Eggs are absolutely good!!!! Anyway, I'm still in the Chinese New Year mode but so far haven't gain any weight but lost 1kg this week. I just start back my exercise routine again but lately ate a lot, extremely a lot of junks!

Hello I would like to ask if it's normal.

I've gained an extra kg on last week but today I found out my weight went back to the same again, meaning that extra kg went missing.... something wrong?

I heard green tea helps in losing weight, is that right?

actually how much should I drink to let it takes the effect? I doubt a cup of green tea helps right? right now I'm drinking around 20oz X 2 of green tea everyday

Hello!! Well... urm, I lost track of my own record but I know I lost from 60kg to now 45, maintaining at 45kg but hoping to lose another 2-3 more kgs

Right now I'm focusing more on my arms, still working with dumb bells and trying to get my arms to be more firm and nicer shape!

Urm, sexy a bit la, but I want a better S shape still So, still need to do work harder towards it

Urm, exercise and proper diet.
I never go to gym, basically I changed my diet completely to high protein and fiber and low carb. All home cook and yes, I'm working adult who need to leave the house by 7am and reached home around evening time as like the others. Thus, it's not difficult to prepare 5 meals a day for yourself

For almost 90% of vege, I just boiled it and eat it with either salad sauce or Japanese soy sauce. Even with chicken meat, I pick only the breast part, or else the drumstick part to cook, most of the time when I focus at losing weight, I steam only. Right now, for maintaining it, I do cook it or even fried it. But not everyday. Grilled also not a bad option and I hardly use oil to cook

Daily I exercise at least 30 minutes, and sometimes about 1 hour a day. Walk more and more. I eat a lot too but in very small portion, thus I can eat up to 5-7 meals a day without a problem.

Basically, just set your own goal and work towards it. I didn't touch any snack, any fast food, any oily food, any yummy food(sushi, curry, and etc) since November till January for me to lose from 60kg to 45kg. Then only after now can maintain, I start to eat like what others eat but exercise maintain still

Thanks.
Like I said, I eat very little for each meal, very small portion, even now normal wantan noodle, I won't be able to finish it at all myself, thus 7 meals not very big issue for me

No doubt, it's not easy to control the caloric deficit, but determination can always overcome it

I was also having problem with metabolism issue, that's how I eat in more frequent meals to boast it up and sometimes 7 meals is because of I was craving for snack, so then I replaced it with fruits and vege/meat.

As I've got a lot of advice from the forumers here and based on some research I've done, I do a lot of weight training too. Furthermore right now I'm adding on extra adjustable ankle weights around my ankle when I jog or even walking at home. Then extra adjustable wrist weights around my wrist when I'm doing weight training. It's important to watch what you lose during along because I know it's not easy to gain back muscle

Thanks, hope it helps.
Actually I used to think by cutting down can do the magic but actually not. You can search for a lot of healthy diet recipe and you'll be surprise a lot of them are very easy to be prepared. Get a good and healthy diet for yourself is better. I went through the trials and errors to get one that suits me.

Your workout also very important, either you focus at cardio or weight training. I focus more on weight training and now cardio. Before you decide on anything, can always get a second opinion and read more first, then you'll have a clearer mind of what you want for your body

I'm not going to say anything about the exercise since I'm not an expert on that, but for food, because I'm quite interested in cooking and also read a little bit more compare to other things, thus would like to correct you about your idea of soup. Soup is actually NOT oily. You can jut use some clean chicken bones to boil the soup and add a little bit of breast meat and it's like very very healthy. Of course, depends on what kind of soup you make.

Secondly, plain vege can have a lot of varieties in cooking, plain boiling alone can allow you to make many kind of dressing for your vegetables. Such as plain yogurt, yogurt + corn flakes, Italian sour sauce, Onion + Black Pepper, Ginger Tsuyu, Japanese Tsuyu, and etc. So, why not much choice on cooking style? You can also pan fry your vegetables without oil. That's what I do. I cook my sambal Lady Fingers without oil at all and it still tasty.

As for meat, let's just take chicken. There are plenty of recipes out there. If you want to make it simple, can steam with pepper alone. Or if you boil it, you can dip it with sauces. Grilled, BBQ, pan fry and etc, all I don't use oil at all. You can try marinate the chicken meat with onion, pepper, and a bit of salt, then you just grill it, it can be a very nice dish or just plain snack also. You meals that after you revamp is too ridiculous. If you want to be healthy then should eat more. Just apple for snack? That's freaking little!

Well, why not try with eggs? Taufu? Fish? How you want to calculate the calories on food? I don't do that, but I do know one thing, if you want to cut down, why not take off those wholemeal bread, rice and curry and etc? Those are seriously giving you a lot of fat and I don't see how it will help you in losing weight.

You just blindly cut down all your meals and replace with some food to meet your goal. That's not the right thing to do.

Perhaps, I shall give you a sample of what I eat in one of the day when I was losing weight.

6am : 2 hard boiled eggs without yolk + milk + yogurt
8am : apple + kiwi
10am : 2 hard boiled egg mixed with chicken breast with pepper + milk
12-1pm : Grilled chicken salad with yogurt (my salad is normally the combination of brocoli, cauliflower, lettuce, carrots and baby corn, really a lot)+ milk + papaya
3pm : Milk + apple + guava/dragon fruit
6pm : Steamed taufu with eggs + Chicken + Salad (At least 4 combination of vegetables)
8pm: Milk

I wake up very early and I finish work very late, thus I eat more in the morning and due to my work, I need a lot of energy to work so I had no problem in finishing all this. Well, that's how I normally do and eat, the yogurt I pick are all plain yogurt, and low fat. Milk are all fresh milk. Sometimes I replace yogurt with fruit salad. I eat at least 4 different type of vegetables a day and 3 different type of fruits a day. Because I know I want to build myself with good health, not just blindly some numbers gone off when I stand on the weighing scale.

Well, my friend's PT told her that she looks alright and it's healthy while she's still very fat and body muscles aren't firm at all, so I have no idea how those PT work

It's better to find out more by yourself than just listen to one's advice

That's more like starving yourself
I tried many ways before, like starving, eating only fruits and also even tried those slimming pills but none of it works for me. I mean, well I lost like a few but after that bounce back again so no point.

Anyway, I don't fancy gym and I don't think PT really good because as what I heard, most of them want only $$, not being bias but 9 out of 10 that I met before are like that. Furthermore I'd rather spend the money into gym for something else that I can have a small mini gym at home, it would be cheaper and more convenient for me. I learned the cardio exercises through youtube and also a little bit of research here and there, urm... so far I don't have any problem with it.

Sometimes, you'll just need to keep trying without giving up

Well, I hope not all PT are like that la, even though I don't quite like most of them but also need to give some of them the benefit of doubts. Anyway, if gym suits you then it's all fine for you. Different people, different preference. I even work out a mini gym in my office, e.g dumbbells! I cut down all escalator/lift, I'll use staircase if it's safe to walk la.

Try search on more for the meal preparation. I hope I still have the document from one of the forumer here sent to me, about proteins and so on, it's about 200-300 pages of words but worth for your time to read it. No one is born genius on how to create a good diet for yourself, we're all learning together.

Should go through the V1 too!

How's your progress so far? So sorry that I haven't been going through the thread here.
Anyway, so far my progress is quite good, lost 15kgs in about 4 months time, then now tones up my muscles

Personally I don't think so. I tried that before and it didn't help me though
As for building muscle, I'm not too sure since I've already stopped that. According to my friends, it works for them

urm...how you eat the peanut butter? >"<

I mean, you eat with what? Bread? Or just plain peanut butter?

How about L-Carnitine? Actually I heard a lot about these fat burner thingy but are they really work? My fat level is below 20% now is quite difficult to lose some more, thus wondering will all these help? >"<

I'm going to start my 14 days free VIP trial @ one of the gym fitness centre. I'm wondering what should I do if I'm only aiming to tone my muscle @ the gym there? I'm still maintaining my low carb, high protein, high fiber diet and throwing some kgs away ain't a problem for me but my arms are still quite flabby even though is more firm than previously, second concern is my thighs

Thanks, will give it a try
Hopefully by time I finish my trial will be able to see some result Thinking of signing up with gym though

urm, well I do think you should cut down on carb intake though, exercise is important but if you don't watch your diet, it's pointless