Still the same weight

I woke up this morning and was happy to see that the scale still showed yesterday's 'magic number'! So I did still weigh my lowest-weight-in-a-long-while! However, I must say that last night, it wasn't quite so. As I have said before, registering the magic number doesn't mean anything. Weight can yo-yo upwards 300g just by putting on your clothes. Put on a pair of heavy jeans and you will pretty much see your weight shoot up. But just like the My Fitness Pal App, I use it as a gauge to see if I'm eating and exercising as I should to bring my weight down. My weight did go up by more than a kg by the end of yesterday. This was my dinner:

Dinner 7 Oct 2015

Copyright Fiona C Yeo @ Cartoon Lagoon 2015

I said I'd have a salad with no dressing but I couldn't. I had just bought a new bottle of Nando's extra hot chilli sauce and just had to have some with my chicken pieces! It was so spicy and yummy! In the pic, you can see the lemon water I am still drinking on a daily basis. My meal was thrown together with whatever I had at home. Rocket leaves, Chinese Spinach, black olives, pomelo, pineapple and of course, my chicken pieces. I didn't have to worry about anyone else's dinner because no one else was home. Happy as a lark, I enjoyed my dinner leisurely than hurried to give the doggy her walk. Thank goodness it was drizzling. The dog decided to do her big business in quick time. However, I had to give her a warm bath because she'd gotten wet and sandy.

I then proceeded to s-t-r-i-p (haha, this doesn't sound bad, does it?) and hopped on the rebounder for about an hour. The hour just passed by quite quickly because I had no one to disturb me and I was enjoying myself jumping about and doing crazy actions.

Right after my bath, hubs came home and I had to stop him because he was asking me to go have supper with him!!! I refused and told him I had just spent an hour exercising and I wasn't going to let that hour go to waste! UH-UH!!! NAH!!! NO WAY!!! So I went to sleep instead. Poor him. But too bad. I'm happy with the self-control I displayed yesterday night. I had even purchased a whole bag of mini-toblerones for him because he'd complained that I haven't bought him chocolates in a long time! I must say that I did think of squeezing in just one teeny tiny piece of toblerone. Just one can't do me harm, right? But I put it aside instead. I know myself. One piece and it'll be so delicious, I'll just want to have another and another and we all know how this goes down. Not a good ending. The thing is, when I wanted to join hubs for supper and when I wanted the mini-toblerone, I wasn't even feeling hungry! I was being greedy. In fact, I was so full from the whole day of eating non-stop (in between my lunch and dinner, I had eaten a slice of papaya and a slice of pineapple). So now, I know myself. I can snack but provided it's a healthy snack and there are healthy meals I can have which won't make me starve!

My lunch today was from the same Malay stall and so it is pretty similar to yesterday's lunch. One chicken, the sambal goreng and a fried egg. Salads and eggs have become my new friends because of their 'low' calories. I realised I can have so much more of them and keep myself full and yet stay on track with this weight loss goal. I had every intention of just eating veg for lunch today, however, by the time I got to the canteen, the stalls had pretty much run out of food.

I am still 2 KGS away from my first weight loss mini-goal. Yes, I have set a more reachable goal first so that the task isn't so daunting. It's taking me forever to reach it. I hope that somewhere along the way, my body will understand that it is fats it needs to burn and just speed up the process. Like maybe, they'll wake up and go, Ahh....she wants to burn her fats, so let's just not be confused and do it, man! Meanwhile, I am still chugging along.

You may have been following me and wondering why I have not even listed my actual weight. Yah lah, paiseh (feeling shy). I'll maybe do the big reveal one day AFTER I have become successful. Meanwhile, I am still struggling in my weight loss journey.

By the way, something has been at the back of my mind. I wanted to say that I am still waiting for the Lord to show me the way. He has told me to serve. It was made very clear to me. I am trying to figure out where He wants me to serve. I am curious, apprehensive and most of all, excited with the new door He will be opening for me! Am I afraid I will be out of a job by year's end? No. Not when the Holy Spirit is with me. I may have been but I am not anymore. I trust in God.