rice</span></a></b> | My IG: <a href="https://instagram.com/rinatsuchan" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">Lina B 🦭</span></b></a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: medium;"><i>See you soon~</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;"></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Roboto; font-size: large;"><i><b>Lina (Rinatsu)</b></i></span></p><p><br /></p>Lina Beeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02590376992066346069noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8709916811590067395.post-77002487598232024402023-11-07T17:40:00.005+00:002023-11-21T11:39:52.109+00:00I'm...back?<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Coming Soon;"> Oh, hi! It's been...8 years?? It almost feels weird yet somehow right..? How's it going, everyone?</span></h3></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: medium;">Few days ago I started feeling nostalgia for certain things. I recently closed a business that I ran with my husband (yes, I'm married lol), which greatly affected me in a negative way and I've been struggling trying to find my creative bone again. I've been in hospitality industry for 10 years now and I sort of ended up hating it. Especially after running a hospitality business. That bloody k*lled me physically (almost) and mentally (definitely). I should probably write a separate blog post just about the experience I had with it because the story is a rollercoaster lol. I've met so many people through 10 years in hospitality and somehow all of them moved on with different things, yet I'm still here... It's because I am really good at it! Doesn't mean I enjoy it... You could sort of compare it to a useless skill to have. I guess it's not completely useless since it brings you money...but nothing to brag about really. It's inevitable that a creative soul will eventually burn out doing such repetitive and tedious jobs. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: medium;">So, it's been over a month since I've been out of this industry (at least for now) and I've been doing some soul searching. My husband suggested a career change (although I wouldn't even consider hospitality a career, especially the way hospitality workers are treated in Britain). So at the moment I'm going through some online studies. I have no idea where this will take me but I'm trying my best to work through mental issues and find myself again. </span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxgh12nn_m70oV7AqLABYyayLMXss3h4afY_WphlA-MrkViybFcWSHgghaVBm53njIKKoNLAkxo0mnUpTkIz6Hlh7tbF8lLdCRzVLVl4FkoYeTufFQ-_vDEf55jBqtbJbxEyx9kfdk2Rnxd2-EsNj3uym_jtVLwRAQF2m_SofqmhWpXDiek_iU4N5M-ZI0/s4032/IMG_4714.HEIC" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxgh12nn_m70oV7AqLABYyayLMXss3h4afY_WphlA-MrkViybFcWSHgghaVBm53njIKKoNLAkxo0mnUpTkIz6Hlh7tbF8lLdCRzVLVl4FkoYeTufFQ-_vDEf55jBqtbJbxEyx9kfdk2Rnxd2-EsNj3uym_jtVLwRAQF2m_SofqmhWpXDiek_iU4N5M-ZI0/w480-h640/IMG_4714.HEIC" width="480" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">In need of some cable management lol</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: medium;">So, all of this has made me remember something that I started almost 14 years ago. My blog! Omg isn't it just a great place to vent? Hahaha. Ok, not really the main purpose of it but yeah. What even is the main purpose of my blog, now that I think about it? I'm not even sure. Scrolling through the years of posts, I'm confused about it lol. From crafts, to movie "reviews", to make up "tutorials", to general life posts. Shall we call it lifestyle? Sure, let's go with that. Even though my life is a mess lol. </span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWDFAIfmYQeyTDHuwojh7_L-BPTNZgs_DV8jPAeNUXIiAJj2Dr-0KfeOj3IuiB0JJU870IUEiJB34rSsEq0S0XdynQkOusAonxjDZKXGle7sRSK8q6fZ2b3nXVsNM8XmD8g5aOHPyaqbSZWe1e_7dDTR8K3TfbsThgOmTIbapuuN7NJm-E0YeRxFCl1m0e/s4032/IMG_4701.HEIC" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWDFAIfmYQeyTDHuwojh7_L-BPTNZgs_DV8jPAeNUXIiAJj2Dr-0KfeOj3IuiB0JJU870IUEiJB34rSsEq0S0XdynQkOusAonxjDZKXGle7sRSK8q6fZ2b3nXVsNM8XmD8g5aOHPyaqbSZWe1e_7dDTR8K3TfbsThgOmTIbapuuN7NJm-E0YeRxFCl1m0e/w480-h640/IMG_4701.HEIC" width="480" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Cute capsule treasures I got on my trip to Hong Kong, May 2023</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: medium;">So here I am, currently spending most of my days in front of the computer, as if it's mid-late 00s again lol. Let's see where this will take me, eh?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: medium;">I'd say I'll update you all soon but I can't make promises. I'm not good with deadlines (yet). In the meantime, catch me on my other projects!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: medium;">My Podcast: <b><a href="https://apintofrice.libsyn.com" target="_blank"><span style="color: #38761d;">A Pint Of Rice</span></a></b> | My IG: <a href="https://instagram.com/rinatsuchan" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">Lina B 🦭</span></b></a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: medium;"><i>Byeee~</i></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Roboto; font-size: large;"><i><b>Lina (Rinatsu)</b></i></span></p><p><br /></p>Lina Beeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02590376992066346069noreply@blogger.com0Worcestershire, UK52.2545225 -2.266838223.944288663821155 -37.4230882 80.564756336178846 32.8894118tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8709916811590067395.post-87425498179585452362015-03-22T02:36:00.004+00:002023-11-21T11:40:04.386+00:00Japanese diet - my story/diary<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Coming Soon;">* * * Disclaimer: please be mindful that this is an extreme calorie cut diet. I am in no way suggesting that anybody should be doing this, I'm simply crazy and like to experiment on myself lol. As much as this diet makes you lose weight, it doesn't happen without consequences. If you do decide to try it out, please DO NOT do it more than the advised period of time and be aware that you WILL experience major fatigue. * * *</span></b></h3></blockquote><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">This is my diet diary for the diet I've talked about in <a href="https://rinatsu.blogspot.com/2015/03/japanese-diet.html" target="_blank">my previous blog post</a>.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><u style="font-weight: bold;"><i>First day:</i></u></span></h4><i><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Consumption: 914 kcal<br /></span></i><i><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Food cost: £4.90</span></i><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Breakfast. </b>Cup of black coffee.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Lunch.</b> 2 boiled eggs, fresh cabbage salad with olive oil, glass of tomato juice.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Dinner</b>. 200-250g of boiled or fried (in olive oil) fish.</span></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Only one cup of coffee for breakfast. It wasn't that unusual since I don't really eat a lot for breakfast. I LOVE eggs but the amount of cabbage I shredded as a side dish was way too much. (〜 ̄▽ ̄)〜 It's not bad though. Veggies are gooood. </span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">On the other hand, I absolutely hate tomato juice. I seriously don't understand how people drink it because it tastes like diluted ketchup. At least I was on a video call to distract me from disgustingness.(_´ω`)I love the fact that you can eat any fish you like. So salmon is my go-to choice!! I love salmon so much. It was my first time I cooked it all by itself without any spices. But I totally loved it. I think salmon has so much flavour in itself. (´▽`ʃƪ)</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Lost today: 1.9kg</span></b></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span></b></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"></p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b><u><i>Second day:</i></u></b></span></h4><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><i>Consumption: 1192kcal<br /></i><i>Food cost: £6.21</i></span><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Breakfast.</b> Cup of black coffee with gluten free bread toast or gluten free crisp bread. </span> </p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"></span><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Lunch.</b> Boiled or fried fish, fresh vegetable salad (cucumber, radishes, tomatoes, etc.) with olive oil.</span> </p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"></span><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Dinner</b>. 100g boiled beef, cup of yoghurt or kefir.</span></p></blockquote>
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Btw I also misread the menu and accidentally fried instead of boiled my beef... Oops! Not the healthiest option...but still beef right? Won't happen again. \(;゚∇゚)/</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">I wish breakfast was a bit fuller sometimes but it's okay. I can do it even though my bf is eating pizza... (▰˘︹˘▰)</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Lost today: 0.7kg<br /></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Lost so far: 2.6kg</span></b></p>
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<h4 style="text-align: left;"><b><u><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><i>Third day:</i></span></u></b></h4>
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<i><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Consumption: 1141kcal</span></i></div>
<div><i><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Food cost: £5.01</span></i></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: Roboto;">Breakfast.</b><span style="font-family: Roboto;"> </span><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Cup of black coffee with gluten free bread toast or gluten free crisp bread.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: Roboto;">Lunch. </b><span style="font-family: Roboto;">One fried big zucchini with olive oil OR squash OR blue cabbage OR 3 carrots, 3 apples.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: Roboto;">Dinner. </b><span style="font-family: Roboto;">2 boiled eggs, 200g boiled beef, cabbage salad with olive oil.</span></p></blockquote>
<div><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Coffee became my morning routine now (it used to be lunch/evening tradition lulz).</span></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">
Instead of having fried carrots I've decided to do salad from the required ingredients. 3 grated carrots, 3 diced apples and a tablespoon of olive oil. Total perfection. There's so much salad though!! The fact that I must eat it all makes me laugh. It's super duper healthy yet has so little calories. That's the example of a perfect healthy eating and proof that you don't have to starve yourself to lose weight. ◦°˚\(´°౪°`)/˚°◦</span></p><div>
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<span style="font-family: Roboto; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="http://i1034.photobucket.com/albums/a428/RinatsuChan/My%20blog%202015/IMG_20150310_173811_zpsjmtoml2a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://i1034.photobucket.com/albums/a428/RinatsuChan/My%20blog%202015/IMG_20150310_173811_zpsjmtoml2a.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">I was eating this while my boyfriend was eating pizza. Yes, I was a bit sad but honestly my sadness didn't last long when I noticed how slow my bf became after his meal and how energetic I was after my delicious salad. A total win. And when I gave it to my bf to try he even said that he's starting to understand how bad a heavy and fatty food is. (wow..finally?!) I think I'm starting to show good example. (๑˃̵ᴗ˂̵)و</span></p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">
<b>Lost today: 0kg</b><br />
<b>Lost so far: 2.6kg</b><br />
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</span><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b><u><i>Fourth day: </i></u></b></span></h4><span style="font-family: Roboto;">
<i>Consumption: 716kcal</i><br />
<i>Food cost: £2.87</i></span></div><div><blockquote><div><div><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Breakfast</b>. Cup of black coffee.</span> </div></div></blockquote><blockquote><div><div><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Lunch</b>. 1/2 small boiled chicken (no fat or skin); fresh cabbage or carrot salad.</span> </div></div></blockquote><blockquote><div><div><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Dinner</b>. 2 hard boiled eggs; fresh carrot salad with vegetable oil.</span></div></div></blockquote><p></p></div><div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">I was never a fan of cooked carrots. I didn't mind eating them in salads or soups. But I never thought I would hate them so much on their own. Today was our relationship anniversary. We went out to visit Madam Tussauds museum. After that I opened my packed lunch and after few tablespoons I just couldn't eat anymore! I was allowed to eat 15g of cheese today. I separated it into 3 pieces so I ate one as well. OMG I didn't realise that cheese was sooo delicious! It's probably because I didn't have any seasoning recently. My taste buds were having a party after that 5g of cheese. (ノ◕ヮ◕)ノ*:・゚✧</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">
Don't get scared about the calories. It is a low calorie diet after all. But I also brought this on myself because I didn't have enough fruits prepared for the evening and I didn't finish all my lunch because I almost threw up. Ugh, cooked carrots lol...</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">
The amount of calories I've got were too little for a productive and active day, so I was extremely tired in the evening. But as I've said before. It's my own fault. 。(*^▽^*)ゞ</span></p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">
<b>Lost today: 0kg</b><br />
<b>Lost so far: 2.6kg</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b><br /></b>
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</span><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b><u><i>Fifth day:</i></u></b></span></h4><span style="font-family: Roboto;">
<i>Consumption: 898kcal</i><br />
<i>Food cost: £7.97</i><br />
</span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Breakfast.</b> Fresh carrot with lemon juice.</span></p></div><div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Lunch.</b> Boiled or fried fish, glass of tomato juice.</span></p></div><div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Dinner.</b> Fruits (except bananas and grapes).</span></p></div></blockquote><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Today was pretty awesome. I've had a perfect amount of food. Never felt hungry during all day. The fruit dinner was the best dinner in a whole week so far. Love love love it. ( ˘ ³˘)♥<br />
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<b>Lost today: 1kg</b><br />
<b>Lost so far: 3.6kg</b><br />
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</span><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b><u><i>Sixth day:</i></u></b></span></h4><span style="font-family: Roboto;">
<i>Consumption: 933kcal</i><br />
<i>Food cost: £2.47</i></span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Breakfast</b>. Cup of black coffee.</span></p></div><div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Lunch</b>. Half of small chicken (without skin), 3 tablespoons of fresh carrot and cabbage salad.</span></p></div><div><p style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: Roboto;">Dinner</b><span style="font-family: Roboto;">. 2 boiled eggs, fresh carrot salad with olive oil.</span></p></div></blockquote><div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">
I'm almost halfway through. Feeling really good. Especially when I see that weight is disappearing little by little. If I would lose another 3.6kg I would be really happy. (ノ◕ヮ◕)ノ*:・゚✧</span></p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">
<b>Lost today: 0kg</b><br />
<b>Lost so far: 3.6kg</b><br />
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</span><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b><u><i>Seventh day:</i></u></b></span></h4><span style="font-family: Roboto;">
<i>Consumption: 880kcal</i><br />
<i>Food cost: £6.05</i></span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Breakfast</b>. Green or herb tea.</span></p></div><div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Lunch</b>. 200g of boiled beef, fruits (except bananas and grapes).</span></p></div><div><p style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: Roboto;">Dinner</b><span style="font-family: Roboto;">. Any food from other day’s dinner except 3rd.</span></p></div></blockquote><div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">This morning I was feeling really down. I missed normal food and was looking at my boyfriend eating pizza and fries full of jealousy (not that pizza and fries is normal food...). (ఠ్ఠ ˓̭ ఠ్ఠ) The dislike of beef became hate. I munched those tasteless pieces with grumpy face. ლ(ಠ益ಠლ</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Since today is a free dinner choice from the other days (except 3rd) I've decided to have a fruit dinner. I need some flavour!!! At least dinner is great. Happy again. Waiting for the weight results tomorrow. 〜( ̄▽ ̄〜)<br />
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<b>Lost today: 0.3kg</b><br />
<b>Lost so far: 3.9kg</b><br />
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</span><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b><u><i>Eight day: </i></u></b></span></h4><span style="font-family: Roboto;">
<i>Consumption: 812kcal</i><br />
<i>Food cost: £2.21</i></span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Breakfast</b>. Cup of black coffee.</span></p></div><div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Lunch</b>. Half of small chicken (without skin), 3 tablespoons of fresh carrot and cabbage salad.</span></p></div><div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Dinner</b>. 2 boiled eggs, fresh carrot salad with olive oil.</span></p></div></blockquote><div><span style="font-family: Roboto;">After yesterday's grumpiness and quite happy evening I've decided that being sad about food is just not for me. Especially when I saw that I've lost extra 0.3kg. That's not much but considering that my weight is not jumping up and down anymore - that's an improvement.<br /></span><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Managed to cook chicken really nice and juicy today. (´⌣`ʃƪ)</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">
By the way, I've also noticed that the amount of calories are going down towards the halfway of the diet and back to normal ~1100 calories towards the end. Assuming it's kind of letting your body get used to a really low calorie diet and then putting you back to the normal diet. Body doesn't react well to 800 calories a day shock anyways. Thumbs up to people who created this. ヾ(@^▽^@)ノ</span></p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">
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<b>Lost today: 0.2kg</b><br />
<b>Lost so far: 4.1kg</b><br />
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</span><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b><u><i>Ninth day:</i></u></b></span></h4><span style="font-family: Roboto;">
<i>Consumption: 813kcal</i><br />
<i>Food cost: £5.25</i></span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Breakfast.</b> Fresh carrot with lemon juice.</span></p></div><div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Lunch.</b> Boiled or fried fish, glass of tomato juice.</span></p></div><div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Dinner.</b> Fruits (except bananas and grapes).</span></p></div></blockquote><div><span style="font-family: Roboto;">
As my diet is coming to an end, I am dreaming about normal food more and more. Haha. But at the same time thinking that if my weight is gonna drop so slowly I won't lose as much as I would like to... (* ̄m ̄) Well, I still have 4 days. So lots of time to work on it!!!</span></div><div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">
For today's fruit dinner I've decided to have 2 clementines, kiwi and pear. <3</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Can we take few minutes to appreciate the tiny clementine nestled into a big clementine?? Sooooo cuuuuuute! ヾ(o≧∀≦o)ノ゙ And delicious as well! б(>ε<)∂</span></p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">
What felt weird today is that in the evening I got a headache out of nowhere that I couldn't explain. I didn't want to take any medicine and basically didn't have energy and somehow it magically disappeared in like an hour. ╚═། . ◯ o ◯ . །═╝Could by a potential side effect for cutting out so many calories really quickly. Something to watch out for.<i><br /></i>
</span><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Lost today: 0kg<br /></b></span><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Lost so far: 4.1kg</b></span></p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">
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</span><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b><u><i>Tenth day:</i></u></b></span></h4><span style="font-family: Roboto;">
<i>Consumption: 663kcal</i><br />
<i>Food cost: £2.20</i><br /></span><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Somehow I managed to eat very little calories today. Even though I ate a lot. I feel okay but I started feeling tired more. Whenever I go out for a walk for more than 2 hours I come back home feeling extremely tired and usually just fall asleep. I'm glad diet is almost over. (⊙︿⊙✿)</span></p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">
<b>Lost today: 0kg</b><br />
<b>Lost so far: 4.1kg</b><br />
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</span><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b><u><i>Eleventh day:</i></u></b></span></h4><span style="font-family: Roboto;">
<i>Consumption: 1089kcal</i><br />
<i>Food cost: £3.95</i></span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Breakfast.</b> Cup of black coffee with gluten free bread toast or gluten free crisp bread.</span></p></div><div><p style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: Roboto;">Lunch. </b><span style="font-family: Roboto;">One fried big zucchini with olive oil OR squash OR blue cabbage OR 3 carrots, 3 apples.</span></p></div><div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Dinner. </b>2 boiled eggs, 200g boiled beef, cabbage salad with olive oil.</span></p></div></blockquote><div><span style="font-family: Roboto;">
I had to go out unexpectedly today, so ended up eating only 1 apple for lunch. (┳◇┳) Also, I decided to treat myself with some latte. No regrets lol.<br />
</span><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Lost today: 0.4kg<br /></b></span><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Lost so far: 4.5kg</b></span></p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">
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</span><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b><u><i>Twelfth day:</i></u></b></span></h4><span style="font-family: Roboto;">
<i>Consumption: 894kcal</i><br />
<i>Food cost: £6.09</i></span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Breakfast.</b> Cup of black coffee with gluten free bread toast or gluten free crisp bread. </span></p></div><div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Lunch.</b> Boiled or fried fish, fresh vegetable salad (cucumber, radishes, tomatoes, etc.) with olive oil.</span></p></div><div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Dinner</b>. 100g boiled beef, cup of yoghurt or kefir.</span></p></div></blockquote><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The day when I realised that I hate spiceless cod. \(*T▽T*)/<br />
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So I changed today's dinner radically. Even the thought of tasteless and disgusting beef made me sick so I just decided to have some yoghurt, apples and toast instead. *sighs* Sorry not sorry. ^-^ It was still healthy and not over my nutrition goals. (▰˘◡˘▰)<br />
</span><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Lost today: 0kg<br /></b></span><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b><u>Lost overall: 4.5kg</u></b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b><u><br /></u></b></span></p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">
(ノ◕ヮ◕)ノ*:・゚✧<br />
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Oh my glob, where is day 13?? Well, my dear readers, there is no day 13 because I decided to stop! Yes, there was only one day left, but like I mentioned before I felt tired all the time and since I do like to go out for walks a lot, I would come back extremely tired, and it was just too much for me. After all, my weight was dropping really slowly anyway, so I decided to do what's right for me.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><i><u>Verdict: </u></i></span></h4><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">I'm pretty happy with the results and being able to lose 4.5 kg in 12 days. Some might say it's a bit radical and unhealthy, but it's really not a bad weight loss for almost 2 weeks period of time. </span></p><div><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Would I do it again? No.</b> It's not sustainable in a long run. Besides the fact that it's not recommended to do it more than one a year or something within those lines, I do not see how it's even possible to do 2 weeks straight without deviating here and there. Eating less than 1000 kcal can be really unhealthy for a grown adult, no matter the weight loss. I just think there are better ways to do it. <br />
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Take care and good luck with your healthy start. ゚・✿ヾ╲(。◕‿◕。)╱✿・゚<br />
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Lina Beeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02590376992066346069noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8709916811590067395.post-51832150274330836562015-03-13T22:28:00.004+00:002023-11-21T11:44:18.476+00:00Japanese Diet - Menu and Thoughts<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Coming Soon;">2023 update: I thought it was about time to update this train wreak lol.</span></h3></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">So, back in 2013, a famous tabloid news website in Lithuania released an article called: "Japanese Diet: 7 kg in 14 days!". 2015 me, being obsessed with dieting, because I've lived in UK for almost 2 years and had insanely unhealthy diet, decided to take some extreme measures and try this bonkers diet instead of actually changing my diet into something healthy and sustainable. 🙄</span> </p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">According to this website (which has zero references by the way, which makes this whole thing extremely questionable, which 2015 me did not bother to consider), this particular diet is way more popular than the traditional Japanese diet (doubtful), which mostly consists of fish, rice and seaweed. I could not find any diet like that online, but also it's now 2023 and with diet and fitness culture being at all times high, I think that any traces of it might have disappeared into the internet abyss... </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Roboto;">The diet requires you to follow strict rules:</span></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: Roboto;">NO: alcohol, sugar, salt, potatoes, wheat products or rice.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Eat with chopsticks - you'll eat less.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Do not change anything and follow the menu to the dot.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Drink lots of water - at least 1.5 litres per day. Vitamins are also recommended, because the diet isn't nutritious enough.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Roboto;">If there's too much coffee for you, you can swap it for green tea for the good antioxidant dose. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: Roboto;">The diet isn't recommended to people who have high blood pressure, diabetes, kidney disease, stomach issues, digestives issues, are pregnant or breastfeeding.</span></li></ul><div><span style="font-family: Roboto;">If that doesn't sound dodgy to you then I don't know what does lol. Here's the menu, which kind of does a U-turn in the middle in terms of food selection:</span></div><p></p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: Coming Soon;">1st day</span></b></div></div></blockquote><div>
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<span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Breakfast. </b>Cup of black coffee.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Lunch.</b> Boiled cabbage salad with olive oil; 2 hard boiled eggs; 1 glass of tomato juice without added salt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Dinner</b>. 200-250g of fish (ideally steamed but if fried, then without oil, in a non-stick pan).</span></div>
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</div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: Coming Soon;">2nd day</span></b></div></div></blockquote><div>
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<span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Breakfast.</b> Cup of black coffee with rye or bran crisp-bread. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Lunch.</b> 200-250g of fish; fresh vegetable and cabbage salad with olive oil.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Dinner</b>. 100g boiled beef, cup of kefir.</span></div>
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</div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: Coming Soon;">3rd day</span></b></div></div></blockquote><div>
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<span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Breakfast.</b> </span><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Cup of black coffee with rye or bran crisp-bread. </span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Honestly, this diet is completely bonkers. 2023 me is shocked at how unhealthy this diet is and it really gives me the crazy Kpop idol diet vibes. It's no wonder that this diet promises a 7 kilo loss in 2 weeks. Mostly because you're cutting loads of calories out, so being in a huge caloric deficit, it will definitely accelerate your weight loss. Is it healthy? Definitely not. Did 2015 me do this diet? Definitely yes. 🙄 I managed to find the website to this diet again and noticed some discrepancies in the menu I've posted back in 2015. I'll have to blame my past rubbish translation skills for that lol. <a href="https://rinatsu.blogspot.com/2015/03/japanese-diet-my-storydiary.html" target="_blank">You can read my diet journey here.</a> Disclaimer/spoiler: I didn't follow the diet correctly lol.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Since my 2015 self thought adding a photo of guinea pig to this blog post was appropriate, I'll just leave it here in shame. 🤣</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span></div>
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I was eagerly waiting for this restaurant to open in The Hub, Milton Keynes for a few months now. The cuisine is said to be Indochina. I've never tried that before but was really interested. I joined their mailing list as they were promoting it on the soon-to-be-opened restaurant but sadly I joined it too soon as the free dessert I received was valid only till the start of July and the restaurant opened like a week ago (it's now August). (╯︵╰,)</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b><span> <span> </span></span>First impressions: interesting.</b> There's a chill zone as soon as you enter and bartenders greet you straight away. If you want to eat, you have to pass by the open kitchen on your left which is really weird. Never seen it before. (2023 update: haha, what a noob)</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b><span> <span> </span></span>Interior: something's missing.</b> It has unique interior. Everything's wooden and it has lots of different spaces for you to sit and eat. But it feels like something's missing though. It looks like it hasn't been finished yet haha. Also the kitchen is all white tiles and it doesn't really fit all wooden front of house interior. (2023 update: wow, 2014 me really didn't understand the importance of materials used in kitchens. As somebody who has now worked in kitchens, it pains me to reach such bullish*t I've written before. But I'll keep these shameful posts to prove that we all grow up and mature. 🤣)</span></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b><span> <span> </span></span>Service: not too bad. </b>The manager or supervisor who greeted us was really nice. Explained the menu since we were really confused. I still was confused even after his explanation but let's ignore that. Our server was obviously new in this kind of job. Self-conscious introverted girl. Was really hard to make her laugh even though my bf and I were all funny and easy going. I don't blame her. I was like that too when I started haha. I hope she'll improve. 。◕‿◕。 </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b><span> <span> </span></span>Mains: weird portions, weird taste.</b> I really wanted to try this Indochina cuisine. The ingredients sounded all randomly thrown together. It was so hard to choose. Also the main component of the dish comes by itself so you have to order sides separately. My bf ordered crispy chicken with mango and lime sauce and I grabbed seafood curry. My choice was probably the worst choice in history lol. Teeny tiny pan with I don't even know what. Honestly I found like one tiny piece of tilapia fillet, 3 prawns, 2 random weird fish cakes and some sponges (I've no idea what that was). Had all this with jasmine rice. Was pretty bad but I don't blame the kitchen. I wanted to experiment so I chose it. The rice didn't have much taste. (´_`。) My bf really liked his crispy chicken with egg fried rice though. Although I wasn't a big fan of his food either. I guess it's just not my kind food hahaha. What I didn't like was a big difference in sizes of main courses. All the prices were pretty much similar but the sizes were like WOW WHAT? After eating a teeny tiny pan of something I saw a huge plate of salads and meat and everything on other table. Whoa, jealous...</span></p>
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<div><b style="font-family: Roboto;"><span> <span> </span></span>Desserts: eh?</b><span style="font-family: Roboto;"> Damn, desserts took me a while to choose as well. It's just sooo difficult with these weird combinations. After a long time analysing menu I finally decided to order Balinese 'Pulut Hitam' Pudding. It took so long for the kitchen to prepare it that I forgot what I ordered and when it came I was a bit surprised...</span></div>
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When my bf asked for a bill we saw a 'pancake' on the bill which wasn't what we ordered (the price was also different). It looks like this was a Coconut Stuffed Green Thai Pancakes. The stuffing was really dry and too crunchy... I loved the ice cream though hahaha. Yeah so unfortunately I didn't get pudding I really wanted to try. But you know what? Jasmine tea is just heavenly. ✿♥‿♥✿</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b><span> <span> </span></span>Price: damn expensive.</b> Compared to the price we pay for a proper meal we get in other restaurants we've been so far in UK this is damn expensive. Our bill have never been higher than £43 and that's for a normal meal. Meaning either starters or desserts and mains (drinks included of course). And this time the bill was £49 only for a main course (they took the dessert off the bill because of the mistake, plus I didn't eat much of it, meh). And the sides are £4-5. Well, we weren't aware of that before going there and I had quite a lot of expectations unfortunately. I think if the meal is really impressive and good, then the higher price is understandable. But this was definitely not the case.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b><span> <span> </span></span>Conclusion: won't eat, might come back for the chill zone.</b> Yeah so before leaving we stopped at the chill zone and played some table football (first time in my life omg!!). Scored 1 point after I was almost defeated. Achievement! Lol. I liked how the bar zone is so separated, there are bar seats and also some hammocks in the chill zone. So perfect during the happy cocktail hour Mon-Fri till 7pm. Want to come back for that only lol.</span></p>
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By the way this pic is also in my #100happydays project I'm doing on my Twitter. How come you haven't seen it?? <a href="http://instagram.com/rinatsuchan" target="_blank">Follow me on Instagram!</a> I'm so active there recently, you'll love it. ♥(✿ฺ´∀`✿ฺ)ノ </span></p>
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Happy experimenting (hopefully successful one lol) (ノ◕ヮ◕)ノ*:・゚✧</span></p>
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Today I got rejected. Yesterday I had an interview for a waitress position in a French style cafe. I was accepted to the next stage and invited to come today to start training. I had a free evening so I decided to finally dye my hair. It's been a while and my roots were too frightening lol. I was aware that the copper dye I bought won't remove my burgundy colour, since it's too dark. My roots turned out really orange, causing a nice transition effect to dark red/burgundy. Kinda like inverted ombre lol!</span><br /><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">
This is how I looked yesterday after dyeing my hair:</span></p>
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Kinda dark, can't really see colours that well.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">
Aaaanyway, today I come for a training, joining the staff meeting and boom...</span><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Roboto;">
- You dyed your hair?<br /></span><span style="font-family: Roboto;">
- Yes I did.<br /></span><span style="font-family: Roboto;">
- It was darker yesterday.<br /></span><span style="font-family: Roboto;">
- Yes it was.<br /></span><span style="font-family: Roboto;">
- You can't work with hair this bright.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">
...okay. So it appears that the leisure centre this cafe is opening at, created some stupid rules about person's appearance. People can't have any face piercings, can't have any tattoos and can't have their hair dyed unnatural colours. They only allow shades of brown and blonde. I was told that if I dye my hair dark, they will hire me. I was in shock. I said I will think about it and went to do the induction course on the work laptop. After sitting for a while I went back to the manager and told her that I can't do this. I can't just dye my hair and it is sad that they judge a person because of the hair colour and doesn't consider person with colourful hair the same valuable staff member.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">
Seriously I was so shocked and angry and annoyed! Since when can you tell if a person is good or not just by looking at their hair colour??! You learn something new every day. What if the actual natural bright ginger would come to the interview? Would they ask to dye her/his hair dark too? Lol. Well, no thank you, I am not going to change myself to the way they want, so that I can work and hate how I look. This is just stupid.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">
All companies I have applied for talk about equal rights, asking so many questions about race, age, gender, etc all the time. I guess they should add *natural hair*(!!!) in their job description because this is the only discrimination since everyone's so equal lol...</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">
I don't even consider my hair colour that crazy! My face isn't pierced, I only have 3 lobe piercings and had to grow my cartilage because it never fully healed for a few years and I don't have any tattoos. But this was my first time experiencing something like that... I'm speechless.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">
Yeah well, I'm not going to change my hair for sure... I look great.</span></p>
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</span><br />Lina Beeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02590376992066346069noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8709916811590067395.post-81642547188820115782014-04-05T11:46:00.000+01:002023-11-11T23:03:59.433+00:00First Impressions: Part IIHey guess what? I finally decided I need to finish what I started lol. Here's my impressions blog Part II! If you want to read <a href="http://rinatsu.blogspot.com/2013/12/first-impressions-part-i.html" target="_blank">Part I click this link!</a><br />
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In this part I will continue posting random pictures (and by random I mean RANDOM) with stories from few months ago with impressions of UK since I came here. Enjoy!<br />
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I seriously love pound stores. So many goody goodies! Like this cereal for example. It has tiny marshmallows!! Could it be cuter?? The caption? Actually I dedicated this pic to my dear friend Lola, she hates marshmallows and I just can't help but think about her when I see them. xDD Sorry, I love you girl. (◍•ᴗ•◍)❤<br />
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I saw this poster in the VUE cinema, asdfghjkl; it was so cute! (I hate my old phone's camera) As many of you know this is the strawberry and piece of cake from <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1985966/?ref_=nv_sr_1" target="_blank">Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2</a>. Why it's rating is so small??? I think I'll rewatch this movie today. It's just too brilliant. :'D<br />
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Talking about cinemas...did you know that you can watch some few months old animated movies in Cineworld Saturday/Sunday around 10am for £1.50??? Crazy!!! (=⌒▽⌒=)<br />
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Having fun with English language. Even though I know what they meant...IT'S JUST TOO FUNNY!!! I mean seriously, who of the people who created English language decided to call ghost, the one that haunts old houses the same as god's spirit lol. Oh by the way, it was closed. The ghost might ran away from it's zone... *coughs* sorry I'll stop now. (no offence towards anyone. this is purely my stupid joke, I am tolerant as long as your beliefs doesn't hurt other people)<br />
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Sunsets are beautiful wherever you are... ♥<br />
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I had a job in a press for a few months in New Duston, Northampton and it would usually end at this perfect sunset time. Sadly it wasn't a perfect time for bus catching so I would usually come late and had to wait half an hour for another one...<br />
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Oh yeah, at the end of the summer I found out that I am a freak when it come to ice cream. Why there are so many different tastes??!! I NEED TO TASTE THEM ALL へ(゜∇、°)へ<br />
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Oh yeah we tried the famous Nando's restaurant. Wasn't bad at all! Especially the never ending glass of the drink of your choice lol. And I just had to take the infamous bathroom selfie. The window was just too big not to... *guilty* (〃▽〃)<br />
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No wonder there are so many overweight people. There are soooo many ready food only left to cook in an oven for like 20 minutes. It is tasty but it is full of bad fat.<br />
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After eating all those ready meals for few months we just started to prepare similar food almost from scratch. It's so much healthier! Yes, it takes more time but it is so much fun! More people should try that... Experimenting is awesome. ヾ(。◕ฺ∀◕ฺ)ノ<br />
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Pasta bake!!! Yummy~ OMG haven't baked this for so long... ♥<br />
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Lithuanians will understand this one looooool... (hint: it's a swear word) (ノ>▽<。)ノ<br />
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And here started the longing for home...<br />
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Found a whole shelf full of Lithuanian sweets for 1 pound. These are so good! ♥<br />
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Got a postcard from my sis. She knows how I love owls. Brought tears to my eyes.<br />
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And sent this music key friendship necklace to my best friend. Miss her so much... ♥<br />
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One of the most important impressions I wanted to mention from the start. It's so different from Lithuania. Whenever you look up to the sky you will always see a plane here or there or at least a trail. It really amazes me and makes me realise how small we are living in this big country.<br />
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First of all, SQUIRRELS!!! I love them, seriously. Even though my boyfriend's friend said that grey squirrels are bad, overpopulated, which lead to extinction (almost) of red squirrels on the main island. Yes, they are a lot bigger than red squirrels and can weight around 600g in winter (gaining around 120g) when red squirrels gain only around 25g during winter. Fatsoes!! Lmao. But still...squirrels!!! Why I'm saying this? Because I've never been this close to a squirrel before. I have heard stories that there are a lot of animals in UK who aren't afraid of humans at all but didn't imagine I would experience that!<br />
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It was my first time seeing bikes standing just like that. A super easy (I think) way to rent a bike all over London. After looking at the price list for a couple of minutes I realised that it's too confusing lol and decided that it's cheaper to just get your own bike or use a public transport lol.<br />
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This was one of the most majestic buildings I saw that day. Seriously amazing. And sooooo many people in one place!!! A lot of them coming in and out but most of them just sitting around. I don't blame them, the atmosphere is amazing.<br />
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Oh yeah, FIY it's a British Musem. XD We just went straight in looking for a ticket sale booth. After seeing people just coming in and going straight to the show rooms and guard dgaf we were a bit confused but having a free pass around a huge museum is so awesome!<br />
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I think this was one of the first exhibits we saw. One of the most memorable for sure lol. Dat booty.<br />
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And this is how duck face was born... One of the funniest exhibits in the museum lmao.<br />
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After walking around and feeling kinda lost we walk into this beautiful place. The roof is so amazing!<br />
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We're so pretty. (ノ◕ヮ◕)ノ*:・゚✧<br />
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Here's my boyfriend looking freaking amaze. He wish he was this tall. (〜 ̄▽ ̄)〜<br />
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And now he's making funny faces this woman because he wish his head was this strong to hold a freaking roof lmao. 〜( ̄▽ ̄〜)<br />
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Everything looks so majestic...<br />
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Fist bumping the history o (^‿^✿)<br />
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So this one is the last pic from the museum. And which just HAD to come out blurry... u___u It is one of the Macedonian times corona. Well, if it was not that blurry I would challenge you to find 3 cicadas and 1 bee because that's how it is called haha. So awesome.<br />
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I guess what amazed me the most was the room full of building parts from Greece. It was underground and the smell when you went down there was just...I dunno maybe I'm imagining or maybe it's just a smell of some preserving chemicals but the smell was so...old. You know, that smell when you visit some few hundred years old building. I kinda love that smell, makes me feel so weird and think about how would it be to live in the past...<br />
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We haven't even walked around whole museum! It was too big and we came too late haha, guard was already guiding everyone out (although there were still lots of people coming in! When do they actually close??). But we promised to come back next time we visit London. 。◕‿◕。<br />
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Since I don't want to flood you all with photos I am finishing my part I and hoping to show you part II very soon! ❣◕ ‿ ◕❣<br />
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Yeah my phone died and I just went upstairs from the kitchen and started eating while waiting for the phone to charge enough lol.</div>
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Don't like veggie stuff? You can always add meat! Actually I always add meat lol but I ran out of it too haha. What kind of meat? Any kind of meat!! Sausage, pepperoni, chicken slices, ham... Anything you can think of (as long as it's not raw lol)! I used to add pickles too in Lithuania but I rarely have pickles in the fridge now so that's an optional ingredient haha.</div>
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I've decided to start a series of blog posts from now on. I've seen a lot of movies and a lot of them deserves a blog post but my memory is not that good to remember all of them and what kind of emotions I got after that lol. As I've said above, there will be no spoilers nor reviews, only my opinion and emotions. Why? Because I've been having a lot of emotional problems recently and noticed that watching horror films isn't helping me so I've decided that I need to watch other type of movies and write everything I feel down. This might help others too!<br />
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So today's post is about last year's movie Her.<br />
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I've chose a poster from official Facebook page with those awards because it looks so fancy hahaha.<br />
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<b><u>IMDb:</u></b> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1798709/" target="_blank">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1798709/</a><br />
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<b><u>Genre:</u></b> Drama || Romance || Sci-Fi<br />
I'm not a person who watches drama or romance but sci-fi kinda caught me. And I was right. The movie has a really weird and twisted love story. And if you're into technology/computer stuff you will love it.<br />
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<b><u>Trailer:</u></b> I haven't seen the trailer before watching a movie. Actually creators often show best parts of the movie and basically whole storyline. Why would you do that??? (」゜ロ゜)」 But I've watched the trailer AFTER seeing the movie and I can say that it doesn't really reveal anything and covers whole storyline pretty well.<br />
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<b><u>Idea and realisation:</u></b> As I said above, it has a really weird and twisted love story which will shock you or make your cry or laugh or I dunno...feel resemblance?<br />
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<b><u>Emotions after:</u></b> Actually I cried. Not because of the movie. Few minutes after it ended I just started crying. I felt bad because I am trying to cope with depression at the moment and this movie made me think how different I am when I'm like that, with emotions all messed up and how I treat people differently than I usually do, getting angry fast and so... That I should be more considerate and so. Well, to sum up it really made me emotional and it made me think a lot.<br />
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I recommend to watch this movie!<br />
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Sooo enjoy, and leave your comments/experiences/emotions in the comments! ^^<br />
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Since I lack inspiration to write a good blog post about my life with all the pics I have (and I have a lot) I decided to write a short blog post about my hair colour because I got few questions about what kind of dye I'm using and so on. :)<br />
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First off all, I've never dyed my own hair since summer of 2013. Ever since my first dyeing (honey blonde, winter of 2010) I would always go to my amazing hair dresser every three months who uses professional hair dyes which are as natural as possible so I have no idea what dye it was.<br />
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This is how I looked when I left Lithuania:<br />
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Veeeeery bright orange (oh yeah, my hairdresser had fun that time lol)</div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">My first home dyeing. L'Oreal Preference Mousse Absolue 465 Dark Burgundy Red</span></b><br />
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<u style="font-weight: bold;">Usage:</u> So I chose the mousse dye because I thought it will be easiest for the first time user. And it was easy. Doesn't drip and applies very easily. Leaflet with all instructions helped a lot too.<br />
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<b><u>Colour and package:</u></b> But oh my glob how wrong I was about the colour! No no, the colour is good itself but I forgot what kind of colour 'burgundy' is and omg...I trusted the package colour too much... It wasn't the deep dark red I wanted. It was wine red. It was like a violet and red mixed together. And violet is totally NOT what I wanted. I don't know what they're trying to show on the package with that shiny red colour. It is far from that. I mean, it's my fault for not looking up colour before buying but the package is just wrong, c'mon...<br />
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<b><u>Smell and feel:</u></b> It was horrible... So much ammonia I couldn't breath even though I was dyeing near the open window... I was so scared I thought my hair would fall off from so much ammonia omg lol. And I felt a bit of skin burning. Oooooh and that annoying feeling that you just want to sink your fingers into that dye and scratch scratch scratch hahaha.<br />
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<b><u>Result:</u></b> Obviously not what I wanted. At first it was okay, and I was convincing myself that it's okay but little by little I started hating it more and more. Plus it wasn't even but maybe it was my fault lol.<br />
I got one picture made with my webcam. It's really bad quality and it doesn't show how dark it actually was. Sorry, I still had my old Nokia phone with horribly picture quality and my camera was dead.<br />
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<b><u>Colour and package:</u></b> As I said package is really comfortable if you're not use to cream dye and/or bowls and brushes. Colour on the package is quite accurate too. When you mix the dye with developer cream it looks super orange but it isn't lol.<br />
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<b><u>Smell and feel:</u></b> Smells nice, no ammonia, calm breathing haha. No itchiness or burning. Loving it!!<br />
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<b><u>Result:</u></b> I see a lot of pictures and videos where girls get deep red with a slight orange shine after dyeing hair with this dye. But since mine was done burgundy I got this weird colour of...something. But it was red so..I guess I was okay. The orange shade I always had was completely killed because of burgundy colour that was previously used.<br />
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Later on it started fading and I started liking it more. After another time of dyeing with Garnier Olia again (same colour) it started looking better.<br />
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Okay so after a lot of Olia usage I decided that I want to go back to being more orange haha. So yesterday after watching a lot of videos and reading a lot of reviews I decided to try another Garnier brand.<br />
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The dye is called Intense Copper but here it says Nectarine... Oh well lol, but it's the same dye.<br />
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<b><u>Usage:</u></b> Cream consistency. After watching YT home hair dyeing tutorials I bought a mixing bowl and few brushes for a pound because I finally wanted to try doing it this way hehe. And it was really easy!<br />
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<b><u>Colour and package:</u></b> Colour on the package matches (more or less) the true colour. This is a great advantage for Garnier Nutrisse. Thumbs up!<br />
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<b><u>Smell and feel:</u></b> I was a bit scared after watching few YT vids because some of the girls were saying that it has a really strong ammonia smell. But I just wanted to do that because Nutrisse is slightly stronger dye which stays a little longer too. BUT the developer cream had a really nice fruity smell. I did feel the ammonia when I was mixing dye and developer cream in the bowl but it was fading little by little in that fruity sea lol. After I was done mixing the ammonia smell was almost gone. AWESOME!!! And of course, no itchiness or burning. ^^<br />
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<b><u>Result:</u></b> I wasn't expecting to transform into ginger overnight lol. It didn't change the colour much but it finally gave that orange shine. And my roots look like a carrot hahahaha. I kinda like that. Totally gonna use it next time. Transition to ginger started!<br />
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But it looked really awesome in a dimmed natural light. You could totally feel the ginger in me!! Hahahahaha<br />
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To sum up: I was choosing between L'Oreal Feria and Garnier Nutrisse Ultra Colour to start my copper transition. But since I have had not very good experience with L'Oreal and this brand is known for obsessive usage of a chemicals I decided to choose Garnier. It always has a really nice fruity feel and smell. Starting to fall in love with Garnier more and more hahaha. Not to forget Garnier Olia. It was amazing and would recommend it to everyone as much as Nutrisse Ultra Colour. ♥<br />
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I hope my review helped you decide. ♥ Have a beautiful hair day.<br />
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As you know I now live in UK. Trying to make a better life for myself and my family in Lithuania. Yes, I'm a good girl lol.</div>
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And now - prepare for a nice blog post with loads of photoooos!!! (ノ◕ヮ◕)ノ*:・゚✧</div>
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My boyfriend and I came here by agency which is total sh!t if you ask me which told us that we're departing the next day! Now that's awesome lol not. So my mom and I packed all night till it was only few hours left...</div>
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I was so confused and scared that I couldn't sleep so I just lied in my bed full of thoughts and slept only like 2 hours... ( ̄□ ̄)</div>
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We travelled by bus which was one of the most horrific experiences I've recently had lol... The first impression when entering UK - a lot of green fields, sheeps and new shiny cars. Haha.</div>
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My first city. Northampton.</div>
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We've settled in a hotel for a week. And this is what we've realised about our stay in Ibis hotel:</div>
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Northampton is a really calm and peaceful city lol. Not many shops, not impressive city centre. Northampton looked kinda small to me. I'm used to bigger cities more haha.</div>
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Sightseeing!</div>
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I realised that there's soooo many pigeons here!!! So I took a photo of this fabulous pigeon in front of the nice church in the city centre:</div>
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There was this fake owl sitting on top of this...thing... And I really had no idea why the hell would it sit there:<br />
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But the thing that really captured my eyes were these metal spikes on the sides:</div>
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Okay so this is just creepy. I noticed there are a lot of these spikes on top of important buildings, fancy fences and so on. So it should protect buildings from pigeons and their crap but sometimes I just watch how they just sh!t everywhere doesn't giving a damn about those spikes lol. ┐( ̄ー ̄)┌</div>
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I learnt something during my sightseeing...</div>
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Sometimes the easiest job is the hardest...</div>
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Sleeping in the church's graveyard is prohibited... (╥_╥) ...</div>
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Sunsets are beautiful everywhere... Doesn't matter where you are... 。◕‿◕。</div>
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And so while staying in a hotel I finally tasted the real British breakfast!</div>
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I actually loved everything about this breakfast except beans. Omg that sauce and those beans were so disgusting!! I usually love beans but this was just eww... But you know what? I think you need to get used to it because now after some time I like them hahaha.</div>
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During the first weeks in UK I was almost sure that I will get hit by a car or something. It took me quite a lot of time to switch road sides. I always would look at the wrong side while crossing the road and I was feeling like a moving bowling pin lol...</div>
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The journeys home like these were scariest haha. Sitting on top of the big tall bus. I was already scared that it might just lose control and fall on the side when it was driving so fast in roundabouts but it also freaked me out because of the side it was riding. Gosh it always scared the hell out of me thinking that it's driving the wrong side and this car coming in front is gonna crash into us. loooool (〜 ̄▽ ̄)〜</div>
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What I love about UK - sooo many beautiful parks! Small or big - you just choose which one!<br />
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Walking a long rooooad. Actually grass. A lot of grass.</div>
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And guess what? First time in my life I saw a square hot air balloon!! So funny!</div>
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Aaaaaand my first every ice cream truck I saw in real life. </div>
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So I'm gonna finish this first part of my first impressions blog post with this deliciously looking pie topped with sh!tloads of whipping cream together with huge cup of yummy coffee. ♥(ノ´∀`)♥<br />
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Stay impressed, eat something yummy and wait for the part II!~<br />
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I just opened my Etsy shop and I'm selling these two beautiful slouchy hats! <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/171524946/slouchy-mixed-colour-beanie-hat?" target="_blank">DEFINITELY check them by clicking THIS LINK!~</a><br />
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I have always dreamt about having my own shop on Etsy with my own handmade stuff on it and... *drums* ...NOW IT'S OPEN!!! It looks really funny now 'cause it only has one thing - funky slouchy beanie hat I finished few days ago. And it's only £25 (who knows, there might be a sale!)!</div>
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I promise new things are coming soon!</div>
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You can find this hat by clicking <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/171524946/slouchy-mixed-colour-beanie?ref=shop_home_active" target="_blank">THIS LINK</a></div>
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Aaaand today I finished this beautiful grey slouchy beanie with superwash merino wool. It's so soft! </div>
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Coming soon on Etsy! </div>
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Hope you visit it and maybe choose something one day. I promise there's more stuff coming!</div>
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Lina Beeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02590376992066346069noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8709916811590067395.post-12245483535210376842013-10-21T03:00:00.000+01:002023-11-11T23:09:25.306+00:00Before spreading my wings...I haven't been writing for sooo long. I missed it sooo much!<br />
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I just can't settle down. Once I get used to the new stuff happening in my life then suddenly there's something huge again. I'm not even surprised anymore that life can turn around 180 degrees in a month or two...<br />
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Newsflash for those who don't follow me on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram: I live in UK now. BOOM. It was a planned 'trip' for 2 months to earn money. But then everything changed when fire nation attacked...*coughs* sorry, Avatar The Last Airbender addict *coughs* Everything changed when I started liking it here and it really felt the right place for me to be. Anyways, I'm saving my story and some interesting pics for the next blog post. I realised that I've got sh*t loads of pictures before leaving Lithuania. You know me - I always got an interesting story behind every pic and I know you love seeing and reading it. Mwahahaha. ψ(`∇´)ψ<br />
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<b>TRIP TO GRANDPARENTS AND THE MIGHTY STORM</b><br />
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On the last weeks of my life in Lithuania I went to my grandparents (although I didn't know they were the last weeks...) and there was this huge storm outside. It started with a strong rain (duh) but it looked really nice so I took some nice pictures.<br />
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These swings (without a seat at the moment) bring back so many good childhood memories... ♥<br />
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But no, heavy rain, ripping leaves and sick wind wasn't enough, so it had to be something huge. It looked like the end of the world was coming (someone doesn't know the numbers! It's 2013!!!) lol. We were looking out of the window with some creeped out and mesmerised look lol.<br />
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It was moving, covering the last patches of light and that was creepy.<br />
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Well, the world didn't end (obviously) but we had some surprise when we were heading home... After finding some tree resting in peace on the road and taking a bypass we were stopped by a huge oak on the main road with basically no bypasses near. It was funny because everyone were taking pics and I was one of them too lol.<br />
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<b>ALEKSOTAS PANORAMA AND NEW/OLD FRIENDS</b><br />
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So, back in Kaunas. My boyfriend took me to Aleksotas panorama. I've been there for the first time in my life. Yes, I'm that lame lol.<br />
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It was really nice. Beautiful place. And we even found some new friends there!<br />
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Lol! This cat was so cute, it kept rubbing its head on us and even hopping on our laps haha.<br />
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Such a cutie (although I'm more a dog person lol).<br />
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I could not notice this awesome art(?) on the ground. I suppose the sponsor of the bridge lighting or road repair (I have no clue) that we had to cross to reach panorama is chocolate company 'Fazer'. Well, you can tell that just seeing the metal chocolate bar on the ground haha. Looks really cool.<br />
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Awww we're so cute. And he accidentally did a sexy smirk lol (⊙ヮ⊙)<br />
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One of the best memories that will stay in my head forever: meeting <a href="https://twitter.com/KevinSeedorf" target="_blank">Kevin</a>, my amazing friend from Mexico. ♥ I know I wasn't the best at showing you around and taking to nice places in Kaunas because of my f*cked up schedule, trying to do everything but in the end doing nothing, but I really hope that we can meet again one day and we will catch up. (⌒.−)=★<br />
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It's one of the most popular places in Kaunas and it's really nice too. But why take the boring road when you can go through the forest... OwO<br />
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It was a beautiful day with sun almost setting down. Perfect day to take lots of photos of nature...<br />
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Why interesting, you ask? Because it's named as 'Ham'...<br />
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Because seriously, why not name your boat Ham... ┐( ̄ー ̄)┌<br />
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Looks how cute they are ♥<br />
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<b>ALL NIGHTER, BFF, COSY EVENINGS AND NEW COLOUR</b><br />
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It's not something that I should be proud of...but omg I've got so drunk with my best friend that we were just wandering around Kaunas till 5am, with random guys buying us beer, some foreign gays trying to make conversation with us...well, umm...that sounds really weird and it WAS weird lol. Basically we were just having conversation with each other about life and stuff. Yes, that happens a lot when you're drunk. And at the end we were waiting for my boyfriend to come pick us up so we won't get lost. And in the meantime we had some interesting show. Apparently, some foreigners decided to get naked and run around Liberty Avenue's fountain where we were sitting. Now that was fun. And we weren't we if didn't take a pic of...not what you thinking. We took photo of us two cuties. ^^ Because why not ♥<br />
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I still can't remember some things of that evening but oh well, that's what you get for having too much beer with your bff hahaha. ♥<br />
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Anyways...you just can't imagine how much I miss my Karolina and my mom and my sis. I have a really strong bond with all of them and it's really heartbreaking to be so far away, not having many abilities to hear their voices, not even talking about seeing them...(busy schedules and stuff...)<br />
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Well, I need to stop being sad because I CAN fill this whole blog post with tears and sad stuff but you DON'T want to read that...<br />
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I think this is the most orange I've ever been lol. AND JUST LOOK AT DAT ICE CREAM. ლ(´ڡ`ლ)<br />
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This blog post super super long. One of the longest I've ever written (probably). Can't help it! Hope you enjoyed it because I've got some interesting news in the next blog post. Adventures in UK!<br />
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Just to make you happy, one picture of my you won't see me doing very often...<br />
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This was done to annoy my boyfriend but apparently he loved it. Damn... LOL<br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Rinatsu~</i></b></span> | <a href="http://facebook.com/RinatsuOfficial" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My Facebook page</span></a> | <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://twitter.com/RinatsuChan" target="_blank">My Twitter</a> | <a href="http://instagram.com/rinatsuchan" target="_blank">My Instagram</a></span>Lina Beeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02590376992066346069noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8709916811590067395.post-40906743105677534322013-08-02T18:20:00.000+01:002023-11-11T23:05:16.294+00:00Back to 60's...Twiggy inspired make upSome months ago one of my fans told me that I look like Twiggy somehow. I don't know how 'cause I don't lol. But I did some research and omg her make up looks so interesting, I just had to try it out. Didn't watch any tutorials. Her make up looks really easy to make so I just gave it a try (tested my own abilities haha).<br />
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It is definitely one of the most interesting 'casual' 'every day' make up. Really enjoyed playing with black eyeliner and drawing fake bottom lashes haha.<br />
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Twiggy has quite inspirational make up for sure. She was a huge fashion icon during 60's. She even became a judge in the show that I'm addicted to right now: America's Next Top Model. Yeah, I know it might sound very superficial but I'm more interested in art, photography. The more I watch it, the more I learn different things. It's up to you what you take from the things you watch, right? Although I kinda enjoy those cat fights and pointless stupid dramas on that show. Silly me<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">... (ノ◕ヮ◕)ノ*:・゚✧</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I'm kinda emotionally tired at the moment. I am living in Northampton, UK at the moment. And changing places (changing place in the same city was hard, not even talking about different country) always does something to you. I am kinda settle type and it is really hard for me coming here, working shittier job than in Lithuania, having no close people around me. But I'm keeping up with it, trying really hard. Gonna talk about this more in upcoming blog posts. Future has something good waiting for me. And I also have a lot of support. ♥</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Anyways, I love it here, I love UK so far. It's so so so much better than Lithuania and I'm planning on staying here for longer. Not just because myself but because of my family too. LT is just a little country full of depression. *sighs* I'm so done with it lol.</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Well, you really never know what can happen to you in about 2 months. Life proved me that twice already.</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Have a fun weekend!</span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Rinatsu~</i></b></span> | <a href="http://facebook.com/RinatsuOfficial" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My Facebook page</span></a> | <a href="http://twitter.com/RinatsuChan" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My Twitter</span></a>Lina Beeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02590376992066346069noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8709916811590067395.post-41869733214394428282013-07-02T21:35:00.000+01:002023-11-11T23:05:25.012+00:00Deep Sleep Mode: OnI can't believe how many photos I have that I want to share with you. All of them have their own story so I will need 2 or 3 more blog posts to tell you my awesome (or not) adventures.<br />
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Just a bit more than month ago I was just a normal girl spending my boring evening after the boring job when BOOM one night a lot of pain in my tummy from nowhere. My boyfriend was staying over at my place and was ready to call ambulance but I differed and spent all night perishing... Things changed the next day when I was sent to hospital and finally in the late evening around 11pm doctor told me to get ready for surgery...NOW. I was in shock. Especially when they didn't know what's wrong with me and was determined to fix anything they'll find during surgery. This was my first time in a hospital. Not even talking about the surgery... I was so scared that my veins disappeared hahaha.</div>
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After an hour and 15 minutes I was woken up. Didn't talk nonsense and felt quite energetic after about half an hour haha. So it happened that some cyst that I didn't know I had exploded in my oviduct. Creepy. I'm just glad nothing was damaged.<br />
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Next morning: a really gloomy Friday with so many clouds and really sick feeling 'cause I had a drainage coming out of the side of my tummy. Not nice and really painful. :| And no food all day too!<br />
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It was my first and best meal I had overall during the time I've spent in the hospital. I always loved this porridge and it's basically impossible to make it wrong, even in hospital haha.<br />
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My first two days after the surgery - had a lot of visitors and some of the worst days (physically) in my life. Not being able to move much and so so so much pain... I looked horrible. Even my boyfriend was scared...<br />
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At the end of the 2nd day in the hospital doctor said that nurse will be removing the drainage soon. I was scared because pulling out tube from inside of me doesn't sound very nice. Buuuuut it went well and the next morning I was all cheerful. Even weather was great. ♥<br />
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Kept walking back and forth in the corridor lol. Watching through all the windows... LET ME OUT ALREADY!!!<br />
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You know, hospital isn't that bad when you can go downstairs and buy some hot milk chocolate. Yum. ♥<br />
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Beautiful flowers with amazing scent from my bf. Aww ♥<br />
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Doctor said that my wounds were healing really well. I've spent 4 days in hospital. Summary: disgusting food, a lot of strong antibiotics 4 times a day, boring time...well, it's always better to be healthy than spend time in a hospital lol.<br />
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One really ESSENTIAL thing that I've learnt while staying in a hospital: making a sandwich with a spoon. Seriously, what are they thinking? Giving patients two slices of bread, a little cube of butter and extremely salty and disgusting huge slice of sausage... Wat. :|<br />
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Well, you learn something all the time lol.<br />
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Stay healthy!<br />
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