Healthy Inspiration: Pre-Breakfast

Just sharing two of the healthy habits I learned from 52 Healing Habits.

1. Drinking pure calamansi first thing in the morning  

The suggested number of calamansi is 25 pcs! (Uhm pwede po 5 pcs lang, effort maghiwa)

I only use 5-10 pcs of calamansi depending on size and besides I really find it difficult to drink

2. Eating fruits for breakfast

Actually it is  better if you eat nothing until noon but fruits - kaloka

I do that sometimes but for weekends or some mornings when I'm extremely hungry, I usually have fruits as my pre-breakfast then I would wait for 30mins to 1hour to eat my rice brekky.

We feel sleepy after eating sometimes because digestion use up a lot of energy,

Fruits are digested easily without too much effort and nourishes our body right away so we have energy for our next body activities.

Okayyyy I read that from another health book (na gusto ng itapon ni mike)

Here are some of the fruits I usually eat:

papaya, pears, grapes, pineapple, turnips, mangoosteen, mango

During the first week, I felt like I'm on a strict diet and these looked lonely and sad.

 I can then relate to a friend who tried a calorie diet meal delivery and stopped eventually because she felt like she was punishing herself.

But then I persevered (tiis-ganda lang 'teh) I remember I had a skin breakout that time (kasalanan yata ng mga Piattos at chocolate)

So after two long weeks of adding these on my daily eats, I noticed that:

1. I no longer feel fatigue in the afternoon 

2. I have extended energy that keeps me awake until late evening 

3. and what I like the most: it balances my hormones because of fruits alkaline effect in our body

So then, I will continue to add these on my daily eats. 

I am not actually very strict, there were mornings that I don't feel like eating fruits so I just had calamansi or there were also times that I wanted to eat fruits only, either one. 

My sample routine:

7AM - Drink Calamansi

8AM - Eat Fruit 

9AM or 10AM - Breakfast with rice

Or 

7AM - Drink Calamansi

8AM - Eat 1st serving of fruit 

10AM - Eat 2nd serving of fruit

11:30 - Lunch

Or (if medyo gutom ;p)

7AM - Drink Calamansi

730AM - Eat 1st serving of fruit 

8AM - Breakfast with rice ;p

For me, the key to any diet or healthy habits is not to be hard on your self, just listen to your body :)

And since I've been doing these for more than a month now, if there were no calamansi or fruits around I really make an effort to go out and buy (hinahanap-hanap ko na siya ;p )

Happy Sunday and have a healthy week ahead!

Healthy Inspiration: 52 Healing Habits

Remember when I posted about 52 Healing Habits last year here?

52 weeks have passed since then and finally, I finished learning all about these healthy habits compiled by Bo Sanchez.
Every week, I received an email, a few pages of explanation about it. Sometimes they also send an extra Happy Healing E-Magazine and an inspirational talk by Bo that you can listen to.

I already knew and practiced some of the habits and there are also habits that I knew but forgot to apply especially the proper food combination when eating.  There are also some new to me and I'm also skeptic on some.

But honestly, there are new habits that I find hard to incorporate like
why you should drink calamansi first thing in the morning and why eat fruits for breakfast.
After a year, I finally started doing these little by little and discovered how my body reacts.

Subscribing to 52 Healing Habits is a good way of reminding me to live a healthy life and teaching me ways to achieve it. It was like someone is gently checking on you every week if you are nourishing your soul and body. It's not only about what we feed our tummy but also what we feed our mind and soul.

If you are interested in learning the 52 Healing Habits, you can click here to subscribe.
First 2 months of subscription is free and there is a fee of P499/mo afterwards, You can opt to stop your subscription if you want.
But why pay, you may ask. It will help support Bo's foundations so I think of it as a donation.  (Honestly, I haven't been to any of his live talk/conference/preaching. But I do read his books and I like his beliefs pertaining to health, wealth and religion)
And also, if you are one of the people like me who tend to ignore healthy advice that are given for free, then paying for it will oblige you to follow. Heck I paid for it I might as well try it. ;p


PS: I also enjoyed reading GodWhispers everyday. Subscription is FREE.
Something inspirational to read in your email every morning.
Good vibes is healthy for us ^_^

Simple Foods

Some of our recent eats (aside from my favorite Adobong Broccoli and favorites ), I also love preparing these foods.

I call them simple foods ;p  they only have 3 or less ingredients and nothing too elaborate.

Tortang talong, cucumber 

love love love tortang talong ;p

 Boiled Kangkong and Egg, Rice with Turmeric powder

Cucumber, Spinach, Olives, tomatoes, sprinkled with sesame seeds

Enchanted Farm Golden Eggs  (organic salted duck egg)

Boiled beans and carrots for lunch

A warm bowl of oats, sprinkled with flax seeds and a bit of coco sugar 

Kanzhu

Grocery time at hypermarket :) we had our late dinner at Kanzhu. I already blogged our first time here

where they served us free sweet peanuts, no more of that now but it's ok

We shared this Beef Noodles Php160 for that 2 bowls 

Simple noodle soup but  makes you feel warm and comforting. 

Soups are definitely a must for cold weather :)

We also tasted their Hakaw Php125.  toyomansi and crunchy shrimps! mmmm

It's raining non stop. Stay Safe everyone!

PS:  As I want to learn more about taking care of my health (as in serious ;p), last night I finally subscribed to 52HealingHabits by Bo Sanchez. Surprisingly he's a semi vegetarian. I'm inviting everyone, please do check this out too :)