Today it has been two years with my honey!!

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I can not believe that it has been he and me for two years now! But two wonderful years has already passed and many more will come! I'm as in love today as I was when I met Jair! I just can't wish for a more wonderful guy, he's the best!!

We met in Salvador at a bar around 2 am. He was so exotic, so I was immediately curious! He had braids in his hair braided zig-zag, surf clothing and he was very brown! And he was a surf instructor ... Mmm, yummy... I thought! He was everything that I thought was exciting but I also thought was a little bit scary. When he told me he lived in a favela (ghetto), I thought he lied to me. But the next day, I went to his house and met his family. It was really scary, exciting and fun at the same time. I remember sitting and talking with Jair's mom about snow in Sweden because it was the only words I knew in Portuguese while I heard Jair singing in the shower!

That was the only time that Jair sang in the shower so I was for sure very special....!!

I can tell you more another time because now we will celebrate our two-years-aniversare by going to the movies!

LCHF WEEK MENY 1

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A lot of food here now... but that's because this is what I'm focused on right now. Everything for beach 2012 and our wedding! Here's my first week with LCHF. I put the recipes on the blogg after I have tried them. I will only put the good recipes in the blog.

Week 1

Monday

Breakfast: Turkish yogurt with flax-seed

Lunch: 3-4 Gorgonzola steak in cream sauce with baked vegetables (broccoli, peppers, zucchini, onion)

Snack: Kesella with berries

Dinner: Cottage Cheese Pancakes with ham, onions, mustard, basil and lettuce

Tuesday

Breakfast: 3-4 Cottage Cheese Pancakes with ham, onions Mustard, basil and lettuce

Lunch: Chicken with a blanket of crème fraiche mixed with parsley and cheese. Served with cooked cauliflower

Snack: ½ Kesella with 1-2 cottage cheese pancakes

Dinner: Omelette with mushrooms and cream

Wednesday

Breakfast: Turkish yogurt with flax-seed

Lunch: Spinach Soup

Snack: Kesella with berries

Dinner: Moqueca the Camarão - Brazilian stew with tiger prawns and coconut milk. Yummy!

Thursday

Breakfast: Turkish yogurt with flax-seed

Lunch: Moqueca the Camaão from the day before

Snack: Kesella with berries

Dinner: Cottage Cheese Pancakes with apple, cardamom and cinnamon

Friday

Breakfast: Cottage Cheese Pancakes with apple, cardamom and cinnamon

Lunch: Spinach Soup

Snack: ½ Kesella and a cottage cheese pancakes with apple, cardamom and cinnamon

Dinner: Tapas suprize! But two sure things are a blue cheese and a glass of wine! It's Friday tradition at Tigers!

Saturday & Sunday - so far ahead I simply can't plan! Let's see what we are going to eat then!

Gorgonzola stuffed burgers - LCHF I love!

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Now it's time for my first LCHF dinner! Jair is cooking as usual!

Our dinner will be gorgonzola stuffed burgers in cream sauce with baked vegetables such as broccoli, peppers, zucchini and onions. I have gotten the picture and the recipe below from a lovely food blog that I started to read. Click here to go to the blog (in Swedish)!

Photo och recipe comes from Anna Jacobsson

500 g minced meat
2 egg yolks
1/2 dl cream (the fattest alternative)
100 g gorgonzola
Salt and black pepper


Mix salt with the meat and 2 egg yolks (we forgot them but it was perfect anyway). Make burgers around a big piece of gorgonzola in the middle. If you don't like gorgonzola, you can replace it with Parmesan (at least ​​my fiancé did that)! When the burgers are cooked. Make a sauce of the dripping which is left in the pan after frying. Add cream and the rest of the gorgonzola (if there is any left).

Now let's eat! I could never imagine that a diet can be as tasty as this one, I think that is why it is called pleasure diet!

My LCHF-shelf in the fridge!

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Not so much on the shelf yet, but Jair is in the grocery store right now so it'll be more soon. Coca-Cola Zero is not healthy, but it is alright if you eat LCHF!

False start of the LCHF-diet

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I jump the gun this morning and started with the LCHF food one day early. I thought it would be good to try out some of the LCHF food today. Breakfast is the tricky thing in LCHF! So today I'm going to try some alternatives so that I know what to eat this week.

Today I ate some Kesella with blueberries and raspberries for Breakfast. Berries are not really LCHF food but very good for the body so think I'll eat it anyway. Not a lot, not very often, but once a week at least.

Today's outfit

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Today I took warm clothes because I think I have caught cold...
Jeans from Gina
Sweater from Gina
Earrings Zoul from MQ
Necklace gift from Ida!

LCHF delivery to your door!!

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Did you know that you can't get groceries with LCHF-diet and recipies delivered directly to your house??? Me neither! They deliver both to Stockholm and Gothenburg. Their little bag of groceries is 549 SEK for one week and then there is enough food for 2 people for 5 days!

Of course, I ordered it to try. I think this is a really good way to get started and get ideas for some nice food! To get to their website, click here!

LCHF pros and cons!

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I haven't gotten cold feet yet, but it is good to get prepared for the change! Right now, I just think that it's exciting, a nice challenge! Here are my pros and cons.

I can eat a lot of:                           I can't eat:

+ Fat (that taste goood…)                - Candy, Chips… (of course I can't eat)

++ Meat                                            - Fruits

+ Fish                                                - Flour

+ Chicken                                          - Potato, pasta, rice

+++ Cheese, Cambozola, cheese!!        -Bread :(

+ Egg                                                - Under earth vegetables

+ Fat sauces                                   

+ Avocado

+ Mushrooms

+ Vegetables which grows up earth

+ Dark chocolate is ok

+ Red wine is ok

- Cream is good but scary

The scariest thing is that you should eat fat! That feels very strange! I have avoided fat in all these years and now I'm supposed to start to eat it! The plate model has scared me! Fat provides fat! But is it so that it is carbohydrates that provide fat? I'll try one month anyway!

By the LCHF-diet is Swedish!!

The plate model was a scam!!

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Just before Christmas, I worked out like crazy for about 6-8 weeks, but I only lost 1 kg... that's neither motivating nor fun? My body is incredibly slow ... I know! I always knew that! All previous times when I have lost weight, I have only been eating salad or soup. Because it's simply and quick to prepare and doesn't taste like shit after having it in the microwave (because you don't even microwave salad).


But now I do not cook or eat salad anymore and I can't eat soup every day! And I have the luxury to have a fantastic chef in the kitchen so I don't need cook to!

Now I want to try something new! I want try what everyone's talking about! LCHF! Low Carb High Fat. Everyone says it's good, everyone I know who have tried. My sister eats it too! And it is a proven method! Before LCHF there where to other methods, GI and Atkins, which is almost the same thing.

I'll start on Monday! This week I will clean the fridge - at least one shelf to be LCHF products!

In the middle of the diet jungle, I'm still wondering... What happened to the plate model??? Was it just a scam??? A constant nagging from housecraft teacher with no basis????

Seriously, is there anyone who can remember how to eat according to the housecraft teacher if you wanted to lose weight?

If you really want to know the truth of the plate model ... then you can check out this post "The plate model cause cancer" (in Swedish) which a LCHF girl has written.

Against all odds!!

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Do not miss the fantastic program "Against all odds" (in Swedish), which began last Tuesday. The second episode was on TV today! It really touched my heart and I couldn't stop watching! I was planning to write in my blog but I could not stop watching. My grandmother told me about the program but I thought at first that it wasn't anything for me, but it was really interesting. It is available on SVT Play for those who missed the first two episodes.

The program is about 10 disabled people who will walk from Viktioriafallen in Zambia to the Skeleton Coast of Nambi. It's a tough journey with dangerous wild animals such as elephants, crocodiles, buffalo, black mamba, etc.

Here are the participants. Several of the participants have amputated legs and arms, some have serious visual impairment, one has massive burn damages... It's amazing that they can make this trip! It is really against all odds! Read more about the participants here.

Below are two apetizers of the program... These people's stories were really touched my heart!

Lena - split into two parts in an accident with a truck

Lena also has a blogg, click here!

Leif had to amputate both legs and arms, because of blood poisoning

I can't even imagine how much their lives have changed. I really admire them, they're so strong!

Dentist on my five fingers...!!

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Yes, I can actually count on my five fingers how many times I have been to the dentist this year .. I have been there exactly five times! And I'm going there again! One more time! Can you imagine, it has just been one month this year and I have already been there 5 times!! Three times about the wisdom tooth and two times to the dental regulation to put a retainer that will keep my teeth in place.

The only problem is that when I were there today, the retainer they made didn't fit. It was due to a misunderstanding between the dentist and the manufacturers of retainer (the thread that will be fitted behind my teeth). So now I must go back there on Valentine's Day again to put a new one.

Even though it did not fit, they fixed it pretty far down so I have to be careful when I chew, so I do not bite it off. Basically, can not really chew at all.... But I don't think I've ever been this happy for a stupid thread that has been fitted badly in my mouth! Because tonight, I don't need to sleep with a stupid uncomfortable brace!

Egg and farofa!!! Yummy!!

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It is really delicious! I could never imagine that! Farofa is a kind of flour made from Manioc (a kind of root vegetable). Brazilians like to use it to make the food more dry. They're not so fond of food with a lot of sauce. If it is a lot of sauce, they will add some flour so that the food get really dry!

I've never been a big fan of farofa, but eggs and farofa is actually really good! By the way, farofan is imported from Brazil!

Dexter - evening entertainment!!

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My dad has been nagging that we should start watching Dexter. Both me and Jair like TV-shows. When we like a TV-show, we watch until we have seen all the episodes. Therefore we watch one TV-show at the time! So first we watched all the episodes of Flashback (only one season so that went fast). Then we started with Ghost Whisperer, then we watched all the episodes of Medium. The funny thing is that in Ghost Whisperer they always drank red wine so we did that too. In  Medium they drank beer, so we did that too... Yes, we definitley got affected...!!!

Now we have started to watch Dexter... The seasons are pretty short so as we have already reached the final episode of season 3 and it's really exciting! A little bit psycho, but exciting and good! But in this case we do not want to be affected and take after or so...! Dexter's a serial killer!

iPhone just died!!

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Last night when Jair were using his iPhone it just died all sudden and refused to start again. Jair was in a bad mood the rest of the night!

So today I called the support and they told me to hold the home button and start button at the same time for a while and then the Apple logo should appear on the phone and it did! Then I just needed to connect the iPhone to a computer and it started to work again!

So now Jair is normal again - he finally recovered from this horrible experience!

I asked support if she knew why it happened like this. She didn't know but it is apparently quite common among iphones.

Something you didn't know about me #1

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I have recently read quite a lot of other blogs and picked up a popular post that a lot of bloggers write. Well, to reveal a secret about oneself now and then ... So I was going to start today!

So here's my first revelation!

When, I am not working, studying or bloging, I play The Sims! I've done that since I was 12 years old when the first game came out in 2000! The first day I played The Sims was also the very first time I got the mens! Hehe!

The paradise island where we're getting married!!

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As many of you already know, me and Jair are planning a beach wedding on the paradise island, Morro de São Paulo, just outside Salvador in Brazil. Maybe now is the time to tell you what kind of island Morro de São Paulo really is.

None of the Swedish travel agencies has this stunning island in their directories. For many Europeans, this island is the hidden pearl in the Atlantic. It's one of this paradises that you only see in movies. The island has no cars (except from a garbage truck) and the streets are made of sand.

Taxi at Morro de São Paulo is used mainly for the luggage - but also for a few drunk tourists in the night... 

Along the streets there are a lot of small craft shops which are very nice to visit in the evening. For those who are hungry, there are a lot of nice restaurants that serves perfectly cooked lobster. Fish, is a specialty in this parts of Brazil. On the island there is also a fairly wide selection of nightclubs.

Roads are made of sand

The island is quite frequently visited by tourists, but mainly tourists from Israel, Australia and Spain who have discovered this amazing holiday paradise. The island has several beautiful beaches, some of them are even completely deserted. When the boat from Salvador are entering the dock at Morro, the first thing you see is a fort, it feels almost like one of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies could have been set here.

The fort's gate which you have to pass to enter the island

A trip here suits for those who want to relax on the beach and those who want to stroll in the shops at night. The island has a very mixed range of entertainment and therefore suits both young and old. For those who want to see a bit more culture, you can also go to the Salvador, which was Brazil's first capital, and visit the famous district of Pelourinho.

Me in Pelourinho

On the island there are some hotels, but no high-rise hotels, instead they are more designed as bungalows. There are also a lot of cheaper hostels for those who do not want to spend so much on their homes.

Some pictures from the hotel that eventually will arrange our wedding!

Today, there is no charter trips to this amazing island. The Swedes who come to the island have been planned and bought the boat ticket and everything else themselves. To get the most out of the trip here, you should go during the Swedish winter when it is summer in Brazil.

The trip to Salvador from Sweden take approximately 24 hours and you need to change planes three times, then take the trip to Morro de Sao Paulo about two hours by boat.

Shrimps served in a coconut!!

Now you know a little bit more about this amazing island! I'm looking forward so much to this wedding!

Right now in Gothenburg!!

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Snow!! Finally we have snow in Gothenburg!!

Hot feet - needed!!

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Check, out what I found! An ad! Naahh, not just an ad! This slippers're wonderful! I always have cold feet! Sometimes when I have cold feet, it doesn't help to put on socks or slippers, because then the socks/slippers works like a thermos... No heat comes out, but most concerning, no heat is coming IN! Therefore, I have to warm my feet before I put on my socks/slippers. Does anyone else have this problem?

Can't believe that nobody has had this idea before! Making slippers that you can warm up in the Microwave that's awesome!!

I wanna have this!!!

Click on the picture to get them!!

Cut my hair - before/after

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I've just been to the hairdresser and I finally cut my hair! God, my hair looked terrible! I'm ashamed! But now it looks beautiful again! I will go there more often from now on! I promise!

Before

After

Horrible fruit!! Or not...?

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Fruit, isn't that pretty good?! In Swedish fruit is "frukt" and the word horrible is "fruktansvärt". Do you get it? Frukt-ansvärt!! Does it make any sense? Where does this word come from?? Were the stone age people afraid of fruits?

We Swedes have such incredible imagination. Just look at the Swedish word "grönsak", which means vegetable or litterary it means "green thing". Varnings! That word is too much like the Norweigans (Swedes always make jokes about the Norweigans). For example Swedes like to make jokes that the word for banana in Norweigan is "gule böj" which means "yellow bend". I wonder what the person who came up with the word grönsak was thinking. Like: " Hmm, I found a green thing, I'll call it green thing from now on!!! Note: Even if it is a red tomato, it's still a green thing!!!

Weird *expensive* shoes!!

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Shit, that's really weird shoes!! They have to be really hard to walk with!

If you're interested, I have added them to my web shop, together with a lot of other things!!!!

You can find the web shop in the side bar (My shopping bag) or at the end of the blog below all the posts.

Nelly.se

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I was sitting here in my living room looking at some party dresses online and then I started thinking about something I actually noiticed a long time. All of you who buy clothes on Nelly.se, have you thought about this girl who is in these pictures here below, she always, always, ALWAYS has her face in this direction when she is being photographed!

I also have a photo pose, but a model? Shouldn't she be a little more flexible than that? I wonder what she is hiding on the other side of her face....!!

By the way...

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I feel better now... I think I will go back to work tomorrow! So now it's bedtime!

Dress Code: Brazil

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Got the tip of the grandmother that there is a program called Klädkod (Dress Code) that was shown on national television last Thursday and they devoted a whole program about Brazil! Soo cool!!!

The program covers everything from the minimal bikinis to the big African-inspired clothes that are used in Salvador! Really interesting program! It is available on SVT Play until the 11 of February! Watch it!! It's only 30 minutes!! (The program is in Swedish and Portuguese) To see the video, click here!

My weekend :(

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I hope that today was the worst day. Although I've eaten a full dose of painkillers, it has even turned black before my eyes because of the pain. It must be infection when the pain has escalated so dramatically, so now I have begun with penicillin. I hope for a better day tomorrow.

Worse today :(

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Today is one of those days that I feel very small. One of these days that I would call my mom or grandma and ask them to come and get me! I think I got infection in the wound form my tooth. I woke up this morning and it felt like someone had stabbed my with a knife in the wound even though the painkillers still where in my system.

It really hurts... I feel sad and small and alone. It hurts when I eat and I feel sick all the time. Right now, I wish I lived in Borås, then I would call my mom and grandmother.

I am on my way to the dentist. I almost hope that it is infected so I get antibiotics. I rather have the infection now then tomorrow because then I have to wait until Monday to get help.

Ouch!!!

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Do you see swelling that sticks out like a ball on the right side of my chin??? Hurts like shit! I will call the dentist tomorrow to see if I can get stronger painkillers...

So chick shoes!!

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I have enrolled to the competition to when this amazing shoes at Viktor Frisk's blog!!

I want! I want! I want!! I WANT!!!

Wisdom teeth!

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Now it's out!! Haha, you probably feel that I'm a bit disgusting to take tooth with me the home! But I have done that with all my teeth since my first baby tooth! And you probably feel it's disgusting that I have taken a picture of it and posted it on my blog! But I don't care!! Hehe! Hope you don't become angry with me now because of this...

Just to make clear - I'm not holding the tooth in my hand - it's in a little plastic bag!

I thought the tooth would have like three or four roots! But it had only two! Have you seen how black it is! And I've only had it for like one year and it is already full of holes! But now I have gotten rid of it!

It wasn't really that painful like everyone says to take it out! Perhaps it will be more painful when the anesthesia stops having an effect, but right now I feel nothing. Knock on wood! When they took it out it didn't hurt at all, it didn't even make this cracking sound. I only felt some tension in my lower jaw and it iced a bit on the left side of my forehead, it felt like when you eat ice cream and get brain freeze! But I'll probably have pain when the anesthetic fades because I have gotten extra strong painkillers.

Morning & Night

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This is how dark it is when I go to work and when I go home from my job it looks exactly the same! *Sigh* I can't wait until summer! The little red star on the top in the middle of the picture is my kitchen window!

Dentist again - 11 times in one year!

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You have no idea how many times I have been to the dentist lately! Just last year I was there 11 times! And only one of those times was because I had a hole in one tooth. All other times it has been because of this people that hit and robbed us in Brazil, where two of my front teeth became so loose that it was about to fall out.

The nerves in two of my teeth died so I had to fill the root canals of this teeth... NOT so nice! Luckily I chose to get a travel insurance. Now I'm going there again to see if I can get a retainer (one of those wires behind your teeth to keep them in place) because it was destroyed when this happened.

Tomorrow I'm going to the dentist again. Cause I'm going pull out a wisdom tooth! I Don't look forward to it! :(

On this picture it's possible to see what an excellent job my dentists did with my front teeth! And my first dentist that saved my teeth was working on public hospital (free hospital) in Brazil. I didn't really have time to call my insurance company!

Jair's "unhealthy" gift!

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Now Jair will play a lot! Jair got a new game that he hopefully will finish so fat, not in a single day anyway, like he did with Battlefield 3! Haha! The game is called L.A. Noire and is made ​​by the same game designer as GTA!

Yummy!! Fillet of beef again!

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We never went to the restaurant today like we were thinking of doing. This morning Jair had decided that he didn't want to go to a restaurant, because the absolute best that he could imagine was to go and buy a fillet of beef from Brazil in the supermarket and cook it at home all by himself!

I don't understand him! He must really love to cook!

So we ate the same food as we did at New Year's Eve with the addition of beets! Yummy!!

The second snow lies slushy on the roads of Gothenburg!

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Jair's birthday!!!

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Jair got happy when I brought him breakfast to the bed on his 26-year-day! He replied cheerfully that it was the first time that he had breakfast in bed! My lovely baby!

He received his healthy gifts in the morning. It was a gymset with powder, shaker, gym gloves, etc! Tonight he will get an "unhealty" gift!

Mmm Ben & Jerry's ice cream!

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Move-time with my honey and Ben & Jerry's ice cream is really a luxury evening!

Blessing in disguise that it was chocolate ice cream, I don't like that! So now it will be more ice cream for Jair. I went and cook an artichoke to eat instead ... For sure, I'm weird!

Done with the shopping!

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Yes, I simply have no choice... Nordstan has already closed!

But I have had time to do a lot today. A trip to IKEA in Bäckebol (but I never went in), I found an electronics store to buy gifts for Jair. Then I went to Nordstan, where I bought some healthy gifts for Jair.

Then I met my mum and eat sushi with her and now I am waiting for Malin to come so we can FIKA!

Fika = when you take a coffee and eat some sweet thing with your friend (you don't need to eat and you can just drink a cup of coffee or tea)