New Year Resolution

I'm not the type that normally make new year resolutions, the only one i ever tried to do was two years ago trying to not swear so much, but i kept on forgetting about it and soon forgot all together in matter of weeks.

But I'm really hoping I can stick to it this year, one of the reason behind this is I ate far too much during my UK trip and my skin reacting badly. I'm gonna try remove the following from my diet. Most of these are food that's considered "poisoning" in Chinese medicine.

• No Coffee / milk tea
  
• No Chocolates
• No Processed Meat
• No Alcohol
• No Shell Fish
• No Fizzy Drinks
• No Beef / Duck

My aim is to be completely rid of these things for 3 months and allow myself small doses of them after that. I actually started on 28th Dec 09 so it's been just over week, so far I'm coping ok but have been tempted by beef and chocolate on a daily bases. I am suppose to cut out eggs as well, but if i did there's not gonna be much left so I'm ignoring that :)

Yum

Anyone been to HK would know how good the food is here. There's so much to choose from and so convenient to just go out to grab a bite to eat. Within the last week, I've had Japanese, Italian, Chinese (old - Yum Cha and new - Cha Chan Ten style), stakehouse and Thai food! I have to admit, not all of them were brilliant, but the majority were very nice!



There's also all the lovely road side snack I used to have as a kiddie, Its hard to resist a 雞蛋仔 (wuffle like snack) when you can smell the gorgeous aroma!



Everyone reading this should know me well enough to know I tend to eat more or less non-stop throughout the day (and the sandwich i just had at 1am would re-enforce that), and since I live a good few miles from civilisation (I mark this by where I can get milk, bread and a flithy McD) It's just all too easy to eat out all the time, amazingly it's often much cheaper to eat out then to make your own food, which sounds pretty good until I start noticing my weight.... When i was in London I used to train up to 6 times a week, which is safe to say I burn a lot of calories justifying why i eat so much. Since I STILL don't have a bank account to join the gym with, I'm hardly exercising as much as before... with so much food, that makes a very bad combination. I've already noticed how weak and sluggish my body is :( The heat makes it hard to train much at home without the risk of drowning in my own sweat



Whenever I'm home, I do try to eat good, but eating good the way I did at UK is fairly difficult here. For a start it's hard to find the same food, I had to walk around 4 shops in 3 towns before I found a bag of cous cous! Then there's the slight problem of price "western" food are like 3 times the price here! little pot of rosemary - £3, red pepper £1.50 each! For the sake of my wallet and my jeans that might or might not be on a cargo ship right now, I really need to find how i can eat healthy with all the local food.

Jen: it took me 3 shops to find some tinned tomatoes at £1.2 a can for the chili I'm planning to try to make this weekend.

All suggestions on how i may healthy here are welcomed!