Erika R.

30/04/2025

27/04/2025

I saw the Pope’s simple funeral.
So I told my husband that when I die,
I don’t like flowers, give me flowers while I’m living instead.
I told him to choose the cheapest coffin, just upgrade our mattress to an automatic, more ergonomic one instead.
I don’t like to be in a beautiful gown, I would like to be in comfortable pyjamas instead.

I don’t like watches and golds in my caskette, but may be bury many mature seeds with me instead. It might help in the future.

At please, huwag puputulin ang rosaryo. 😅

And to my friends, I don’t mind you not going to my wake when I’m dead. Let’s have coffee while we can still have a conversation instead.

P.S. I am not dying.
And I pray and plan to live long.
But if death comes upon me, I don’t like all the traditions that come with funerals.

Just pray for my soul without having to prepare for a party.

16/04/2025

❤️❤️❤️
Slay!!!

AYAN NA NGA MUKHANG MAY MAGAGANAP NA PANG MALAKASANG TRANSFORMATION!😍✨ Go go go Mother! Bernadeth Flores Cutas

13/04/2025

Walang kuryente? No problem!
May exam daw bukas 😂😂😂
Updated na ba ang lahat?

08/04/2025

Naka 4 loads ako ng laundry.
Bahala na asawa kong magtupi.
😂😂😂

06/04/2025

30/01/2025

OVER FED, UNDER NOURISHED GENERATION
Believe it or not, the cost for this meal is just around the price of one venti coffee at SB, even cheaper. (Nabawasan na ng 1 slice yung apple, at around 1 oz yung meat.) 😅

For less than P200, this meal is enough to power me through my first (attempt) to 24h fast.

I’ve been fasting for health reasons, but of course losing weight is a by-product.

Just to document my progress, I started 72 almost 2 years ago before IF. Then plateaued at 68-70 because we didn’t do variations.

Matagal ang progress sa weight, but I learned how to eat only when I’m actually hungry & stop when I’m almost full. Nawala ang palpitations.

This morning, before water & food, I weighed 63.95 kilos (from 68 last September 2024, to 66 after a 20 hours fast, then 64 after another 20h fast. I was back at 65 after the holidays. LOL! Even had to stop fasting to see if I gain weight just to be sure the weight loss was due to fasting, not due to illness. 😅)

I still don’t eat clean half the time 😅 but progress is progress. Dati, we even snack at 12mindnight or 2am. I used to eat a large pack of my favorite potato chips in one sitting. 😫 And we drank sugary coffee too often.

With all the information out there, minsan nakakalito (carnivore, vegan, do this, do that). I respect others’ choices, but to simplify, we are allowed to eat anything basta in moderation & limited ang overly processed & sugary food & drinks. We just focus on real food and mindful eating.

Side effect ang weight loss at tipid sa pagkain. 🫢

In our IF journey, I realized that we eat too often.
Sabi nga, “we are the over fed, under nourished generation”. 🫣

Ito na naman sa di ko alam kung ano’ng point ko. Basta! 😆

*please consult your doctor before fasting lalo sa may maintenance & diabetic
*if you plan to start IF, just start with 12 hours fasting window, 12 hours eating window.
Example, last food intake at 7pm, eat breakfast at 7am.
Start eating more fiber before eating rice. (Hack: drink chia seeds in 1 glass of water before meals)
Eat enough protein. (Egg is our favorite!)
Limit added sugar (Hack: switch to stevia. Or half stevia, half sugar as starter.)

Be patient. Focus on building the lifestyle instead of the scale. 🙂

24/01/2025

MOVIES & GRIEVING
Scent of a Woman's script & acting are just so delicious!

Puyat kami kahapon, I knew that my brain wouldn't function that much I'd rather do something passive, like watching a movie.
Pero just like food, mas mahirap ako i-please right now.
Generally in life, I need change & upgrade.

I've been avoiding "How to Make Miliions Before Grandma Dies".
I wouldn't answer Aiko when she asked me if we could watch "Lolo and the Kid.".
I am actively running away from things that could possibly trigger me to sob.

To my surprise, Al Pacino's character in Scent of a Woman is a retired colonel. Andaming similarities kay Papa. LOL!
Except that Pacino's character is an as***le.

Memories of Papa popped up in my head particularly when Pacino timed himself to reassemble his gun. Papa used to do that and even tried to teach me how to disassemble/ reassemble his sidearm.

I can't remember where in the movie did my eyes swell up with tears.
It hurts a bit to remember but I am more on the grateful side: that I have lots of things to remember about Papa.

The movie was in my list for so long but I wasn't playing it dahil 3 hours!
I didn't know the beauty & depth I've been missing by not wanting to sit down for 3 hours to see this gem.
But now, I think the timing was perfect.

Through the movie, I understood my Papa a little bit more: specially sa attachment nila sa uniform nila at sa baril, how they like to wear their uniform kapag namatay sila.

Papa & Al Pacino's character were both retired Lt. Col., both called "Colonel".
Their uniforms were so alike!

(Trivia: I didn't know what those pins meant until Papa was gone. A friend told me why I didn't tell them na mataas na opisyal si Papa. LOL! I didn't know that the thick patches of different colors & the different pins all over his suit were achievements. He was a high ranking official at the camp for sure, but at home, HE WAS OUR FATHER, HE WAS A HUSBAND. How could I ever think of him as someone of that position when he would wash the dishes when I had visitors? hahahaha!)

I'm also glad that my father was not an as***le like Colonel Slades. 😅

I've been running away from possible triggers but I know now that I couldn't - because there's just a lot that could remind me of Papa, and I am just glad that I have those memories of him that I could remember him from.

Aside from all these bittersweet grieving things that the movie prompted me, the movie is just so good! I'm really in awe how a very long film was able to hold my attention all throughout.
The storytelling was just so great I wish I watched it sooner, but I as I said earlier, may be I needed the movie last night.