ParaDo Surprise Gift!
Monday, July 6th, 2009 | 60 Comments 
My sweet friend sent me a surprise package today.
It was an adorable bag filled with trinkets! 
She also included a cute inspirational card to cheer me on :noki4:
She knows how busy I’ve been and working so hard that she wanted to cheer me up~~ 
I love the hand mirror! I’ve been wanting a big one like this! And it’s all such fun sophisticated princess style
Getting back to work after the holiday was hard! I wanted just 1 more day to enjoy relaxing. On Saturday we went out and ate instead of staying in and making hot dogs or something. It was really great! I even celebrated with a margarita 
I put my hair up in a big bun since it was looking awful that morning. I also wore this marine-style onepiece. I really like it, but I feel like it makes my chest look ginormous 
. Yea, and ignore my bizarre facial expressions, LOL :haha: 
I bought these 60 calorie chocolate sticks as a treat. Yet to try them but they’re just typical Hershey’s chocolate just in portion control.
I ordered Momoeri’s tutorial book & Cawaii’s diet book from last year. They both have DVDs with them Sadly I haven’t time to even look at the DVDs :whaaaaaat::F
So I’ll share more about them later this week. I’m excited to have the diet book because I have 1 place for a bunch of great exercises to reference!
My diet’s going… well, phenomenally! 
It got a lot easier when I started tracking what I ate through the Livestrong site. If I count the weight I lost starting in May I’ve lost in total 11 lbs [4.9kg] this summer! The weight I’m at now I told myself I’d be OK with. BUT I think I really can get back to my normal weight that I was when I was in college! You see, when I went from living in a dorm and eating cafeteria food to living in an apartment and eating NOTHING but fast food… I gained 20 lbs! Literally in 1 year. It was really annoying. I went up 3 pant sizes which sucked because I was broke and buying new jeans was expensive! Hahahahahaaaa. But then I just never tried to get rid of that weight after getting a real job and eating healthier, home cooked foods again. So it’s just sat there 
I know there’s things I’m never doing again. :breakfast:
I’m never going to drink non-diet soda (ok maybe just 1 once a year! I gotta have a Barq’s root beer fully sugared at least once a year! )
Sugar Free Jello at 10 calories is my new BFF
Buying 2L bottles of Green Teas is TOTALLY worth the price (at 0 calories it wins over my old choice of GATORADE!)
Dreamfields Low Carb pasta and Shirataki noodles are LOVE
Egg beaters make amazing Santa Fe omelets at only 80calories! Fill you up!
Steamed cabbage is the shit and I’ll never tire of cabbage & dumpling soup! (so low cal!)
Chocolate on a daily basis is insanity and I can’t believe I allowed myself such gluttony!!
Um, I think that’s it for now! :hii1:
I’m going to get ready for bed now~!
Jenny posted at 10:04 pm ; Monday
TAGS: gift, japanese goods, diet, nails
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OMG OMG! do you get moery’s tutorial? how lucky!
I wanted so badly her book, she’s my favourite model
Oh, by the way, I love you hair in the picture, I use it that way for shool days, but with a bigger red ribbon x3
I love her too! I think I will scan some of it in to give a preview soon! I bought this one from yesasia.com
=O
you will do it?
グレイト！
thats so nice of your friend
Hhahaha - great gift and — yay, fireworks!
I’ve been so lazy with my exercise regime! Really need to get back into it! I’m such an uberslacker that I can’t be bothered to really get up and exercise, although with my work schedule, I know it’s really important that I do! /fail
Any tips?
Mmmm I’ve found 2 things work for me.
1. Don’t set expectations too high & always have a list of alternatives. So on days I don’t do serious work out like TaeBo I either take a short walk after dinner OR force myself to take a hot bath for a least 20 minutes that night. Also cleaning up the house burns calories too, haahaa
2. Exercise can be done any time! Like when brushing teeth or putting on makeup in front of the mirror. I tend to do leg raises to tone my thighs instead of just stand there for the 2 minutes it takes to brush teeth. Or while watching TV I’ll lie on my side and do leg lifts or mindlessly lift 3 or 5 lbs dumbbells (you can get real cheap at most stores.)
http://sushi-cat.net/pics/exercises13.jpg
http://sushi-cat.net/pics/exercises15.jpg
Maybe that’ll help?
The princess mirror is just LOVE! I used to adore anything “princessy” and guess what? I still do haha..
Oh and the bun is TOTALLY cute! Whenever I try putting my hair into a bun it’s always so SMALL!! I’m not sure if that’s just because I have very thin hair or if I’m doing something wrong :( Hey, do you think you could post a tutorial on that hair style??
There are some here:
http://sushi-cat.net/2007/05/31/hair-buns/
But I’ll look into seeing any newer ones to scan in. I will say my hair is super thin. After i make the ponytail I spray sections with hairspray then tease the underside with a comb! Then wrap it & pin it! Gives the illusion of thick hair! Or else my bun would be barely noticeable
. None of those tutorials I think show how to do that.
Thanks for the tips and tutorials! I’m going to try it out when I have time
Aw, what cute gifts!
I’m glad your diet is going well. Just be safe and don’t go overboard, ok? You don’t look like you have too much extra weight to spare!
What a great friend you have for sending you all those gifts! The princess mirror is LOVE. So cute and elegant.
You look so cute in the first picture with your hair tied up in a bun. Just a question: do you fix your mirror photos to make them brigther with photoshop or do they naturally come out as bright like that when you take them? Because whenever I take photos in front of the mirror, they end up looking all blurry and dark. I’ve been thinking maybe it’s because of the lighting in my room and I was considering of getting a new light to put on top over my mirror.
It depends. If I take the pic in the afternoon while the sun’s shining through my window, no fixing needed. But if I’m using my Blackberry (& not my digi camera) and there’s no direct sunlight it tends to turn out a bit dark so i just do a quick lighten in Photoshop. I created an actionscript in PS so I just have to push a button & tada! Ready to post
aww, that is so nice of her. Your doing great so far! I will support you! *
頑張る！ ♥
Congrats on your diet progress! I wish I could lose 11 lbs. But since I don’t have the willpower to diet (I love food too much) I’ve mainly been trying to jog more.
Cabbage is GREAT. It doesn’t get the positive attention it deserves. Since it’s getting warmer, have you tried making cold pickled cabbages? Kinda like quick kimchi. It’s really refreshing and if you make it spicy, it’s so good as a side to just plain brown rice.
Here’s quick recipe for it: http://www.justhungry.com/quick-and-spicy-chinese-cabbage-tsukemono-or-pickle-hakusai-no-sokusekizuke
Oh thanks for this!!! I think i’ll try it out. I like cabbage kimchi and anything spicy is good IMO!
That’s so sweet of your friend! Do you send her little gifts in exchange as well? C:
Just like Maiko said, I always use the bun hairstyle for school days. Mainly my lazy mornings.
I just found out that I lost 8 lbs since last summer, however once I found that out I, for some reason, totally binged. I’m pretty sure I gained 2 of those lbs back. -_-
Yea, we send each other gifts on holidays but mostly gifts “just because.”
Yea, I’m a tad worried about bingeing when i get to my parents! LOOOL but usually they tend to eat 3 square meals a day and don’t have snacks around. Plus now if I do indulge (like with the pizza) I get SO sick that I just don’t feel that urge.
Yeah, I really like LiveStrong. I thing it is the one of the easiest way to jump start and continue a program. It’s amazing how many people dislike counting calories though even if it is the best way to go.
Keep up the good work
Yea I love how I can update it from my phone plus search for calorie counts in restaurant foods easily. I just feel it helps me eat smarter, not less, you know!?
Yay, がんばって Jenny! Wow, chocolate every day?! I can’t eat a lot of chocolate because I don’t like sweet things that much, so my vice is potato chips. I can totally relate to what you said about college vs real job stuff. I put on like, 10 kilos when I had a desk job. Then I quit to go to Uni and I still have those 10 kilos! I want to get back to being about 45kgs but I don’t have the drive you do T_T So jealous!
The mirrors are totally gorgeous! I want a new handheld one too… And maybe a compact :3
omg how did you get rid of the habit eating chocolate every day?
u need to tell me!!i’ve never succeeded in that….
um isn’t that jello expensive(japanese brands)?i do also recommend weetabix for breakfast, hardly 80-190kcal^^
It was REALLY hard to break my choco habit! Because I’d drink hot green tea & enjoy godiva chocolates or some other chocolate every day at work! So I changed to hot black teas instead for a while which helped kick the habit.
Nah, I do have some of those MOST Japanese Jellies and they are like $2.50 a bag, but the 10 calorie jelly I’m talking about is American Brand JELL-O 10 calorie cups
Very cheap.
Good job Jen!! I am so happy for you~!!!
Once you start, it gets so much easier to eat healthy and be healthy….and you start realizing how you have been….its pretty interesting~ Good job ^_____________^
Hehe I eat chocolate every day - but only one small bar, which is only 6g of fat, so I don’t feel too bad
I’m so happy for you losing weight. You’ve worked so hard for it so I think it’s great 
Ray told me last night that I was losing weight. I think it must be the illness.
The gifts your friend sent are so pretty. That was so kind of her. I am very jealous of your hand mirror. It is just like what a princess from a fairy story would use
What a lovely surprise gift! How sweet. Very cute too.
Been in Geneva for almost a week now and I’ve yet to have eaten any Swiss chocolate. Waiting till the last week before I blow my money off on chocolate.
Ah if only you can donate some of your boobage to me….
That’s me. Was in such a hurry, forgot to fill out my info.
AWWW even in Geneva you stop by!!?? *is astonished*
I knew it was you though (b/c of Geneva comment, haahaa) don’t let me keep you!
*gives you an entire cup’s worth of her boobage*
hahahaaaa
Aww, that was so sweet of your friend to send a cheer-up package~!
See, you are loved, haha~
I love your outfit… & may I just say I WISH I could wear something that would even give me a chest???
lol~ But I guess we are all picky about ourselves in some way.
As for your diet… keep on GANBATTE!!!
Haahaa yea. Grass is always greener, ね？！
Yay! Way to go!!!
The sugar free jello really is the way to go - I broke my diet by adding fat free whipped cream on top, which technically is fake sugar and I’m not supposed to add it - BUT WHATEV haha
It’s yummy
My friends are trying to make me eat natto to lose weight - but I just can’t bring myself to eat that stuff :(
Ack, Mike keeps telling me to put that stuff on my JELL-O!! I actually did put that low fat Reddi Whip on a waffle last week, haahaa.
I’m so intrigued by natto. Yet to try, know all about it though and it’s pushed a lot in the diet pages. But I know I’ll either love it or it’ll make me wanna vomit. Haahaa. So I just stare at it in the freezer aisle.
aww~~ i’m glad your diet is going so well !! you inspire me to go on one myself before my vacation >.
oh man i was the same way, i was super skinny entering high school and then because of stress and just lack of time i was eating junk food. i gained 20 lbs and am now trying to work it off. i don’t like this thing though, because for my height (5′2″
doctors and what not try telling me that my weight should be at 110 lbs. But my frame is not built to be that small, I am naturally a curvy person. I am aiming for 130, which seems like a healthy weight for me.
oh I am totally trying that green tea then. 0 cals is just too good to pass up. I drink gatorade g2 which is 100 cal per bottle, but a whole 2l of green tea with nothing? awesome~
is the green tea you drink sweetened at all? maybe with honey or something? sometimes just green tea is a bit hard to drink.
I’m a bit of a tea purest so I never add sugar. I’ll recommend Ito En Jasmine Green Tea because it’s got a sweet jasmine flavor. I’ve tried G2 and it’s OK. I’m still a bit *blegh* to fake sugar taste but I’m building a tolerance. But it’s just easier to drink something I like that has 0. Other teas I buy in 2L are Suntory’s Oolong and Coke’s Sokenbicha Barley Tea
And yea, everybody’s body is different! I think as long as you can get to a place where you’re happy and you feel good physically it’s good. And DAMNED be stress weight!!!
I wish I had awesome special friends that would send me special packages full of goodies. hahaha.
Everytime I’m here it’s like an overblown explosion of pure girliness.
Hahhah where ya been Mister!!?
Yea it’s pink-a-riffic here
you reallly motivate me alot!
thanks! Im trying hard to lose weight too.
and seriously it’s annoying when I see myself looking fat infront of the mirror when parading a dress. sigh~
ohh, how do you tie that bun?
I was looking everywhere for tutorials. do you have any?
thanks in advance if you could help
There are some older ones here:
http://sushi-cat.net/2007/05/31/hair-buns/
But I’ll look for ones that show what I did. After I make the ponytail I spray sections with hairspray then tease the underside with a comb. Then wrap it & pin it.
The stuff you got is so cute!
Your friend is soo sweet! I love receiving packages or mails, even if it’s from the carrier or something. Imagine how delighted you felt. That’s really nice.
And good luck with the healthy lifestyle! I hope I can get a had start on it myself. LoL.
so jealous!! i love LOVE LOVE the mirrors! your outfit looks super cute too!
oh ya, thanks for all your help with my travel stuff! it means a lot
have you thought about just trying to lose fat instead of weight?
I think losing fat would be much healthier than losing weight … I’ve been needing to lose my fat. Even tho I’m 115 that fat percentage is woooosh! through the roof. Much more unhealthy. :/
Love the care package. So girly and adorable!! Also anything sent through snail mail is always awesome.
I wish I could eat chocolate everyday. But we can never keep sugar in the house because Chris will suck it up like a vacuum. I also wish I could have had 1 more day of that vacation.
That’s so sweet of your friend! I wish I had friends who’d send me special packages, letters, and whatnot. (I should probably start doing that… |D) Nonetheless, your gifts are very cute!
As for your diet… keep up the good work! *_*b
I love the mirror! That is sucha nice gift.
It’s great that your diet is going well! Good luck! I’m so addicted to chocolate! I eat it everyday because they have those candy jars at work haha.
I like that type of hairbun! Too bad my hair is short or else I would learn how to do that. It looks so difficult! It’s so hard getting back to work after my whole week off!
Congrats on your successful diet
Eating healthy is the best. It makes you feel better and happier 
love the photo and the outfit! you’d fit right in one of those magazines te
heyy jenn .. hw u made dat bun on head …
I tried so hard to make it on mine hair …
so u hv any website for showing the methodss ??
Reallyy thanks !!!
love your pics!!
These might help? http://sushi-cat.net/2007/05/31/hair-buns/
hey thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!
it really helpful!!!
i love the dress! it looks super cute on you!
thanks!
and the diet plan sounds really good! I’ll give it a shop too with mine
and i understand what you mean with poor uni students life lol
haha too much ands :p
jenny~ you saved my diet! i’m obsessed with the myplate tool on the livestrong website! it’s like i was blind, but now i see LOL
thankyou♥thankyou♥thankyou♥!!
P.S. LOVE your july 4th outfit.where did you get that onepiece?!
Glad it helps!! The one piece is from Forever 21.
Hey, how are you? I bet you don’t even recognize me, anyway, where do you get your japanese magazines at? I want some. I’ve been dying to get some for quite some time now. Anyway, what kind of a diet are you on? let me know so I can try it heehee. Well; take care and have a wonderful weekend ahead of you!!!
Hey! No worries, I remember you! How have you been? Most my magazines I get at a local store here in DC, but these I bought from yesasia. You can also try fujisan.com for magazines.
I’m not on any “type” of diet really. Just eating smarter like diet soda, sugar free jello, fresh fruits, or low fat chips. Not eating after dinner too!
Wow, I thought you’ve forgotten me. I’ve been good. So that’s where you get them at huh? I’ll have to remember not to eat after dinner. So how have you been? I hope you’re doing good. How’s the husband?
love your bunned-up hair, sooo so cute!!