food post to celebrate the new layout

I've finally found the time to change my blog layout and I'm so happy with how it now looks that I've decided that I should celebrate it by doing a food post on the things which I have been eating nowadays (many of which, you will see are a lot more naughty #^_^#).

Hope you like the new layout as much as I do. :)

I been keeping to my egg white omelettes for quite a while.
This one I mixed up with furikake. :)

Discovering Quinoa made me so happy.
I just made it a little Italian this time, along with a side of egg white omelette.

I knew I was going to be okay the day I found myself having a muffin at Starbucks.
At the start of my braces, I thought I would have had to swear off it.

This was the day I really felt like I needed healthy food.
That's a salmon belly soup for Omega-3s, cranberry juice for the antioxidants,
and a new western-mediterranean style egg white omelette with olives.

This was what it looked like - with my standard cheese and nori,
but this time I added chilli flakes, and olives. It tasted like a pizza. :)

You were SO delicious! <3

Super naughty day where I chose to try Gado Gado.
I could only eat a quarter of this, and I couldn't eat any of the keropok, but it was still SO good!

Salads are apparently now edible for me! :) I think my teeth are a lot less sensitive now.
This was a Japanese pasta salad with pomelo and nuts on fresh butterhead. :)

Singapore had the Prosperity Burger promotion at Mac's over the Chinese New Year festivities.
I couldn't resist! So I had half (maybe a third) of a burger. Made me so happy.

This was my dessert at reunion dinner.
It's Sago Gula Melaka without the coconut milk. (No saturated fats for me! :))

Mac's for breakfast at our newly renovated office! :)
I can't believe I ate a fillet o fish. 0_o

Picked this up at Takashimaya after my February adjustment.
They were nice and soft, so it was perfect.

Picked these up for my staff at a Japanese-French bakery at Takashimaya.
They were too cute!

This was mine. It's a brown sugar granulated covered soft bread. <3

Common foods I'm eating at the office nowadays.
I can't bite straight into the cookies, but they are perfect with tea. :) 

There were, and are, days where I just need something soft and happy for my body.
Raspberries and soft weetbix in low fat milk is perfect for those days.

This is Quaker's Life cereal in skim milk topped with half a banana and some random fruits and nuts.
The random fruits and nuts were such a pain to eat though. :/

This was a breakfast perk-me-up at Ikea.
Organic mushroom crepes. They won me over at "organic".

A naughty day.
Dry fried laksa with an omelette and blanched broccoli.
Even though the broccoli was probably the saving grace of this meal, they are possibly the most annoying vegetable to eat for one with braces. :/

Quinoa topped with avocado, silken tofu, furikake and nori.
It was delicious and superbly healthy!

profile shots two months in

It's been a long time since I posted and not much has been happening with my teeth. I have been a lot naughtier with my diet nowadays though. I remember when I started, I was really strict to porridge and soft foods and what not. But these days, I eat whatever I want... including a daily intake of ferrero rochers for comfort (yes, even though those annoying little hazelnut bits unfailingly find their ways to get stuck somewhere and leave me the pleasure of the "extraction game" which is basically a tongue-wrestle riot in my mouth for the next half hour or so).

My teeth have been severely disobedient! They haven't really been moving as fast as I'd like them to! The last time I went to get my wire adjustment, I asked the ortho about their progress and it was the same "very slightly" answer. Sigh. And what their stubborn disobedience has resulted in was the frequency of my appointments being lengthened to every 4 weeks instead of every 3 weeks. :( I think once I get that last bracket in though, I will revert back to the 3-weekly visits. I would really like to finish this ASAP!

Here's the progress of the naughty little buggers

Soooo slooooooowwwwly. Come on friends! You can do it faster!

I can't quite see much of a difference to be honest... other than that the bottom few incisors and my premolars on the bottom left seem to be straightening out a little. I can't wait to put a bracket on my last little bottom incisor though. I feel so sad for it... as though it has been discriminated against. Doesn't it look like it's sinking into depression? I need to ask my ortho to help it out soon. Maybe I shall write my ortho an email today about his plans for my poor little friend.

Here are some other closer progress photos...

I guess things are straightening out... except my poor little left-out incisor who's retreating out of loneliness. :(
We will get you out of there to be reunited with everyone else soon, lovely!

Maybe it's accentuated by the lighting, but my teeth look a lot more messed up at the start.
Come on, friends, we can do it!

I can't wait to see the end of this. After ten years of debating, I'm glad I finally started.

As you can see in the photos the healing of my mole excision has been progressing alright. The one of my nose has been doing well, but the one on my cheek is still a little reddish and looks like it's developing into a little crater.. :( It's quite saddening, but I'm just keeping up with the care-routine of using Vitamin E oil and seeing how it goes. Apparently it may fill up over the weeks. Will just see the progress and pray for the best. No turning back any way.

Progress on my marathon training has been.... non-existant. I haven't been running at all. I kinda have less than 3 months to train now and I don't know why but I honestly have no motivation at all. :/ I guess I already know that it's going to really hurt when it comes. I think I'd be really upset if my heart gives out though... cause that'd mean I wouldn't be able to complete my braces and surgery. Drat it. Okay, I really should start. I will make an effort this week.

Immense exhaustion.