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