Day 189

I haven't updated recently. However, not updating doesn't mean I haven't been hard at work with my weight loss goal.

So far, I've officially lost 17 kgs (that's 37lbs). I've really happy about that... But my goal is to lose at least another 10kgs minimum.

So, I'll keep at it. I really want to get more active. But where I stay now, its just to convenient to go to the gym or even walk around after dark. And it gets dark by 6pm -  the time when I reach back from work.

:(

Anyway, have to continue to be more careful with what I eat. I realise that I've been getting lazier and lazier to cook my meals. Anyway, I'm working on it.

Day 35 & Trying out bloglovin.com

First thing first, I joined bloglovin.com so I need to add this thing into a post: Follow my blog with Bloglovin

Something to do with claiming the blog. 

Follow my blog with Bloglovin

And on another note, it's day 35 and I am super chuffed this morning! I thought I hit a plateau last week. But it turned out that I didn't really... I'm using KGs to weigh myself and not pounds so the numbers crawl really slow. But when I had to change KG to lbs to input into the the Fall Challenge that I'm taking part in, the weight loss was more significant... It's psychological but it makes me feel better :)

Day 34 & Some Thoughts

It's been a pretty hectic weekend. Sent my mom to the airport earlier so she could catch her flight back to KL.

Starting tomorrow, I've got to prepare my own meals. With my mom around, she cooked pretty much most of the time. She was really great with cooking paleo and I've actually got some really good meal ideas from her.

She actually said she lost some weight because she ate what I ate. LOL...

Anyway, since I've been on paleo and also since I started logging in my food on the sparkpeople app, I noticed that I feel really really shocked by the amount of sugar that goes into food. See, I love watching cooking shows. And there are several cooking series on BBC that I watch. I see the host pour in cups and cups of sugar into the cakes. Usually, the more decadent or rich the cake is, there's definately more sugar in it.

Just FYI - One cup of brown sugar is about 836 calories, one cup of castor sugar is 774 calories, one cup of confectioners sugar is 467 calories (info from google).

The shock factor comes in because I love baking cakes... The richer the cake, the better...

I made stuff like : THIS  and  THIS

Now, it's not that I don't love it. But I never really knew how much calories I could easily consume in a tiny piece of the yummy cakes. Cakes are fabulous but they are not friendly to people who are trying to loose weight.

BTW, if you are craving something chocolaty and sweet, those to recipes are fabulous! (But eat in moderation)

Will I be making those kind of cakes in the future? I think I will, saying "NO" is just setting myself up for failure. But I hope at that point in time, moderation will be firmly entrenched in my life and I can limit myself to a tiny piece.

Day 33 & My Yummy Dinner

So, It's day 33 on paleo. Today was a bit of a challenge.

My mom is here for a visit and she wanted to eat fish noodles. So we went to a shop that specialized in fish noodles. But in that shop, my food options were pretty limited since the fish was basically a side dish and the noodles were the "fillers" (Is that even a term? But I mean that the noodles were the ones that were suppose to fill you up and make you full)...

Anyway, I ended up eating about one-third of a plate of noodles. In terms of calories, I didn't overshoot my calorie limit. But that noodle was definitely made of wheat and the sauce was sugar-filled. However, no acid-reflux after eating that. But the other day, when I ate pastry, I did get heartburn.

Makes me wonder, is it a certain type of grains that affects me? Is it the preparation method? I don't know... Maybe I'll experiment in future.

My eczema was pretty bad the past few days. I have been eating eggs quite a lot. So this coming weeks, I'm planning to cut out eggs and see how I feel.

I spent the afternoon cooking a Chinese crispy roast pork dish (siew yoke) that is really really really delicious! I won't put the recipe here because it's not my own recipe. But click HERE for the youtube video that I got the recipe from.

I've used this recipe about 4 times now and every single time it turned out really good. I've got some photos:

I brought it to a rosary / dinner potluck and had pretty good comments all around. It disappeared really fast also.

Try the recipe out. It's really fabulous - but then again, I'm biased cos I love siew yoke.