Hi fluffiessssssssss... Today was a tiring day.. Alot of waiting and walking around Toa Payoh waiting for a seller. I always feel so foreign whenever I am in the heartlands. :/ Anyway as promised, pictures of the chocolate yoghurt 'popsicles' that I made yesterday night because they just taste so good to me.
Ooo here's 2 bunnies with weird shaped heads.
This is really bad food art, I'll try harder next time.
This is just 2 of my yoghurt 'popsicles'. Even though they were so cold, they disappeared in like... 2mins flat. It helps me curb my chocolate cravings of late and I thought I should share this healthy recipe with you guys.. Maybe you can feel inspired to make your own chocolate popsicles or even just chocolate yoghurt shakes!
Ingredients:
200gms of plain/non flavoured yoghurt. (preferably fat-free and free of added sugars. Use greek yoghurt for higher amounts of protein) A handful of baked/roasted almonds 2 tablespoons of cocoa powder (Do adjust to your licking) 4 pitted medjool dates Less than a pinch of salt Because I love the heat in mexican hot chocolate, I've added 2 extra spices: Splash of Cinnamon Less than a pinch of cayenne pepper I intended to do some waist slimming and leg toning workout videos but I got really lazy ( I got home so late :/ ) and settled on doing these videos instead. 1. Perfect legs workout
I am procrastinating. All i want to do everyday is to workout, watch documentaries on health and fitness, eat fruits and chocolates... How romantic is that. Dreading work and suffering from a massive chocolate craving. My goodness my love for chocolate knows no boundaries. But my absolute favourite kind of chocolate is actually this:
Chocolate liquor cherries ^^ Every bite is a nostalgia, transporting me back to when I as a 4year old, sitting by the window of a musty room of a B&B, digging into the most fragrant and luxurious chocolate liquor cherry that I will ever have in my life. Which makes me avoid eating it because the ones that are available these days, just aren't as good.
So to curb my chocolate cravings today, I decided to make chocolate popsicles! There are no pictures of the popsicles because they are gone before I remembered to take a picture. But hold up, I'm gonna talk about them tomorrow on my blog when the next batch of 'popsicles' are ready :) this time round, they aren't really popsicles because I decided to put them in jelly moulds instead so that they are more bit sized and it would stop me from eating too much of it. (even though its really healthy for you) Anyway back to the usual topic, here's today's workout!
Due to my butt still being sore from yesterday's gym workouts, I decided not to do too much of legs today even though on the blogilates workout calendar, it shows that it is legs day today. 1. Navy Seal workout from XHIT daily
I added this into my workout for a little bit of extra cardio
2. Flat Belly Fat Burner POP HIIT
God i hate this workout coz it is so tiring at the last bit. Bicycle crunches that knows no end are a killer!
3. Extreme Abs Workout
New video for this week. Died here too.
4. Corset Workout for Slim waist
5. The push plank challenge
6. Killer legs challenge
7. 3 Minute Thighs
Song challenges really aren't too bad because they will end in about 3 to 4 mins. I like doing them when I am pressed for time or just don't feel like working on a body part for too long.
Oh and i forgot to mention yesterday. I weighed myself again after a very long time. like... the last time i did, it was probably half a year ago. I've dropped about 1kg or more. I wasn't too excited about it because my biggest fear is actually losing muscle weight because I haven't been going the gym much lately. Muscles are really important because they help you burn fat.
I used to be 50kg the last time i checked. Now, I am at 48 to 49kg.
If all I lost was fats, then this would be perfect progress even though it is not fast but at least the number is coming down on the scale :)
Anyway, I'll be back tomorrow with pictures of my chocolate 'popsicles' :)
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 :/
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
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.
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.
