MY WEIGHT LOSS JOURNAL
I've been on a lot of fitspo/weight loss blogs recently, and am really motivated to lose weight! So I'm gonna start my very own weight loss journal too, hoping that by putting this public, I will not give up halfway.
Disclaimer first: I am not overweight, but definitely on the fatter side. My weight gain started after graduating from primary school, when I stopped dancing. My weight bounced 10kg by 10kg each year, and then slowed down when I graduated from secondary school. From age 16 to now (19), my weight has been about the same, +/- 5kg. It began dropping after I started working at the animal clinic, and I've lost about 5kg during this 2.5 months. I was happy; everyone's commenting that I look slimmer. But I stopped working, and began gaining a little bit of weight back (about 1kg).
When I was still working, my knees and ankles hurt a lot after work everyday. It was to the extent that I can't kneel, and have difficulties getting out of bed every morning. So I went to see a doctor, who mentioned that it's due to the fact that I hardly exercise, which resulted in my joints swelling up from all the work I do at the clinic. He also mentioned that even though I'm not overweight, it will be good if I lose some weight so that my joints will feel less pressurised. He recommended losing 3kg, but I gave myself a goal to lose 5. Simply because I know how I look after losing that 3kg, and think I will look better if I lose 5. It's still within the healthy range, so don't worry; I am not obsessed with skins and bones.
So the intro is done. I won't flood my blog with everyday posts on my weight loss journey. So I'm just going to update this post everyday, or once in 2-3 days (I labeled/tagged this under WLJ [click] so anyone interested can refer back). Feel free to join me/encourage me(hehehe) by leaving a comment!! I'm sure I will need some encouragements or advices somewhere down the road. ^^;;
Weight loss since start: 1kg (as of 05/07/2012)
Brunch
Mcdees Sausage McMuffin with Egg Meal
Snack
Green tea x 1 cup
Watermelon cubes
Dinner
Hor fun
Green tea x 1 cup
Workout
20 minutes jog/walk combi
3 minutes air bicycle
(I'm starting slow because I know how much my body can take, and I don't wanna overwork myself & end up giving up this entire thing)
DAY 2 01/07/2012
Breakfast
Beehoon soup
Lipton black tea
Lunch
Rice with cauliflower & duck meat
Pineapple cubes
Green tea
Snack
Pineapple cubes
Dinner
Homemade Tortilla chicken wrap
(amt in pic was to serve 3 pax)
Workout
30 minutes jog/walk combi
20 minutes cardio
I realised duck meat has pretty high calories so I guess I'd cut down on that next time. I am usually not a fan of pineapple but the ones at my auntie's house were really good so I ate some.
Am quite happy that my workout time is slowly hitting 1 hour. Aiming for 1h tomorrow! :)
DAY 3 02/07/2012
Breakfast
Homemade Scrambled Egg Tortilla Wrap
Meiji Low Fat Strawberry Yogurt
Lunch
Chicken & Brocolli Pasta
Dinner
Chicken & Brocolli Pasta (leftover from lunch)
Strawberry jam with toasted whole wheat bread
Workout
30 minutes jog/walk combi
Feeling a little lazy today but I pushed myself for a 30minutes session on the treadmill. Let's hope tomorrow will be good!!
DAY 4 03/07/2012
Breakfast
Strawberry jam with toasted whole wheat bread x 2 slices
Liptop hot tea with sugar
Lunch
Brown Rice & White Rice Mixed with Scallop & Veggie Porridge
Snack
Watermelon cubes
Japanese green tea
Dinner
6" Subway Cold Cut Trio
Meiji Low Fat Strawberry Yogurt
Workout
40 minutes jog/walk combi
20 minutes cardio
The best motivation to losing weight/being fit is - "hey you look like you lost weight! did you?" Sense of accomplishment hehe ^^;;
Couldn't resist not taking my weight, so I stepped onto the weighing machine today. I shouldn't have done that. No weight loss yet; it is so demoralising. I know I shouldn't expect much since it's only the 4th day..... I shall weigh myself on thursday/friday.
DAY 5 04/07/2012
Breakfast
Egg Whole Wheat Bread Sandwich with Cucumber & Tomato slices + little honey mustard dressing
Marigold Mixed Fruits & Carrot Juice
Lunch
Brown Rice & White Rice Mixed with Chicken Breast & Veggie Porridge
Snack
Small banana
Dinner
Broiled Salmon (receipe here.)
Rice
Workout
30 minutes jog/walk combi
30 minutes cardio
My jogging time increased by a minute (lol) today, but it left me pretty breathless so I stopped at 30 minutes. Made it up with 30 minutes of cardio instead of the usual 20. Thinking if I should weigh myself tomorrow. Don't wanna face another disappointment but friday seems to be so far away.
DAY 6 05/07/2012
Breakfast
Honey oats with strawberry bits & low fat milk
Lunch
Broiled Salmon
Brown & White Rice Mix
Spinach Soup with minced chicken & fishball
Dinner
Cabbage Soup with fishball
Rice
Workout
40 minutes jog/walk combi
30 minutes cardio
Stepped onto the weighing scale today. So glad to see I dropped 1.2kg!!
Ate too much for lunch. Gonna cut down dinner and probably do more cardio. Mom mentioned that my tummy has shrunk. So happy!!
DAY 7 06/07/2012
Breakfast
Honey oats with strawberry bits & low fat milk
Snack
Banana
Lunch
Beehoon soup with Spinach & Fishball
Dinner
Subway Cold Cut Trio with Lettuce & Honey Mustard
Workout
30 minutes jog/walk combi
DAY 8 07/07/2012
Breakfast
Toasted Whole Wheat Bread with Strawberry Jam
Strawberry Low Fat Milk
Lunch
Chicken with Brocolli Pasta
Marigold Carrot & Mixed Fruit Juice
Dinner
Homemade Tortilla chicken wrap x 2
Workout
I've decided to give myself a rest from workout today since I've been doing it for 7 days straight.
I randomly tried on a pair of shorts I bought last year at BKK. I couldn't fit into it then, but I can fit into it now. It was actually loose somemore. Imagine the joy!! :3
DAY 9 08/07/2012
Breakfast
Honey oats with strawberry bits & low fat milk
Snack
Banana
Lunch
Noodles with egg
Snack
Banana
Dinner
Few mouthful of homemade caesar salad
Beehoon soup with spinach
Workout
45 minutes jog/walk combi
30 minutes pop pilates
Tried a new workout routine today, which includes following a pilates instructor on youtube. Pretty hardcore workout but I enjoyed it. Gonna follow it and see if it works :)
DAY 10 09/07/2012
Breakfast
Tuna sandwich with cucumber & tomato
Marigold carrot mix fruit juice
Lunch
Subway Cold Cut Trio
Subway cookie
Dinner
Broiled Salmon
Cabbage Soup
Brown & White Rice
Workout
40 minutes jog/walk combi
30 minutes pop pilates
Regret eating the subway cookie, and I somehow exceeded my daily calorie intake. TnT I am eating more nowadays so I've decided to up my cardio, and aim to do 1h of pop pilates next week! Seems like I've also reached my weight loss plateau so I'm thinking of ways to adjust my daily workout. Please just let this work xx.
DAY 11 10/07/2012
Breakfast
Honey oats with strawberry bits
Low Fat Milk
Lunch
Fish porridge
Snack
Half an apple
Dinner
Workout
30 minutes of HIIT cardio
10 minutes of pop pilates
Really disappointed with my workout today. The HIIT was supposed to be 40 minutes, but I stopped at 30, and I couldn't get myself to finish my 30 minutes of pop pilates afterwards because I was so worn out from the HIIT>< I'm doing it again tomorrow, and I hope I'll be better. Weighing myself on friday.....
DAY 12 11/07/2012
Breakfast
Strawberry jam with whole grain toast
Half a pack of papaya milk (nv drinking it again)
Lunch
Homemade chicken tortilla wrap
Japanese green tea
Dinner
Beehoon Cabbage Soup
Workout
20 minutes of pop cardio
DAY 13 12/07/2012
Breakfast
Honey oats with strawberry bits & Milk
Lunch
Chicken Wrap
Strawberry low fat milk
Dinner
Fish spaghetti from Charlie Brown Cafe
Iced english breakfast tea
Workout
20 minutes jog/walk combi
Met my friends for dinner which explains the 'unclean' food. I also started a new treadmill routine - jog-1-min walk-1-min. It tires me out after 20 minutes. My stamina is so poor, and I realised how I'm probably not doing much from my 45mins jog/walk combi previously. Also minimising my toning(pop pilates) to 3 days a week instead.
DAY 14 13/07/2012
Breakfast
Beehoon Soup
Lunch
Tortilla Pizza with tuna, chicken, tomato & cucumber
Dinner
Fish Porridge
Workout
0 mins
My stomach was in a mess last night. Guessing it's because of the spaghetti I ate yesterday TnT I weighed myself this morning, and only dropped 0.2kg..... I am leaving for Korea in 2 weeks' time, and I really hope to drop 2kg more before leaving because I am bound to gain those weight back while I'm there.
DAY 15 14/07/2012
Breakfast
Honey oats with Strawberry bits & Milk
Lunch
Fish porridge
Dinner
Cabbage soup porridge
Snack
Honeydew cubes
Workout
40 minutes jog/walk combi
Am I eating too much carbs nowadays? Think I am, since I am working out less. These few days have been a flop. Gonna work hard for the next 2 weeks!
DAY 3 02/07/2012
Breakfast
Homemade Scrambled Egg Tortilla Wrap
Meiji Low Fat Strawberry Yogurt
Lunch
Chicken & Brocolli Pasta
Dinner
Chicken & Brocolli Pasta (leftover from lunch)
Strawberry jam with toasted whole wheat bread
Workout
30 minutes jog/walk combi
Feeling a little lazy today but I pushed myself for a 30minutes session on the treadmill. Let's hope tomorrow will be good!!
DAY 4 03/07/2012
Breakfast
Strawberry jam with toasted whole wheat bread x 2 slices
Liptop hot tea with sugar
Lunch
Brown Rice & White Rice Mixed with Scallop & Veggie Porridge
Snack
Watermelon cubes
Japanese green tea
Dinner
6" Subway Cold Cut Trio
Meiji Low Fat Strawberry Yogurt
Workout
40 minutes jog/walk combi
20 minutes cardio
The best motivation to losing weight/being fit is - "hey you look like you lost weight! did you?" Sense of accomplishment hehe ^^;;
Couldn't resist not taking my weight, so I stepped onto the weighing machine today. I shouldn't have done that. No weight loss yet; it is so demoralising. I know I shouldn't expect much since it's only the 4th day..... I shall weigh myself on thursday/friday.
DAY 5 04/07/2012
Breakfast
Egg Whole Wheat Bread Sandwich with Cucumber & Tomato slices + little honey mustard dressing
Marigold Mixed Fruits & Carrot Juice
Lunch
Brown Rice & White Rice Mixed with Chicken Breast & Veggie Porridge
Snack
Small banana
Dinner
Broiled Salmon (receipe here.)
Rice
Workout
30 minutes jog/walk combi
30 minutes cardio
My jogging time increased by a minute (lol) today, but it left me pretty breathless so I stopped at 30 minutes. Made it up with 30 minutes of cardio instead of the usual 20. Thinking if I should weigh myself tomorrow. Don't wanna face another disappointment but friday seems to be so far away.
DAY 6 05/07/2012
Breakfast
Honey oats with strawberry bits & low fat milk
Lunch
Broiled Salmon
Brown & White Rice Mix
Spinach Soup with minced chicken & fishball
Dinner
Cabbage Soup with fishball
Rice
Workout
40 minutes jog/walk combi
30 minutes cardio
Stepped onto the weighing scale today. So glad to see I dropped 1.2kg!!
Ate too much for lunch. Gonna cut down dinner and probably do more cardio. Mom mentioned that my tummy has shrunk. So happy!!
DAY 7 06/07/2012
Breakfast
Honey oats with strawberry bits & low fat milk
Snack
Banana
Lunch
Beehoon soup with Spinach & Fishball
Dinner
Subway Cold Cut Trio with Lettuce & Honey Mustard
Workout
30 minutes jog/walk combi
DAY 8 07/07/2012
Breakfast
Toasted Whole Wheat Bread with Strawberry Jam
Strawberry Low Fat Milk
Lunch
Chicken with Brocolli Pasta
Marigold Carrot & Mixed Fruit Juice
Dinner
Homemade Tortilla chicken wrap x 2
Workout
I've decided to give myself a rest from workout today since I've been doing it for 7 days straight.
I randomly tried on a pair of shorts I bought last year at BKK. I couldn't fit into it then, but I can fit into it now. It was actually loose somemore. Imagine the joy!! :3
DAY 9 08/07/2012
Breakfast
Honey oats with strawberry bits & low fat milk
Snack
Banana
Lunch
Noodles with egg
Snack
Banana
Dinner
Few mouthful of homemade caesar salad
Beehoon soup with spinach
Workout
45 minutes jog/walk combi
30 minutes pop pilates
Tried a new workout routine today, which includes following a pilates instructor on youtube. Pretty hardcore workout but I enjoyed it. Gonna follow it and see if it works :)
DAY 10 09/07/2012
Breakfast
Tuna sandwich with cucumber & tomato
Marigold carrot mix fruit juice
Lunch
Subway Cold Cut Trio
Subway cookie
Dinner
Broiled Salmon
Cabbage Soup
Brown & White Rice
Workout
40 minutes jog/walk combi
30 minutes pop pilates
Regret eating the subway cookie, and I somehow exceeded my daily calorie intake. TnT I am eating more nowadays so I've decided to up my cardio, and aim to do 1h of pop pilates next week! Seems like I've also reached my weight loss plateau so I'm thinking of ways to adjust my daily workout. Please just let this work xx.
DAY 11 10/07/2012
Breakfast
Honey oats with strawberry bits
Low Fat Milk
Lunch
Fish porridge
Snack
Half an apple
Dinner
Workout
30 minutes of HIIT cardio
10 minutes of pop pilates
Really disappointed with my workout today. The HIIT was supposed to be 40 minutes, but I stopped at 30, and I couldn't get myself to finish my 30 minutes of pop pilates afterwards because I was so worn out from the HIIT>< I'm doing it again tomorrow, and I hope I'll be better. Weighing myself on friday.....
DAY 12 11/07/2012
Breakfast
Strawberry jam with whole grain toast
Half a pack of papaya milk (nv drinking it again)
Lunch
Homemade chicken tortilla wrap
Japanese green tea
Dinner
Beehoon Cabbage Soup
Workout
20 minutes of pop cardio
DAY 13 12/07/2012
Breakfast
Honey oats with strawberry bits & Milk
Lunch
Chicken Wrap
Strawberry low fat milk
Dinner
Fish spaghetti from Charlie Brown Cafe
Iced english breakfast tea
Workout
20 minutes jog/walk combi
Met my friends for dinner which explains the 'unclean' food. I also started a new treadmill routine - jog-1-min walk-1-min. It tires me out after 20 minutes. My stamina is so poor, and I realised how I'm probably not doing much from my 45mins jog/walk combi previously. Also minimising my toning(pop pilates) to 3 days a week instead.
DAY 14 13/07/2012
Breakfast
Beehoon Soup
Lunch
Tortilla Pizza with tuna, chicken, tomato & cucumber
Dinner
Fish Porridge
Workout
0 mins
My stomach was in a mess last night. Guessing it's because of the spaghetti I ate yesterday TnT I weighed myself this morning, and only dropped 0.2kg..... I am leaving for Korea in 2 weeks' time, and I really hope to drop 2kg more before leaving because I am bound to gain those weight back while I'm there.
DAY 15 14/07/2012
Breakfast
Honey oats with Strawberry bits & Milk
Lunch
Fish porridge
Dinner
Cabbage soup porridge
Snack
Honeydew cubes
Workout
40 minutes jog/walk combi
Am I eating too much carbs nowadays? Think I am, since I am working out less. These few days have been a flop. Gonna work hard for the next 2 weeks!
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