Awful day

Today was the gloomiest day I have experienced in a long time. For starters, I was majorly hungover - yea, I know I should cut back. But then I had this really sad dream where I was saying goodbye to my sister at a train station, when the doors closed and I couldn't even hug her. As she was walking away, I could see tears streaming down her face and I just looked over to my mother who was in the dream with me and asked "What am I doing, Mom?" (what I meant was, why am I leaving behind people I love to move to London?) and then started crying myself. I woke up feeling so very sad only to realize that no one was here in London and it was the first time I felt completely alone and lonely in this city. So to take my mind off stuff I cooked, cleaned, went out for a walk all to come home to more gloom. I think it is just one of those super sad days and it will all be over tomorrow.

Accidental Salad

Here is one of the healtiest, yummiest and low low low calorie concoctions:

Shelled edamame
Raspberries
Peeled orange flesh

Mix together and let it marinate in each others juices for a few hours in the fridge and then eat > > Instant BLISS

Caffeine cut

I was a coffee addict. I could easily consume three, four, even five cups of coffee a day. The high I felt was incredible. The first thing I had to do after I woke up - even before brushing my teeth or using the loo was to get my coffee ready. And not ordinary cup would cut it. It had to be my grande sized Starbucks's coffee with undoubtedly the same brew.

Two weeks ago I woke up a little late and rushed to work. As soon as I get there, I generally head straight to the cafeteria but instead I went to my desk and started working. I felt energized and refreshed all day - without a single drop of caffeine! And I repeated this for five consecutive days - not missing coffee even once! How is it that I went from being a "I would give up food before I gave up coffee" girl to not finding the need to consume it multiple times a day? I have been thinking and then I read my sister's blog about the powers of water. I generally consume between 3 and 4 litres of water a day. I think that has done the trick. That has helped me kick the habit. Naturally. Without a fight.

So here is a H2Ode (without actually writing one) to the power of water!

Utter, inexplicable joy!

It is very difficult to describe the feeling when you are deliriously happy for someone else's success. For me, it has been on two occasions - once when my sister got into Yale and now when a dear friend got a full-time offer at a prominent consulting firm. I knew how much these two people, whom I love very much, wanted this and just for that reason I wanted it for them. I found a great deal of joy revelling in someone else's joy and it is a feeling I never want to forget and be able to expand this feeling for many other people who are dear to me.

Meal replacement shakes

I was never a fan of replacing meals, especially dinner with liquids. But yesterday, I came across Slim Fast smoothies. The cute bottles come in delicious flavours like mango, strawberry and banana and are only 200 calories. They are packed with nutrition. One of those and a liter of water and I was full. No need to eat anything. Plan to do this about 3x / week

Waking up

Moving on to my inability to wake up in the morning problems. Thanks to companions who are big on waking up late, I too find it difficult to wake up earlier than I absolutely have to. Last night I went to bed at 10:30 - earlies I have gone all summer long. I naturally woke up at 5:50 feeling well rested. Instead of springing up however, I lazed around and slept till 7:30 - boooooo. Need to find a way to wake up and stay up. One thing is for sure though, I found it much easier to be awake at 5:50 when I went to bed at 10:30 (I know, no sh** Sherlock).

Savory snacking and iPhone app

I usually get a crazy craving for something salty and crunchy in the middle of the day. Try Snack Jack's Soy based rice cakes - Salt & Vinegar flavour- HUGE on flavour and only 89 calories! Take that expensive 100 calorie snack packs.

Also, I downloaded an application on the iPhone titled '8 glasses a day'. Now I have a fun application that allows me to click on a glass and show that I have consumed an 8oz glass of water.

Some progress

So I seem to be making some progress on my control my eating front - I survived all morning on a little packet of oatmeal, tons of water (yeay!) and 1/2 a cup of coffee. Then my good friend Shaheen took me to a salad place where I got a really delicious salad for £5! Even sweeter.

People who are not concise

I hate sitting in meetings - especially work meetings - in which some people cannot come to the point quickly enough. I want to pound the table with my fist half way through their monotonic drone and tell them to "JUST GET TO THE F-ING POINT". I will never drone on, make silly jokes (that are not funny), try to show off my intelligence (rather lack there of) by incessantly talking on one point or a series of non sequitor points!