Today I woke up with a start at 7 am. I was dreaming of work. And how to do it. Before that, I had a weird dream that Sis got pregnant and she was shocked to find it out through the pregnancy tester.
The weird things that come up during a dream eh? Not that work was weird or anything.
Anyway today I did the usual, strip off while wondering whether specs count for something on the weighing scale and weigh myself.
86.5 kg. A fine sight indeed. I think if I continue eating the beef stew today and compliantly for the rest of the meals, I'll be in a good shape tomorrow.
I plan to work out today too so that I'll hit my 6 times a week for this week. Yay go me.... is that premature to acknowledge myself before it has been done? I don't think so.
I read on a weight loss blog that weight loss is mostly mental. There is the actual weight lost, yes but what drives it, what maintains it is mental. There is a reason why each of us wants to lose weight. And yet after losing the weight, it's common to find people who still think that they are fat. Their self image has not been updated at all.
I get it. My mental challenge is about eating in a social setting. Where there is food out there and I am with company, I tend to reach out to eat whatever is there. Cakes, pastries, curry puffs, sandwiches tempt the hell out of me. Yesterday Hubby and I was attending an essential oil massage session and the organizer requested that each of us bring the nibbles.
Although I first thought of buying potato chips (also because secretly I wanted to eat them), Hubby suggested that we buy fruits and healthy snacks like nuts instead. Wise plan indeed since I would be the one reaching out for them.
We bought pumpkin seeds (no one ate it so I brought it back!), honeyed pineapples (omg too sweet for me but Hubby loves it). walnuts (kept eating it because it is my Gatherer diamond food - think I'll buy some for myself!) and wasabi macadamia nuts (gosh I love them though they were avoids).
I want to learn on setting up choices so that I wouldn't set myself up for failure later. Hubby's suggestion taught me a lot indeed. I don't want to be a weird hermit who because of weight loss and food, rejects company, friendship and pleasurable memories. Even when we were eating out on Friday at Crystal Jade, he wanted to pick choices that were compliant.
"We can have our cake and eat it too."
Next weekend, I'm gonna be spending time with my best friend in a luxury hotel whoopee! And I really want to be compliant during that weekend.
I shall tread carefully and wisely.
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Heart Rate Monitor
With my payday on Wednesday, I bought a couple of big ticket items. Firstly I decided to join True Fitness since it's near my office and I can go workout before coming in or during lunchtime. Yippee!
I'm like a kid let loose in the candy store when I see the nice new machines there. It does this and whoa, what does that do?! I have been exploring (alright, I admit that I have been hiding away at the ladies' corner) and have quickly settled down on a favourite - the Precor cross ramp machine.
It's an interesting hybrid - a mix of a cross trainer, strider and a stair master (except it's not so excruciating as one). I really enjoy it. :)
And since there are no stupid rules like only using the machine for a max of 20 mins and no reading materials allowed, I have been bringing in my iPad too. Catching up on my RSS feeds or watch a movie while working out? Game on!
*takes a deep breath, trying to calm herself*
And before I forgot, the second thing I bought is the Polar heart rate monitor, the FT60. It is uber cool. It takes down my measurements and calculate my fitness level. It then ask me for my target currently (lose weight) and calculate my weekly targets.
*gulps*
My fitness level is Low which is not surprisingly given my weight (but then again, it is surprising after working out for 4 months now, hmmpf). But the one that made me gasp was the weekly target.
6 hours 5 mins of exercise per week and burn 2540 calories in total.
OMG.
I currently workout at 40 mins for 5 times a week and am trying to bring up my frequency to 6 times a week. And now I am told that I have to increase my duration by a third?! Acks.
I would love to workout more and I think that one hour is durable... if not for the fact that I exercise during my workday and am in a constant rush to get back so that I can get more work done. -____-;;
Anyway given that I was in Suntec today, I did clocked in 1 hour today, go me! I burnt 416 calories in total which was interesting because the last time I clocked only 30 mins (didn't know how to operate the HRM properly at that time) and actually clocked 300+ calories. So how much effort I put into it matters too and not just the duration nor the intensity set at the machine.
I will do my best to hit the weekly targets but I am NOT going to hold myself accountable to that. One thing I have learnt from the past is that if I take such calculations too seriously and become rigid on what I must do to lose weight, the fun and joy of exercising is diminished for me. I WILL NOT let this happen.
So let's see where this HRM and my perspective takes me. Who knows, perhaps after a week or so, I come changin' my mind and the next thing you know, I am begging the HRM to GIVE IT TO ME.
More... more!
I'm like a kid let loose in the candy store when I see the nice new machines there. It does this and whoa, what does that do?! I have been exploring (alright, I admit that I have been hiding away at the ladies' corner) and have quickly settled down on a favourite - the Precor cross ramp machine.
It's an interesting hybrid - a mix of a cross trainer, strider and a stair master (except it's not so excruciating as one). I really enjoy it. :)
And since there are no stupid rules like only using the machine for a max of 20 mins and no reading materials allowed, I have been bringing in my iPad too. Catching up on my RSS feeds or watch a movie while working out? Game on!
*takes a deep breath, trying to calm herself*
And before I forgot, the second thing I bought is the Polar heart rate monitor, the FT60. It is uber cool. It takes down my measurements and calculate my fitness level. It then ask me for my target currently (lose weight) and calculate my weekly targets.
*gulps*
My fitness level is Low which is not surprisingly given my weight (but then again, it is surprising after working out for 4 months now, hmmpf). But the one that made me gasp was the weekly target.
6 hours 5 mins of exercise per week and burn 2540 calories in total.
OMG.
I currently workout at 40 mins for 5 times a week and am trying to bring up my frequency to 6 times a week. And now I am told that I have to increase my duration by a third?! Acks.
I would love to workout more and I think that one hour is durable... if not for the fact that I exercise during my workday and am in a constant rush to get back so that I can get more work done. -____-;;
Anyway given that I was in Suntec today, I did clocked in 1 hour today, go me! I burnt 416 calories in total which was interesting because the last time I clocked only 30 mins (didn't know how to operate the HRM properly at that time) and actually clocked 300+ calories. So how much effort I put into it matters too and not just the duration nor the intensity set at the machine.
I will do my best to hit the weekly targets but I am NOT going to hold myself accountable to that. One thing I have learnt from the past is that if I take such calculations too seriously and become rigid on what I must do to lose weight, the fun and joy of exercising is diminished for me. I WILL NOT let this happen.
So let's see where this HRM and my perspective takes me. Who knows, perhaps after a week or so, I come changin' my mind and the next thing you know, I am begging the HRM to GIVE IT TO ME.
More... more!
New Hobby
Thanks to the new weighing scale that Pa got for us, Hubby and I now has a new hobby. Or rather, I have it and he gets onto it enthusiastically.
The digital weighing scale measures up to 0.1 accuracy unlike our old one. This means no more squinting at the scale, trying to decipher whether it hits closer to 0.5 or 1. Just stand on the machine, wait a while, look down and tada, agony or ecstasy is all yours.
However because it's now so accurate, I have been weighing myself obsessively. Like every day. For someone who used to avoid the weighing machine like the plague in the past, this is a remarkable turnabout indeed.
It also leads to all kinds of tomfoolery or trying to pull a fast one on the weighing machine. Right now our favorite current trick to shed off all clothes before standing on the machine. I have learnt that my nightgown and underwear is already 300 grams. A full set of clothes which includes undergarments and pants, clocks in 500 grams easily.
How's that for instant weight loss?
Anyway sigh, I want to kick myself sometimes. Sigh I clocked in at a decent 86 kg and duh, I was not compliant on a couple of the weekdays. Pizza with my first boss on Tuesday, Royce chocolate (damn you Hubby) and too much rice on Friday. Bleah. *glums*
I was going up to 89 kg, close to 90... OMG how can I gain almost 4 kg in one shot?! Now I am about 87 kg. Doubt that I can fall to 86 tomorrow. Aaaah.
The digital weighing scale measures up to 0.1 accuracy unlike our old one. This means no more squinting at the scale, trying to decipher whether it hits closer to 0.5 or 1. Just stand on the machine, wait a while, look down and tada, agony or ecstasy is all yours.
However because it's now so accurate, I have been weighing myself obsessively. Like every day. For someone who used to avoid the weighing machine like the plague in the past, this is a remarkable turnabout indeed.
It also leads to all kinds of tomfoolery or trying to pull a fast one on the weighing machine. Right now our favorite current trick to shed off all clothes before standing on the machine. I have learnt that my nightgown and underwear is already 300 grams. A full set of clothes which includes undergarments and pants, clocks in 500 grams easily.
How's that for instant weight loss?
Anyway sigh, I want to kick myself sometimes. Sigh I clocked in at a decent 86 kg and duh, I was not compliant on a couple of the weekdays. Pizza with my first boss on Tuesday, Royce chocolate (damn you Hubby) and too much rice on Friday. Bleah. *glums*
I was going up to 89 kg, close to 90... OMG how can I gain almost 4 kg in one shot?! Now I am about 87 kg. Doubt that I can fall to 86 tomorrow. Aaaah.
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
New Weighing Machine
My dad has been pretty encouraging about my health journey so far. So when I commented that the current mechanical weighing machine was difficult for me to read, the sweetheart immediately got me a digital weighing machine. With a large clear display so I can never kid myself about my weight again. ;)
He said that because it was the last piece left in the shop, there was no packaging for it. It was only when sis saw it and she said, "It looks kinda familiar... wasnt this from your office pantry?"
HAHAHA.
He said that because it was the last piece left in the shop, there was no packaging for it. It was only when sis saw it and she said, "It looks kinda familiar... wasnt this from your office pantry?"
HAHAHA.
Monday, March 21, 2011
86 kg oh wow!
For some reason, I dropped to 86 kg today. Oh wow! :D
I feel inspired now. That Jack blogger said it right! Trust and the long haul.
I feel inspired now. That Jack blogger said it right! Trust and the long haul.
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Inspiration
An inspiration! A comment from the blogger Jack Sh*t Gettin' Fit when another blogger has been discouraged with her non-weight loss recently.
"Weigh-ins can be mysterious things. They can leave you with drops you don’t feel as though you’ve deserved and gains you definitely didn’t earn.
I think it comes down to a basic matter of trust. Trust that what you’re doing is right and that if you continue applying the same dedication to eating right and exercising, that it will all work out in the long haul. After all, the long haul is what we’re really concerned about after all, isn’t it?"
"Weigh-ins can be mysterious things. They can leave you with drops you don’t feel as though you’ve deserved and gains you definitely didn’t earn.
I think it comes down to a basic matter of trust. Trust that what you’re doing is right and that if you continue applying the same dedication to eating right and exercising, that it will all work out in the long haul. After all, the long haul is what we’re really concerned about after all, isn’t it?"
87.5 kg and still going strong!
Oops it has been ages since I have last written due to a combination of cooking for 3 (myself, sis and Hubby), workload and sheer laziness. Must update more often.
Anyway currently my weight is 87.5 kg, whoo hoo! That means I have lost 4 kg thus far. Although it's not as fast as I would like, it's ok. :)
Due to a combination of Chinese New Year, a weekend cruise and our Bintan holiday, I'm sort of behind by 4 kg assuming that I lose 1 kg a week. :X
But as one of my favourite weight loss bloggers say, weight loss is a mysterious thing. Sometimes we work so hard and yet the gain doesn't feel justified. Sometimes the loss feels undeserved. However just trust that you are doing things right... anyway you are in for the long haul right?
Too damn right!
I like the way how I look now in photos. Kept taking photos after I went past the 90 kg mark.
Given that brother-in-law's wedding is on May 14, I want to be at 80 kg (or lower!) by then! In order to shake things up and not feel bored/stifled by this diet, I have:
1. Switched to the SWAMI Gatherer diet. It's supposed to be better for me and with more food choices given back to me, I wouldn't be so bored or limited by what I have in the blood type diet. At the same time, this customized diet recommends exercise at least 6 times a week (whoa!) and go for sauna at least twice a week which leads me to....
2. Deciding to enroll in a town gym - True Fitness. The main draw for me is the sauna. But the other benefits include working out at lunchtime or even in the morning when I have arrived early. With more variety of machines, various classes available to me, I'll be entertained and challenged a lot longer. That said, I'm already varying my workouts quite a bit. Sometimes it's gym, sometimes DDR (I love Paranoia!) and sometimes swimming does it for me. I love them all and I keep rotating them around to keep myself interested.
The most interesting thing so far in this journey, besides the rapid weight loss, is realising that I do LOVE to workout. I love to sweat, the sensation of pushing myself further to complete the routines and loving the energy and liveliness I feel after a good workout. I've bought a number of G Shock watches to emphasize my interest to be sporty and maintain a healthy lifestyle. The next thing I am looking to buy is a heart rate monitor.
The fact that the gym package will come with a $50 voucher for heart rate monitor doesn't hurt either. ;)
Anyway currently my weight is 87.5 kg, whoo hoo! That means I have lost 4 kg thus far. Although it's not as fast as I would like, it's ok. :)
Due to a combination of Chinese New Year, a weekend cruise and our Bintan holiday, I'm sort of behind by 4 kg assuming that I lose 1 kg a week. :X
But as one of my favourite weight loss bloggers say, weight loss is a mysterious thing. Sometimes we work so hard and yet the gain doesn't feel justified. Sometimes the loss feels undeserved. However just trust that you are doing things right... anyway you are in for the long haul right?
Too damn right!
I like the way how I look now in photos. Kept taking photos after I went past the 90 kg mark.
Given that brother-in-law's wedding is on May 14, I want to be at 80 kg (or lower!) by then! In order to shake things up and not feel bored/stifled by this diet, I have:
1. Switched to the SWAMI Gatherer diet. It's supposed to be better for me and with more food choices given back to me, I wouldn't be so bored or limited by what I have in the blood type diet. At the same time, this customized diet recommends exercise at least 6 times a week (whoa!) and go for sauna at least twice a week which leads me to....
2. Deciding to enroll in a town gym - True Fitness. The main draw for me is the sauna. But the other benefits include working out at lunchtime or even in the morning when I have arrived early. With more variety of machines, various classes available to me, I'll be entertained and challenged a lot longer. That said, I'm already varying my workouts quite a bit. Sometimes it's gym, sometimes DDR (I love Paranoia!) and sometimes swimming does it for me. I love them all and I keep rotating them around to keep myself interested.
The most interesting thing so far in this journey, besides the rapid weight loss, is realising that I do LOVE to workout. I love to sweat, the sensation of pushing myself further to complete the routines and loving the energy and liveliness I feel after a good workout. I've bought a number of G Shock watches to emphasize my interest to be sporty and maintain a healthy lifestyle. The next thing I am looking to buy is a heart rate monitor.
The fact that the gym package will come with a $50 voucher for heart rate monitor doesn't hurt either. ;)
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