Sandwiches is a good way of doing it if you aren't tired of eating bread.

You can toast the sandwiches but after the filling and you eat at lunch, the bread maybe soggy a bit.

Or get one of those toasty bread things - no need to put butter on the outside. Just toast it. To clean, just wipe with clean cloth + soap and then wipe again just with water until all soap gone.

Tuna is an option but you can also use sardine or mackerel. Just don't put the tomato sauce that comes with it.

Peanut butter ok lah but can get boring.

Cooking an egg is an option. Omelette. Scrambled. Or hardboil it and mashed it all up.

Cheese is fun. Can even put mozzarrella on toasted bread and watch it melt. Very nice. Or use the toastmaker thingie to seal the cheese in the bread. Yum.

Veggies : tomato and cucumber are most common. You can add in lettuce (different types out there). Slice them round or chop them into small bits (nice with cucumber bits mixed with tuna) or strips. If you can tahan raw onion, can also put in a few rings.

If eating out, try to get a bowl of soup to rinse out the oil from stuff. May be slightly tasteless but less fat. Cut down rice and noodles - small quantities of say half bowl? Or less. Eat more veggies (potato is not a veggie and watch corn intake) preferably leafy one.

Afternoon snack : fruits

Hmm...note that the first few days, you're gong to feel hungry and maybe some sugar withdrawals. That's normal when you reduce carbo a lot.

you will be surprised on how many ppl dont have the willpower to prepare it such as you.
and most of them are students

Chow

Bata,

Sad lah. I was a student too also mah.
How hard is it to sapu butter, tuna and put a few pieces of cucumber onto a bread?! My goodness...

I could prepare my breakfast in 5 minutes flat. Just in time to rush to class while still chewing my breakfast as the lecturer talked. X^D

now im selling supplements so i kinda know how things are. most of them want magic pills, whether to gain weight or lose fat.
you will see statements as this.

weight gainer case :
"bang ada tak barang boleh tambah berat, tk payah wokrout, tambah berat je, muscle tak nak"

fat burner case :
"i didnt workout la, but everyday climb staircase woo.....this one ok la right?"

first u need the WILLPOWER...with this u can achieve anything

ps: sorry la OT....pizzaboy will probably kill me

Chow

This post has been edited by bata: Apr 7 2009, 02:16 AM

Tambah berat muscle tak nak? These people got study sains in secondary school or not one?

Dayummm, nasib baik they didn't come simply post in LYN. If not, Pizzaboy's gonna have a field day deleting these thread and flaming them at the same time.

Woahahahahah!

sry am married. only 1 lucky (or unlucky?) dude get to see em now

in all seriousness, I've been slacking. you'd be disappointed

i hav the willpower

just scroll through this thread. gal, your will power is amazing!


I am trying to lose weight too.
I prefer to do more exercise to increase metabolism, diet remains the same.

Wish to hit 70kg before my birthday (7th May).
Currently I am 73kg, 173cm.

4 more weeks to go !

This post has been edited by charge-n-go: Apr 7 2009, 09:29 PM

I can only think of starving. >.<

Not a good advice for healthy weight loss but to lose the 3 kg in a short time, nothing but starving sadly.

What's with people today with stiff goals and targets?

thanx guys. will do that.

but for today i took 'bubur nasi'+wedges at 10am and some yong taufu at 8.30pm. i know it wasnt healthy but these 2 foods i could only imagine in this short time before i read this just now. tomorrow going to hypermarket to buy those after class.

Well, my record was 3kg per month. That's only with 3 exercise session per week + roughly 1600Kcal intake per day
This round, I am going to stick back to my normal intake (~2000Kcal per day) + 5 exercise sessions per week.

So, what is your advice? What is the healthy weight to lose?

myremi: What is the calory value and nutritrient value in cheese as you mentioned it as part of the diet?

have you search on jagung story?

Give yourself a week or 2 to get yourself into the habit of buying food. You'll find yourself having to check your food stock regularly.

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Added on April 7, 2009, 10:33 pmUsually healthy weight loss is 0.5 - 1.0 kg per week if you're not building muscles seriously like a body builder. But it may be tough for you because you're already in your normal range . And I dunno if 2000 kcal a day will help you lose weight compared to 1600 kcal. Check with calculators online based on your exercise regime + kcal food intake.

I used the word "starving" in jest but thinking about it, it's probably reduction of food intake or taking another relook at your diet to cut out processed food.

This post has been edited by myremi: Apr 7 2009, 10:33 PM

2000Kcal is my estimated metabolism @ 70kg per day without exercise.

My exercise is about 600Kcal per session in average, but 2 out of 5 sessions are 50% aerobic 50% anaerobic. That anaerobic part is hard to estimate though, hahaha.

It seems that 5 sessions x 600Kcal per session doesn't seem enough. I need to exercise like hell everyday, 700Kcal per day

If 1.0kg per week is normal, then I'll go for it. By 7th May, 70kg!!


Thanks myremi !

Hmm....a good question. Usually, if you compare the different types of cheeses, mozarrrella would be less than cheddar cheese. Usually that is. Mozzarrella is a cheese that falls under the category of natural cheese wherease cheddar is processed. Cottage cheese, parmesan, riccotta and feta cheese fell under the same category for natural cheeses. Cream cheese, I can't remember, probably processed. I think I found it somewhere on a low-sodium website or a recipe makeover (I like these kind of sites as it's a nice alternative). Mozarrella is also a fun cheese because it's so stretchy.

Although, there are some sites that an even better alternative is yogurt cheese which you can make at home easily from yogurt. Pour the yogurt into a sieve lined with cheesecloth (or the traditional kain lampin for babies) or coffeemaker filter paper. Put the sieve over a bowl to catch the whey and both them both into the fridge. The liquid whey will drop into the bowl and yes, this is the same whey protein that BBers are taking. Drain until it's to the consistency that you want. As for the whey, you can use it in your protein shakes. The yogurt cheese can also be used to replaced sour cream. According to Easiyo recipe book (and I think they probably have it at their website), drain times are :

-2 hrs for mayo or sour cream replacement
-4-5 hrs for dips
-8-10 hrs for yogurt cheese

Dunno whether it's very sour though. But you'll get a good cheese with probiotics in it.

As for the jagung, unfortunately that list of veggies is in my Dad's diabetic cookbook. But in another one ("Healthy for Life" by Dr Ray Strand), I found a list of carbo listed as most, moderate and less desirable and sweet corn was under moderately desirable.

Googling on sweet corn wasn't easy because a lot of the hits were on the corn syrup used as a sweetener in food and how it was making people fat. But I suppose taking the reasonings about the corn syrup sites, we could apply it to the harmless looking sweet corn. Apparently, the sugar in corn is not glucose but fructose. And apparently, there is a nasty side to fructose. Only the liver can break down fructose whereas the glucose can be metabolised by any cell in the body. At this point, my mind broke down and I needed a break.

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Added on April 7, 2009, 11:11 pmNo prob. If you can squeeze some time doing housework or cooking, you could increase the amount of calorie you burnt too.

And boil food or eat them raw.

This post has been edited by myremi: Apr 7 2009, 11:11 PM

awww,thx for ur compliment
wow,i admire ppl can remains the same diet but do exercise to lose weight
coz its very SLOW,if through exercise to slim down.
But im starving myself,since i started to diet,i always stomachache
this is unhealthy,but this is the fastest way to slim down in few months
i aint recommending u to use my method,exercise is much better and healthier way to lose weight,good luck for u

im still losing weight too,wanna reach 50kg target on May 8th[my bday]
but before i reach 50,i think i'll get in the hospital 1st im low dia,low blood pressure,anemic
and im still eat like a refugee,daily meals always the same WHOLEMEAL BREAD and OATMEAL+fruits[where's calcium,mineral,protein,vitamins?]
im totally malnutrition,hard to eat back like a normal person,bcoz i scare my weight will RISE becoz of that

me no stove at home la. can only eat raw, hahaha.
Hmm.... perhaps i ride my bike super duper fast and further distance, so I can burn more fats than normal (I think burn a lot more petrol)


I think 53kg is good for your height already. Now try to maintain your weight, by losing fats and building muscles.
I was once slimming down myself by controlling diet, but I feel painful (Taurus suka makan punya).
Somemore my metabolism decreased a lot after 3 months of diet. I gave up dieting already, slowly increase my calorie intake to increase metabolism.

I read from an article that, daily intake less than 1200Kcal for gal and 1500Kcal for guy will decrease metabolism. If a person eat like that for months, and later eat back the normal calorie intake, sure will get fat a lot faster than last time. Me after knewing...

Luckily I am able to make myself exercise more these days.

oh btw, our bday is 1 day difference only la ! Let's ganbatteh 2gether for our healthy bday wish !!

Now you tell us. Bad gal.

Eat vegetable especially leafy green ones. There are some that are rich in iron e.g. spinach. They should fill up your stomach so that no aches.

And take supplements. Buy from pharmacy.

Oh, you can also sometimes eat wild rice/brown rice. You shouldn't be putting on weight ifyou control intake to 2 tablespoon a meal. Probalby lower calorie than your bread but it's more complex carbo in there. So less stomachaches.

Postnote : Do another research for anaemic and low blood pressure diet. You don't have to eat meat protein so check out other sources that will help you out.

This post has been edited by myremi: Apr 7 2009, 11:31 PM

myremi is a walking dictionary in diet!

nah,she's WIKIPEDIA of diet!
LOL