oh no I'm a failure..

Hello my lovelies!!:)

Sorry I haven't been writing for a long time but now I have a job so basically I haven't had time or anything interesting to write.. Anyways.. I'm not on this stupid diet anymore(what a surprise right:P)..

Reasons why:

*I hate the kind of diets where something is totally forbidden (it makes it even more desirable) I thought I could do it but I really could not... And I was also hoping faster results..
*Wanted to celebrate the end of my exams
*At work I get dinner every time I am working in the evening and breakfast in the mornings.. So I could not have eaten almost anything if I would have still been dieting..

So now I decided that I will just eat almost everything, but I'll just try to eat more veg and fruit than other stuff and then not too much sweets etc.. And to be honest with you.. now that the sweets are not forbidden I don't think about them anymore that much so I don't even want them:D

Anyways about my job. It is kinda easy and nice, my feet hurt from standing all the time though, because I am not used to that.. Also I hate serving drunken british guys (especially stag dos) as they allllways have to comment on something and so on.. Guess I have to ignore them and just get used to that:((

Anyways today I don't have to work in the evening as there are several b-day parties and I am still a beginner and maybe couldn't cope with it (yessss).

So today I finished work at 12, went to do some groceries and came home to read a new marie claire magazine I bought. Every marie claire buyer got a free 50 ml body shop creme:D Tbh that is the main reason it grabbed my attention in the shop:D and then I saw some interesting headlines on the cover and thought... why not:)

Anyways I did not read through all the magazine yet, so I can't really say anything about that besides that there was a picture of one wedges I already looked at twice in Marks and Spencer.. maybe it was a sign that I should get them.. I'll go and check them out tomorrow after work:)

I thought I should write a product review as well today instead of talking about myself all the time:D

This product I tried to sell on ebay but noone bought it, but then I thought that actually I need a bronzer mysef and it turned out to be one of my favourite bronzers of all time (guess it was destined to be mine). Andddd it iis BENEFIT 10 BRONZER/HIGHLIGHTER!!!

I looove it!!! It comes in a pretty box and has brush with it as well. The bronze colour goes under the cheekbone to contour your face and the lighter colour goes on your cheekbone (I use it under my brows as well) to give you a nice, healthy glow. It is very very nice and goes on smoothly and not too heavily.. The lighter part gives you seriously the nicest glow ever. It makes my skin look so much more smoother and healthier... Love it!!

PROS:

*Smooth
*Not too heavy
*Bronzer/highlighter 2in1
*Brush comes with it
*Pretty box

CONS:

*As it is not too heavy, then sometimes I like to use it a bit more so it does not last for too long.. Around 2 months or so I would say.. (The highlighter lasts for longer)
*Pricey- for me it is I think a bit pricey - £23.50.. So I am not sure if I will purchase it again after this one is finished.

SCORE: 8/10

Also a girl named Blaire Fowler who's blog I read all the time (her and her sister's blog actually) recommended this product as well. They are youtube beauty-gurus and I totally love reading their blog and watching videos:) If you are interested then this is their blog which they update every day www.elleandblair.com

So okay enough for today:D Tomorrow I don't have work in the evening either so I'll try to think of something interesting to write here for you:)

Have a nice dayy!:)

Jane xx

candychocolatetoffeee.....mmm..

Helloo!!

I have sad news... I cheated!!! A bit.. I ate lots of chocolate and candies and toffee.. BUT.. they were sugarfree. I thought they were allowed but obviously not as much as I ate.. 75-100 kcal is allowed but I probably ate like 400 or so yesterday.. So basically thanks to that.. my weight today is the same as yesterday morning:((

MY WEIGHT: 59,7 KG

mm these were the best (and the fattiest)

Also right at this moment I am eating candy... That was a bad idea to buy them...

Soo I can't write too much because I have to revise, as I have exam TOMORROW!!! :(

TODAY'S MEAL PLAN:

Breakfast: Omelette with peppers,onion,mushroom,rocket,tomato and mozarella cheese
Mocha coffee with sugar additive

aaand.... chocolate and candies and toffee... now the toffee is finished so luckily i cant eat it anymore:P

Lunch: Lentil-onion-chopped tomatoes creme soup with grated cheese

And.. 2-3 candies....

Dinner: White fish fillet with asparagus, light mayo and tomatoes

Exercise: ermm... I'll walk to my friends place and back.. so it's like about 2 km total.. AND maybe total body workout (as still I haven't done it....)

I am quite rubbish with this diet.. butt at least I haven't eaten bread or rice or potatoes or sugar or anything like that... I have just eaten maybe a bit more I am supposed to..

These are the candies I eat... right now.. mmm

But okay my friends... I have to leave now.. gotta do my hair and put clothes on and leave to my friends place to REVISE... I HATE EXAMS!!:/ But tomorrow luckily my first year of uni is totally DONE! (If I will pass of course:P )

Tomorrow I might write in the evening if I remember... as in the morning I will revise and at 2pm-4pm I have exam and then we will do BBQ in our garden YAY!

Enjoy your day if youre not revising.. and if you are and if you have exam then GOOD LUCK!!

Jane xx

I GOT A JOB!!!

Heyyy!

Yesterday I got a job in a hotel!! YAYY! I am so happy because now I do not have to ask for money from my dad anymore.. That is such a relief. And also I can afford to do stuff I want!! The only bad thing is that I can only go home to Estonia for 2 weeks this summer:((( I am so sad... And also my mom wants me to go to Russia so basically I'm in Estonia for only 1 week.....That really really sucks.. But I need the money and the job.

What job?-Waitress/barmaid

Basically the usual shifts are from 6.30-10.30 and in the evening 6pm-10pm. Sometimes on the weekends until 1 am or so.. So in the morning hotel guests come to eat their buffee breakfast, so I do not have to do almost anything.. just check their room number and clean the tables and that's it (I can do that...). In the evening they have a small restaurant with 8 tables, so then I have to take orders, bring the food and clean the tables. Also in the evening I have to be in the bar, but we will divide our tasks between different workers. The bar is quite small-doesn't have a lot of different drinks. They do not even make cocktails-only vodka and lemonade, rum and coke etc. Also they do not have a big proper coffee machine, only a small one where I have to press one button and whoala! coffee is ready!:D So it seemed quite easy and I think I can handle it. I hope I will get used to this weird schedule as in the evening I can basically sleep 5-6 hours and then during daytime I can come home to sleep as well...

I will work full-time at least until October- it means ~40 hours per week. But if I want to, I can do more hours as well or less. What was a surprise to me, that they pay more than minimum wage... the pay is like veryvery good!! perfect.. I won't write the number here but if my friends are interested I can tell them;)

How can Jennifer Aniston be so old and still look FANTASTIC?

Okay enough from the job.. Back to my DIET!!

So yesterday... I did not eat soup as I went to my friends place.. I ate tomato-mozzarella-olive salad. On my friends table there was garlic bread and you cant believeee how tempting it was to take one..... ahh right now even thinking or it makes my mouth water..

In the morning I ate omelette again.. In the evening I ate white fish fillet with asparagus and low-fat mayonnaise..mmmm.. From now on white fish is on my menu every day, because I bought 8 fillets:D

Also I bought myself some sugar free jellie powders and ricotta cheese (because it was allowed in this diet...) So I mixed cheese and jellie and it was a dessert... a disgusting dessert.. I mean it was not THAT bad but the ricotta cheese... it was just i donno too creamy or like too greasy or sth... anyway it was not pleasant. And for today I put normal jellie in the fridge and will eat it for breakfast as well and see if its any good.

I dont wanna eat omelette again..... so maybe I will boil eggs... but then I have to do it quickly cause I am hungry and boiling eggs takes time:(

Anywayyyy MY WEIGHT!! - 59,7 KG!!! (I hope I was not wearing more clothes yesterday when I was weighing myself... but as I remember it was the same pyjamas as today)

So... I guess I really am losing a bit weight!! That is cool!

I actually made a decision- If I do not see any significant change after one week of this diet then I will quit and start eating foods I love... Because then it is just not worth it..

Oh and yesterday I did not do the whole body workout... I walked a little bit but today I will do this and walk then to compensate..

TODAY'S EXERCISE PLAN: 

Interval walk to Castlepoint Shopping centre and back(4,3 km in total)
Total body workout from the book

TODAY'S MEAL PLAN:

*Breakfast:


Boiled eggs with smoked salmon, tomatoes, cucumbers, rocket, olive oli etc
Tea or coffee
Jelly!!

*Lunch:
Champignon-rocket creme soup (I hope I will do it this time!)
OR
Lentil soup

*Dinner:
White fish fillet
Last bits of asparagus
Tomatoes
Rocket
Cucumbers
Mayonnaise

For snacks I will just grab something from the fridge.. in whatever mood I am..

I have a confession to make.... Yesterday I stole one slice of salami from my housemate...... I know I am such an idiot but it was just sooo tempting and when I saw that it is only 19 calories a slice I HAD to get it...

But okayy wish me luck with all the temptations and ... my studying.. which is not still going too well but I have to study everything today...wohoo...

Andd tomorrow I 'll talk to you agaiinn!:)

Have a nice day everyonee!

Jane xx

We always want things we can't have..

Heyy!

So to surprise you... I DIDN'T CHEAT YESTERDAY WITH THE DIET!! okay a little bit... I ate a bit more nuts than I should have but I left out one snack so I think it should be fine...

I did go to step and sculpt!! And I also ate everything I wrote down yesterday. But to my dinner I added smoked salmon.

About the heading of today's blog- that is sooo true... I want everything now... even stuff I did not really want before dieting like all the chocolates in the world and loads of sugar... any sugar.. real sugar (not additive.. yuckk) Ahh I just miss sugar so badd... But I will be strong and maybe soon I will get rid of my cravings!!!

Also I tried to make these : http://www.southbeachdiet.com/sbd/publicsite/recipes/chocolate-meringue-kisses.aspx  to satisfy my needs a bit.. But they were absolutely awful... I didn't have cocoa without sugar so I made just vanilla ones and coffee ones.. but you can totally taste the sugar additive and it was disgusting.. I ate like only 2 of them.

Oh and also I drank quite a lot of Coke zero, but it's allowed so..

Yayyy I'm kinda proud of myself:D 13 more days...

WHAT I MISS THE MOST: FRUITS!!!!

mmmm... yummy..

I love fruits and I usually eat like at least 3-5 fruits a day...

Yesterday I forgot to weigh myself in the morning, so I am gonna do it now.. And get to know the ugly truth.. I think I will write the number here.. So that you would know my exact progress and weight.

MY WEIGHT NOW:  60.3 KG

MY GOAL: Definitely under 55 kg.. 52 or 50 actually would be perfect.

Okay so todays exercise plan: 

To do the total body workout at home from the book

TODAY'S MEAL PLAN: 

*Breakfast: I think omelette again... Or fresh salad with boiled eggs.. I can't decide yet..

*Snack: Cucumbers, tomatoes, nuts or something I will find from my fridge

*Lunch: Champignon-rocket cream soup (I dont know how it will taste, as it is just an experiment to make something from the foods I have, but I'll let you know if it's good or not and if it is then I might even share a recipe with you;) )

*Snack: Same as before.. Maybe coffee as well

*Dinner: Boiled and fried asparagus with smoked salmon, rocket and a sauce

And I think I will drink Coke too of course.. It's like my dessert substitute:D

Actually I am going to an interview (to a hotel, waitress/barmaid job) at 2pm today and after that to my friends place to study a bit etc.. So my meal plan can totally change as I can't really start making soup at his:S Kinda weird... AND OMG... they are having a pizza night.. sooo I'm gonna suffer watching how they eat... or I might just leave or sth..We'll see..

But okay now I have to start studying and then getting ready for an interviewww!!... and eat of course!:D

Talk to you tomorrow lovelies!


Jane xx

DIET!

Helloo!! 

I am so so sorry I haven't been writin for ages... I was very busy and did not really have to write anything interesting to you..

But now I certainly have.

Hometown Tartu- miss you SOO MUCHH! And of course all my friends... :(

Firstly I would like to write a quick overview what interesting have I done during the time I did not write:

* Went home to Estonia (I miss it so muchh:( )
* Studied a tiny bit for my upcoming exam (the exam is on 23 May)
*Searched for a job
*Went to Ibiza
*Went to a LUSH interview!!! (There was 8 more people there and they will choose only 2 people.. so I am not sure yet if I got the job, but they will contact the chosen ones this week.. fingers crossed!!)
*Now I should be studying like crazy for my exams but I have so much more interesting stuff to do.... I'll study later:D I still have 4 more days....
* I WILL START A NEW DIET TODAY!! I know everyone who reads it laughs:D but seriously this time I will try. This diet seems very normal, I can eat a lot and its not tough at all.

So about the diet!

I have wanted to lose weight since I don't even remember when. When I came to UK, then in one month I gained 10 kg!!! That was a total shock to me. So I've wanted BADLY to lose weight since. I have lost a couple of kg due to eating normally, but still this is so hard.. So now I decided I have to have somekind of plan for my weight loss. I started researching on the internet for some best diets/diet books. I went to amazon.com and found that one bestselling book is ''The South Beach Diet'' by Dr Arthur Agatson. All of the people's reviews I read were amazing and everyone said this is not like a normal diet and not for once you will feel hungry. Also they promised I will lose my sugar cravings (yay). So I found this amazing site to order books online - www.bookdepository.co.uk/ . There is free shipping to very many countries (including ESTONIA!!) and it has many discounts etc. So I found several SBD (South beach diet) books from there. The most interesting one seemed to be 'The South Beach Diet Supercharged'. I read the reviews for that as well and everyone said they would recommend this book as it is newer  and with exercise programme and better recipes etc. So I decided to go for that one.

So basically. SBD has 3 phases. I will talk about the first phase this time as I am starting with that.

1 PHASE: 

*Lasts for 2 weeks
*Is the toughest
*NO ALCOHOL!
*NO SUGARS!
*Reasonable amount of exercising

Foods I cannot eat: 

Some of the fatty meats (all the fillets are allowed)
Dairy: Ice cream, Semi-skimmed or full-fat milk, whole soya milk, full-fat yoghurt
Full-fat cheese
AVOID ALL FRUITS :(((
Vegetables: beetroot, carrots, green peas, potatoes,pumpkin, squash, swedes, sweetcorn, turnips, yams
Starches- AVOID ALL STARCHY FOOD: bread, cereals, porridge, croutons, pasta, rice, biscuits etc.
Sauces: BBQ sauce, cocktail sauce, honey mustard, ketchup
Drinks: ALCOHOL, fruit juice, any drinks containing sugar

But everything else is basically allowed, so that is not too bad. There is like one page of foods I cannot eat and 5 pages of foods I can eat:)

So every day I eat 3 big meals and 2 snacks between them. Also every day there is a little bit of exercising. One day there is interval walking and the next day there is full body workout (everything is shown in the book and is super easy and takes a little time).

So as today is my starting day I will write my eating plan here for you and myself. I will really try to do that here every day and write if I have lost weight or not.

DAY 1 MEAL PLAN:

Breakfast:
*Green tea (without sugar)
*Omelette with mozarella, onions and chestnut mushrooms (and maybe tomatos) (with skimmed milk/low-fat)

Mid-morning snack:
*Tomatoes and cucumber sticks with low-fat mayonnaise

Lunch:
* Prawn and vegetable sweet-chilli/soya wok
*Some salad
*Tea/coffee

Mid-afternoon snack:
*A little salad (rucola, cucumbers, tomatoes)

Dinner:
*Boiled and fried asparagus with some sauce (maybe low fat mayo or something)
*Maybe some more salad or whatever I have in the fridge

Dessert:
*I don't know yet as I don't really have anything at home.. so we'll see maybe I'll skip it.

IBIZA

 

Exercise: Maybe if I will make it then Step and Sculpt in the university gym. But I will definitely walk to uni and back so that makes at least 5 km of interval walk which is even more than the book says:)

So this is my plan. Tomorrow when I will write my second day plan, then I will tell you if everything went as I expected or not:)

Huh but now I need to study and go eat my breakfast soon! You all have a very nice day!:)

Byee til tomorrow!

Jane xx



P.S: I will put several photos up here from Ibiza, but I have to wait until my friend uploads them online:)

10th POST! YAY!:)

Helloo!!

I haven't written in a while as I didnt have much internet during last 5 days and also cause I didnt have much to write about...

But I do have something to say now..

So, there was one makeup competition on an Estonian women's website www.buduaar.ee.
The task was to do a nature themed makeup and put the picture up on their site.

When I saw this competition I thought right away - this is for me! But then I saw that the ending date was 22 March and as I didnt have time on monday (had to be in uni the whole day), I thought I have to do it on sunday morning as I also had plans on sunday and the picture had to be taken in the daylight.

I quickly did my makeup.. the theme was sunny daffodils, cause in our garden we have loads of daffodils and I think it's a perfect spring flower:) Also I love yellow colour.

I did the makeup, uploaded the pic... but then I wasn't very happy with that...:(

This is the one I uploaded to the competition..nothing special... tbh I don't even like it..:(

I thought this competition would close like just before 22nd of March, but then in uni I noticed in the morning of 22nd that it's still on. So I thought I should do new makeup on my friend and upload a better picture.

In the evening we came up with a cool idea and carefully did the makeup and I was quite happy with that result.

When we wanted to upload the picture, we noticed that the competition closed at 5 pm that day... OH NO....I was so disappointed.... But still at least I'm happy with my second result:))) and got a pretty picture:)

This is the one I wanted to upload but was too late.. I think this one is soo much better...

Also on monday spring officially started!!!:) Happy springg! (I don't think anyone even actually says that..but I like it:D )

So the season has changed... and so have makeup trends!!! And fashion trends!

Some of my favourites:

Makeup:

Purple eye-makeup..loveit!

Bright lip colour

Strong brows

 Fashion:

Lace dress... sooo cute!

STRIPES!

Platforms

OUT!! (at least for me....) :

''Flatforms''....hmm...it looks like theres a wooden brick stuck under this girl's shoe...:/

...

This was on ELLE.com... and it's called ''undone updo''.. hmm..this is TOO undone I would say.. reminds me of a wet dog.. (sorry to whoever likes this look... )

Sorry if someone likes stuff I dont like... its just my opinion so don't be offended :)

Hope you liked the post!:)

Jane xx


P.S: I have been sun-bathing for the last three days... here in Bournemouth it has been +20 degrees no wind and SUNSHINEE!!:) LOVEIT!

SEX AND THE CITY...

...the best tv-show ever!!! I just love it.... although I've seen all of the episodes many times..

I love everyting about it - the jokes, relationships, problems, FASHION, shoes... everything. 

Today I've spent my whole day watching Sex and the City... and I just can't stop... even now I'm trying to write this post quickly so I could watch it.

So there are sooo many funny and cool quotes that I want to share with you guys some of my favourites:)

Samantha: You men have no idea what we're dealing with down there. Teeth placement, and jaw stress, and suction, and gag reflex, and all the while bobbing up and down, moaning and trying to breathe through our noses. Easy? Honey, they don't call it a job for nothin'. (haha)

Miranda : ''I'm dating skid-marks guy. When your boyfriend is so comfortable that he cannot be bothered to wipe his ass, there’s a problem.”

Carrie : “I like my money where I can see it, hanging in my closet.”

Carrie: “No matter who broke your heart, or how long it takes to heal, you’ll never get through it without your friends.”

Samantha and Charlotte:  

Charlotte: “How are you gonna swallow all those?” [referring to Samantha’s handful of pills]

Samantha: “Have we met?”

There are many more cool quotes, but these I think are my favourite:)

Samantha is definitely my favourite character there.. I think she is so funny and the best quotes are from her as well. She is so pretty and smart and confident.

My favourite Carrie's boyfriend is Aidan. He is so kind, sweet but at the same time big and strong. (At least he seems like it)

 Who is your favourite character and why?:)

Jane xx