Entrée - A begginning

Yesterday, I was looking through some webbies to search for some ideas on hairstyling, nail art & what to buy for this coming new year (I have such a soft spot for JK outfits) and found this website on hairstyling and nail art.
Sadly, it was all in Japanese.
Like a lucky idiot I was, I "clicked" here and "clicked" there and saw an article entry about a diet blog diary and actually find it quite interesting (ｏ￣∀￣)ノ”
I've been dieting awhile now, watching my weight through my ups & downs for the past 2 years and currently I'm stuck at my weight.
Here is a short summary of my history on diet:


BEFORE DIETING

• Ate every 3-5 hours a day including after hours
• Slept late all the time - my "normal" sleeping hour starts around 4 to 8am, ends at 1 to 7pm (Yup...I slept more than 12 hours per day)
• I would continue eating even after I felt full - especially if it tastes good
• Skipped meals to just shed those kg/lbs.
• NEVER, and i repeat, NEVER!, ever exercise at all
• I had an addict on computer games so I tend to eat most of the time in front of my computer
• My regular exercise was walking inside the house for less than 30 seconds and most of the time, I was either lying down or finding something to munch on.
• Regularly, I can eat about 2-3 bowls of rice (on total 4-5 bowls per day) and my basic menus would be pizza (who doesn't love those melted cheese and crispy pepperoni?), McDonald (especially Big Mac and fries), fried stuff - includes fried noodle, fried rice, fried tofu, fried chicken.
• I looooove carbonated drinks - Coke, F'n'N, 100+, 7Up, you name it. I rarely drink plain water unless i get thirsty. My normal intake of water is 2-4 glasses a day.
  
• My family and I would regularly have Domino's, KFC, McDonald's, packed foods - fried noodles/rice, 2 to 3 times per mth, each.
• I would always say this to myself - "Tomorrow, I'll start dieting" and get another bowl of rice.
  

Horrible isn't it? To be honest, I can't believe that I lived that way back then. It's really embarrassing to write about it but it's something that helped me to push myself to work harder so that I'll never be the same person again.


DURING DIETING

2007 — October/December

• Starting weight - 80kg/176lbs , lost 3kg/6.6lbs after Raya celebration Current weight - 77kg/169.4lbs
  
• No more rice - replaced white rice with wholemeal bread as a substitute
• Ditch the crisp and the yolk - Had eggs boiled instead of fried, throwing away the yolk
• Stopped eating fried food - I didn't completely stopped it, just slowly cutting down my intakes of it until i could get control of it
• Started exercising - I started with jogging at first and found it very hard..After awhile, it slowly got easier
• Special occasion menu - Pizza, McDonald, KFC and other junk food are changed to be eaten on special occasions like birthdays or parties.
• 8 hours of sleep - regular sleeping time starts 10-11pm, ends at 6-8am. I sleep more when I'm really tired, especially after jogging.
• Exercise before dinner - burns fat while having dinner
• Drink more water - change my usual intake of water to 6-8 glass of water
• Stopped skipping meals - skip meals = twice the hunger later, meals on time = less intake of food
• Snacks - wholemeal cereals, fruit bars, yogurt, fruits snacks helps me from over eating myself
  

It's not much that changed actually. I still eat the way I do before but lesser intakes now and I have a more craving for wholemeal bread now (ﾟ∀ﾟ)!!


THE VERDICT

2008 January/February

• Current weight - 66kg/145.2lbs, a total lost of 11kg/24.2lbs!
• Stopped eating fried food, having more boiled and raw (the greens) food instead
• Stopped skipping meals
• Exercising regularly - every 3-4 times a week, running an hour and 30minutes of walk
  
• More energy!! Most of the time I'm always tired to do anything
• Better complexion ♥

It was great!! Never felt better in a long time! Never saw that 66kg in a long time!! The last time I was in that weight, was 3-4years ago, in my year 8 in high school! (I was an over weight kid for all of my childhood) I tried dieting and all before, just started small, finally i found something that works..lol..


TO DATE

2009 September/November

Current weight - 58kg/127.6lbs, lost 8kg/17.6lbs = a total of 3+11+8=22kg/48.4lbs!! The greatest achievement I have ever done. From a size XXL to a size L/M.

BACK TO TOPIC

So my current problem now is that my weight have been stucked to 58kg+/-
I guess this is what some would call my real weight now? I'm slowly coming back to old habits - sleeping late, having snacks during late hours, getting cravings of ice creams/ramen cups/fried food. So I'm gonna try a new method, this blog. Making my very first food blog diary. I'm not sure how it may result or what may be the outcome but what I know is that I'm 10kg away from my ideal weight.

Target and Goal: Lost a minimum of 7kg, maximum of 10kg before February 2010. Starting December 27th, 2009.

Wish me luck!