Indian Buffet...what to eat?

I have to admit I went to an Indian Buffet today with my mom, but I still was pretty healthy minus all that oil they put in curries. The best thing about Indian food is that there are so many vegetables and chicken to choose from and it is easy to forego the rice and naan. That is exactly what I did. There were so many varieties of "subzis" and chicken that I only indulged in those. I had some black-eyed peas, tandoori chicken, and samples of the other subzies there like shai paneer, spinach, butter chicken, and mathi chicken. I have to admit the only carbs I did have were the ones in the chaat and the one bite of aloo bonda that my mom got. Usually at these places I love the gulab jamun or the jalebi but I decided that my sweet tooth would only be able to taste the fruit custard they had. Basically that was my one and only meal of the day and I am STILL full.

The satisfying delicious Indian Buffet

Damn, being cute sucks!

Read this article my friend sent me. I guess you'll get more attention if you're ugly then cute.

http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/sex/the-curse-of-being-cute-2439324/;_ylt=Ai8aHWqGILOJup8i6Co4ld2DbqU5

mmm Lettuce Wraps

The reason I didnt blog last week was because I thought I wasnt following my diet accordingly. I hung out with friends alot last week and that always involves some type of food. One day my friends and I decided to go to a Thai restaurant. It actually wasnt that bad now that I think about it. I had miso soup which pretty much has minimal carbs and I also had panang curry. The curry was amazing and one of my favorite thai dishes. Even though I claim I'm doing South Beach, I guess since I am not following it as strictly as I should, I'm basically just eating minimal amount of carbs that I can. Like with my panang curry, if I was following my diet strictly then I would have foregone the rice, but instead my food-loving self added half the serving of rice they gave me to my curry. Afterwards my friends and I decided to get coffee and there I got a Cafe Au Late and I added splenda in there to make it again minimally carbed.

The next time I went out to eat we went to RockBottom. This time I have to say I was really good. I scoped out the menu and the one thing that I found the most friendly towards my diet was the lettuce wraps. My favorite lettuce wraps are the ones at PF Changs but the ones here did not cut it. They weren't that good at all and in the chicken mixture they had lima beans (wtf?). So basically even though I tried to be healthy the meal wasnt good at all but hey atleast I tried.

I havent weighed myself today but tomorrow morning will be the day to see if I made my 2lb/week goal for last week. I am only 1/2 lb away from the last time I checked so hopefully itll be a whole 4lbs by tomorrow morning. Wish me luck! and I'll keep it updated on here.

The not-so-scumptious Lettuce Wraps at RockBottom

Celebrity Weight Loss

Today, when I took my sister to the dentist, I picked up People magazine. While I was browsing through it, I stumbled across a page showing the weightloss of Jennifer Hudson. It inspired me to blog about it and find recent celebrity weightlosses for inspiration.

Here's my first one...the lovely Jennifer Hudson.

Damn, she lost 80lbs and dropped 5 dresses sizes going from size 16 to 6. She mentions "I don't want to lose any more weight, and you're never going to see me skinny," and that is exactly how I feel. I am not aiming to be like model skinny but I want to come to a weight where I am happy with my body and for me that is 30lbs (well 27 from what I am now). She did this with Weight Watchers and exercising 5 times a week. For me, I need to incorporate more exercise into my life but that will soon be there as soon as school and skating start back up again. I think the exercising part along with my diet will sure help me reach my weight goals in no time (I hope).

While I was trying to find other celebrity weightlosses, I stumbled across this website: http://theskinnywebsite.com/site/category/celebrity-weight-loss/

Lebanese Traverna

Before I started this diet, I had bought a Groupon (on the request of my sister) a month ago. I didnt want it to expire so my mom had planned for the whole family to go today for lunch. Obviously, at such an upscale restaurant I wasnt going to get a carb-less dish but I picked one with the least amount of carbs. It's so wierd now though like I am beginning to feel so full after eating so much less. This place always serves pita bread while you wait and since it was so warm and fresh, I succumbed to temptation and just had once while on a normal day I would have probably had two. For my main course I got the chicken kabobs but it came with rice. It was soo goood! Their chicken is amazing because the spices and marinate are amazing. That was pretty much my only meal for the day along with coffee in the afternoon. I am writing this at like 10pm, 8hrs after I had it and I am still SO full. So worth it!

Juicy Kabobs! YUMM!

All Bets are On!

Last night me and my friend decided to make a bet. Our bet is for $100 on who will reach their goal weight by April 3, 2010. Her goal is to lose 20lbs by then but I am being a little bit more ambitious and want to lose 26lbs (going by the 2lb/week plan for 13 weeks) and be as close as I can be to my pre-college weight. If we both don't make the bet we're going to donate the money to charity and if we both get it then we'll plan a mini-fun weekend or a lavish dinner to celebrate our accomplishment. Having that much money on the line really motivates me and now I am so less prone to cheat. Everytime I want to cheat a little bit, I hold back and think about my goal and the prize at hand.

Again, being social and dieting is such a fail! I was pretty good today for breakfast I had a bowl of oatmeal and for lunch I had a salad. It was my usual balsamic vinegar salad and for some reason it kept me full for most of the day. I guess my appetite is decreasing slowly and I dont even realize it. Usually, I get hungry like a 3 to 4 hours later but today I didnt hungry until I was at dinner with my friends.

For dinner, I met up with one of my really good friends from college which I only see on rare occasions because she's in law school. We decided to go to an Italian place called Vapiannos. First of all Italian food has like no options for carb-less food because it was all pasta, pizza, or sandwiches. I really did not want another salad because I already had that for lunch. I decided out of the three the least carbs would be in the panini. So I got the panini with a Tomato soup on the side. Let me tell you that this meal was my big cheat for the day and was so not worth it. I would not recommend anyone to go here because the food quite frankly wasnt that good and not worth the price. I would rather have gotten a panini at Panera Bread. Atleast at dinner today, I didnt drink so that saved some carbs for the day.

Recap: Panini Bread was the only carb of the day! Whooo!

The so-not-worth-it Chicken Pesto Panini

10% there! but a bad bad day today :(

Today was a pretty bad day! Being social and hanging out with friends always takes a toll on this diet. For breakfast I was good and had my usual omelette. For lunch I promised to hang out with my twin and the only place we could find near her house was a Fuddruckers. So I went there and decided to have the Sliders but I only ate them with one of the breads and threw the other side away. So it was like an open sandwich. That still wasnt good enough because I should have not eaten either sides of the bread. =/ I must say that was pretty filling though because when I came home for dinner I wasnt hungry at all. My mom made me some mango lassi which is pretty healthy because it had a lot of yogurt in there but too much sugar content because of the mango.

I also hung out with my friends from high school today and we decided to go to a happy hour. Of course I can't go there and not drink so I got a frozen margarita which was also a poor decision. Oh well, I guess this can be my one bad day of the week. We also got appetizers but we shared and got pot stickers which seem like a healthy option since they are steamed.

Recap: HORRIBLE DAY!! Oh well....

No picture for today because too many bad things! :(