Eating outside

Where to find healthy food? Either is cooking in the kitchen or eating outside. 

Because healthy food will not drop from the sky. You need to find it, either it grows from the ground, tree, flowers, seeds or from the water. 

Cooking in your kitchen is easy for you to eat healthily because you get to pick the right variety of food. So, for those who do not have a kitchen, how?

The good news is you get to pick the right Menu in order to eat healthily, despite you don't own a kitchen! Like me, I don't own a kitchen here at my rented place. So, I try to pick my menu properly or else I will just pop over to my friend's or boyfriend's house to cook. Because those menus from cafe can be quite expensive at times, at least for me, because I am currently living on a budget!

Last week I was at The Burgertory, SS15 Subang Jaya with my buddy. It serves Pork Burger, fries or apple walnut salad as side dish andddd I get to choose Coke light as my drink! (very rarely an individual restaurant sells Coke Light, but I think it is getting more and more in Selangor!)

This Curry Pork Burger costs me RM20, with a whole big chunk of apple walnut salad! I hardly finished the meal because the salad already filled up half of my stomach. But it was all satisfying and I was glad that I did not choose fries as my side dish, though I love potatoes.

Seriously, no much obstacles eating healthily, although living outside without a kitchen. One of the ways is the pick Mixed Rice. Because I get to choose the dishes that I want! Honestly, I will not have much choices if the food order is always fried rice, fried noodles and other fried stuffs, though these are the easy-to-order food menus. Moreover, don't forget your daily intake of at least two servings of fruits! Because fast food restaurants don't serve you fruits unless you order them. Neither the Mixed Rice restaurant serves you fruits, so buy your own fruits! You certainly don't need a kitchen to prepare fruits. Just a knife, bowl and water will do :)

Bought an avocado yesterday to cook with spaghetti, never actually bought an avocado before. Usually I eat avocado in those Japanese restaurants only, on top of sushi or in vege salad. This kinda small avocado costs me RM3. I am very untrained on how to pick the ripe avocado. I guess this small healthy fat fruit was a bit raw :p

A failure

I knocked on a guy's car just now. I wasn't driving fast. I was actually stopping my car, lining up in the car queue. It was just...I didn't press enough on the brake pedal, then my auto car slid in front and knock on the car in front of me.

I was driving my car after dinner at a burger shop. I know I was having low sugar symptoms, but my mind insisted not to take sugar because I have just eaten burger and apple salad. I was telling myself: It's okay, I will recover later after this meal. Don't eat sugar too rush, I might end up hyperglycemia later. 

I end up banging people's car because a simple task like pressing hard on the brake pedal was seen as impossible for a low diabetic. 

I am really scared. Not because of banging a car makes me afraid, but to think back that I am not myself when I was low scares me. The person isn't really mad at me. I was repeating I am truly sorry, and he said it's okay, accidents may happen at times. 

I was crying hard just now because I was really afraid. Whenever I recalled back what actually happened just now, I realized that wasn't me at all. I am not like that, a simple task as pressing the brake pedal I couldn't perform well. 

I don't blame diabetes for this incident. Everything happens for a reason, and it takes all aftermaths to know what the reason is. Blame myself for being judgmental towards sugar level. 

Today, T1D makes me feel like I am a total Failure. 

Eat to Live & Live to Eat

Which category you think belongs to you?

The same 3 words, but when you arrange them in separate ways, totally distinct meaning.

I put my title as "Eat to live And (&) Live to eat", because I do not agree with putting Or (/) in this quotation.

If you were to choose either one...

Let's talk about EAT to LIVE. It's kinda sad when you hear someone says: "Oh food is just my fuel, I eat because I need to keep my heart pumping. That's it." Food is colourful and should be creative! Food is not medication (though some medications can be quite colourful lol) that only treat or control your diseases. Food is a Wonderful Enjoyment in life! Food surely is not fuel that only cause you to gain weight and gain fats. When you gain much weight and body fat, most certainly is related to Metabolism and Mindful eating. Don't blame real food. 

Secondly, let's talk about LIVE to EAT. Oh, I continually encounter people who practise live to eat and believe me, I struggle hard to make them change. Even require extra effort to make him/her sit there for consultation.  Because a dietitian will make sure all their favourite foods are being eliminated. Wronggg! The moment I said healthy eating plan, I am so not going to ruin your "purpose in life" which is to eat. You will never go wrong by a variety of REAL healthy FOOD. And when I mentioned healthy eating plan, I am not saying the bland dull food. I am talking about Real Food cooking which is worth changing your eating habits for! Try a different cooking method, try using spices for a new flavor happening on your tongue, try exploring adding fruit and vegetables in your cooking and baking!

It's again the BALANCE of these two. Any extremity of either one, is a nonono. Enjoy your real food for the fuel, nutrients, satisfaction and pleasure that you can get from it!

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Everytime I talk about real food, I get really hungry. And my rented house here is having water rationing for April. The whole April month. @#$%@#$% Seriously, I really pik cik (frustrated).

Yesterday night went to Cold Storage and wanted to buy some avocados. But, they don't sell there. Probably have to go Jaya Grocer. Aiks.

Anyway, I bought a very expensive potato chips. I like how they specified the amount of carbohydrates in the chips. Really interesting informative Food Label for potato chips.

So precisely, about 13 chips = 16g carbs (1 serving!)

Now that I know how much to put in my bowl for snacking next time. But, at times, counting 26 chips every time I snack, can be quite bothering. I rather boil 2 medium potatoes, sprinkles salt pepper and eat haha!