Day 28 - Breakfast, Lunch, Snack, Dinner, Exercise, Eclipse

Oh happy mid-week Wednesday you were so good to me today!  Thank you for that and for finally getting me out of the rut that i was involuntarily put in.  I ate well, and i freed myself from the prison that i was forced into.  Check out what i consumed and how i got rid of it!

My wife had to leave the house early to get to work for a very early morning meeting so i was left to my own devices and had to sort shit out on my own.  So, i started by making a cup of coffee and made myself a peanut butter sandwich.  It's now wheat bread but it aint white bread either so all in all it wasn't crazy unhealthy.  Plus peanuts are good for you so i didn't mind mixing that in.

For lunch at the office they served Pares!  I don't normally eat Pares, not that i don't like it but i reckon i simply don't come across it all that much.  I mixed it in with some brown rice for added health!

I got hungry at some point in the afternoon so i sliced myself an apple.  Note: Apples taste better cold :)

And for dinner my wife and i went out on a pre-eclipse date and had dinner at Borough at The Podium.  We walked around the whole mall, it didn't take long since it was a small mall, and had a look at all the restaurants that are there.  A few caught our attention, Casa Armas, Shi Lin, Cafe Breton, and one more burger joint.  But we settled on eating at Borough since it had been reviewed by friends of ours that quite liked it.  This was the plate i ordered, chicken with a waffle!

My wife also let me have a taste of her pulled pork sandwich which i must say tasted waaay better than my chicken and waffle!  Im going to order that next time we go there :)

I ate my waffle as a dessert.  

Note: I did not use all the syrup in an effort to have less chocolate.  The waffle was also made out of pumpkin so i don't think its the worse of the worse :)

After dinner we headed back home to chill.  

I had some power and when my wife fell asleep while waiting for the eclipse i decided to exercise.  I can't remember everything i did especially since i was quite powered up plus i didn't write it down, but i did these and a few more things i reckon :)

Jumping jacks with dumbbells - 3 minutes

Squats and Lunges with dumbbells

Bicycle crunches

Double crunches

Let raises

Plank

Side Plank

Side Plank with arms and legs in the air

Tricep dips

Push ups

bicep curls

Plana forma dumbbell exercises

Yoga poses

Qigong breathing

I might have done more but i can no longer remember.  In any case, it was a great workout and i sweat my balls off!  My cats were bothering me while i was trying to get these exercises done but they were cute and i wasn't bothered.  

At some point after i took a good shower and waited for the eclipse to begin.  When it did, i woke my wife up and we watched it til the moon was red and covered in the earths shadow.  When it was over we went to bed and exercised together before passing out.  Needless to say, we both slept very well and both woke up in a great mood!  More date nights please!

Day 22 - Exercise in the morning!

Alright, so i really misbehaved last night!  At least i think i did.  Some say that peanuts are quite healthy and good for you but i tend to get the feeling that there's more to that story than meets the eye.  That and because my eyes were so fucked up last night that i couldn't read the health factors at the back of the bag of nuts.  I almost finished the bad to myself but was able to stop myself before it was all over.

Anyway, so when i woke up this morning (before my alarm went off) i was itching to do some exercises.  That and because i knew that i would not get the chance to exercise tonight since some plans had been made and confirmed.  

I kissed my wife on her delicious lips and then told her i was going to do some exercises.  I was somewhat surprised but truly happy when she told me that she wanted to exercise with me!  With that i pulled out her yoga mat as she moved a table out of the way and we began.  Ill try to remember what we did and list it down but i may very well have forgotten a few things:

Cardio for 1 and a half minutes (run in place / jumping jacks)

Lunges 2 sets of 12 per leg

Squats 2 sets of 12

Squats with dumbbell bicep curl 2 sets of 12

Squats with dumbbell over the head lift 2 sets of 12

10 push ups

20 of that thing where you lie facing down and lift your upper body and your legs

Bicycle Crunch 1 minute

Leg raise crunch 20 times

Double crunch 20 times

Double Lunge 2 sets of 12
Plank for 1 minute
Side plank for 30 seconds each side
Plank where you raise your legs 1 set of 12
Squat where you bend all the way down then lift halfway then all the way down again then all the way up.  - we did 1 set of 12.

I believe that's all and it took us just over half an hour to complete it.  I've never sweated so much before 9am!  It was great though and there's something about exercising in the morning that feels really good :)

Day 17 - Galera to Tagaytay Highlands (with exercise)

I was never the kind of person that you could easily tie down.  I move a lot and seek adventure in almost everything i do.  I also split town as often as possible and use almost every excuse in the book to leave town and go as many places as possible.  This week i had the opportunity to see a friends new house up in Tagaytay Highlands.  That being said, i took the earlier trip out of Galera which was at 730 instead of the next one which was at 10.  Being the delinquents we are though, our group (note: roommates) ended up leaving at 830 instead of 730 and we upset the guard, the captain, the wait staff, as well as the driver in Batangas who waited for us along with about 20+ guests :)

Before getting on the boat, i passed by the buffet to get some take out breakfast and came up with this.

That is a styrofoam box with 2 ensaymada's, 4 sausages, Tocino, sliced bread and 2 bananas.

In the end, all i had was a sliced bread and a banana plus a tiny piece of Tocino.  Gave the rest to the asshole driver when i should've just given it to literally anyone else instead of him.

(Speaking of that, what the fuck is wrong with you guys Coco Beach?! Get your act together man!)

I got dropped off at the Total Gas Station on South Super Highway and was fortunate enough to have been offered a ride to Highlands.  It was going to be a bit of a wait though so i decided to get a bite to eat since i hadn't really had much, plus since i'd gotten quite drunk the night before.  So i had Spagetti from Jollibee...

Not too long after my ride came and we made our way down south!  We stopped by a little restaurant in Sta. Rosa called Kanin Club and i order a salad for meat eaters.  I can't remember what it was called and my photo of it is on my wife's phone so i can't show it now but it was ok.  I also ate that with a few of the things that were ordered in our group which were predominantly meats :)

After lunch we continued on and finally got there!  We got stuck in some traffic but eventually made it and began the relaxing time in cold Tagaytay.  I was settled in when my buddy started telling me that it was time to drink.  I almost said yes, instinctively, but quickly caught myself and said that i want to earn that drink by first doing a bit of exercise.

So i went down to the garden and did the following on the grass while on grass ;)

Jump Rope for 1 minute

Push Ups to Failure ( 50 )

Bicycle Crunch 1 minute

Stairs 1 minute (there were no stairs so i ran up and down the steep garden)

That bench thing where you bring your knees to your chest for 1 minute

That other bench thing where your hands stay behind you and you do something like leg raises

Bench Jump (jumping up on a bench and back down to the ground) 20 times

Single Leg Presses (15 each leg)

Single Leg Lunges

Lunges while lifting weights over your shoulders 15 times

Jump Rope for 1 minute

And then my wife decided to join me!  So from here we did these:

Plank for 1 minute

Side Plank 30 seconds each side

Plank with raising feet 1 minute

and some lunge thing i saw on tv where you stand straight then bend your knees all the way til like your butt is hitting the ground then go halfway up, then go all the way down again, then stand up regularly.  We did 8 of those and then we were done :)

Once done, i went and got myself a nice cold smoke and a nice cold beer!

With my beer i had a Spanish Bread piece and a cig or two.  Not long after that it was dinner time as we ate early and enjoyed more Spagetti but only this time with delicious bread and even better meatballs!

That was really good by the way!  Thanks Wife for being so awesome in the kitchen!

For dessert, we enjoyed these chocolates!  I was able to behave myself and did not feast on these, although i sure did enjoy a few squares here and there.  Let's not forget, considering this was Saturday which is otherwise known as cheat day, i behaved pretty good!

Just more smokes and DVD's after this and of course, a bit of extra exercise with the wife!  Let's not forget that i hadn't seen her in 2 days and had been on a beach the whole time without her!  Love you!