Since I'm planning to meet my old buddies from high school which are still hawt and zexy, I'm trying to go on a healthy diet starting tomorrow...again. My elliptical machine is in the house and I'm good to go!!
I've fallen off the wagon again this time around due to my trip to KK and shortly before that. My beloved mother is a fine cook. She also cooks a lot. I ate and ate and ate for 4 days when I was there. I met with one of my old school mate and she was totally surprised by my size. I've doubled it up since high school of course. I've maintained 45 kgs until the year 2000 where my weight just went up, up and up some more.
Now I have 3 months to beat this fat. I can do it. I can do it. I CAN DO IT!!!
There's an encouraging article today in the Los Angeles Times about scientists working on a procedure that would be much safer than weight loss surgery. It involves disrupting the vagus nerve. The vagus nerve tells us when we're hungry, it's the communication path between the stomach and the brain. See the full article here. Here's an excerpt;WEIGHT loss surgery works, but is so invasive and has such unpleasant long-term side effects that it's recommended for only a fraction of the obese population, and even many in that group are reluctant to undergo the surgery. In hunting for a simpler and safer alternative, researchers have zeroed in on a nerve that carries much of the communication between brain and gut.
Disrupting this communication, they believe, could lead to safe, effective and sustained weight loss -- mainly by cutting off signals from the gut that tell the brain it's time to eat....
Two different methods of disrupting the vagus nerve are now in clinical trials. One method, vagotomy, simply cuts the nerve and permanently disables it. The other, vagal nerve blocking, uses an electric current to periodically confuse the nerve and prevent it from transmitting signals. Preliminary results suggest that both methods help to safely reduce excess body weight by about 20% on average within six months of therapy.
photo by Marcusrg
Allison has lost 50 pounds since January. She took the extreme measure of participating in a 130 mile walk (15 miles a day along a noisy highway) back in March to get her motivated. These days she does a file mile walk each morning and belongs to Weight Watchers. See her walking story here.
Read about three more bloggers who have had success losing weight here. One of them, is Shauna, pictured here. She used to weigh 350 pounds and now weighs 175. She's written a book about her weight loss journey and her blog is at The Amazing Adventures of Diet Girl.
Bought the cheapest meal replacement powder, Omega Soy over the weekend for RM30++. I thought I could have a full day without a solid meal but could not. Ended up drinking only one shake. I would have to change my diet slowly at first so that my body can adapt.
I'm feeling very energetic this week compared to the other weeks where I didn't do any exercise. I love the feeling. Today's cardio day and I did manage to run even though I didn't went to the gym to run on the elliptical. Well, I can tell that running without a machine sucks big time. I hate it because it's painful and I feel that I don't get the most out of my running today.
Finally after putting some thought, I finally made this blog a reality. Since I've always wrote about various diets that I've experimented and workouts it's better to be written down in a specific blog so that I will sound less pathetic and whiny of my overweight body in my main blog.
So to begin with here's my weight loss ups and downs in short since 2005...
My husband and I discovered resistance training around 2005 after someone recommended us a book entitled Body for Life. I wasn't really desperate before this because my resistance training was doing fine and I was already losing so much weight after 9 months of working out(12kgs in 9 months). My weight went down to 60kgs and then, I got pregnant.
During my third trimester, my weight was around 90kgs plus and postpartum weight was 85kgs. After my son was 6 months old, I was strong enough to start resistance training again and that my c-section was better.
One year later which is now, my weight is around 68kgs-70kgs. Early March this year my doctor told I had pre-hypertension where my high blood pressure was around 131. That was indeed a wake up call for me. At that time I had stopped eating healthily since October 2007 and wasn't even exercising, ate high fat foods(you can imagine all the coconut milk I ate everyday with rice), apart from that was really stressed out about everything. I admit I wasn't happy with my life. I felt I was trapped being a mother and wasn't even earning money and didn't have a life although pretty much I denied it. Sigh, how sad.
After pretty much sorting everything out with my life which was really difficult to deal with, I finally found myself again and now focusing on all the goodness in life so that I'll live a happy life with the soul and body that God has given to me.
I will become fit again soon...real soon and I'm going to share it with the whole world of my journey. Even if I've reached my goal one day, the journey never ends. I will take each and every chance that I have to eat healthily and to workout till the day I expire :D
So to begin with here's my weight loss ups and downs in short since 2005...
My husband and I discovered resistance training around 2005 after someone recommended us a book entitled Body for Life. I wasn't really desperate before this because my resistance training was doing fine and I was already losing so much weight after 9 months of working out(12kgs in 9 months). My weight went down to 60kgs and then, I got pregnant.
During my third trimester, my weight was around 90kgs plus and postpartum weight was 85kgs. After my son was 6 months old, I was strong enough to start resistance training again and that my c-section was better.
One year later which is now, my weight is around 68kgs-70kgs. Early March this year my doctor told I had pre-hypertension where my high blood pressure was around 131. That was indeed a wake up call for me. At that time I had stopped eating healthily since October 2007 and wasn't even exercising, ate high fat foods(you can imagine all the coconut milk I ate everyday with rice), apart from that was really stressed out about everything. I admit I wasn't happy with my life. I felt I was trapped being a mother and wasn't even earning money and didn't have a life although pretty much I denied it. Sigh, how sad.
After pretty much sorting everything out with my life which was really difficult to deal with, I finally found myself again and now focusing on all the goodness in life so that I'll live a happy life with the soul and body that God has given to me.
I will become fit again soon...real soon and I'm going to share it with the whole world of my journey. Even if I've reached my goal one day, the journey never ends. I will take each and every chance that I have to eat healthily and to workout till the day I expire :D
Danielk lost 15 pounds and this has moved him out of the overweight BMI position, back to the upper end of 'normal BMI'. See his success story here. The beautiful photo here is by Wolfgang Staudt
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