FF? Which one?

buaya alert

Couldnt agree more!!! Cause you may be losing water & muscles and not fat. And if you're lucky you may be building muscles too - you'll fit in your pants better but the scale wont budge

did ur 2 powerpacks dy?

I hv RSSed to ur blog. Either way also can. But I'll comment here cause it's easier hor.

Someone told me that in order to get physical strength (discipline & determination), you need to build ur mental strength first. I failed in my diet before, it took me a lot of emotional strength and a huge mental slap to the head to realign back with my goals.

Maybe you need some time to find strength. Losing weight without direction is VERY HARD. There are so many questions to be answered (what to eat? when to eat? what should i do at the gym today? what to order when i go out?, should i go for fat-free food all the way? my muscles hvnt recover from yesterday's workout - should i be 'determined' and go again today or not?). Worst case, you may lose a lil weight and regained even more fat (this happened to me 2 months ago) & feel really really depressed. Most ppl stop working out at this phase. Be prepared for that.

It's ok to indulge once a while (once every two days is fine - it depends on what you're indulging on).

Diet is not about torturing yourself, just eat better things. I proved that healthy food doesnt have to be boring and taste like shit.

Learn to read food label

How I overcame it?



After my hiatus (lots of excuses - exams / fasting / raya / study yadayada) I went to see my PT and demanded to be measured on the BF machine. My heart broke after seeing the stats. I was thinking - "I spent 2k++ on gym membership and PT and barely-touched whey and supplements and this is what I get back in return? "

One week after that I went thru BB.com's women transformation section and that totally blew me away. I started planning my meals tailored to the condition that I hv and gave it a go. Surprise surprise after a week I lost almost 1kg and I never looked back ever since

You like BodyJam right? There's one instructor named Leonara. She nowhere near 'skinny' but her stamina&endurance is truly amazing!
Try her class out, you'll love it

Eh wheres ur PT?

5kg for triceps? That's pretty good

Still hv 4 sessions left. I'm going to miss my PT very much

Dont worry about heavy weights too much. Just do it according to your own strength hor. Later injured susah Btw you can cheat with machines, one, if do wrong technique sometimes can do double the weight but you'll be working the wrong muscles

Your PT nvr bring u to free weights area?

Btw BF fluctuates 1-2% daily so dun worry too much. I hv a BF machine at home so in the morning n afternoon the reading is quite cacat compared to later in the evening. Actually measure once in 2 weeks is fine dy

Funny story. Whenever I weigh @ gym's BF machine my BF usually 38%-39% which is OBESE lvl @_@ Somehow I think it was due to either dehydration/static due to wearing socks. When I weigh at home it's between 28-29% which is makes more sense.

Maybe we can work out together sometime. I hv passport

Oh My God. I'm sensing a pattern. My OLD DIET!! Nooooooooooooooooooooo!!! The diet that doomed me to months of yoyo-ness, depression and no results. Run run run for your life

Realize that your veges are often stir-fried? And it's always cabbage? Swap that to steamed broccoli / baby carrots / tomato / veges with colour or fresh green leafy veges like lettuce (so many type of lettuce - Romaine is my favourite . Fresh food FTW! Please please stay away from stir-fried veges & processed food.

Please

Fish cake != fish. Fish cake = processed food.
Sausage != chicken. Sausage = processed food.
Dolmio pasta sauce != tomato. Dolmio pasta sauce = processed food.

When eating out eat real fish and real chicken. You can wash away the oil with soup but you cant do anything about processed food. They're full of starch and God knows whatever other things they put inside.

Are you a pear-shaped or apple-shaped person? Pear-shaped = big butt & thigh. Apple-shaped = big tummy & breasts

wah dahling, I think you better give her a more practical menu hor? That menu is full of things that we dont normally eat - avocadoes / 'green beans' / grapefruit / splenda and 6x a day chicken

But yea shadowjass you're not eating enough. But then we dont now how big is your food portion - say, oat and milk (how much oat and how much milk?).

I used to not to eat certain veges at all too (only cabbage and maybe sawi and kangkung) but then I vowed to change my eating habit because 10 years ago I didnt even like soy milk, unflavoured milk, mushrooms and cheese and I'm eating them almost everyday now - so I knew that I'm adaptable enough to force myself to like certain things

This post has been edited by Syd G: Dec 29 2006, 10:52 AM

Wahhh that's reaaaaaally tiny 20-30ml of milk are you sure? Not 200-300ml? For sugar i'd suggest Splenda but since it's not sold in Msia (I hv to buy mine fr US supplement store ) substitute it with low-cal sweetener or honey. Or you can take oat with HL milk. HL milk is very sweet and vanilla-ish already so you may not need the extra sugar

Good job on not taking it with condensed milk!

Condensed milk = sugar + milk solids + PALM OIL .

Dont believe it? Check the label

Post Cereals FTW!!!!!! I love honey bunches of oats.



So sad I cant take simple carbs yet. I miss my cereals

Edit : added piccie

This post has been edited by Syd G: Dec 30 2006, 11:58 AM

You really sound like me when I first started my journal. But dont fret if you dont lose anything. They're just numbers. You WILL look good in a year's time and keep the weight off if you maintain the momentum 10kg in 2 months is pretty tough to achieve if you ask me, but if you manage to lose 5kg also you'd notice the difference in the mirror.

The best decision you've ever made (besides bidding goodbye to slimming centres and joining a gym instead) was to post ur journal in a public forum. You're getting all the support and advice u need and that's pretty great right

Just dont look back. Or fall off the wagon (guilty here )

Whaaaaaaaaat I'm still 'hacking' my way to the hole. Still a gym newbie

Anyway I had my PT too, but he's a bodybuilder and knew next to nothing about weight-losing diet for female. I did my own research on the best diet for me (still tweaking). But that didnt mean that he was a waste of $$. He's a free-weights believer too so I was taught to say farewell to the machines quite early

I arranged myself the structure of my last few sessions with him. So he followed MY schedule and corrected me on my posture. I printed my journal (with all the rant) and update him every 2 weeks. So far so good He's happy with my determination & progress and I'm happy with his availability to teman me @ the gym. Working out alone can be so boring sometimes .

Chat? @ the free-weights area? I dont do that often but when i do, my pickup line is often this - "You dont mine me staring right?" Then the person would probably laugh and open up to 'questions'. My strategy is to make the person feels 'important' and teach a damsel-in-distress (me ) a thing or two about pumping irons I had people correcting my bench & squat for free

I knew abt the rule but when I told him that I'm cycling carbs n dont take them right before working out he gave me a look. Then I explained abt keto & low-carb diet and he went Hahahaha

PT, used to be 3x/week. Now once every 2 weeks. I'm ahead of him @ leg press He used be a 'Johnny Bravo' (train upper body only to hv chiseled chest n muscular arms - on top of matchstick legs )

I left my members card behind twice, misplaced my locker key twice, my mp3 player once, my towel (didnt bother to look, bought a new one). All were recoverable except for the member card once (paid rm25 ) and towel.

Wah I almost mistaken this as my journal already. Now you know what are the colour codes for - lesser red = better And you didnt purge ur KFC .. Getting hungry fast means you get to eat good food more often

I also noticed that you're putting everything in. That's the spirit - at least you're not cheating yourself by telling lies / hiding things in ur journal.

Btw when doing goal settings, set it to be really specific. Say, lift heavier right, lift what and how heavy. Easier for ya to track progress

Overall, good job. Compare this to your diet last month and give urself a pat on ur shoulder .

ROAST CHICKEN!! Gosh I could so eat Kenny Rogers chicken right now. Maybe not 3/4 lah (so expensive ) but

Darling yes you eat so little

(1) The rest of ur family are skinny
(2) YES YES YES It has everything to do with weight gain (being sedentary)
(3) What u eat n when u eat matters too

I hv Tefal 26cm. I think it was RM59.90 too, bought at Ace Hardware. Best cookware EVER! Dont forget to buy sharp knives (or knives sharpener) & wooden/non-stick-pan-friendly ladle.

Yay 6-meals day