Pic comparison - Early Nov and Late Oct 2015
(not wearing any foundation by the way)
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You know, taking so many selfies, I've just realised that my face is so so not symmetrical. My right cheek is bigger and my neck is slanting more to the right (probably because I had developed a habit of sleeping on my right side since I was pregnant all those moons ago). Darn! I have become conscious of my left lip dropping downwards more than my right when I smile (yah, just look at the picture and you can tell). Oh well, at least you know I haven't photoshopped the way I look. I had simply cropped and put the two pics into a collage. If the pics looks so misty looking, it's because I have a bad front phone camera!
I am slightly heavier now than in late October and it shows on the face. I am still feeling bloated. This morning's weigh in wasn't too bad. Not far from the last magic number but I am still puzzled and disappointed because I had aimed to hit another magic number this week. I'm still exercising but I think I've upped my food intake considerably (not necessarily unhealthily) because I am not smelling the ketone breath so much. I won't elaborate on that but suffice to say, when you reduce your intake of carbs enough, you might start smelling a weird fruity breath. It's not entirely bad breath but google it and you might be able to get a better description of it. Initially, I didn't know about ketone breath and just felt it was such a weird smell.
When I was smelling the ketone breath, I was also feeling a bit weird. Every now and then, I'd feel like I was on a small sampan (wooden boat) and a wave would toss me very, very gently. I did not feel faint or get motion sickness. I just knew it wasn't usual. Together with the weight plateau, I decided I'd up my food intake but carry on with my exercise. Don't wish to fall sick in the pursuit of good health. That would be a joke.
Yes, I've lost sight on inch loss. I seem only concerned about the scale readings. Darn right you are. Although I look puffier, I have not put on any in terms of inches so the inch loss is still good. Phew. Overall, I think I'm not losing all that much weight because I'm not starving myself at all. I am still eating well.
Look at my sample week night meal:
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Does that look like a diet meal to you? There's soup, veg, roast chicken and bread! Okay, so the bread and mushroom soup are for hubs. He'll also eat the chicken and I'll also add some to my soup. I'm definitely not eating too little for dinner. The reason I eat heartily for dinner is when I did eat very cautious dinner meals, I'd feel famished after exercising and crave for a snack (no, not a cucumber or celery stick snack). I know I should be eating AFTER I exercise and though that would be preferably, this is real life; for now, my schedule doesn't permit it.
Early Nov soup dinner
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Dinner last night was a watered down minestrone soup in which I had added some pasta. I had pre-cooked a pot of relatively thick minestrone soup last Sunday so I just scooped up some of the sauce and contents, thinned it with water and added in some pasta. To be honest, it was too much for me. I was full halfway through the meal. Anyway, I had a good work out on the rebounder and stepper thereafter and like I said, woke up to a relative decent reading.
Losing weight can be so complicated with the many schools of thought thrown as us. Of course, we all want to look at pictures of people who have lost weight on the internet and learn from them because it seems more tried and tested. I am taking a really long time to shed the pounds, peeps. I won't give up on myself so don't give up on me just yet!
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