Day 47 - Back from Boston with a few pleasant surprises

So back from Boston for my brother's wedding. It was a fun event, with a mix of Chinese and Western activities including door games, tea ceremony, reception and picnic. Greenie and I tried to stay on diet, but a few little hurdles, or distractions from the strict diet:

1.) No scales for any public events - some of my sister-in-law's friends in the past have had eating disorders, and she was afraid that the use of scales by people such as Greenie and myself who are already relatively thin may cause them to go into relapse. I explained that scales were for regulating to make sure we ate enough just as much as to regulate that we weren't overeating, but also respected that it was their wedding - so no scales.

2.) You gotta eat the cake! - no need for explanation. Hey! It's my brother's wedding! The cake was massive! A triple-decker almond flavoured cake smothered with almond icing and bridges made of chocolate. Mm-mM! After the +100 dinner banquet, I think less than 1/3 of the cake was eaten (it barely looked touched), I had a slice then, and I had a slice at the picnic the next day. Oh... I also slipped in a couple glasses of wine during the wedding reception.

Despite these two hurdles, we managed to eat relatively healthy and eye-balled most of our food. I was pretty nervous though coming home and was anxious when I got on the scales this morning to see the damage that 5-days in Boston had done to GT & I. Funnily enough, we were both at our lowest body fat % since starting PCP! GT was down to 19.8%, and I had shot thru my previous low of 15.6% to 14.6%. I gotta admit though, as GT blogged in previously - the exercises are getting pretty tiring!

A couple of other nice little surprises from Boston - I took the opportunity of US visit to buy some stuff off Amazon which I'd been eyeing but not willing to pay shipping for to HK:

1.) a 14"x16" pizza stone. It's the perfect size to fit in my oven as a tray! Previously I only had one of those round circle pizza stones which meant I could make pizza, but my bread side was pretty limited - and most of the time I could only bake on loaf at a time. Guess who's going to be a-baking this weekend! ;)

2.) This second item is a multi-spice grinder. Super cool! If you have lots of different spices that need to be ground (as most PCP people undoubtedly will), but don't want to have 10 grinders sitting around, this one lets you change the cartridges of whatever you're grinding. This baby came with 3 cartridges, but I bought an extra 6, so I can have a total of 9 different spices on hand to grind. Can you guess what's inside those little jars? I'll give you a clue - looks like pepper, but it's not.

Alright gang... time for my date with 8min Mike, but before I leave just a couple more photos:

 GT & I at Endicott Estate for Eliza & Liang's wedding

My brother Liang, and wife Liza ripping it up on the dance floor!