Gel has been obsessing that we do our pre-nup in the rain. If it gets to be as romantic as this, I guess why not? 

After an hour of boxing and sweating my entire being, dinner was composed of a serving of yogurt and some grapes. Gaaaah! It’s so hard to lose weight and be the thin person that I am in my past life. Yes, I am complaining because I’m a foodie and this is madness! So I’m gathering up all the inspiration, the EQ and the will power that I can get to do this. Haha!

Girls, you are the peg but of course, I am grounding myself because I know I won’t achieve this in my lifetime. Mehehe.

Realistically, I am into boxing now and to my surprise, I’m actually enjoying it. That’s a good start. So to pair up with this active sport, I need a healthy diet. I ran into this Bride Diet which looks pretty human! 

Monday

Lunch – 12 am

Baked (BBQ) chicken breasts (no limitation in the quantity) with a tomato salad.

After lunch – 4 pm

2 cups of milk, no sugar, just plain milk.

Dinner – 8 pm

Lettuce salad with a canned tuna in brine. The tuna must be fillet not chunks, because fillet tuna has bigger nutritional value. Other important thing is that tuna is in brine, not in oil or other sauce. Mix lettuce, tuna, 2 spoons of extra virgin olive oil, salt and vinegar. You can have as much as you want lettuce and tuna. Just measure olive oil – only 2 spoons.

Exercises

45 minutes walking/jogging with a TV show, movie, soup opera or what you like. If you have treadmill, walk 45 minutes. No treadmill, no problem. Step left-right 45 minutes. First 5 minutes are a little but strange, but after you concentrated on the TV and get used to the steps you will feel good. After the 10th minute you have to start sweating which is a good sign you lose weight. If you don’t sweat than increase the tempo. After the 20th minute you should start to feel very good and you start to like the exercise.

First couple of days step left-right for 20 minutes, next days do it for 45 minutes.

Tuesday

Lunch – 12 am

Baked (BBQ) fish (mackerel, trout, salmon) with cabbage and carrots salad. Sauce is not allowed. Add only 2 spoons of olive oil, salt and vinegar.

After lunch – 4 pm

2 boiled eggs with salt

Dinner – 8 pm

Veal soup: cook chunks of veal in the pressure cooker, when they are well cooked, add seasonings, one potato, one carrot, parsley, celery. This soup is very good because eaten warm it stuffs your tummy and your hunger disappears.

Exercises

Go to a fitness club and do 1 exercise for every main (big) muscle in the body. Ask a trainer to show you how to do exercises if you a beginner. In case you can’t go to the fitness club than do 2 of my exercise videos. Or you can climb stairs for 10 minutes and than 35 minutes step left-right. If you decide to go with climbing stairs, than note that first time 7-8 floors are enough. Gradually increase the amount of stairs until you reach 10 minutes. Tips on climbing stairs: Climb stairs until you get tired than go down and this is your rest. Than again climb … and so on. For people who have no many floors, than just go up and down stairs. Just don’t allow the obstacles to stand in your way to weight loss. Everybody can find a way to exercise even without equipment, stair or fitness club. One more tip: search for TV channels that have home workouts, you just need to follow them and you will have good workout.

Wednesday

Lunch – 12 am

Mix a cup of milk, 2 spoons of plain oatmeal (no additive, just plain brand) and 2 spoons of raisins. Leave it for 10-30 minutes and than eat.

After lunch – 4 pm

Tomato and cheese salad, cheese is no more than 100 grams.

Dinner – 8 pm

Grilled chicken breasts, 5 olives and as much as you can eat fresh salad (lettuce or tomatoes, or cucumbers or cabbage).

Exercise 45 minutes – treadmill or step left-right or dance.

Thursday

Lunch – 12 am

6 egg whites, 100 grams feta cheese and tomatoes. Cut the whites, smash the feta cheese and cut the tomatoes. Mix everything. You can prepare this in advance and bring it to the office (if you have day job) in a plastic box.

After lunch – 4 pm

Yoghurt, fat no more than 3%.

Dinner – 8 pm

Hake (or other white fish fillet) soup. The following ingredients are for 1 person, multiply if you cook for more people. 200 gram hake, 1 egg, 5 spoons of yoghurt, 2 carrots, head of onion. Stew for a while (10-15 minutes) the hake, carrots and onion. Add some salt and black pepper.

Stir the eggs with the yoghurt and carefully add this mix to the hot soup while stir the soup. Sometimes egg and yoghurt mixture can’t be well mixed in the soup and the look is a little bit strange, but this doesn’t affect the taste and the nutritional value.

Exercises

Like in Tuesday.

Friday

Lunch – 12 am

Grilled trout with a big cucumber or lettuce salad.

After lunch – 4 pm

50 grams raw walnuts.

Dinner – 8 pm

3 baked eggs. Bake them without fat in a non stick dish. Scrape some cheese over the baked eggs. You can have a slice of whole grain bread with the eggs.

Exercises

45 minutes of cardio – step left-right, or treadmill, or jogging, or climb stairs.

Saturday

Lunch – 12 am

Broccoli soup for 2 people: Boil 2 pounds (a kilo) broccoli for 10 minutes, than strain them, add a cup of milk stirred with 2 eggs, while continuously stirring.

You can replace this soup with a grilled fish or meat with a salad.

After lunch – 4 pm

A slice of whole grain bread with a big piece of meat (your favorite one – pork, veal, chicken ..)

Dinner – 8 pm

Grilled meat fillet with a salad.

Exercises

Minimum an hour walk – in the park, garden or even window shopping. The more you walk, the better.

Sunday

Lunch – 12 am

Grilled chicken fillet with a big salad on your choice (no sauce).

After lunch – 4 pm

50 grams of raw walnuts.

Dinner – 8 pm

Chicken soup with green vegetables: zucchini, spinach, broccoli, dock, parsley or celery. Choose only one of these vegetables. Ingredients: 200 grams of chicken breasts per person, the quantity of vegetables is on your choice. Boiled the chicken and when ready add the vegetable. Add salt and seasonings.

Exercises

Long walk. Games – badminton, bicycling, tennis, basketball or any game that involves action.

Whatchathink?

To add to a diet plan, I’m trying to be as religious as possible in drinking lemon water as well. This would have been easy if my day job allows me to stay in a cubicle the day. But no, I move quite a lot with meetings and all but I will really, really try. This is the easiest but healthiest drink I can prepare.

If all else fail, maybe I can just get myself a friggin’ training corset from Mich Dulce? Haha! Ciara’s waistline dropped from 25 to a crazy 20. Dang!

Bride woes, among many others. Such is life! :)

I think I’m the only bride-to-be who’s not rummaging through every online forum there is on wedding stuff. I want to have the liberty to nitpick on these things. I want to be overwhelmed with all the options available. I want to happily stress out on these. I’m only going to be married once so might as well get through all these feelings.

Work, why are you sucking the life out of me that when I get home, the only thing I am capable of doing is play Candy Crush?

I am getting lost in all the hullabaloo that is WEDDING PLANNING.

Being an account manager and a part-time wedding coordinator, I felt that planning a wedding will be easy breezy. I am wrong. I guess it’s way, way different when it’s your wedding. Us girls, we’re wired this way. When guys see the big picture, the ladies see the parts to a sum. These two very different vantage points can cause friction. I tell you, it’s not rainbows and butterflies. The road to your happily ever after starts here and it’s quite a ride.

Just as there have been blogs coming out dealing with the not so Johnson & Johnson rose-colored version of motherhood, I’ll try to share the real deal about planning - the fun and the dreadful parts to make that one day you’ve imagined all your life as a girl come true. 

At times, I find it outrageous how I try to nitpick on things that may go unnoticed. Ran into this article from The Huffington Post which brought me back to the ground:

As I think back on the hundred-plus weddings I’ve photographed, I want to emphasize this:

Every wedding is perfect.

I love a good party.

I love a bride in the most elaborate, fancy, princess-y dress you’ve ever dreamed of.

I love custom chuppahs and embroidered aisle runners and matchy-matchy bridesmaids dresses.

I love to photograph flowers and shoes.

But you know why I REALLY do what I do?

To photograph your parents, who will hold hands and cry on the first row of the chapel. To photograph your sister dancing with that boy she will marry in three years. To photograph those kids who will grow up so, so quickly. To photograph your grandfather, who will pass away next spring. To photograph your first kiss as a married couple, your best friend busting out her signature dance moves, the flower girl asleep under a table, and maybe even your ex looking pretty wistful as he hugs you a little too long in the receiving line.

You already know: your cake will disappear in less than an hour, your flowers will wilt before the ceremony ends, and that uncomfortable tux will go back to the rental place in the morning. But those photos… they’re gonna be there forever. You’ll have them when your own kids are born, when you have the biggest fight ever with your partner and need to be reminded of how much you really love each other, when your parents pass away and you realize the last time you danced with them was at your wedding…

So, nothing against the wedding magazines and blogs and their endless, passionate quest for “perfect” detail shots. PLEASE: throw the party of your lives with every. single. detail. EXACTLY as you dreamed it would be.

But my job — MY job — is to see past all that. My job is to give you photos that will remind you why you had that damn expensive party in the first place.

If you’re planning your wedding right now, please just close the magazine. Log out of Pinterest. And look at the person you want to grow old with. Remind yourself of why you’re doing this. And really CELEBRATE when that day comes. Don’t stress about your shoes or your cake or your flowers. Don’t stress about anything. When it’s all over, you will be married, and surrounded by the people who know you and love you most in the whole wide world.

I promise: that is the Perfect Wedding.

Times like these, I wish I was a guy! :-)

XOXO,

Bride-to-be who doesn’t want to be a Bridezilla. :-)

Clocked in at 10, can’t wait for 7.

The 9-hour wait is an agony.

Things I used to do in a heartbeat seem like a struggle.

Oh dream job, when did you start to feel like a chore?

Before, every morning I felt rejuvenated

Like a pre-schooler who’s giddy for class.

Now, mornings feel like I’m preparing for battle.

Hey soldier, go pick up your sword.

End of an era, this is how it feels.

My sturdy wall is crumbling

My everyday sanity warriors are going

Everyone’s leaving in this diaspora of sort.

Maybe it’s the environment that’s sucking the life out of me

Or the fear of an impending doom.

Maybe it’s because I’ve been here a bit too long

the 3-year itch you’ve come and I’ve a feeling you’ve won.

And the world spins madly on. (at SM Mall of Asia)

For sure the days will go by faster than normal but I’m glad we’ve finally found the church that makes our hearts flutter.

Someone’s really happy with her donuts! 😋🍴🍩

Was a little sad, a little mad. A bit stressed and kinda tired. So I succumbed to the bandwagon that is J.Co. to shook these blues away. Let’s see if the long queue is really worth it.

It’s a happy day! Fa la la!

Way too cute not to share #pleasegivemeadog #lifewithdogs

All it takes is imagination and a little silence to make the world a better place.

I want to feel my life. I want to stop agreeing to things I don’t really want.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It’s a death trap.