Magic Number again! (Weightloss / Inchloss Journey)

It's a new week and I've managed to hit a new 'magic number' on the weighing scale. So now, as a total, it's

6 kilos (13.2lbs) down!
 

Yippee! I haven't been starving but instead of eating balanced meals, I've been balancing my meals, if that makes sense. In a nutshell, eat a little more here, eat a little less there. Eat a little less here, eat a little more there. By the way, I've had to delete MyFitnessPal app from my phone because my phone has limited space left. I may reinstall it on my tablet but I think I now can more or less gauge my daily food or caloric intake without actually counting my calories. It's all about moderation. You don't want to starve or stuff your sick. Complement that eating habit with an exercise regime and it should shed some pounds.

My lunch at work last Friday:

Friday lunch (16 Oct 2015)

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I didn't take any more pics of my meals for the rest of the weekend except for Sunday evening where I definitely over ate. Even snuck in a Coke Float!

 

Sunday Dinner (18 Oct 2015)

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As usual, my daughter couldn't finish her meal and I acted as her human vacuum cleaner. Bad, bad mummy! It had been a tiring day and I couldn't even make myself exercise that night. Still, the food intake over the weekend must have been what my body had been waiting for because I managed to weigh in a new low (what I call magic) number when the new week started!

 

Excited that I'm only a few hundred grams away from my first mini-weight-goal, I was determined to really up my game this whole week. That is until I ended up in one of NTU's canteen slurping the delicious bak kut teh (pork rib herbal soup) and a whole plate of vegetables! I know I could have told the Uncle, 'no rice' but come on! What's bak kut teh with no rice? Okay, I was sooooo tempted to whip out my camera to take a pic of the claypot bak kut teh but really, the canteen was filled with hip undergrads. This out of place Aunty really didn't need to look even further out of place taking food pics! Thus, I resisted the urge. However, my kid was late meeting me so I took a stroll to another canteen and since it was quieter, I snuck out my camera to take a pic of my indulgence:

 

Honey Sea Coconut!

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It wasn't too sweet and was quite refreshing. Only the pathetic, wrinkly, yellowing lime sort of spoilt the experience for me! So anyway, as an example of how I eat nowadays, since I had indulged in a very heavy lunch, I had a simple salad for dinner. Just rocket leaves and a sweet Korean apple cut up in chunks. It kept me full until midnight when my stomach started growling. I must say, I really, really, wanted to have chocolate last night but managed to just drink water and go to sleep. I told myself, I could cave and eat the chocolate and then regret it the next morning or I could just close my eyes and imagine eating the chocolate. I was a good girl and did just that.

 

I'm so excited with the way the weight is slowly dropping off. I'm rebounding 20 minutes, doing about 50 push-ups and then doing a short routine on my old twist-n-turn stepper (yes, I dusted out the cobwebs). You could say I have a mini-circuit going on at home now! I kind of wish I had a treadmill too but it would be just too bulky to squeeze into my mini-gym!

 

Meanwhile, my kids and hubs are making fun of me, saying I photoshopped my October photo (refer to my previous post). Bah! I told them I barely know how to insert pics into those frames, much less photoshop my face! I know they are only teasing me. They did say in all seriousness that they could see I have lost weight! Well, it's about time!