Mid-October 2015
Copyright Fiona C Yeo @ Cartoon Lagoon 2015
I wake up in the morning and I feel so good! I go to bed at night and I feel so good! Generally, this new lifestyle has made me healthier and happier. To be honest, happiest of all when I see myself shrinking day by day. I hold my own waist or touch my own chin and can tell just by touch that my body has changed for the better!
Generally, I am down another inch or less here and there. I don't think I made a great leap in terms of weight. I am down 5kgs (11pounds) from where I started in mid-July. My 'magic number' (read about it in my other posts) has been hovering at about the same place for the past week. I hope that by this weekend or next week, I can bring it down to another 'magic number'!
To someone who has been slim all their life, I may still look grossly overweight but really, what you think of me doesn't bother me because I am monitoring my own progress and I know the effort I have been putting in and the results I am seeing!
Side view. Mid-October 2015
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My tummy is shrinking. Slowly, yes but definitely shrinking! Yippee! Yay! This is taken the day after I had a rest day from exercising and a day of noodles and rice! I am definitely not starving! I had my favourite hawker fried noodles in black, sweet sauce, topped with a generous portion of cabbage and long beans.
Then for dinner, I had a yummilicious Malay dish of curry mutton, spicy french beans and tofu! I even ate up hubby's fried rice because it was too much for him (apparently not too much for me! Hehe).
Yellow noodles fried in dark sweet sauce
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Then for dinner, I had a yummilicious Malay dish of curry mutton, spicy french beans and tofu! I even ate up hubby's fried rice because it was too much for him (apparently not too much for me! Hehe).
Mid-October 2015
Copyright Fiona C Yeo @ Cartoon Lagoon 2015
My BMI readings according to the polyclinic says that I am still above 15kgs overweight. The computer printout was very 'kind' and advised me that I should aim to lose another 5kgs by April of 2016 first. Well, duh! It's a good gauge, these readings but I'm not really bothered by it. I feel encouraged by the weight and inch loss and will definitely be striving to improve my eating and exercise habits even more. And actually, I hope to lose MORE than 5 kgs by the time April 2015 pops around!
By the way, the cranky digital weighing machine hubs had bought for me was really quite accurate compared to the polyclinic's! It was only off by 0.1kg and I can't say for sure which machine has been more accurately calibrated! The only thing about hub's scale is it sometimes registers the previous weight and unless you step on it a few times, you will keep seeing the previous weight. But it's okay, I don't really need another new weighing scale to clutter up the house so I'll keep it and use it (because I already have another old Ikea manual weighing scale lying at home gathering cobwebs).
I really didn't realise that it's my 3rd month 'anniversary' and so I measured myself. I'll just say that I was pleasantly surprised to find that I had again recorded inch loss but not so much. Remember I said I was not going to carry the weights again until I had reduced my weight a tad more? I am sticking to that and I found that my body has turned slightly flabbier. I'm not concerned about it because I've decided I want to be much lighter before I start to tone my body parts. Meanwhile, I've stashed away my simple weights until I've lost a few more kilos! Some people may disagree and think it wiser to tone your body while you are trying to lose weight through lower caloric intake. I don't think I would prefer that. I tried it and it was a struggle to bring the weight down. It can demoralise a person and I know it did me. For me personally, when I see the weight coming down, I feel re-charged and re-energised to continue to move in the right direction. If the reading of the scale remains stagnant, I feel down and demoralised and feel like nothing's working even though I am exercising my butt off. So there. This works for me and I will keep doing this.
What I am doing is reducing my caloric intake on week days. My lunch often times looks like this:
Lunch
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The canteen stall lady obviously disapproves of my food choice. Without fail, she will try to ask me to have at least two spoons of rice with my meal or some meat. She's not much older than I am or she could even be younger but she's very motherly and does this out of kindness. I caved on a few occasions and had my rice. I have now come to tell her gently that I have not totally gone off rice and that I do have rice in the evenings when I cook for the family. Here's an interesting thing. When I did have the meat or the rice she was trying to push me to include, I did feel hungry later, more so than on days when I just solely chose to eat the veg dishes. Interesting huh?
Have a good weekend, peeps! Cheers!
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