as seeeen from the title yes im blogging about getting fit again wow ANNA WHEN WILL YOU STOP.
but okay the truth is the past few.. weeks i've been eating like CRAP and feeling CRAPPIER and i think it's time that i took being healthy more seriously. (inserts angry emoji)
side note: its 1 am and im doing a draft for this post because i was lazy to take pictures of my food log but tmr i will and i update this post again (not sure why im even saying this because you guys will know, but haaaaaaay i'm putting in effort!)
so anyway, i've decided to be a lot A LOT healthier simply because i want a hotter body (let's face it, who on this green green earth doesn't?) and if you didn't realise i always go into these "healthy" phases whenever its the holidays HAHA. but this time it shall be permanent. i've never put in so much effort into cooking and preparing food before, i'm actually quite surprised! Read on if you want to know what i've been doing or what i'm going to do for this lifestyle change! p.s/ it's not a diet, it's a lifestyle change :)
feel free to join me in this fitness journey n we can all be fit together YAY!!!!!! and have hot bodies!!!!!! and make singapore even hotter!!!!!!!!! ohyeah!!!!!!!!!!!!
ok first up -
!!! 3 WEEKS CLEANSE !!!!
This cleanse is to actually get rid of the bad eating habits that all or most of us have. So this means that during this time frame, i'm going to
1. stop eating junk THIS INCLUDES ALL YOUR SWEET DRINKS AND SWEETS AND ALL THE GOOD SINFUL UNHEALTHY FOOD THE GOOD GOD HAS BLESSED US WITH like krispy kreme and ice cream and UNHEALTHY frozen yogurt and pretzels and french fries and apple pie (inserts a spam of crying emoji)
2. DRINK AT LEAST 2 LITRES OF WATER A DAY - ok i can't measure how much i drink but normally i have this hugeass bottle i bring around (most of the time to work) and i refill it around 3 to 4 times a day. or what you can do is buy a 500ml water bottle and make sure you empty it at least 4 times! water is v impt in weight loss (and i did not do my research on why it is important but MAKE SURE YOU DRINK THE HELL UP!)
3. cut down on carbs. I've said in my previous post (it's actually on the joint blog i have w natty http://advofnatandanna.blogspot.sg/) that I AM ADDICTED TO CARBS i'm not even kidding, i look at sushi and get a bit sad at times because i know that even though it is healthy, the carb content is mad high and it's the reason why i get so bloated at the end of every day :( ok when i say cut down on carbs........ i think i'll leave that to the meal plans part.. yup.
4. WATCH YOUR SODIUM CONTENT. this means that you should always keep in mind how much of salt you're actually consuming. try and opt for things with lesser sodium, if you're buying fries (which you should not even be doing excuse me?) try and go with fries without salt. Its bad bc it makes you have higher blood pressure which may lead to stroke or heart disease. AND ALSO, salt causes water retention which makes you LOOK bloated and makes you think you gained weight (A lot of weight btw) so if u wanna be lean then cut down on dat salt gurl
5. Stick to healthier options. Such as low fat, reduced fat (which means the same thing lol), lesser sugar, lesser salt etc!!!!! have u heard LESS IS MORE so the lesser the unhealthy things you consume THE MORE YOU LOOK HOTTER WOOOO. on a serious note tho, it's the smallest decisions like these that actually changes our diets and bodies as a whole!
So those are the 5 "guidelines" that i would or actually am sticking to throughout these 3 weeks to help kick my bad eating habits (for those that think i'm perfect and always healthy, NO I'M NOT bc i have this bad addiction to sweet things like oreos AND I SNACK ALL THE TIME. UGH but i'm kicking that bad habit so YOU SHOULD TOO!!!!) join me in this torturous and sad 3 week journey, BECAUSE ONCE THESE THREE WEEKS ARE OVER, these 5 "guidelines" will eventually start being your GOOD HABITS! because habits take 3 weeks to develop so YAY!
okay now for the meals part.........................
so we go from breakfast to dinner (last meal of the day)
BREAKFAST
normally for breakfast i have milk and cereal! absolutely love cereal and it's my greatest weakness. it's so bad that i eat 2 servings every morning! hehhh
this is the milk i drink and the cereal i eat.
milk - from the organic section in ntuc, $3.90
cereal - POST Great Grains (normally switch around the type i eat, this is the banana nut crunch one!) $5.95
most of the time i buy my milk 2 cartons at a time because i use milk to make my overnight oats as well as pancakes and i tend to finish it within 4 days (max).
if i have time in the morning, i'll fry some pancakes too!
erm, if I'm not wrong, the brand of my pancake mix is called ORGAN and it's organic, gluten free, buckwheat pancake mix! it's affordable too, priced at $5.90. The portion is actually quite a lot and for that morning i made a stack of 5 pancakes for brunch and it was 1/3 to 1/4 of the mix.
So what i would do is, I would prepare my batter the NIGHT BEFORE and only use HALF of the pancake mix, meaning that all measurements will be cut by half (eg instead of 90ml, use 45ml) and 3 eggs, use 1 and a half (ok i never really got the 1 and a half thing but i always use 2 egg whites and 1/2 yolk heh????)
yup, and normally half a mix can last me 2 servings (for normal human beings with only 1 stomach instead of 4, it would probably last you 3 servings LOL)
I add blue berries into the mix and fold them in, then fry them on a non stick pan WITHOUT oil or butter! I top them up with sunflower seeds and devour them after hehe. (OH AND MAPLE SYRUP!)
next for LUNCH/DINNER
okay why i say lunch or dinner is because today i've decided to switch my diet around and have oatmeal for dinner instead of lunch because my dinner is too heavy to be a dinner. So you can take your pick, if you think that overnight oats is heavy then choose that for lunch instead!! Your meals are supposed to be smaller as the day goes by, not bigger :)
So overnight oats!
I've been making overnight oats for the past 3 weeks already. It's really simple and good!! and super filling. You can google for the recipe and initially when i started making overnight oats, i've been following the Kath Eats Real Food recipe ( http://www.katheats.com/favorite-foods/overnightoats ) but i feel that it's a bit too heavy because you use both milk and greek yogurt so I switched to just greek yogurt by using a 1:1 ratio
my rendition of "strawberry shortcake" hehe, it's oatmeal layers with a strawberry middle YUM
not quite sure what brand of oatmeal i use (you can try and zoom in but i just tried with my comp and i cant heh) but whatever brand it is, make sure it is ROLLED oats and not INSTANT oats because you cant make overnight oats with instant oats haha. i would mix my oats with greek yogurt, maple syrup/honey, chia seeds and cinnamon then top them off with sunflower seeds!
I would normally make 4 batches at a go, so that i don't have to keep making... but i ran out of yogurt last night so I only made two batches. :( so far i've tried making apple and cinnamon, strawberries, blueberries and bananas! All tastes equally good yum.
btw, this is made the night before so that the oatmeal can set! You can keep it for up to a week if i'm not wrong! I've tried mine after 5 days and it still tastes gooooood.
As for my other meal, I'm trying to have a form of protein so I would cook chicken breast!!!
I've only JUST started cooking chicken because i don't trust myself with the stove and also i always just ate salad LOL.
so for today's dinner at work, i made myself soba and chicken (prepared from last night of course)
i love love love japanese soba and this is the organic Zaru Soba (buckwheat soba) and what I do is, I will first marinate the chicken at the beginning of the day with pepper and a BIT of salt and sesame oil and leave it in the fridge. Then I'll boil it at night when I get home (actually i think marinating is redundant...... i have no idea) and I'll cook my soba too! I leave both of them to cool down then I'll dice the chicken. I put the noodles into my tupperware and put 4 tablespoons of soba sauce. You have to know that the sauce to soba ratio is VERY little so don't worry because, imagine dipping your soba into 4 tablespoons of sauce. yup. And also, I mean TABLESPOON not SOUP SPOON yeah. haha. okay anyway, I put the chicken on top and some cherry tomatoes and leave them in the fridge.
As for tomorrow's meal, I made chicken salad which is just veggies with brocoli, beans, tomatoes and boiled chicken.
hot chick
for my leafy greens, i actually buy those that are already in the bag. If i'm not wrong, the brand is called crunchy and its $3.90. I'll take a picture and update tomorrow or thursday! because I'm not doing meal prep tomorrow night hehe, thursday imma go outttttt yayers!
anyway, I'm heading to bed now cos it's the second night that I'm actually finishing this draft aha,
from now onwards, I'll be posting up pictures and descriptions of my meals and workouts everyday! :) yay hope you're as excited as I am!!! goodnight all~
oh oh, next post will probably touch a bit on work out as well. Not so much though, probably just a bit ;) hehe gdnight now~
