Sometimes, I wonder, is there a point in keeping this blog? All I seem to be writing is how I've fallen off the wagon again and again I might as well just walk on the mud. But of course that's really not the best attitude. How the heck am I gonna be healthy if I don't get back on the wagon?
All the Ramadhan weight that I've lost are rapidly coming back. Clothes are getting a bit tight instead of loose and already I am thinking of buying something is bigger size. Ding Ding Ding!!! why??? Should be trying to loose all that excess fat instead of accommodating them!!!
This is truly a long and lenghty quest indeed :(
Monday, 22 December 2008
Friday, 12 September 2008
The Ramadhan Diet
I realise I haven't written in my Flab Quest journal for a while now. Guilty feeling perhaps for not sticking to the programme as rigorously as I should?
So anyway, here comes Ramadhan, the holy month for us Muslim which means fasting from sun up till sun down. This year I resolve to not do any 'revenge eating' as I sometimes did in the past. I tried very much to control my portion and don't eat crazily from sun down to sun up.
Well, according to my dad's scale, I've lost 5 kilos since I last step on that scale. Yippeee!!! And it is only halfway so I still have some 2 weeks left to lose another kilo or two. Now, the big question is of course to keep that weight off once Ramadhan is over i.e. not binge during Eid! So I think I would implement the Monday and Thursday fast, that plus getting back on that proverbial exercise wagon should set me on the right track so to speak.
Show me the weight loss!!!
Cross fingers ;)
So anyway, here comes Ramadhan, the holy month for us Muslim which means fasting from sun up till sun down. This year I resolve to not do any 'revenge eating' as I sometimes did in the past. I tried very much to control my portion and don't eat crazily from sun down to sun up.
Well, according to my dad's scale, I've lost 5 kilos since I last step on that scale. Yippeee!!! And it is only halfway so I still have some 2 weeks left to lose another kilo or two. Now, the big question is of course to keep that weight off once Ramadhan is over i.e. not binge during Eid! So I think I would implement the Monday and Thursday fast, that plus getting back on that proverbial exercise wagon should set me on the right track so to speak.
Show me the weight loss!!!
Cross fingers ;)
Monday, 23 June 2008
I'm Still Off the Bloody Exercise Wagon :(
It's nearly a month and I am still off the wagon :(
First it was due to the court process. As always it took forever and sometimes I had to get out of the house really early to get stuff done. Then, because I was knackered, I don't want to exercise in the afternoon prefering to nap instead. That lead to not feeling sleepy so get to sleep later and in short, my cycle all got thrown off balance and I am now slightly insomniac.
As always where do I turn to but our trusty guide Ms. Oprah Winfrey? Well, the episode I turn to has dr. Oz (he has Muslim ancestry you know. Yay!) and Bob Greene with his best life diet. Strangely enough, that prompts me to clean out my room and lay out exercise clothes for the morning. Cross fingers I would actually follow that through!
First it was due to the court process. As always it took forever and sometimes I had to get out of the house really early to get stuff done. Then, because I was knackered, I don't want to exercise in the afternoon prefering to nap instead. That lead to not feeling sleepy so get to sleep later and in short, my cycle all got thrown off balance and I am now slightly insomniac.
As always where do I turn to but our trusty guide Ms. Oprah Winfrey? Well, the episode I turn to has dr. Oz (he has Muslim ancestry you know. Yay!) and Bob Greene with his best life diet. Strangely enough, that prompts me to clean out my room and lay out exercise clothes for the morning. Cross fingers I would actually follow that through!
Friday, 23 May 2008
Emotional Eating
Either Tante Oprah or Om Bob Greene said that emotional eating is really the root of the problem. You think you like food but that's just a cover, masking a deeper emotional problem. It took me awhile but yeah, I am too an emotional eater. I eat when I'm bored, stressed, and upset. Though obviously you do need to eat, I now notice that when I'm eating to actually sustain living don't eat all that much. The extras must've come from all those unhappy moment.
I think I've done pretty good these days. Sometimes I do eat more, usually when I ate out with my family, or when there's just that little piece of chocolate cake left, but in general I try to watch what I eat.
However, there are times when I lapse into old habits. Yesterday was one of them. There was miscommunication whcih resulted into cancelled meetings etc so suffice to say I wasted the entire morning and was feeling really low. The first thing that came to mind was that I want to eat good food. So I cab it to my local mall, go to Sushi Tei and ate at the bar. Being upset made me bold so I ogled at the food on parade on the conveyor belt and pick plates I wouldn't normally. I was actually hungry too, so the first two plate really felt nourishing washed down with warm ocha. But the third plate onwards was just feeding the pain and disappoinment I felt yesterday. In the end I ate six little plate of sushi. I stopped just before I feel really really full. Still, I ate about 2 plates more than I should. I then savour my ocha and taking in the atmosphere. I felt much better.
I walk around the mall a bit then my mother came up and we window shop for a bit before sitting down for coffee. This definitely improve my mood. So much so that I can restrain myself against the cheesecake that my mom ordered and fight down the urge to finish off the slice :D
I suppose now the job is to train myself to not indulge my pain and overeat. One meal at a time.
I think I've done pretty good these days. Sometimes I do eat more, usually when I ate out with my family, or when there's just that little piece of chocolate cake left, but in general I try to watch what I eat.
However, there are times when I lapse into old habits. Yesterday was one of them. There was miscommunication whcih resulted into cancelled meetings etc so suffice to say I wasted the entire morning and was feeling really low. The first thing that came to mind was that I want to eat good food. So I cab it to my local mall, go to Sushi Tei and ate at the bar. Being upset made me bold so I ogled at the food on parade on the conveyor belt and pick plates I wouldn't normally. I was actually hungry too, so the first two plate really felt nourishing washed down with warm ocha. But the third plate onwards was just feeding the pain and disappoinment I felt yesterday. In the end I ate six little plate of sushi. I stopped just before I feel really really full. Still, I ate about 2 plates more than I should. I then savour my ocha and taking in the atmosphere. I felt much better.
I walk around the mall a bit then my mother came up and we window shop for a bit before sitting down for coffee. This definitely improve my mood. So much so that I can restrain myself against the cheesecake that my mom ordered and fight down the urge to finish off the slice :D
I suppose now the job is to train myself to not indulge my pain and overeat. One meal at a time.
Monday, 19 May 2008
How I Fell of the (exercise) Wagon
Back in January, thing were going along swimmingly. I exercise everyday for at least 30 minutes. Slowly but surely I increase my time on the treadmill until I manage to stay on for 45 minutes. Until a small accident set me back.
It is actually nothing major but I noticed that my sneakers were becoming a bit loose. It used to fit snugly, now something seems amiss. I didn't think much of it, in fact I thought it was a sign that I've lost some weight that my sneakers are looser. Well, I didn't and it wasn't. It was ripped. I was streching when I noticed something red on the shoe. I thought, that's funny, my shoes doesn't have any red accent on it. Still, because I was focused on training, I didn't really check it out. It wasn't until I sat down to do my sit-ups and was taking off my shoes that I realise the red bit? It wasn't part of my shoe, it was my bright red socks poking through the gap! Eek! On both sides as well.
Now, this annoys me because I just bought the shoes last September, didn't really wear regularly until about October thus I really only use it for about 4 months and it ripped already? I didn't think I was exercising that hard. How can 20 minutes on treadmill everyday called hard training? Not even close!
On normal minded people, they'd just fix the shoes or buy another. Being somewhat abnormal, I put off going to the shoe repair. And when I did go, they told me if they sew it back, it would just rip again so I better off buying new ones. Now, I don't know whether the shoe repair people were just lazy, uncreative, or they were actually telling the truth and I got ripped off by Nike's. Whatever. I was bummed. exercising with ripped shoes just don't feel good. So, what do I do?
I stop exercising.
I fell off the wagon. I jump ship. I sulked.
I want new sneakers. But the ones I wanted were pricey, and I didn't feel like spending that much money on something that would be broken 4 months later. Oy! I tried wearing my older sneaker. Boy, those even felt worse.
Until an angel saw my plight and shone the light on me.
Ok that was bombastic ;) What happened was, as we generally spend either Sunday or Saturday lunching at the local mall, my dearest husband finally noticed how I always look at sneakers, pick them up, turn them around, sigh, then put it back. This happened for a few weekends until he said,"Well, just pick one and I'll pay for it!" Oh my love, you came through for moi! ;)
I picked a pink Reebok pair that supposedly gives a percentage of the sale towards the pink ribbon campaign. Yes, my aunt is a breast cancer survivor so I felt it is only right that I buy this particular pair. It was not cheap but not the most expensive pair either. Then, he also got me some new training clothes so now I really have no reason not to resume training.
How did it go? Well, last week I only manage to exercise 2 days out of 7. But today I can proudly say that I begin the day by eating a chocolate doughnut and promptly goes to the gym to walk it off. Tomorrow, I promise myself that I will train again. Cross fingers this week will go better than last week ;)
It is actually nothing major but I noticed that my sneakers were becoming a bit loose. It used to fit snugly, now something seems amiss. I didn't think much of it, in fact I thought it was a sign that I've lost some weight that my sneakers are looser. Well, I didn't and it wasn't. It was ripped. I was streching when I noticed something red on the shoe. I thought, that's funny, my shoes doesn't have any red accent on it. Still, because I was focused on training, I didn't really check it out. It wasn't until I sat down to do my sit-ups and was taking off my shoes that I realise the red bit? It wasn't part of my shoe, it was my bright red socks poking through the gap! Eek! On both sides as well.
Now, this annoys me because I just bought the shoes last September, didn't really wear regularly until about October thus I really only use it for about 4 months and it ripped already? I didn't think I was exercising that hard. How can 20 minutes on treadmill everyday called hard training? Not even close!
On normal minded people, they'd just fix the shoes or buy another. Being somewhat abnormal, I put off going to the shoe repair. And when I did go, they told me if they sew it back, it would just rip again so I better off buying new ones. Now, I don't know whether the shoe repair people were just lazy, uncreative, or they were actually telling the truth and I got ripped off by Nike's. Whatever. I was bummed. exercising with ripped shoes just don't feel good. So, what do I do?
I stop exercising.
I fell off the wagon. I jump ship. I sulked.
I want new sneakers. But the ones I wanted were pricey, and I didn't feel like spending that much money on something that would be broken 4 months later. Oy! I tried wearing my older sneaker. Boy, those even felt worse.
Until an angel saw my plight and shone the light on me.
Ok that was bombastic ;) What happened was, as we generally spend either Sunday or Saturday lunching at the local mall, my dearest husband finally noticed how I always look at sneakers, pick them up, turn them around, sigh, then put it back. This happened for a few weekends until he said,"Well, just pick one and I'll pay for it!" Oh my love, you came through for moi! ;)
I picked a pink Reebok pair that supposedly gives a percentage of the sale towards the pink ribbon campaign. Yes, my aunt is a breast cancer survivor so I felt it is only right that I buy this particular pair. It was not cheap but not the most expensive pair either. Then, he also got me some new training clothes so now I really have no reason not to resume training.
How did it go? Well, last week I only manage to exercise 2 days out of 7. But today I can proudly say that I begin the day by eating a chocolate doughnut and promptly goes to the gym to walk it off. Tomorrow, I promise myself that I will train again. Cross fingers this week will go better than last week ;)
Thursday, 3 January 2008
Part 4 - The Turning Point
Of all things, it was actually an article in a magazine that jolts her into action. All these things had been brewing in her mind, her genetic inheritance, her sister's asthma, her uncles heart attacks, her two children, but somehow she could not will herself to get up and go. Until an article in the O magazine caught her eye. It says something about how exercising for just 10 minutes a day, if done regurlarly still has health benefit and would make you healthier. That just got her thinking. 10 minutes a day is nothing. She'd gab on the phone with her mom and her sister for far longer. She could trade in one of those phone calls for a spot of exercise. She mulls this over until finally she just got up and go. Just like in the pictures in the magazine ;)
So one morning, after her children showered and breakfasted, she changed into sports gear. She had laid out the outfit the night before to strengten her resolve, so she put them one by one. The sports bra, the track pant, the long sleeve tshirt, her favourite red socks and put on her shoes. Then she find a small bag, stuff a small towel, an mp3 player and a water bottle in it then off she go!
She still remembers some of her personal training way back in Boston. So she started with a warm-up, 5 minutes on the treadmill, then she got off and do some streching; head, arms, legs, then got back on the treadmill for 10 minutes. After that, she did some crunches, then cooling down by streching and meditate for a bit. Then she sign off the gym attendance record and went back up to her apt.
As she waited for the elevator, she thought to herself, "Well, that wasn't so bad. It felt quite good actually!" So she did it again the next day, and the next and before she knew it she had worked out everyday for a whole week! Whoopee!! One week turned to two weeks, three weeks, then a whole months! She had gone from a lazy butt, to actually exercising regularly for 6 days a week and she felt much much better. She feels that she has more energy, lighter, healthier and all around better. She thought, "Wow, I was an idiot for waiting this long to feel better!"
She also progressed with her exercise routine. She added weight training, now able to lift up to 4kg for chest curl, and took aerobic classes the gym offered. She can last longer on the treadmill too! She finally able to go past the 15 minute barrier and is now aiming for 30. She hasn't reach it yet, only at about 20-25 mins but getting there. So now she does aerobic classes 3x a week, go on the treadmill 3x, plus weight and core. She is saving up for lessons with a trainer as she feels she could do with more but she doesn't want to increase without supervision.
Now that she got the exercise part covered, the next thing to do is to work on her eating habit. She still couldn't change it but it will. Just as she finally got around to exercising, the FSG is sure she can change to have a healthier diet ;)
So one morning, after her children showered and breakfasted, she changed into sports gear. She had laid out the outfit the night before to strengten her resolve, so she put them one by one. The sports bra, the track pant, the long sleeve tshirt, her favourite red socks and put on her shoes. Then she find a small bag, stuff a small towel, an mp3 player and a water bottle in it then off she go!
She still remembers some of her personal training way back in Boston. So she started with a warm-up, 5 minutes on the treadmill, then she got off and do some streching; head, arms, legs, then got back on the treadmill for 10 minutes. After that, she did some crunches, then cooling down by streching and meditate for a bit. Then she sign off the gym attendance record and went back up to her apt.
As she waited for the elevator, she thought to herself, "Well, that wasn't so bad. It felt quite good actually!" So she did it again the next day, and the next and before she knew it she had worked out everyday for a whole week! Whoopee!! One week turned to two weeks, three weeks, then a whole months! She had gone from a lazy butt, to actually exercising regularly for 6 days a week and she felt much much better. She feels that she has more energy, lighter, healthier and all around better. She thought, "Wow, I was an idiot for waiting this long to feel better!"
She also progressed with her exercise routine. She added weight training, now able to lift up to 4kg for chest curl, and took aerobic classes the gym offered. She can last longer on the treadmill too! She finally able to go past the 15 minute barrier and is now aiming for 30. She hasn't reach it yet, only at about 20-25 mins but getting there. So now she does aerobic classes 3x a week, go on the treadmill 3x, plus weight and core. She is saving up for lessons with a trainer as she feels she could do with more but she doesn't want to increase without supervision.
Now that she got the exercise part covered, the next thing to do is to work on her eating habit. She still couldn't change it but it will. Just as she finally got around to exercising, the FSG is sure she can change to have a healthier diet ;)
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