oh I may just hv to call you wikisan now

hi dokidoki,

errr... we are serious? >.> don't think so. we tempt each other with bygone days of delicious fatty food...

I guess the best thing is to track everyday then. there's a members journal area you know.

The most we do is try to motivate each other on.

Although, having said that, anyone seen Clarkfann around? Her bday came last week and she has been pretty silent since. Hope she's ok.

Nothing. I just eat it plain. Never got into the habit of putting butter or jam or kaya. TBH, I can't quite take sweet stuff. My Mum controlled my sugar intake when I was young so now as an adult, I don't take sweet stuff as much.

Hmm...but I sometimes do put a cheesespread over it, either cream cheese or cottage cheese. Then makan like that. I read the product labels for carbo, sugar, fat and calorie.

With butter hmm.... I'm not sure if you can get it but an alternative is either soy butter or olive butter. But compare the calories and fat first.
Yep and you'll need to exercise more if you want to continue to drink them. Usually, for weight loss, it's put aside for the time being.
I don't. Too much hassle. I just :'
-control food portions
-know what food is ok and not ok

Then I just go with that.

kaya : is very rich with sugar + eggs. The eggs maybe not so much of a problem if you're exercising regularly. But the sugar is bad.

fishball : either it's too much fat or too much flour (processed wheat is simple carbo). Sometimes a bit of sugar in here as well as pork fat.

guava : eating this is fine but too much and you find that you can't shit as often as before. It's something about this fruit but as long as you don't eat it for every meal or 5 days once, should be alrite.

\fish curry with long beans : curry bought from shop or eat at home? jaga the sugar in the curry sauce as well as the coconut milk. it's possible to eat curry without coconut milk and sugar but it's not easy. My granny makes it from the paste, not from the powder.

kompiang : err....processed white flour is big on carbo. potatoes too (unless it's sweet potato). hmm...kompiang is also deep fried rite?

donuts : process white flour + sugar?

sugar in coffee : errr, may want to cut down.

May take it a step at a time. It's not easy to turn a new leave and I gave myself one week of slowly moving into the new diet. You will also find that you have some trouble initially fighting off cravings because when you slowly move away from refined carbo, your body will crave for it more. Headaches, aches and pain may also appear butonce you're over this period (usually a few days to a week), it's easier.

richard3200 : actually, since you're still growing and still young enough to have a good metabolic rate, you may want to start it out slow. Just follow the simple guideline below :
-reduce fried food until it's out of your diet
-reduce sugar by half each time
-reduce rice until finally 2 tablespoon
-eat more vegetables
-eat more fruits

Don't worry about the other stuff. It will come to you in time and as you slowly get used to watching what to eat and all. It may take 1-2 weeks to get used to not only the food but watching the food.

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Added on April 13, 2009, 11:39 pm

oh don't u start now     

I forgot that you're still in high-school.

For recess, you could bring a snack from home. Different choices of food or even a sandwich. Speak to your Mum. I'm sure she can give you ideas. It doesn't have to include vegetables. It can be anything. The snack is only to tie you until your lunch meal so snacks shouldn't be too big. Plus, if you bring something from home, you will lose weight pretty fast because u're not taking oily food.

Guava : Too much guava is not a good idea. I was giving an example (but badly explained sorry) that if you ate guava once a day for a 5 day period, you're gong to have constipation problems. Guava has something inside it that hardens the stool.

Vegetarians : you're rite. They probably bring food everyday or they learn how to control their break hunger. I stop eating at recess starting Form 1. But can still put on weight because not exercising enough.

Your curry : sounds ok. Sinc eyou said your Mum is health conscious, should be ok.

Kompiang : Well, don't eat it too often should be fine.

I think if you bring a small packed meal during recess, you can easily see the weightloss drop, especially with the walking that you're doing.

Postnote : LOL! You type fast. Well, if you can't limit to 2 tablespoon of rice, take it slowly. Just reduce what you can for rice intake.

My mom homemade a pineapple jam too, certainly jam without some addictive dont taste as good as those you bought in the supermarket, not sure what she didn't put, but i like the texture of the jam and not so sweet like commercial one

Just wondering what's wrong with my diet.

You mean your problem about not losing the last few kg ?

Your food choices are scary. It's just lucky that you have a good exercise regime to load everything all off.

It's no different from what we said before.

-Deep fried stuff are bad
-Go for food that are made fresh material e.g. vegetables and meat
-Desserts : Go for fruits.
-Do away with salads that come with dressing.
-Your diet is loaded up with a lot of carbs and sugar, most of them hidden. If you want to drop the last few kg, may have to reduce them more.

fruit contain fructose. Fructose is not favoured in muscle. The are converted into glycogen and stored in liver. To have energy for anaerobic exercise, you have to have glycogen in your muscle, which can broken from rice/oat (starchy grains).

Hmm...am I giving too much advice to u?