Showing posts with label 한의사. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 한의사. Show all posts

Friday, December 10, 2010

Busy Days

In 5 days I went from roughly 10,000 total video views on 30 total videos to almost 20,000 currently. I also had a mere 9-11 subscribers, and now stand at 56. Yahoo!

Also, today was hella productive. I had a super busy day at school: 5 classes back to back, including the two worst classes at my school. Then I managed to get off work early and hit the bank to pay a bill AND the post office to mail Christmas gifts back home (last year I barely managed to send my gifts before January 30th). Then I took a bus to the 한의원 for acupuncture. Got my acupuncture and discovered I've lost 2.5 kilos so far (YAY). Then I took a cab back to my neighborhood (it was raining) and picked up contact lenses. Then walked home (it stopped raining) and stopped to get some mandarins from the traditional market, and then some granola bars for breakfast this weekend. Now it's 6:30 and I don't really know what to do.

Not eating dinner at all really takes the fun out of evenings.

I'm pretty exhausted though. Hopefully I'll hit the sack early today.

Saturday, December 4, 2010

Diet

So I'm on this crazy awful diet. But actually it's not as bad as I had originally thought.

Here are the rules:

1. I'm supposed to do really basic exercise everyday (crunches and demi-squats - sitting in a chair and standing up, st down, stand up, et. al.)

2. I must drink 한약 two times a day, 30 minutes before lunch and around dinner time. 한약  just means Korean medicine. It's always a drink and it's always herb based. It's also always hella bitter. It's like drinking all the shitty herbs in the word and dealing with it.

3. I should do acupuncture 2-3 times/week (this is the tricky one as I usually don't have any time during the week)

4. I cannot drink alcohol, coffee, cola, or any ice beverage. So that means, warm water, and room temp juices.

5. I cannot eat pork or ham of any sort, and I cannot eat chicken unless it's skinless chicken breast.

6. I cannot eat anything that contains flour, so bread, pasta, and most noodle-based soups are out.

7. I cannot drink any liquid while I'm eating meals. This includes broth of any soup I might eat and water.

8. I cannot eat any fried foods or snacks.

9. My breakfast should be regular sized, as long as it follows above rules (fine... fruit, granola, etc).

10. My lunch should be about 60% regular size, still avoiding the above mentioned foods (more tricky since I don't get to choose what I eat my school 5 days a week... but luckily there is almost always some fish and rice both of which are okay).

11. My dinner should 없음. This means... no dinner. I am allowed to snack on cucumbers or cherry tomatoes if the hunger becomes unbearable. Aside from that, not food after lunchtime. This is going to be difficult.

12. My diet (what's left of it) should be heavy on onion, 고추장 (spicy sauce), green onion, and garlic. This means that in addition to eating way less than I normally do, I also am stuck smelling disgusting. The upside of this is that I will smell just like 80% of all adults in Korea, so I should blend in.

So that's it. The 한약 medicine is an appetite suppressant so I drink it before I eat and it helps me feel fuller faster.

I've heard people can lose between 8-10 kilos easily in a month on this diet. I don't think I'll lose 10 kilos, but 6-8 would be swell.

xoxo