Back to school

Me and friends went back to school today, it was a good time reminiscing the past. Had auntie's mee hoon soto for breakfast, it still taste the same. Yummy! Best mee hoon soto in my life, I like the one @ train station too.



Lunch - 3 pieces of sushi + 1 bottle of 100 plus

Dinner - 3 pieces of sushi + 1/2 pack of milo + 1 cookie + few pieces of cuttle fish + 1 piece of chocolate + 1 piece of 4 leaf cheese bread (yummy) + 1 mouthful of soon kueh

Seems like I have a bit too much for dinner. lolx. Itchy mouth, menses coming. =S

30 August - Panting

Breakfast - 1 pack of milo



For a change, we went to kopitiam to have lunch



Eat until really full, auntie gave me too much bee hoon. Lasted me till night.

Dinner - 1 Herbalife chocolate milk shake

Activity - Jogging for 40 mins, was panting like hell.

29 August - Haaa, kick, kick, kick

Breakfast - 1 pineapple tart + 300ml of soya bean milk + 2 pieces of chocolate

Lunch - Mee suah soup, uncle ending his business tomorrow, so must support, will miss uncle's ban mian

Dinner - 1 bowl of black fungus soup cooked by ma

Activity - 1 hour of Lose to Win aerobic session, almost got killed by the coach, my whole body aching now.

Lotsa homework to do. Tired.

Today - homework day again

Darn, when will I be able to finish all these homework. It's really a hassle. Stupid.

Breakfast - 1 pineapple tart + 1 peanut biscuit + 1 dried fruit biscuit + 150ml of meiji low fat milk + 1 mouthful of ang ku kueh

Lunch - Mee suah soup

Dinner - Will update later

Activity - 50 mins of gyming

Going for Lose to Win nutrition class workshop later.



I enjoyed the class. Initially, we were told to sit down and watch the chef cook, I thought that's all. Who knows, we are suppose to cook as well. Me and Sis S wanted to skip the cooking part because need to come back and complete our homework. But we still stayed and fortunately we stayed, it was really fun. There's 1 kind chef who help us to chop the ingredient and another help us to cook. So in the end, I din really do much, Sis S dish up 2 dishes. Aunt mention because we are the youngest there so the chefs help us do these and that. ha.

27 August - Hormone unbalance day

I screwed up, don't feel like talking about it. I just feel unhappy about everything...

Activity - 20mins jogging + 1 hour of aerobics

26 August - Statistics class

I like eating traditional kueh alot, it could be because I live with my grandparents since young, hence the influence.

Breakfast - Half a piece of rice kueh and ang ku kueh 1 mouthful

Lunch - 1 mee suah soup

Dinner - 1 chocolate milk shake + 200 ml of soya bean milk

Activity - Attended school =S

Great session @ Lose to win

Breakfast - 1 chocolate milk shake

Lunch - Home cooked fried rice + bee hoon



Snack - half of this magnum ice-cream. There's a promotion of buy 1 get 1 free. Go check out 7-eleven, ntuc, giant, etc + 1 pack of milo



Dinner - 1 chocolate shake

I really enjoyed the lose to win session today. Lotsa kicking, jumping and hopping, should have burned around 500 calories.

I read on yahoo 17 ways to raise your metabolism rate, below is a summarise version which I think are the more important ones.

1. Move more, you can shake your leg, play with your pen or even chew on sugar free chewy gum. As these movement uses energy, therefore, you could burn up to 500 calories if you are fidgety enough in the day. - I'm amazed with this finding

2. Drinking cold drinks will help to increase metabolism rate. This is because energy is used to warming up the drink you have taken to suit to you body temperature. - I'm quite subjective about this though

3. Taking spicy food speed up your metablic rate by 20 percent or more after an hour of food intake. As it's believed that chilli turn up the heat in your body and increase activity of burning fats. This is quite true, no wonder Koreans, Chinese always eat spicy hot pot during winter.

4. Take in "negative calorie" food. I will touch on this tomorrow. Really like this concept.

5. Take in enough amount of calories your body need for the day. Your body will naturally know you are on diet and will tend to store fats if you are on crash diets. Therefore, plan your meals carefully.

6. Do not skip breakfast. This is what doctors always tell us since young. Breakfast helps to start your body engine and determine your mood/energy for the day.

7. Remember to exercise.

8. Focus on muscle at the gym. Building muscle will help you burn more calories even when you're not moving. While cardio exercise helps to burn fat, muscle building speeds up your metabolic rate for up to 2 hours after every 20-minute session. Better still: every pound of muscle in the body burns 35 calories per day rather than the 2 calories burned by a pound of fat. Quoted from yahoo

9. Drink some drinks with caffeine. Be it coffee or tea, these helps to increase your metabolism rate. But remember not to add too much sugar and milk, just little bit will do.

10. And most importantly is to sleep at the right time. Your body certainly need to rest.

Read the full article at http://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/17-Cheap-Ways-to-Jumpstart-usnews-651306142.html?x=0

24 August - Destructive to have dinner late

Today is 15th of the 7th month, so there's a praying session and it means lotsa food. A very destructive day as meals were not taken on time and mouth + eyes itchy. See everything feel like eating. And had dinner real late at 11pm - I will not do this again as I suffered a slight setback when I step on the weighing scale this morning.





Pictures of food cook by ma.

Activity - 1 hour of aerobics

Read on Yahoo this morning, 17 cheap ways to raise your metabolism rate.
http://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/17-Cheap-Ways-to-Jumpstart-usnews-651306142.html?x=0
Check this out.

Rainy day - Exciting YOG matches

Singapore did not win table tennis female match! A bit disappointed, but I think Isabelle has done her best. Still have the doubles, keep going!

Breakfast - 1 piece of Soon Kueh from Swee Heng, ma say it don't taste as nice as the first time she has it. I agree



Lunch - Mee suah soup, uncle told me he will operate till end of the month only. Uncle also has got a facebook page one hor, don't play play



Sis s reminded me to take the photo when I was eating halfway, ha.

Dinner - Home cook peanut soup



Intending to drink shake but it will be a waste if nobody drink the soup. I told ma, if you cook such nice food everyday, how am I going to slim down.

22nd August - Tired

Breakfast - 1 chocolate milk shake

Lunch - @ friend's baby first month, buffet style of lunch. It's scary to have a baby.

Dinner - fish soup @ Jurong East

Activity - Lose to Win aerobics session. Did not sweat much, the exercise was easier.

21 August - Fetching doggies day

Doggy H and Doggy L seriously need to be groomed. Siss brought them to the shop earlier, then me + Sis S went to fetch them back @ 1:30.



The groomer looks very patient and reliable. Quite a nice cut this time round.

Breakfast + lunch - Sushi @ Sakae, yum yum @_@






Dinner - 7th month dinner, you know those that have bidding kind of dinner. Pa and ma are too tired, so we have to go. The dinner lasted for 3 hours, though a bit too long, I enjoyed it (maybe 60%). I wonder if we will still see this tradition when I turn 50. I doubt so. I did not take any photos because phone low batt. =S

The aunties n uncles kept pushing the food to us, they must be wondering, "wow, these three look like they can eat ley, why eat so little". The food taste better than last year.

Activity - 1 hour aerobic + 20 mins of walking

20 August - Chionging day

Clients are always clients, they make you chiong like hell, then they take their own sweet time to reply. Someday, I'm going to get heart attack. =S

Breakfast - 1 pack of 150ml milo

Lunch - Mee sua soup

Dinner - Vegetable + chicken + 1 cookie, bits and pieces here and there

Ran out of milk, so didn't dink shake. Chocolate shake seems a bit too heaty for me.

Now, both Siss are calling me little yellow bird.

19 August - can barely remember

Let me think back

Lunch - Vegetarian fried bee hoon

I really can't recall my breakfast and dinner

Pai seh, forget to blog @ the right time.

Kickboxing @_@

So cool, just came back from LtW exercise session. We had kickboxing class today. Enjoyed it alot. I think Wednesday classes are less tedious as compared to Sunday classes.

Breakfast - 1 piece of white bread + 3 pieces of watermelon

Lunch - Yong tau hu, I ordered 7 ingredient, with soup, shared a bowl of rice with Sis S

Dinner - 1 guava + 1 banana + few mouth of vegetable + 300ml of soya bean milk + 4 pieces of water melon

The pieces I am talking about here is around 3cm by 3cm by 3cm. Not one big slice alright. ha.

Activity - 1 hour kickboxing session with Lose to Win

ALRIGHT, OKAY, I make sure I remember to take picture of my food tomorrow.

Have a early night, don't stay up too late! =)

17 August

Breakfast - 300ml soya bean milk

Lunch - Mee sua soup

Dinner - 1 chocolate shake + 100ml of soya milk + 3 pieces of watermelon

I can't wait to eat my lunch, that's why no pictures. ha ha ha

Activity - 1 hour of aerobics at home, wanted to go swim, but raining =S

16 August - Nutrition workshop @ Tampines

Breakfast - 1 chocolate shake with meiji low fat milk

Lunch - Yummy vegetarian fried bee hoon, it's a bit oily, but have craving


Dinner - 500ml of soya bean milk from rochor original, so full after drinking soya. But goes hungry after 2-3 hours. So had half a piece of bread, 1 mouthful of lao po bing and 2 mouthful of chicken pie and few pieces of roasted meat

Activity - Moderate walking

We went to the LtW nutrition working @ Tampines Ntuc and that's so far from home. But the nutritionist did told us some useful information. Look below for some of the tips she mentioned.

1) Try to take low fat milk with high calcium, you can take a look at the nutrition readings at the back of the product

2) For bread, it's good to take wholewheat or high dietary fibre bread as these contain more dietary fibre and lower calories. Dietary fibre helps to smoothen the bowel passing process and brings out the fats in the body after your exercise.

3) Choose high dietary fibre biscuits and take note of the calories count of the snacks you are taking. Because often, people cannot control the amount they take a day.

4) Cooking oil, choose those with unsaturated fats like vegetable oil. As oil with high content of saturated fats will clog up the vessels. And believe it or not 1 teaspoon of oil is already 125 calories. Want to faint when I hear this. No wonder Curry Puff is 600 plus calories.

5) Try to have something light for your dinner and it's best if you have it before 8pm. Because we don't move much after our dinner, therefore, it's good if we don't take in too much food.

6) It's alright for you to take fruits after your meal. I still have doubt about this though.

7) White rice and unpolished rice has the same amount of calories, just that if you take unpolished rice, the sugar content will be lower than the white rice.

8) Drink lotsa water if you are taking food with high dietary fibre

15 August - Fitness & musical

Breakfast - 300ml of soya bean milk

Lunch - home cooked unpolished rice, yeah, I cooked the meal! Took me around 2 hours, fainted. Cook cook cook, no garlic, Sis S went down to get. Then cook cook cook, no fish salt, I went down to get. =S Think we have been redeeming the Kopitiam food, that's why never stock up supplies at home. ha



Dinner - Around 5 pieces of niwa sushi, yummy

Me and siss watch Yu Ji yesterday. So cool, Kit Chan is marvelous.




Activity - 1 hour and 15mins of aerobics with LtW, so tiring. Almost went out of breath, it's quite a tough session yesterday. But I feel really good! =)

On a side note: I'm drinking 3.7 litres of water everyday now. My coach from Herbalife mentioned it's best to finish the amount of water you need before 7pm.

14 August - Homework day

Breakfast - 1 pack of milo

Lunch - Handmade noodles

Dinner - Let me recap... I drank 1 chocolate F1 formula shake.

Activity - 1 hour and 20 mins of gyming

Had a fun session with the girls. Just wanted to keep the meals simple as I just had buffet on Friday. Was stuck at home doing my discussion forum the whole day. =S

13 August - The sinful friday

Sinful buffet day @ Kiseki and yes, can forget about the calories count for yesterday. Buffet - you pay for it, you eat as much as you can. I have been trying not to think like that, however, still fail terribly.












I like the way the signage are done. It's something different to tell people B1 has this this this shop and links to suntec city.


Work hard tomorrow to get rid of the fats gained.


Definitely NOT going to eat Kiseki again, Kuishinbo is still the best. Dong dong dong, 1 2 3... =)

So blur

Suppose to be attending module statistics, however, I thought is QM, so I brought the wrong GBA and study guide. Think I'm the blur"est" of all. Faint. After two years of studies, I can still make mistake like this.

Breakfast + Lunch - Same routine as yesterday as Sis L starts work late



Dinner - Mr bean soya bean + 5 pieces of guava + bits of fish meat

Tibits - 1 cube of chocolate

Activity - moderate walking

I'm going for something sinful tomorrow.

The YOG bus passed by our flats today, but din see the flame lei. ha

And, can I ask if fish is not considered as a kind of meat, then what is fish?

Remember I told you we must first detox first before we can see results in losing weight, now go check out the amount of water you should be drinking a day.

http://nutrition.about.com/library/blwatercalculator.htm

11 August - last day of herbalife weight loss competition

Yesterday was the last day to Herbalife weight loss competition and I won 2nd. Honestly, I'm a bit disappointed because I loss more weight than the winner. However, they go by measurement of fats loss. Anyway, aunt asked me to think from another angle. Without this competition, I will still be the same me (8 weeks ago).

Breakfast + Lunch - I had my breakfast and lunch together because Sis L started work late, so we went to kopitiam to redeem our meals.



Dinner - Anyhow eat. Lolx, the team cooked some food for us to celebrate. There's fried been hoon + tom yam soup + cream puff + bo bo zar zar

Activity - 1 and a half hour of gyming

Total weight loss for the 8 weeks - 10.7kg =)

Next target - Lose to Win competition. - 3 months.

School today

Breakfast - 300ml of Mr bean soya milk



Lunch - Chicken toufu claypot from Kopitiam redeemed using LtW voucher + 1 piece of chocolate

Dinner - 1 piece of "bien jian kueh" + 1 cube of ritters sports chocolate + 100ml of vita soy + 1 small piece of steamed fish + few mouthful of vegetable + 2 pieces of guava

Acitivity - Moderate walking

Oh nooo, my dinner is getting messier, I need some control over here. And tomorrow is the final weighing day of Herbalife.

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Happy birthday, Singapore

Da da, this is my "brunch", breakfast + lunch

I had to go out earlier, so, had my breakfast and lunch together, redeemed this "bee hoon" soup from Kopitiam using LtW voucher. I'm quite sick of Kopitiam healthier choice food already.

Dinner - At least 300ml of soya bean milk, I lost count

Along the way - Ate few strips of cuttle fish, 4 pieces of guava, few mouthful of mudpie + mango cake from Coffee club

It is a bit of here and there today.

Activity - Moderate walking, going around train station + everton taking photos

Happy birthday Singapore! I don't like this year theme song, no feel

How? My mouth still feeling itchy. I better go back to my routine tomorrow.

Chanting... Wednesday, wednesday, wednesday

8 August

It was quite an angry day at the start because I was feeling hungry for both breakfast and lunch. Afternoon was great because of the exercise session and walking.

Breakfast - 1 piece of soon kueh

Lunch - Home cooked unpolished rice with 1 vegetable and 1 meat + half a guava, when cooking the meat, I realise we have ran out of dark soya sauce, so went to the mamashop to buy =S

Dinner - I ate a bigger portion for lunch, so only had 300ml of soya bean milk from Mr bean, my favourite ah bean

Activity - Exercise session by LtW and moderate walking, the session was so enjoyable, I must say the instructor was great

For the LtW nutrition class, the nutritionist mentioned that during this weight loss period, we can eat anything we like, just that we should cut down on the portion so that the amount of calories intake does not exceed our daily needed intake. I really like this concept, because I used to think, "Oh, I am on diet, so, I cannot eat this this this that that that". But actually it's not right, because we must be able to substain our improvised diet till we achieve our desired goals. If we go, can't eat this, can't eat that, we tend to give up easily after a month or so.

Now, go and check out how much water you should be drinking a day. Because detox is the first step to weight loss.

7 August post - was too sleepy yesterday

I woke up at 7am yesterday, it's not my normal routine, so got tired at 11 plus and fell asleep.

Yesterday, I had some craving for Sushi, and it is weekend so I excuse myself =)

Breakfast - Oatmilk + oats + 1 "soon kueh", my favorite "soon kueh"

Lunch - Vegetarian "Lor mee", yummy

Dinner - 1 thai seedless guava + sakae sushi (2 salmon avacado + 2 fried toufu + 1 shared salmon don with sis S and sis L)

We had dinner a bit too late at 9 plus after watching movie "salt". It's best to have your dinner at around 7 and try to not to have food after 8. As the food will take around 2-3 hours to digest. So it's best not to crash with our sleeping hours.

Now, go and count the amount of calories you can take in a day, let me try googling.

This is quite a good one, http://www.shapefit.com/dailycalorie-calc.html

And pai seh la, I din capture any photos, was too greedy when I see food. wahahha

Eh, forget my activities

Activity - Gym for 1 hour and 20 mins

Should have taken some photos

Ai yah, I should have taken picture of the food I ate to make this blog more interesting, will start tomorrow

Breakfast - Oat + Oat milk powder

Lunch - Brown rice + 2 vegetables + 1 lean pork meat, redeemed using Lose to Win (LtW) voucher

Dinner - 2 pieces of cheese bread from 4leave + 200ml of soya bean milk + 1 thailand seedless guava + 1 shake with 150ml of meiji milk and 150ml of water with 3 ices cubes

Who is licking my leg? Let me see, AH HA, is Doggy H. Doggy H likes to lick me, makes me wonder if any part of my body is failing therefore producing some weird smell/taste/substance

In my 1st post, I mentioned that at the beginning of the Herbalife weight loss challenge, I skipped Carbohydrate + tibits. I loss about 3 kg. However, I start to miss my fragrance rice and I think THIS IS NOT GOING TO WORK. How to skip rice for the rest of my life? So now, I take 1/2 bowl of rice each meal, sometimes, I replace it with unpolished rice.

Activities - Swimming, 800 metres, free style and frog style

See, excuses, I swim 800 metres and I eat extra 2 pieces of cheese bread. That's why my "coach" told me. Concept of dieting should always start with the food you take in. Because we always like to pamper ourselves after our exercise session.

Pretty tired now, will share with you what LtW nutritionist shared with us tomorrow

What a joke - weight lost journey

I have changed my domain to j-weight-loss-journey.blogspot.com

Apparently, I made a mistake between the word "lost" and "loss", but lost did add a bit of humour to my blog

thx siss for clarifying =)

9kg differences

This is around 7 weeks and 9kg differences.

Breakfast - 1 pack of 300ml milo

Lunch - One chicken toufu claypot with rice from Kopitiam. This is redeemed using the lose to win voucher, thus, portion of the rice was around half of what the vendors usually give us

Dinner - 1 topical fruit shake mixed with 150ml of low fat meiji milk, 150ml of water , 4 cubes of ices + 1 red apple + 1 piece of chocolate + 1 piece of "wu xiang"

Activities - moderate walking, don't have much time for exercise today. Still trying to resolve my mailbox problem

Mood - Pretty happy =)

I should be asleep now so that my body and organs can rest.

I have started many blogs and closed many blogs, hope this will last

Today is definitely not the first day. Let me check.

1st July - I posted an entry on my already "closed" blog.

I am in a competition, those to make myself healthier.

Have to skip on carbohydrate, am taking some substitute product as well. It feels good. I will not disclose the product for now unless the result is more prominent.

Going for a swim later to burn some fats. Go go all the way! =)

Today, 4th of August, yes, hungry now, have to wait till the weighing session later at Herbalife before I grab my food and head for the exercise session by "LosetoWin".

I am not skipping carbohydrate anymore, will tell you more on my next post.