Day 20: Motivation-less

I think I have just reached a plateau in this diet plan. I feel no motivation to continue with this plan. I have not exercised for this week. I was eating after 9pm again. This is so contradicting when I did a post before about motivation and now I am feeling low and without motivation. This is not only happening for my diet plan. My motivation-less is affecting my work and my life as well. Everyday I will be going home, have dinner and stone in front of a computer (again) and watch some videos while eating something. 

I tried looking for motivation in my favorite fitness websites like Fitsugar and also motivation phases on Tumblr but it seems like I am not absorbing anything from them. I will just read, understand and close the page. I do not have the urgency, the feel to do the exercises or the recipes on these websites even if they look exciting, attractive to me. 

What is going on with me? I think the most likely reason is that I am feeling unsatisfied with my work now. I am now actually typing this blog post during my work. It is now about 10am and I have just started work but I do not feel like doing anything because I know I will finish it in a short while and will be left with nothing to do for the whole day. It seems like I am wasting my life over here. I want to do something important, something useful to the company. However, just because I am a contract staff here, I am unable to be involve in many of the projects here. I do not want to feel like this but I can't help it. 

What should I do?

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Day 18: Eating Raw

Looking at my lunch today which is duck rice suddenly made me think that my food looks terrible. It is just a bunch of brownish-looking food that does not look appetizing at all. Not only does it look unappetizing, it is also not healthy. I am eating this because this is what was leftover from yesterday's dinner which is also duck rice and I will be eating it again tonight as duck noodle. This made me thought that I should probably start eating raw. 

Eating raw means eating food that are not processed or cooked under very high temperatures because these 2 kinds of processing causes the food to degrade and not have the nutrients that they should originally have. Of course, I am not asking you to eat meats raw because eating raw usually refers to eating fruits and vegetables. These colorful foods will instantly light up your day and probably you will feel satisfied because these food have a large volume but have lesser amount of calories which mean that you can actually eat more of it. 

One other good reason to start eating raw is it will help you to detox and to get rid of any unwanted items in your system. This is because eating raw is easier on our digestive system, it allows our digestive system concentrate on the "dirty" things in our tract and removing them. You will probably feel lighter after the detox. Probably I should start on a 1 week detox and see if it works. Do any of you have an idea on what to do for a detox session? Please share if you do have. 

That's all!

Bye!

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Day 16: Walking

Do you like walking? I love to walk a lot. I usually like to walk to my nearest MRT station which is about 15min away by foot and I used to walk to school  too. My friends always refer me to as "siao" when they know that I am walking again. Walking is actually a very good form of exercise too especially for people who do not have a lot of muscle or are overweight. 

Try walking about 30min everyday and I bet you will find a difference in how you feel.

Bye!

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Day 15: Treats

Carpenter and Cook

This is my treat after 2 weeks under the 99 Day Plan. In all diet plans, remember to listen to your body. If your body craves for a certain type of food, do give in but remember to follow these following rules. 

1. Keep your treat to only 1 portion or if it is a full meal, make sure you are only 70% full. 
2. Slowly savour the treat that you have so as to keep satisfied for a longer period of time. 
3. Always choose a healthier option of the treat whenever possible (eg. no whipped cream in your Starbucks)

Since it is my friend's birthday, we had a some sort of tea party for her with cakes and tea. I had a vegetable quiche and it was AWESOME! I think it definitely tasted better than the bacon quiche that my friend had because I am a very big fan with anything mushroom and tomatoes. Than, we had our cakes. I had a toffee pecan brownie which is super chocolaty and moist. My friends had sea salt caramel tart and passionfruit meringue tart. I did not taste the sea salt caramel but thought that the passionfruit meringue tart is light and tangy. A very nice dessert for people on a diet (I should be eating that, I know). Anyways, food is always delicious when you have great company around even if you have to brave the rain and the storm to reach.

Anyways, I may have a new exercise plan that I want to follow next week. Please look out for it.

Bye!
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Day 14: 2 Weeks down!

It has been 2 weeks after I have started on this 99 Day Plan. Honestly, I have not seen any weight drop at all but I do feel like I became lighter and cleaner (if this makes any sense to you). One thing that I am quite happy is that my humongous thighs has dropped about half an inch. YEAH! This is probably due to my exercises like running and muscle toning. Hopefully, I can see some losses in my tummy area soon. 

For the next week, what I will do to increase my intensity is to put in 5 - 10 minutes of exercises before going to work and when I reached home after work everyday. Exercises may include push-ups, crunches and lunges (with variations). This will boost my metabolism and keep my heart and lungs moving especially in the morning. Also, it can provide my body with energy to kickstart my day.

And today is the last day of school for all primary school children. How I wish that I am back in school now that I have started working. I want to go to a holiday. I remembered during my school holidays, I went to Genting! It was so fun! I want to go back there again! When doing my research on Genting, I found out they have many new things that I have never seen before when I was there. For girls out, they have actually a late night shopping at their First World Hotel which opens from 10am to 1am during this holiday period of 9 November to 31 December. This is so exciting. The link to shopping is this http://www.rwgenting.com.sg/en/shopping/index.htm

http://www.rwgenting.com.sg/en/shopping/index.htm

Not only their shopping, they have their awesome theme park which seems so much better than the one in the past. Coincidentally, First World Hotel is the hotel that I stayed in when I went Genting. It seems to have so much more facilities now. I want to take leave to go there!

Anyone want to go there with me? =D

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Day 13: Does Mom's Cooking Makes You Fat?

This is what my dinner for today look like. Sorry for not uploading the actual photo because the picture just do not want to upload onto the internet. Today I had the super sinful but super tasty nasi lemak that my mom cooked. I bet some of us will have this problem when dieting especially when mom cooks because it is not nice to reject the food that your mom cooks. Judging by my mom, I assume that everyone's mom will be like 多吃 多吃 (eat more) every time she cooks. How to diet like this? This is especially so for me since I will eat my mom's dinner almost every night since she is a housewife. This is where I have to think of ways to reduce my calories using creative ways. 

1. Reduce rice intake. For some nights, I do not eat rice at all and of course, mom will nag. But since there are so much other dishes, you will definitely be full with just the dishes.
2. Psycho your mom. Educate or nag your mom and say some things are not so healthy so must eat less. In this way, not only it can help your dieting, it can keep your family healthy too.
3. Ask mom for dinner menu and adjust your calorie intake in the morning. If you know that you are going to have a big meal in the evening, reduce your calorie intake by taking in more vegetables and fruits to have the "full" feeling to last you throughout the day. DO NOT skip meals. Skipping meals will cost you to go to starvation mode and thus metabolism will be reduced. So DO NOT skip meals. 
4. Cook for the family. Since you are cooking, you can control the ingredients that are going to be in the food. And therefore, you can make the meals healthier. 

Such a sinful dinner tonight. I better do some exercises now.

Bye!

|ser|

Day 12: Food Diary

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Do you have a food diary? I just started mine about a few days ago and have been very religious in updating it. The point of having a food diary is to keep track of what you have been eating daily so that you will not overeat and have a well-balanced diet. I used to have a food diary but once I stopped using it, I started to eat without thinking and this is why I am going back to having a new food diary at My Fitness Pal. Make sure your food diary shows you the amount of calories, carbohydrates, sugars, protein, fats, salt and calcium that you have consumed. These few parameters are the basic requirements that your body needs. Other requirements such as vitamins and minerals should be provided for if your meals are rich in vegetables and fruits. 

Some points to take note to have a good food diary:

1. Be religious to your food diary.
   Make sure to update it EVERYDAY. In that way, you will be able to keep track of your meals and make sure you do not step over the allowed intake everyday.
2. Be truthful to your food diary.
   What purpose is the food diary if you are not truthful to it? Do not lie to your food diary and if you have eaten something sinful, write it in so that you will take note of it and not eat so much of it in the future. 
3. It is okay to exceed the required amount.
   Lets' say that you have exceeded the calorie amount for today. It is okay for you to do that. Do not fret too much about it. Read into your food diary and find out the reason and work on it. It may be because the day require too much of your own physical energy and therefore you consume more food. Do not stress too much when you exceeded your calorie intake. 
4. Do not starve yourself for one day and think it will be okay for you to indulge the next day.
   If you starve yourself, your body goes into the starvation mode in which the metabolism slows down. When food comes into the body, the body will store these food as fats so as to prepare the body for another starvation period. 
5. Find a buddy to do this together with you.
   By finding somebody to track your diet together with you, you will have someone who keep you on schedule and to nag you regarding your diet. It will of course be more fun to have someone to go through the diet journey with you. 

Go and create your own food diary. Enjoy!

Bye!

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