Monday, sore day

Hi fluffies,

Here's my workout for the day, in sequence.

1. 100 Waist whittlers challenge workout:

2. POP pilates for weight loss:

3. ABC abs!:

4. 8 mins abs workout:

5. Bubble butt (clenching my booty workout):

If you've done these videos before or tried them after reading this post, you would realise that it is actually a very safe and low impact workout. I wasn't going to push myself too hard tonight because my body is still feeling a little sore from all the workouts yesterday. 

Below is the final workout that I had wanted to do to complete my entire workout for the day but skipped it because I didn't feel like I was in the mood anymore. You should know that not every healthy or fit person would feel like working out all the time and it is bad for the soul to keep pushing yourself when you do not feel like it. It is no biggie as long as you are lapping everyone that is sitting on the couch :)

Do go ahead and try it and let me know what you think about the entire set of workout today! 

And as for me, I'm going to do this tomorrow, maybe in the morning! :)

Beautiful body Pilates workout:

Sundays are BUTT days!

Hi Fluffies!

Today is a Sunday and my Sundays are usually kicked off with a legs and butts session at the gym.

Here's what I did for my gym session today:

1. Squats with 20kg weights each side with 10kg barbell:

• 3 sets of 12 reps

2. Seated squats with 10kg weights each side with 10kg barbell:

• 3 sets of 12 reps

3. Walking Lunges:

• 4 sets of approximately 12 steps

4. Hamstring resistance band workout (unfortunately I am not very sure what is the level of intensity of the resistance band, but we did increase the resistance by coiling it a few times):

• 3 sets of 15reps each side.

5. Leg extensions with 4kg:

• 3 sets of 12 reps

6. Hamstring extensions with 4kg:

• 3 sets of 12 reps

7. Deadlifts with progressive kettlebell weights. 12kg, 16kg, 20kg and 20kg:

• 4 sets of 12 reps

8. Hyperextensions:

• 4 sets of 12 reps

After which, it was picnic time at botanic gardens for the evening with Joyce!

Photo taken by Joyce, very pretty isnt it!

 We were here at the symphony lake for a mini chopin piano concert. Thank god it stopped raining in the noon and the weather wasn't too hot.

I made gluten-free okonomiyaki for the picnic and brought along some lychees and an apple which i ended up bringing home because we couldn't finish our food. Joyce's spinach and cheese sandwiches were really good and I loved her honeyed walnuts and raisins dessert <3

Yum Tums :)

And cute toddlers!

It was a really good catch up and lazing session with my babe haha :) 

Fitness log and Operation weightloss: 2

Hi fluffies,

Here's my workout for the day, in sequence.

1. The HIIT portion of Fitness Blender's 1000 Calorie Workout

I took alot more time than I usually would when i did this workout today. Quite possibly because I haven't done any intense cardio exercises in a while :/

2. Toned Arms & Sculpted Back POP Pilates | Cocktail Dress Series

P.s: I made my 64 year old mom try to do the golf balls, volley balls and the chest pulses. She managed to complete the golf and volley balls, and one chest pulse. its a good start!

3. 5 Best Exercises to Flatten your Lower Belly

4. 5 Minute Ab Express Workout | POP Pilates

5. POP Pilates: Intense Ab Workout! (Full 10 min)

As you can see, the bulk of the workout videos that I am doing are from Cassey Ho, owner of blogilates.com. I am a huge fan of her workout videos because they are short, not too crazy and best of all, she's always so encouraging. 

If you've read about my first weightloss failure in my earlier blogpost, you would know that I decided to launch Operation weightloss 2 after a night of partying. 
During that time, I was constantly talking to one of my model-body girl friends. Even though she obviously did not need to lose weight, she would occasionally watch exercise videos from youtube and if it is a good video, she would share it with me. 

And this was how I chanced upon blogilates. She showed me a video by Cassey Ho, the blogger behind it all. I didn't think much of it at first. In fact, my first reaction was, 'wow, she's so bubbly to a fault. holy.. omg, she's doing burpees... what? who does that and lasts for so long while talking to the camera?!' 
However, having just experienced my overnight mini 'weightloss', my new found motivation drove me to give it a try. 

Food Baby HIIT Workout (POP Cardio)

This was the video that kick started it all.
And my first 'kick' was done barefooted at home. By the end of the FIRST exercise move, I was floored, breathless and dying. What was supposed to be an approx 8min workout turned into more than 20mins. On top of that, blisters formed at the bottom of my feet. 

But because of this stubborn idea that moving more burns more calories. I tried another video. 

Unfortunately I cannot remember which video it was but i can tell you, I was sore EVERYWHERE the next day. I have this sadistic impression of fitness, that soreness meant work is being done. 

I simply could not bring myself to spend on a pair of pretty Nike's just so that I could jump around at home.

The next day, I went out to my neighbourhood shoe shop and got a pair of training shoes. It was SGD$16. 

And with that, 
I unwittingly launched Operation weightloss: 2
The only one that worked.

Belated log post

Hi fluffies, (Extremely long post ahead)

My initial plan to post on my birthday failed pretty badly. It's 28th now. Gahh. I tried to post the previous night and on the night of my birthday but both times, I ended up sleep-typing. I have a tendency to sleep on whatever I'm doing.. Like one time, I subconsciously drew a teddy bear while rushing to finish a war scene of  the Indian epic-Ramayana. Pretty crazy huh.

First off, here's my fitness routine log for yesterday: 

The supposedly world's fastest workout. The Tabata workout. Although the whole idea is to work as hard as possible during this workout, I've only ever really hit the seeing-stars-and-nauseating effect a few times. I usually go for longer workouts but because I was pressed for time, I did one set of this.

I like to use this timer for my tabata workouts because it is really loud and clear. You can also customise your ideal length of tabata workout!

The 4 exercise moves featured in this poster are:
1. Squat thrust
2. Mountain climbers
3. High knees
4. Jumping jacks

By the end of it, i was out of breath but strangely, not sweating much. Guess the weather was great today haha.

Onward to my birthday celebration! To sum it up, here are the pictures :)

Wheelers' Yard was marked the beginning of my birthday celebrations this year!

It was a celebration for the June babies :) Happy Birthday Sab :)

Grilled chicken with mashed potatoes and asparagus, it was good!

This is a souffle sponge cake with lemon curd. If I could just attach a sample of this cake onto this blog for you, I totally would because this is seriously one of the best cakes I have ever had! 

My friend Khairul has some sick talent in the culinary aspect.

The second celebration started at 12am on my birthday. My boyfriend's first surprise was appearing at my doorstep with my favourite cake and presents! Although the best present was really him appearing at my doorstep and planning a whole day out for me and coordinating with my closest friends to give me surprise after surprise :) Unfortunately, I'm one of those people who always forget to take pictures at the right moments... I destroyed my cake before i took a picture :(

We went downstairs to light up the sparkling candles and played with cats 

 The second surprise was SEAN. Who turned up at Vivo to spend the day at the beach with us because when the 3 of us come together, that's how we roll!

Dinner at Craft cafe after meeting my 3rd surprise for the day: JOYCE

My babe got me 18pieces of macarons. MUAHAHAHAAA

A very lovely snow white themed present, with a handwritten storybook from my babe. How sweet :) <3 

The third celebration was with SUSUTONG. We wanted to go to Supply&demand for dinner but ended up heading to Tanuki Raw for martinis and raw seafood first to wait for seatings at Supply&demand.

Had a few sips of lychee martini and apple martini today after a really long abstinence from alcohol. The intoxicating feels of alcohol, man it's been a while my friend.

Shucking oysters at Tanuki Raw was part of the deal last night

Onward to Supply&Demand! The food definitely did not disappoint!

Yuzu dessert named Chloe from Antoinette from the gang 

Heres to 5(and counting) years of friendship :)

What really happened to fluffy

This would be my 'prelude post', to tell you a little (Okay not exactly because it is a pretty long winded story which I would segment into several posts so you don't drown in the sea of words.) something about my journey.Tomorrow would be my birthday and I would like to officially start the documentation of my journey on 25th June :) 

I've never been overweight. But my weight consistently crept up along with my age since my runner-fit teenage days. My BMI number was on the extreme end of the normal range, brimming into the overweight range.
Here's a BMI chart to give you a general idea. My weight was hovering around 57 to 58kg and my height is 157cm. That puts my BMI count at around 24.

At my heaviest, I'm pretty sure I was considered overweight because I definitely looked chubbier than I was when I got my BMI result. People that I've always known told me that I was fat. It was the truth and I always felt depressed about it. I as 17 then and I just suffered a terrible break up. (emotional eating is real, you guys) In between, I've had on and off dieting periods. It never worked because I would pick up that chocolate cake and slump on the couch.

So one day at 18 years old, I decided to do something about it.
I launched Operation weightloss: 1
The traditional no brainer formula of Eat-less DIET & EXERCISE never fails. I counted calories, I ran an insane amount of kilometers every week because running was the only thing I knew of. I did 10km minimum, everyday, I got so scared of rest days so I skipped it. Everyday, I would wake up, strip, and step on the scale and fret over the number on the scale. If I saw that the number increased by a few grams, I would feel so so guilty and bad that I would punish myself by running another kilometer. Eventually, I plateaued. I didn't understand what was going on back then and somehow had this weird belief and thought that this was the thinnest that my body could go 'naturally'. 
After entering a design school, with the heavy workload, I started putting on weight again and was sickly and pale faced from all the late nights.
So at the end of 3 yrs, result of Operation weightloss: 1 FAILED.

The girl who could wear everything
It's hard to admit but I've always imagined what it would be like to be a victoria's secret model, strutting down a runway with an amazing body and be the envy of all. Having pretty looking friends who could wear just about anything didn't help either. In my mind, I knew of a perfect body that I wanted, how it would look like in everything. A sleeveless top, a mini skirt, a fitted blouse, a tight fitting dress, a bikini etc.This perfect image deprived me of all these clothes because I knew I would never look like that perfect girl in my head.

Some nights, the image of the perfect girl would taunt me just like this.

Motivation
What inspired me to start losing weight again was incredibly ridiculous story. It happened after a whole night of partying and dancing on a miserable dinner of booze and a small mash potatoes from KFC. While it wasn't the best night of my life (I was stuck with this weird dude who kept sniffing my hair), the greatest thing happened the MORNING AFTER. I stepped my sore feet on my weighing scale and saw that I lost an entire kg. Of course all that was just water weight and dehydration from all that alcohol. I was so happy that all that dancing helped melt some of my weight off. It definitely motivated me to start moving more. This was the birth of Operation weightloss: 2.

Once a fluffy, always a fluffy.

Hello lovelies,

Nope, my name is not fluffy. My name is Chloe Chua and I come from a too-hot-and-sunny island called Singapore. 
Do you watch Gabriel Iglesias? If you do, you would know that his comical name is Fluffy. Gabriel Iglesias is a comedian who happens to be overweight, which he confidently refers to as being fluffy. I wish I knew about this reference earlier on when I was fluffy. I would have felt a hell lot better about myself. 

Throughout the end of my teenage years, I suffered a great deal from emotional eating. It didn't help that I had to go through a messy break-up at that time. I got so fluffy that even my closest guy friend could not recognise me when I sat right in front of him on the bus. 

I took a long time, a gazillion tries and a ton of willpower to finally be healthy and lose most of my fluff. Although deep down inside, I still feel fluffy on most days. 
I'm not new to blogging but I've never diligently posted substantial stuffs through my blogs. But I'm going start a blog. To help me keep track of my daily health and fitness routines as I juggle school and work. 
However, I really hope that maybe this could help other fluffies out there, dealing with their health and weight. I know it sucks being referred to as fat, obese and a hell lot of other nasty things. But I want to show all fluffies that it is totally controllable and nothing to be embarrassed about. 
And you know what? Once a fluffy, always a fluffy. Just that it would be a different kind of fluffy. 

A fluffy full of hopes, dreams and love :) 

Okay, fluffy?