Basically, I just signed to a gym with my cousin, Fiona with Fitness First. I was able to get corporate rate because I was a student of Kaplan. Talking about the one and only advantage of being a student there. As now my current project is finishing and I am schooling 2 times instead of 3 times in my last few term, I decided to tackle my next problem in my life which is my weight. I guess I have said n times that I want to lose weight but it never worked at all. (Refer to this, this and this)

I have always liked Japanese fashion since I was young. My love for Japanese style definitely will not lose to Cheesie. But ever since the Japanese earthquake, Kk disallowed me to go partially he don’t love Japanese raw food. (He like the cooked part though) and secondly he foresee that his wealth will be depreciate by me. (I usually only spend my own saving when it comes to shopping)

Therefore Japanese food, fashion and beauty product seems to be the only thing I can link myself with my favourite japan. I had a bet with him that if I can slim to 49kg from 76kg now, he will be covering 75% of my Japanese clothing. Given my high failure rate in slimming, I guess Kk already given up that I could look like this slim below:

I just happen to talk to Fiona that I am looking for a gym but amore seems too expensive for me. They cost a whopping amount of S$169!! Imagine Fitness First normal all gym membership cost S$150+. I decided to brainwash her to try Fitness First exercising with me. Hohoho… So I signed on Tues and she signed on Fri and went there 4 times for the week 1 of the exercise.

First time at the this fitness first gym. It is a 3 storey gym at Fusionopolis. The pool sure look great and since there is not much people using it, I presume it should be quite clean.

By the end of week 1, I decided I need a bit of direction and found Faye blog. I did a modified version of her post to motivate myself slim down here.

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Week 2 is coming to an end and I don’t think there will be much changes so I decided to blog here. I give in to ice cream just 2nd day of week 2 because I was waiting for Kk  after the end of my lesson and his staff want to go back so I had no choice but to hide in the ice cream shop till the meeting ended.

Then Tuesday was Kk’s birthday so I already told Fiona that I am not going to gym.

I was sick from Wed till today. I have still try to force myself to take breakfast since I couldn’t take medicine if I don’t take food. Appetite is really bad and even typing this post and the previous Kk’s birthday post in a dizzy mode. If there is really very serious typo and language error pls do not laugh at me. These 2 post are written while forcing myself not to sleep and wait for my laundry bec I sweat so much that all my home clothing are soaked and I need to hand them because going into my coma mode which will happen anytime.

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My tonsil and Uvula are so swollen that it is affecting my sleep already and my medicine is finishing up. Since I couldn’t sleep well, my fever is on and off and so is my headache and dizziness.  If I still don’t recover tonight, Kk is going to bring me for another round of doctor. He said doctor is going to give me a jab!! I really don’t want it to happen because I hate injection. T^T

Decided to also blog on fitness. Recently read a few blogs on losing weights, I like reading Faye and Clarie’s blog.

This time round, my cousin will be gyming with me so I just can’t say I want to quit anytime. I decided to keep my slimming plan off my facebook to prevent people from bitching about my numerous slimming failure. I am not hiding it at any other place than my facebook as I hope to use this blog to also keep track of my slimming journey.

All the steps taken from Faye’s post about getting your idea weight. I will add in my thinking on her steps to try to cater for my own slimming plan.

Step 1: Prep your brain

Must change the attitude that is causing my repeated failed slimming. My motivation to slimming is to fit in M size clothing so to achieve this I plan to exercise at least 2 – 3 times a week and also have breakfast daily. (I read online that it is important to have breakfast for slimming to increase metabolism rate)

Previous failure is always lack of discipline to go to gym. If I were to miss my gym due to whatever reason, I must compensate by doing 100x of crutches, walk up the stairs and no tidbits for that week.

Step 2: Keep a dairy

I will use my Kikki.K notebook that I bought last month. I have note down some healthy slimming tips as well as things to avoid during slimming. I will do a weekly slimming entry to keep track of myself.

Step 3: Look at what to eat

I should do the following:

• cutting down fast/junk food. (No more MacDonald and KFC)
• eat the healthier stuff such as fruits and vegetables, whole grains, lean protein and replace sugary cereals with high fibre ones.

Instead of giving a treat once a week (as advised in the post), I shall give myself a treat once a month if I were to able to be good and exercise. I don’t think it is good for me to give a treat to myself weekly as I think it will only cause my over-eating.

I just love junk food and unless I am willing to give up. No one can stopped me because I will get angry with anyone refuse to let me eat the junk food.

Step 4: Learn how much to eat

*Remember, you don’t necessarily have to finish the food on my plate. (It’s okay to waste food!!) Eat to fulfill your hunger, not until you’re too full.

Step 5: Teach yourself when to stop

Spend at least 15 minutes on every meal. Take small bites, chew them completely and pause between mouthfuls to see how full you are. Give your stomach a chance to tell your brain it’s had enough. Maybe can eat before I am super hungry and try eating with my left hand.

Step 6: Eat Breakfast

I must eat within two hours of waking up, if not my metabolism will slows to conserve energy. I will try to eat with my corn flakes and chocolate milk with one cup of Marigold Yogurt. (That’s the only Yogurt in my fridge)

Step 7: Beware of your drink

I must avoid drinking soda and coke. Shall replace green tea or milk with it. (It is possible to get 800 calories a day just from drinking soda.) I personally don’t take alcohol so it doesn’t affect me at all.

Step 8: Get Active

Start slowly. Work out for 10-20 minutes three times a week, then tack on five minutes every week. Work up to 45-60 minutes of biking, speed-walking, running, aerobics or another cardiovascular exercise five to seven days a week. Once my cardio becomes a routine, add two 20 minute sessions of strength training (weights) per week.

Step 9: Don’t Stop eating

Never stop eating to cut down calories, it will make my body to starvation mode. This will result that my metabolism to slow by 20%. I will have a nice dessert once in a month. I will start by reducing the sweet and salty intake as it will leads to binges or burnout. No food should be completely off limits.

Step 10: Be forgiving and keep at it

Women who lose weight and stay slim are the ones who continue to exercise regularly for a long time after they’ve lose their weight. If I have to take unhealthy food, just take it but restrict the food intake next meal not next day.

This are the points that I will remind myself of, I shall continue to read Faye’s blog to learn from her good habits and successful plus healthy slimming methods. All the steps taken from her blog entries that I link earlier. I will use her as my inspiration to lose weight in a healthy way.