Ready, set... DIET!

Allright, this last week I've been keeping it pretty fine, I'm already sticked on my old-good-habits routine (more or less), So, the other day I was thinking and... I realised I eat SO much. So I started a drastic diet that is going to last 3 weeks (the time where your body and mind get sticked into a routine). The diet pretty much consists of eating 700 calories on 5 meals a day (because I don't want to ralentise too much my metabolism). So, more or less this is my day:
-Breakfast: Apple + Yogurt (more or less 80 calories)
-Morning snack: Mandarin Orange (45 calories)
-Lunch: 1/2 margarin and ham sandwich (more or less 120 calories)
-Afternoon snack: Tea or coffee with milk and sugar (60 calories)
-Dinner: whatever my hostfamily has cooked for me.
 Ok, so dinner is my biggest deal because is obviously so bad for my health and metabolism to eat that much when I'm eating that little the rest of the day. But I've nothing to do with it because as you know my hostparents cook the dinner and also serve it. And I don't want to say things like "I'm on a diet" because I don't want to worry them. So all I can do it's to try to eat as little as I can during the dinner.
 I actually started this diet on saturday and since that everyday I feel less and less hungry. And I've also lost more than 1kg! So yes, I'm pretty happy with it. I'm supposed to be making some exercise- to boost my metabolism because the fast is ralentising it- but as this week I'm on my work experience and I finish everyday at 6 o'clock in the evening, I'm not able to go to the gym- any day. So all I can do it's to look for some video-home-workouts and things like that. Wich I find pretty boring- but I don't have any other chance!
 To fight hunger and craving I'm drinking loads (and when I say loads I mean loads) of water, green tea as much as I can, looking at my phone's thinspo wallpaper or reading motivational texts.
This is my first time in such a drastic diet. Have you been in any diets? Did they worked? Did you regained everything after them?
xoxo
Elisa
PS. Alright, I'm not a doctor, and I've NO IDEA if what I'm doing is healthy or not. So please, PLEASE, if you follow me at this diet, you have to be responsable of the changes that it will produce at your body. I don't want anyone to sue me!!

My week!

All right! First week i'm writing down in such a long time... While I was missing here, some things did happen (Not many, though)
  By the end of January (and it's sales) I went to Galway on a shopping trip! We had so much fun (even if the wheather decided to be awfull that day), and we ate so much food!

  That same weekend I went to this Disco at my town. I was so excited because of the trousers I wore, because they're the high waist ones from Forever 21, and yay, love them.

Then, last week, we had our school musical: Fame! It went great, after all our hard work, so yeah, I'm gonna miss it, because we were spending so much time on it everyday and now it's gone...!

 
And then, this week, I had my mid-term break, so I didn't do pretty much, I actually just studied and spent loads of time out; sleepovers in town, etc,
 We had a party to celebrate one of my friends 16th's birthday and this is the most more or less decent picture I found:
 (you really don't want to see all the other ones)
 So yeah, nothing really interesting happened lately.
Here in Ireland there are mid-term breaks, but for example in spain we don't have them.
Do you guys have half-term holidays?
xoxo
Elisa

Friday favourites

Favourite quote:

Favourite DIY: 

Favourite animal picture:

Favourite thinspo:

Favourite magazine: Women's health

Grinbuzz

What if I tell you that you can help a poor kid for free, just spending two minutes a day?
Would you do it?
Ok, today I want to talk to you about this website called Grinbuzz.
This website supports (sponsors, not very sure of what it's the most correct word) children who need your help. Usually you can help this children giving money each month to an ONG. But this website does that for you. You just have to... watch videos! You have to watch adds from brands. The brands will pay Grinbuzz and Grinbuzz will give 80% of that money to ONG's that sponsor poor kids from all around the world.

 The website it's in spanish, but you can try to translate it and watch the adds in spanish (or look for a similar website on your mother language). Anyways, it's a really easy and free way to help the most needed ones.
If you speak spanish, here is a video of jpelirrojo (a spanish vlogger) explaining this website. I think it's just an amazing way to help, so I'm watching a few videos everyday.
Do you help with any ONG? how?
xoxo
Elisa

¡¡¡¡PASTA!!!!

All right, on this week's teen wednesdat, I'm going to chart my top ten ways to cook pasta! Why? Well, I just had pasta for dinner, and it was damn delicious, so yeah, I'm pasta-inspired today. Here we go:
10. spinach lasagna
      -It's delicious... and I feel kinda of healthy while having it (yup, I know I'm lying to myself, but at least I don't feel that guilty after over eating it)

9. Spaghetti primavera
      -Another healthier and vegetarian way to enjoy pasta: With black olives, cherry tomatoes and broccoli.

8. Spaghetti bolognese
      -Such an old classic I will never get tired of.

7. canelloni
      -Canelloni were my favourite dish when I was a kid. And they're actually perfect.

6. Meat lasagna
      -With loads of cheese. Yummmmm.

5. Fusilli with green pesto and salmon
     -Easiest way to eat delicious pasta.

4. Spaghetti with tomato, olives, and tuna.
    -That's the way my dad cooks pasta. Every. single. time.

3. Tagliatelle il pomodoro (with parmesan)
    -I just really like Taglietelle more than Spaghetti, what do you think?

2. Penne with chorizo (spanish peperoni)
    -My mam's recipy. I just don't have words to describe it. And I couldn't find a picture... but I think I posted the recipy a time ago so just look for it :)

1. Spaghetti carbonara
    -Also my mum's. This one is the winner because there have passed ages, and when I say ages I mean ages, since the last time my mum cooked this for me. I just miss her so much...!

What is your favorite way to eat pasta?

xoxo

Elisa

book: the fault in our stars

Ok, this is the last book I've been reading. I finished it about a week ago now, and...

 Well, I've heard amazing stuff about the fault in our stars, but, in my opinion, is not that amazing. And it's not like I had a high expectation about it and I'm disappointed now, because I barely expect anything from books, and I definetly never judge them before reading them just because of the things people says about them (sorry if I sometimes say things in a weird way, is just that I can't find any other way to express myself), because everyone is different with books, like, for me, all the books are good, is just that some of them are just not for me.
 So when I started the fault in our stars, I was amazed because of it's sweetness. It's incredibly emotional, and so, so witty. It just combines perfectly banter and tenderness, in a way that makes you feel so close to the characters, that makes you feel like they feel, and ah. It's amazing.
 But then, around the half of the books, everything turns just kinda of boring. Like, it's just another book about kids with cancer (it's not like I don't like books about them, I actually do love them, is just that it's no big deal...).
 Anyways, things turn better for me at the end of the book (not going to spoil you guys!), so I'm going to think that John Green just got uninspired for a time while writting the book.
 It was the first time I read a book by John Green so I can't tell If it's his masterpiece... but I'm looking forward to read "looking for alaska" and I'll read it, probably sometime soon. Because the truth is that, even if it's not my favourite book, it's a really good book, and it has great quotes, wich I love.

I want to know something...
How many of my readers actually know me in the real life? Cause like, I haven't told anyone about the blog. Ahh, that would be embarrasing.
Elisa
xoxo

This week's target: come back to my new year's resolutions

All right... Before anything, I'm TERRIBLY SORRY about this. I know I haven't posted anything for weeks, and I can't say anything because I don't have any excuses, so I can just apologize.
 I don't know what has happened with me lately, I just don't know... But here I am, with the firm resolution of coming back to my routine. So from now you'll have a new post everyday (but saturdays).
 I'm not going to start a new target after all this time without doing anything, so for this week I just have the resolutions I was already on:
 -Eating clean and healthy

-Doing exercise 

 Right now my goal is to get a b s ♥

-Studying, being good at school and stuff...

 I'm on my mid-term break right now, but I have a massive amount of assigments to do, so that's what I'm going to be in to this week.

-Getting prepared for the ADVANCED EXAM of english on may. 

 I've already signed in, so I can't go back, and all I have to do now is to PREPARE MYSELF for it! 

-Keep my diary updated (so as this blog, of course)

So yeah, it's going to be a busy week but I'm motivated again and this time is for real! I swear!

Do you give up easily? 

xoxo

Elisa.