Accidently deleted Mac OS Lion Partition from Bootcamp on MBP

I know this was stupid and I've learned to not do this again but I really need some help now. Whenever I try restarting, I can only see the Windows partition. There is no Lion HD partition or the recovery partition. I accidently deleted it on my MacBook Pro from Windows with third party software (dumb, i know).
It came with Lion preinstalled so I don't have the discs either. Its new so I'm not concerned about data loss but I really need to get the Mac OS back. I'm not even really concerned about losing the Windows partition.

I for one don't understand lacking backups.
Lion network install
you may even have had EFI firmware update to improve
there was GPT, EFI, HFS and NTFS along with Recovery
you should see what is left now
Applt tech note articles on Lion and revovery, install mode
http://www.apple.com/support/lion install help setup faq

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