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Breakfast @ 8.30am
Cup of Chinese green tea.
Lunch @ 12pm
Small Japanese lunchbox set with miso soup, rice, pork cutlet, sashimi and salad.
Dinner @ 7.30pm
Bowl of rice with pork, marinated egg, chestnuts, vegetables. BBQ chilli rice crackers. Cup of Chinese green tea.
No Exercise
I might have worked out too hard from the 2hr pilates + kickboxing because all through yesterday I was having crazy back pains and today it’s my legs.
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Diet Tip of the Day
Healthy Chocolate and Weight Loss:
Fiber in cocoa is linked to decreased weight. Fiber helps block some fat absorption as well as a feeling of fullness. Cocoa’s flavonoid content can relieve inflammation (chronic inflammation is associated with low leptin levels, which increases appetite). They also increase insulin sensitivity and proper glucose metabolism, meaning if the sugar in your blood is being utilized properly, it doesn’t convert into fat.
Plus lots more health benefits including: boosts energy level, improve heart health, antibacterial agent. And, a Harvard University study found that eating dark chocolate three times a month could prolong a person’s life by roughly one year.
Note: the above does not apply to normal chocolate.
And it just so happens that my all-time favourite type of chocolate is 75%+ dark chocolate. :)
Breakfast @ 8.30am
2 small slices of Chinese pancake.
Morning Tea @ 10am
2 small slices of Chinese pancake.
Coffee @ 11am
Cup of soy mocha. Have not had this soy mocha delicacy for months it was amazing!
Lunch @ 12pm
1 small slice of Chinese pancake (these were all actually supposed to be my breakfast, but I rushed out for work without finishing it haha).
Dinner @ 7pm
Bowl of fried rice. Pumpkin and sunflower seeds.
Snack @ 10pm
2 bite-sized blocks of 85% dark chocolate. 1 chocolate Oreo biscuit.
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Diet Tip of the Day
Can Drinking Diet Soda Help Me Lose Weight?
The average 12-ounce can of cola delivers 150 calories, almost all of them from sugar. No study to date has ever shown diet soda to be especially useful in helping people prevent or shed unwanted pounds. In fact, there is a growing body of research that seems to suggest that high diet soda consumption is associated with a higher risk of obesity and may surprisingly carry an even greater risk of obesity than drinking regular, full-calorie and -sugar drinks.
Breakfast @ 8.30am
Cheese bread with low fat cheese.
Lunch @ 2pm
Bowl of white rice with Thai green curry pork and vegetables. Yummms.
Dinner @ 7.30pm
Half bowl of vegetarian soup. Piece of cheese bread with low fat cheese. Celery and dried tofu. Marinated egg.
Snack @ 8-10.30pm
~30 BBQ crackers. Ouch. All Simon Collier’s fault for coming shopping with me at the supermarket and not stopping me.
Wagged gym this morning because owwwch did my arms and abs hurt from yesterday’s pilates! :(
I think my appetite is going up oops. Time to be more conscious once again.
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Fitness Tip of the Day
9 Fitness Rules You Should Break:
According to a recent University of Southern Maine study, 30 minutes of weight training burns as many calories as running at a blazing six-minute-per-mile pace for the same amount of time. (And it has the bonus of building more muscle tone than running.) What’s more, unlike aerobic exercise, lifting weights has been shown to boost metabolism for up to 39 hours after you finish your last rep.
Interval training has yielded similar benefits. For optimal results, do a total-body weight-training workout three days a week, resting at least a day between sessions, and do intervals on at least two of the off days.
Lunch @ 12pm
Rice and vegetables, with a vegetarian samosa. Watermelon.
Afternoon Tea @ 4pm
Shared a fruit shaved ice with sister. We only ate half the bowl though. Drank some wintermelon tea too.
Dinner @ 6pm
Noodles with vegetables and small pork pieces (maybe?). Some pumpkin seeds, took forever to crack the shells!
Snack @ 8pm
15g pack of baked rock salt bagel chips (very little saturated fat and sugar).
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Diet Tip of the Day
Orthorexia: An Unhealthy Obsession With Healthy Eating:
Orthorexia boils down to someone who is very, very concerned with eating what they consider the perfect diet. But healthy eating can turn rigid and confining, wiping out whole categories of food one by one—first anything with additives, perhaps, then maybe nonorganic produce, and then another and another. It can become decidedly unhealthy. Like anorexia and bulimia, it can wreak serious damage on the health of someone trapped in the obsession.
As I have mentioned before, allow yourself to cheat! I have so many “bad” days that I don’t feel like I’m on a conscious diet plan, but I’ve been getting lighter, fitter and happier. :)
Lunch @ 1pm
A lovely lunch with boss and colleague at a Chinese/Malaysian restaurant. Had soup, fish balls, noodles, eggplants, fish and other veges. Japanese green tea milk tea with pearls, half sugar.
Snack @ 3.30pm
Few bites of Whittaker’s dark chocolate and Toblerone.
Dinner @ 8.30-11pm
Finger foods at friend’s 21st. Probably the second 21st party I’ve been to out of the countless ones I’ve been invited to. Coldless, antisocial, lazy, I know. :P
