Monday, April 25, 2016

OPL_Progress Week 1

Week 1
18 - 24 Apr 2016

Guess what! Things looked positive until I couldn't control myself on Sunday!

Total loss Week 1 = -0.3kg!

This is my No.1 problem in losing weight. I keep on sabotaging and allowed myself to gave in to temptations. But who doesn't????....I did go as low as 69.9kg, I could have jot down total weight loss of 1.4kg. I shall try to cover this by ensuring the total loss for Week 1 and Week 2 is 2.0kg which means I have to lose 2.3kg in Week 2.
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I did Tabata 3 times last week, good at my portion, been eating fruits for snacks. I was quite conscious of my state and my effort in losing weight. The challenge in Week 2 would be the 3 day weekend and I'm going back to Perlis. Another sabotage? I hope not.....

Sunday, April 17, 2016

Ops Puteri Lilin

I'm still unable to hit the 60s. My weight stay stagnant at 70-71kg. Frustrated, yes.... but I don't want to give up. I do Tabata 2-3 times a week so I expect that should reduce my weight but it didn't. 

At this point of my life, I accept that losing weight at this age is not as easy as when I was in my 20s. I remember just doing aerobics once a week, eat meals on time (because I was in a boarding school) and I never cared about the portion, just eat whatever being served and I still could lose weight. I felt really healthy, my waist and thighs were small that I could fit in straight cut jeans. That was like zillion years ago.

Now entering the 40 series, things really get so hard. I lost weight to 64kg in 2013 but back to my old weight (70kg) by end of 2015. I want to relive the 2013 moment but it is so so hard. I've been at 70s since October 2015 and even today I'm still at 70.5kg. Arghhh! My target is at least to get to 67kg but it has been so hard just to lose the 3kg.

Enough of my rambling on my frustration. Ops Puteri Lilin is about making changes in the exercise routine. Why Puteri Lilin? Because usually I don't exercise on Fridays because I would go to Pasar Tani to buy lunch. However, the weather has been too hot lately thus my friends and I decided to sacrifice our lunch with Tabata! Great! We've been into our 2nd week last week. The target is to maintain for 4 weeks.

Kenangan di Jepun

Aku amat berterima kasih kepada Allah SWT kerana impian aku untuk sampai ke Jepun tercapai. Kalau boleh, nak imbau kembali perasaan bila berada di sana dan cara aku....simpan resit. Actually nak buat macam scrap book tapi aku tahu 'cita-cita' itu terlalu tinggi...heh.... So end up just tampal resit-resit from shopping, pamphlet yang menarik or just write down whatever notes into a book. Truthfully bila tengok balik buku ni, memang ia berjaya mengembalikan kenangan dan perasaan aku ketika berada di sana. Alhamdulillah!

Monday, March 21, 2016

Writing

Kalau tak aritu rasa macam nak abandon blogging. But then terbaca pulak about writing can improve one's life. Kalau tak tulis blog, bila lagi la pulak nak menulis...

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Blog posts could be one's diary. Dulu orang tulis diari, tulis tangan. Sekarang mana ada. By writing it can help you to express your feelings and let go whatever bottled inside you that you can't really tell people about. Or writing extends whatever you've tell other people in written form that you can always go back and reminiscence about. So feeling renewed, I'm happy to continue blogging although my life is not as interesting as other...Haha!
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Personally, things get clearer when you write. Your worries, goals, excitement, achievement. A good reference as well to look back what you've achieved in life, the little things that truly matter to you. How you cope with frustration and anger.... write it down. It could be reference to other people as well....

So start writing anything. Blog might not be your thing. Then write poems or even answer a customer survey.....
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Tabata Protocol

Find songs that help you to keep going
Dah tak berapa pegi gym sangat sebab discover lagu Tabata kat Youtube that can keep me going. Sebelum ni (2 tahun dulu! Hah!) buat jugak Tabata tapi guna app yang ada count jek. After a while, rasa boring. Pastu pegi kelas yang buat Tabata. Best pulak sebab ada lagu yang menaikkan semangat. Tapi lama-lama rasa macam rugi pulak nak pergi kelas semata-mata nak buat Tabata sedangkan boleh buat kat rumah. Tu yang dapat idea cari lagu dalam Youtube.
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Restart Tabata in the morning
Sekarang dah 2 minggu buat Tabata kat rumah lepas bangun pagi. Buat 8 set: 20 saat exercise, 10 saat rest sebanyak 8 kali (1 set). After complete 1 set, rehat 1 minit. Mula-mula nak start memangla rasa berat sangat tapi Alhamdulillah, lepas dah mula best pulak rasa sebab memang berpeluh gila. Tu buat pagi-pagi, so confirm peluh tu bukan sebab panas.

Rasa lebih semangat pagi-pagi sebab dimulakan dengan something yang sihat. Exercise and F1. Tapi kg masih static kat 70-72. Tak jejak lagi 69.0. Adoiii! Tapi sendiri tahu, walau exercise banyak mana pun, kalau makan tak jaga memangla kg tak turun.

Effective to burn fat
And exercise in the morning too, helps to achieve the 'burn fat' goal sebab kita kan belum makan apa-apa right after bangun tido. Kalau exercise petang atau malam, it will burn the carbo yang kita makan tadi. Unless memang tak amik carbo langsung waktu lunch/snack petang, barulah boleh turun lemak. Tapi kita memang susah sikit bab 'jaga makan' ni. Walaupun portion wise memang dah improve, always get side tracked and sabotaj diri sendiri during the weight loss phase....Tu yang kg tak turun-turun.

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Rasa camni lagi effective sebab my target is to reduce my fat %. Cardio bakar carbo yang kita makan lunch tadi. Tabata boleh bakar lemak yang memang dah ada dalam badan. Lepas dua minggu rasa macam pinggang ada kecik sikit tapi peha masih rasa sama. Kena sabar lagi sebab baru 2 minggu. Kita ni pear shape, confirmlah the bottom half susah sikit nak turun...but it is POSSIBLE! Just keep going ok!

Maintaining a healthy lifestyle
I'm also happy to know that I still can continue doing this even bila bibik dah takda. I've figured out how and when to slot in exercise and at the same time attending to cooking and sweeping in the mornings sebab boleh buat Tabata as short as 4 min.

It only took as long as you want it. Each set takes about 5 minutes including the 1 min rest. I always do 8 sets which gives total of 40 min. Tapi tak rasa lama sebab ada 10 sec rest. The key is to all out doing the 20 sec exercise. Sampai tercungap-cungap...pastu tu rest 10 sec. At the moment kita buat mid range. Tak slow, tak laju....
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My Herbalife set dah abis. Kena beli nampaknya. Kali ni nak beli Protein Shake jugak sebab sebelum ni amik F1 jek. Nak tgk boleh tak protein shake tolong bakar lemak lebih sikit. And re-order Tea Mix yang dah lama tak beli.
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Will update soon!

Monday, February 29, 2016

Renewed determination??

Berapa kali renew la kan! Haha!! Especially on weight loss.... I haven't budged from 70 kg yet since November! It's has been 4 months! Luckily it's not creeping up but I am so very far from my normal BMI!
At times, I feel frustrated. Why is it so hard to shed off the kgs... Well, I admit I haven't following the diet plan as per 2013.

Exercise
I exercised during lunch back in 2013, 3 times a week. Usually I did a 30 min session of threadmill (10min), yoga (20 min). Now I go to fitness clubs to do zumba, piloxing, aerodance  etc. In terms of hours, I think I do more this time compared to 2013 but still that didn't help much.

Meal replacement
I don't take F1 for dinner whereas I had F1 twice back in 2013, one in the morning as breakfast and one to replace dinner. This time I only take once due to I'm more conscious on the costs.

Cheating
I might have cheated a lot this time. Eat a lot during weekends.

Looking at what I've written, my current plan is more for maintenance, not losing weight. Hmmmm....


Saturday, January 16, 2016

Law of Attraction and Jealousy

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Law of Attraction
Hari ni masa tengah google, jumpa website The Feel Good Lifestyle ni. Sebenarnya dari tengahari tadi dok google pasal recipes and cooking videos sebab nak start masuk dapur next week. Dari tu, tertengok pulak pasal weight loss. Dari weight loss ternampak pulak post 'Law of Attraction' kat website tu.

Baru semalam bercakap pasal 'Goal penyebab tindakan'. Hari ini jumpa pulak article pasal Law of Attraction. I guess this is the universe (Allah SWT yang Maha Mendengar) giving me a nudge that I need to reinstate my beliefs about myself. That if you 'wish for it, you can get it'.....
And 'you are what you believe'.....

Jealous
Sebelum ni jealous tengok posts member-member kat fb. Jealous sebab rasa diri ni loser. Rupanya 'jealousy is when you count other people blessings, and forget yours'. And it is about self confidence.

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Sejak kebelakangan ini, selalu tertanya-tanya kenapalah aku ni dok jealous kat orang. Jeles dan menyampah. Memanglah salah satunya sebab kita tengok dia ada apa yang kita takda. Aku sangat bersyukur dengan kehidupan aku sekarang tapi kenapa aku masih lagi jeles?

Tu yang baru tahu jealousy is to do with my confidence in myself.

Lesson learnt
Improve my self confidence and work on my communication to earn little accomplishments in life.

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