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Diet Tip of the Day
During Exercise
If your workout lasts less than an hour, no food or sports drink is necessary—plain old water is sufficient. In fact, if your workouts are not longer than an hour and weight-loss or maintenance is one of your goals, consuming calories during your workout will likely counter (and may even exceed) your calorie burn during the workout! However, if your workout is longer than an hour, then you may need to replenish with carbohydrates and electrolytes in addition to fluids during the workout (a sports drink would work).Careful, energy/sports drinks can ruin diets!
Breakfast @ 8.30am
1 pork bun. 1/2 red bean bun.
Gym @ 12pm
1 hour pilates. !@£$%^ never knew this class would be so hard. No energy to do the kickboxing class right after it.
Lunch @ 1.30pm
5 pieces of sushi and a large potato hash brown thing. Hot green tea. I have the best lunches by myself.
Dinner @ 7.30pm
Bowl of thick rice noodles with celery and dried tofu, plus pork pieces.
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Fitness Tip of the Day
11 Tactics to Get More from Your Gym Sessions:
Cut your sessions to 45 minutes
Your gym sessions should not go for longer than 45 minutes. Any long than this and your body starts to produce a chemical that can actually hamper your progress. But that is not the only reason. If you cut your session times down you will be forced to fit more in and work harder. This is a fantastic way to work out – intensely.Breakfast @ 8.30am
Half a plain bun with egg and vegetables. Cup of homemade passionfruit tea. Seaweed-flavoured peanut slab.
Gym @ 10am
25 minutes cardio: 10 minutes rowing (was aiming for 15 but the machine was broken) + 15 minutes cross-trainer (aerobics mode, sort of like interval training).
15 minutes weight training.
Lunch @ 2pm
Potato and ham quiche.
Short black. My first non-mocha coffee experience. Ohh mah fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck. Will stick to green tea as the weight loss drink. Once in a life time is more than enough for that kind of ordeal. *shudders*
Dinner @ 7pm
Bowl of red rice congee with egg and vegetables. Half slice of red bean cake. Small bowl of mung bean soup.
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Weight Loss Tip of the Day
15 Easy Ways to Born More Fat:
Drink Cold Water
German researchers found that drinking 6 cups of cold water a day (that’s 48 ounces) can raise resting metabolism by about 50 calories daily—enough to shed 5 pounds in a year, with essentially zero additional effort. The increase may come from the work it takes to heat the water to body temperature.
Lunch @ 12pm
Plain bun (no stuffing) with dried tofu and fish.
Wii @ 4pm
30 minutes Just Dance 2. 15 minutes Wii Fit yoga and muscle training.
Dinner @ 6.30pm
Chinese restaurant dinner. No rice. 1 item or a couple of bites from each dish.
Progress Update since 7 days ago
Weight: -0.7 kg according to Wii Fit.
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Motivation Tip of the Day
How to Not be Intimidated at the Gym:
Realize that nobody cares
People are not staring at your huge butt. People are not looking to see what brand sneakers you have on. People are not critiquing your workout. The truth of the matter is that everyone there is as self conscious as you! When you are worrying about what THEY are thinking they are sitting there worrying about what YOU are thinking. So relax. Nobody cares.I am so very guilty of this.
Breakfast @ 6.30am
Half a sweet bun.
Morning Tea @ 10.30am
BLT sandwich with eggs.
Afternoon Tea @ 5pm
Shared a small packet of chips with boyfriend.
Dinner @ 6pm
Bowl of red rice with drumstick and vegetables.
I finally finished the last essay of my summer semester today! Two weeks break with a lot of time for exercise to make up for all those rest days yay!
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Breakfast @ 8am
Pork bun.
Lunch @ 11.30am
Calzone (ham and vegetables) and Japanese Lime green tea.
Afternoon Tea @ 3pm
Bowl of carrots and spare ribs soup. Cracker.
Dinner @ 6pm
Red rice with vegetables. Slice of peach. Cracker.
The last annoying essay assignment of my summer school. All these influx of essay load has taken the time away from exercising. :( I could only try to walk more stairs. Alas, this last one is due in tomorrow!
