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It’s hard to lose weight when you love to eat but we learned the best weight loss strategies for foodies without giving up your love for food. I lost 20 lbs during the lockdown while enjoying food, without starving myself. Best Weight Loss Diet: Mediterranean Diet and Olive Oil Eating plans in places like Italy, Spain, … Continue reading Best Weight Loss Strategies for People Who Love to Eat
Mama V Delicious founded by Tina Vitas is an online food delivery service specializing on Filipino home-cooked meals, comfort food classics with 60+ year old heritage recipes from Mama Vitas. 💛 They are best known for classic Filipino food that brings back nostalgia for Gen Xers (40+ above) and finding a new millennial audience (ages 25 … Continue reading MAMA V Delicious: Pinoy Fiesta de la Mama V
After months of quarantine and restaurant deliveries, we were able to eat out finally at Friday’s BGC for our first dine-in experience after the Manila lockdown. We had second thoughts about going out and dining in because we were always wondering: is it finally safe to dine out in Manila’s restaurants after the community quarantine?
I love this Copper / Brass Mask by Filipino Artist Vincent “Vitty” Gutierrez from Antipolo. Copper material is best known for its microbial properties that kill bacteria and viruses upon contact with the material. It’s the best gift for Father’s Day that looks cool, functional and can be your memento of the Covid War. Watch … Continue reading Copper / Brass Mask Wearable Art by Filipino Artist Vitty Gutierrez (A Review)
Here’s the list of our favorite tried and tasted delivery food and sweet treats from restaurants and home-based while on lockdown:
As we start the General Community Quarantine in Manila today, let’s listen to Manila’s Best Chefs and their inspiring stories of hope and resilience in the post-Covid World. It’s an intimate conversation on how to reinvent and pivot your restaurant business, taking those that matter most—chefs, employees and customers—into consideration. You get to know the … Continue reading Manila’s Best Chefs on Reinvention, Pivoting and What’s Next?
Transformation Triumph Thursday features the awesome transformation story of Wilbern David. This is a special story of an OAP reader who got very fat because of my restaurant recommendations. I felt a bit guilty and some criticize OAP for promoting being fat even to my family. Featuring transformation stories is one way I can give … Continue reading Wilbern David: How OAP Made Him Fat and How He Transformed?
We just published Episode #8 Season 1 Finale of The Manila Podcast documenting our ECQ diaries with my friend Spanky Enriquez. The MNL Pod is a hyper-local city podcast about life in Manila which we launched during Manila’s ECQ lockdown. Recently, a friend asked me — Is it worth it to start a podcast? As … Continue reading The Manila Podcast: Is it worth it to start a podcast?
Watch: Creating a Healthy Indoor Environment with Melanie Go Why we should care? • Building Biology is the impact of building environment on the inhabitants — humans and our health. • Sick Building Syndrome is when the building, office, or home is the cause of your ailment. • Indoor Environment is 2-5 times more toxic as … Continue reading How to Create a Healthy Environment at Home?
Watch: Boosting your Immune System with Food, Nutrition and Vitamins by Dr. Joel Lopez MD It’s critical that we boost our immune system in the new normal in the Post-Covid World. We talked to integrative and regenerative expert Dr. Joel Lopez about immune boosting hacks you can do at home:
