📋 TL;DR📝 ☀️ Here is the 5th part of my six-part post. 🧬 To control my LDL, I eat grains, legumes, seeds, vegetables, fruits, and fish. 🐠 📝 Full Post ✨ 👋 Hi Skool family! 🏫 This post is a little bit different from my previous four updates. 🔄 Those past posts were inspired by public comments, but today's topic actually comes from a direct message! 💬 I was asked about my daily diet and how I manage to keep my arterial plaque risk low. 📉 (The person who asked = nurse. ⚠️Me = not work in healthcare 🧪 absolutely no background in medical science. 😅) This is purely my personal experience from tracking my own body. 🎀 In science, you can't generalize an entire population from a single person.🔬 📊Simply put, I eat the following items to manage my lipid panel: 🟢 Whole Grains: Oats & Barley 🟡 Legumes: Azuki, Mung, Chickpeas, Lentils, Split Peas, etc. 🟠 Seeds: Flax, Chia, Sesame, Sunflower, Pumpkin 🔴 Local Vegetables and Fruits 🔵 Fatty Fish: Salmon & Sardines 💡 Let's stay vibrant and healthy! Feeding our bodies the right fuel is an act of self-care! ❤️ Every meal we choose is a step toward a more energized life. 🎉 I am rooting for everyone 🏆

As I mentioned in my previous post I went to the gym after my work shift. Got picked up by my mom later to shop some groceries. So far so normal. Let’s say it didn’t stay that way. As we got back home, ready to put away all stuff we bought my mom realized our fridge has broken down!! 😰😫 Since we’re only renting this place we had to inform our landlord and of course as it is the weekend he will show up earliest on Monday! GREAT! (pls recognize the thick sarcasm) 🙃 Well we got things sorted eventually, used our electric cooling box to store some food. Shoutout to my dad here, who bought it around 10 years ago for vacations. 🙌 And switched out drinks with fruits in our mini fridge. I miss my cold coke 🥲 Expect the unexpected and stay calm as a broken fridge might be binding around the next corner 😂

Friday night Disneyland dinner went exactly as planned… well, the food part did. The rest? My life always comes with a plot twist. 😂 My mini me got her turkey leg with white rice and kimchi, and I packed mine with kimchi + konjac purple rice. Let me tell you… such a good combo! We both enjoyed every bite. 🤤 The mister also got what he came for—his new BBQ hamburger. Everybody was happy and fed. ✅ Then my mini me decided she wanted a strawberry popsicle for dessert. 🍓🍦 The cast member handed it to her and specifically warned her: “Be careful. These are kept in dry ice, so they’re EXTREMELY cold.” Now… if you’ve ever watched A Christmas Story and remember the kid whose tongue gets stuck to the frozen pole… you already know where this story is going. 😭😂 Because apparently being a teenager means hearing a warning and thinking, “That probably doesn’t apply to me.” Next thing I know… HER TONGUE IS STUCK TO THE POPSICLE. 😳🤣 I’m looking at her like, ARE YOU SERIOUS RIGHT NOW?! Thankfully, Stepdad to the rescue 🦸‍♂️😂. The mister had water in his Hydro Flask, poured some over it, and freed the tongue from its frozen strawberry hostage situation. Crisis avoided. Tongue saved. Popsicle lesson learned… maybe. 😂 The best part about Disneyland isn’t always the rides. Sometimes it’s watching your teenager recreate scenes from movies you never asked to see live. 🤦🏻‍♀️🤣 My life is full of surprises…and apparently I’m raising the Disneyland version of A Christmas Story. 😂🏰🍓 Happy Saturday, everyone! Remember: when a cast member gives you a warning… LISTEN. 🤣

It was planned I hit the gym Friday morning as soon as it opens. Well life would not be life without a twist when you least expect it. I barely slept 4 hours and woke up feeling like my soul was left behind. 😩 I went on with my morning routine hoping I was just tired. BUT if I learned something here, it is that being tired or not having motivation and being actually fatigue are two very different things. I had my gym clothes already on when I asked myself again, what does my body really need? Does it make sense to workout with bare minimum energy? 🤔 It was not worth it nor did I want to risk an injury. So I pushed my workout to Saturday. And as if I had known, Saturday morning comes around and my brain wanted to push it again. I did it once so why not again, right? I have to admit the feeling of happiness turned into guilt real quick! So I made a promise to myself to go after my work shift! 🙌 I am proud of myself for noticing what my body needs, realizing what tricks my brain played and still showed up at the gym! 💪🏻 Also I had to rock the merch for the first time! 🤭🔥 Let’s keep working on mindset as much as working out! Did you have a situation where your brain played tricks on you? ✨

I’ve been loving having large portions of food for my meals these days and here is one example!! This full meal was 534 calories