Finally hit the 15kg weight loss milestone

 ... it took a lot more time from the previous milestone. Took 252 days since 15 Dec! Glad to make it so far

10 Steps to Weight Loss

1) Don't Skip Meals
2) Use Smaller Plates
3) Count Your Calories
4) Don't Blame Your Metabolism
5) Protein Staves Off Hunger
6) Soup Keeps You Feeling Fuller For Longer
7) The Wider the Choice, The More You Eat
8) Low Fat Dairy Helps You Excrete More Fat
9) Exercise Goes On Burning Fat Even While You Sleep
10) Keep Moving and Lose Weight

Lost 12KG in 6 Months

Since 15 Dec 2015 .... I managed to Lose 12KG. So Happy ... another 12KG to go ! Gambatte

Lost 9KG

Lost 6KG

6KG!

Lost 3KG

Weight Goal Set

Target: Lose 24 KG !

sooo I was challenged

Was at Changi Airport Terminal 3 with a bunch of my Poly friends and was somehow being forced to step up on a weighting machine for luggage ... to my shocking discovery ... I put on 4-5 kg more than last year weight in at my Aunt's digital weighting scale

felt rather sian abt it as I just started jogging n swimming ... then my friend challenged me to "Lose 10Kg in 3 Months!" Bet and the Bet is for S$100 .

Well I did a quick mental sum of weight lost based on my 2008 experience and felt that it is possible to do it ... and I took the bet on.

Later on, we spoke about food and i was going to plan to organise some makan session ... upon hearing that, my friend decided to raise the bet to S$150 ... well couldn't believe that someone want to give me so much money and I agreed to the increase and went on to discuss about the upcoming makan session ... talked abt what food I liked ... upon hearing that ... she raised the bet to S$200!!!

sooooo now officially, I stand to lose S$200 bucks if I don't lose 10Kg in 3 months time ... this marks the first time I am taking on such a big bet on my personal physical endeavour ...

I was still feeling good about it until people start telling me that it is impossible to lose so much weight within that span of time ... the first person even told me that it's only possible to lose about 2kg of fats in one month time .... the rest are just water loss ...

well I'm still hyped about doing this and let's see the result on 1st June : )

the Dangling Carrot

was supposed to run this morning but procrastinated until it was too late to do it ... and was already booked for the evening so the evening option was out ...

then I came across this article @ Yahoo! on how to stay motivated for exercise and one of the suggestion is that for every time you actually workout, put a little amount of money aside to buy something that you want (Not Need).

Recalling what Ben Tan (that famous Singapore Sailor) shared with me during the recent Reunion Dinner about how his wife and him learnt to ski (cost abt $200 +) in Singapore Snow City and took an overseas skiing package with the coach , enabling them to enjoy overseas skiing better (instead of wasting money to learn overseas), I thought it was a good idea to incorporate both ideas together.

Yup, I am going to put A dollar into a Piggy bank for every jogging or swimming session that I could get out of bed for. Not sure if it's going to be more motivating than training for a 10K jog or treating myself to certain sports such as rock climbing after reaching a certain level of weight loss but theoretically, I am psych to try it out... it Might take a long time to reach that eventual Snow Skiing trip but should be satisfying to see the dollars pile up in the bank

Will see the result tomorrow

So I got my first pair of Jogging Shoes

The KamSiap (cheapo) Me had never really bought a pair of running shoes before ... I had always used what our dear National Service had provided and all along, I felt that it had served it's function (bear in mind that the intensity of my exercise after NS went down compared to my Sec / Poly Days).

Anyway, after that encounter with my cousin n my old schoolmate & my body parts (ankle n knee) gave me warning signs, I knew it's time to get a pair of proper shoes as I am racking up some serious Kilometers weekly. (serious to me but I know most other runners probably take it as a warm up distance). Getting old already, I don't want to injure myself anymore than I already had.

After doing some research, I narrowed the brand to Asics , they are branded as the runner's shoes. I assume that my feet belong to the flatfeet type (tho I am not entirely convinced that I run like a flat feet) and for that case, there were only a few model that I could choose ... Foundation, Evolution, GT 2130 & Kayano

In the end, I got this : )

The selection process was amusing and I guess it show how indecisive and easily sway type of person I am.

Initially, I wrote Foundation off as I felt that Evo was a better option since it gotten award during the recent trade show. Kayano was one of the shortlisted one as 1) my running buddy uses it n 2) won award too but was the most ex. Then's there the GT 2130 which I didn't do much research on but it won award again and laggi cheaper than Evo n Kayano.

In the end, I decided to go for EVo ... I guess my heart was with Evo all along and went to test try the shoes in the first shop that I went to ... but upon testing it, there something poking my inner heels, which was damn uncomfortable.

The old uncle that was serving me told me to try Foundation instead as Kayano is for those marathon runners and I need more cushion instead (meaning I'm fat) and I gave it a try. At that stage, I didn't even bothered to ask the price of Foundation around QueensTown SC, only checked for the other three.

When I tired it, Foundation felt very good. Nothing was too cramp around my feet and the heels felt comfortable too ... at that moment, I had that "it's the one" feeling.

Happily, I got it and was on my way home ... and so happy, I took out the box to see my new shoes again and too my horror ! I discover that there a rat inside the box ! nahhhhhhhhh just checking if you are still reading or not : )

it's Foundation 7 and the current mode had already reach Foundation 8 ! I gotten a generation older type of shoe ! haiz, felt so cheated! stupid! ... I think I got carried away by that moment ... I guess I can only console myself that hopefully it will function well as I want it to .

Love & Hate

love this ad as I can't decide whether to take up the 10 km or 21 km at the year end Sg Run. Or maybe don't run at all ...

haiz on one hand, if I do take the 20km, I feel that it will be able to help out with that bulge in the mid section but then again .... I'm just too unmotivated to do it ...

another running ad from Nike

with narration from Edward Norton

the joyful lost

Made a bet with my Aunt n Cousin on the 7th Feb 08 that in one month time, I will be able to lose 1KG ... I was as heavy as 91.7kg

Weighting in today at my Aunt's super sensitive digital weighting machine ... The result of my one month effort is .... Drum roll pls ..... 87.3KG ... marking a lost of 4.4KG .... Just shy of 0.6KG

Lost the bet but this is one lost that I am happy about : )

It's quite a far fetch goal for me but as a tip from those weight lost program, setting such a goal is rather effective ... I swim + jog and avoided fried food + soft drinks more regularly than before. Not that I can't bear to lose the money but there is a tangible goal for me to work for and that helped me to stay "more or less" focus at doing the right thing ...

Could I have closed that 0.6kg gap? I could have as there were moments when I cheated with the wrong food and gaps of 2 - 4 days rest days without exercises

The problem now is that ... How am I going to lose more KGs? hmmm the bet is off already and without goal, I might not be that hardworking ... and there the Perth Holiday/Friend Wedding coming up soon ....

hmmm anyone wanna bet another month of weight lost with me ? 5kg, 5 bucks from now till 10th Apr

and at the blue corner, Weighting at ...

88 KG !! blood hell !!! I swear my bathroom scale states that my weight is 85kg and yet this polyclinic weighing scale is telling me otherwise !!! haiz

at least finally I found a machine that could print out my weight ... hmmm will go back to weight myself once my bathroom scale indicate that I reach the 80s range and see if there are any changes with this poly clinic machine

10KM RUN ??

Was chatting with my old frens abt excersing in general ... told them I been running but getting kinda bored with it since there isn't any goal in sight... one of them suggested taking up Thai Boxing (which I thought was pretty crazy plus $$$ ex) and POO suggested taking part in the 10KM run that hosted by the company below hmmmm that suggestion immdiately sparks me up ... so far, i know i am able to complete at least 2.4km and the longest jog I did was 20mins ... it seems possible (tho quite difficult) to take up this 10KM challenge.

POO will start trainning in 3 weeks time while Me, the out of shape guy should start cracking asap ....

10KM run ... I wonder will I be able to complete it .... POO mention there Cert and medal to win/collect if complete the 10km run ... I love to collect such honours : )

The race will start at the end of the year, 2 Dec 07 ... let the countdown begins

Personal Reward System

hmmm no significant lost in weight yet so here some rewards system to encourage thyself

For 5KG Reduction (85KG)
1 Rock Wall Beginner Course

For 10KG Reduction (80KG)
1 Cable Ski @ East Coast

For 15KG Reduction (75KG)
1 Sky Diving Trip (or 1 Scuba Diving Trip)

I must confess

I haven't been doing my exercise routine for quite sometime liao and I feel rotten about it ... rotten till it got a bit depressing

or maybe i gotten the blues and halted the routine ? anyway my room is in a mess again (mess created by the new computer when it moved in) and i got no mood to clean them up ... i am veering off the course of goal that i am trying to attain and been chunking on chocolate again ...

maybe it's the weak will power that i got ... which often make me realize that i probably won't make a very good superhero

I swear on the 14th Feb, I will clean my room up n reboot my exercise routine again (which I started my 30mins walk again) ... yeah 14th Feb would be a good day to start since I decided to self exile myself from the lovey dovey public and all media if possible ...

but i often wonder .. what knock me off my course ... partly it's the computer .. i been glued to it ... playing mine sweeper ... yeah sad ... getting a new computer that can process twice my old pc n i am playing mine sweeper .... sigh i should be fragging some virtual creature with it ... but tat me ... big talent small use

another thing got me off course might be what my fren said ... while having late night supper, she said "nah, u r not that fat and u shouldn't be so worry or concern about losing weight. " hmmmm could it be possible ?? someone who is not turn off by my tummy ?? which i am finding very revolting nowadays and cant wait to get rid of ??

now this is a very chio girl who was the object of many guys' affection and when someone like her said that ... it felt like there hope for ugly fat people all around the world to attain what they had always wish for !!! yes there a god !!! life suddenly felt so sweet ... what a relief ... not all chio girls mind fat people !!!

and then she asked me to finish the remaining supper ... pause ... wait a min ... hmmmm was that just a plot to make me finish the food ???

anyway time is running out ... i planned to lose at least 10 kg by my fren's wedding during mid April which seem like mission impossible now (specially i only lost 1kg n afterwhich i slack off)... strangely my fren, the groom had decided not to lose weight while me the MC is desperately trying to lose weight ... yeah I looked very fat in last fren's wedding photos and not going to repeat that mistake again!

it's okie if it doesnt make sense ... its 3am in the morning n i am just rambling

Exercise, the best euphoria substitute

All the panting, groaning and pain, one thing I never expect jogging and working out to give me ... a sort of euphoria.

Yeah there are otheractivitiess that supply endorphin but I think I am hooked to this form of activity. Even tho I have yet to see any striking results, the feeling at the end of every exercise give me a very siok feeling ... small achievement that make me proud : )

endorphin :
Besides behaving as a pain reducer, endorphins are also thought to be connected to euphoric feelings, appetite modulation, and the release of sex hormones. Prolonged, continuous exercise contributes to an increased production of endorphins and, in some people, the subsequent "runner's high."
from www.dictionary.com