time flies, it has been three wks since i started on the quest. changes which i have made to my lifestyle so far: -
a) calorie counting
- bring my calorie reference bk with me all the time & keeping a food diary to count my calories to adhere to the 1300 cal diet
- internet has become my best pal for googling for calorie info
b) changing my eating habits
- breakfast has been healthier breakfast cereal choices with milk (used to take a gallon of milo with either pau+bi jian kueh/fan chow/fried bee hoon)
- increased my fruits & vege intake to adhere to 2 servings fruits+vege rule
- snacking in btw meals hv been restricted to fruits or 1 pack of meiji plain biscuit (used to take bread/biscuits/chips/muruku)
- started to take soupy dishes for lunch (used to hate soup dishes coz felt that they are not filling)
- cut down on carbo intake; nvr realised how much calories there were in rice/noodles/bread
- only succumb to "evil food" such as choco/fried food/sweet drinks on 1 or 2 occassions
- trying to eat 80% full (even though that's still abit diff to gauge :P)
- re-started my green tea drinking habits
c) exercise
- taken up brisk walking in the night; got my family to join me including my parents who volunteered to go with me
- ventured into a public gym by myself (juz yesterday, it was kinda akward at 1st but realise after a while there alot of ladies like me who juz goes there by themselves to exercise & totally ignore the muscle pumping guys)
- trying to exercise at least 4 -4.5hrs a week as recommended by doc
- choice of exercise - choosing aerobics type of exercise which are good for weight loss
- trying to finally take up tennis; always wanted to take up tennis since sec sch days but nvr got to doing it. already bought my 1st PINK tennis racket :P
d) weighing myself
- gave up weighing myself after i hit the 100 mark. but now i look fwd to checking once in while to check on the progress of weight loss. even bought a brand new weighing machine for myself
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