Little India, Yolo food and workouts

Hi Fluffies!

This week, I tried 5 new workout videos! Haven't been this adventurous in a while so it was a pretty tiring week.. Physically and mentally straining. However, it was fun trying new workouts! In fact, one of the things that relaxes me most is actually a good workout. Somehow time always pass so quickly whenever I do my workouts.

Fat Burning and Abs Workout Level 1 | BeFit in 30 Extreme

Total Body Weight Loss Workout Level 1 (Calisthenics) | BeFit in 30 Extreme

I did this workout right after fat burning and abs workout. I wasn't expecting that from the trainer because he looks too pretty to be serious. But, alas do not judge a book by its cover. I can say this workout's a keeper.

500 Calorie Total Body HIIT workout (NO equipment needed) PLUS Bonus 8 minute AB CHALLENGE!

and then, there's THIS ONE. IT WAS SUPER HARD. For me at least. By the end of the workout session, I literally died on my mat because I was that tired. I do not know if its really a full 500 calories burnt but i felt as if my life was sucked out of me. This really isn't your everyday workout so I'd probably only want to do it once or twice a week if I have no other workouts to turn to.

Quick Ab Workout!

Quick abs by blogilates, nothing too crazy, just the usual sisterly pilates workout :)

Sexy Outer Thighs and Butt Lift Workout!

I tried this for a change. Not very effective compared to the other workouts that I've been doing. In fact, its pretty strange that the trainer seemed to be so tired while doing her own workouts when it didn't really tire my mom and I out. 

'YOLO' food of the week

This week, I made something pretty yolo for my mom and I.

3 EGG WHITES and 1 YOLK FRENCH TOASTS~! With strawberry and dark chocolate stuffings and a dash of sherry wine. ^^ I've always loved baguettes more than regular white bread so for this recipe I used baguettes! IMO, I really think that baguettes make better french toasts. 

I'll be making it again when strawberries are on sale again haha

My boyfriend and I had another YOLO and adventure day to Little India since Deepavali is coming really soon. As usual, the lights were really pretty and we had alot of fun shopping at Mustafa. ITS A SHOPPING PLAYGROUND hahaha. Everything is sooo cheap!!

As for YOLO food, well, I had 3 vege vadais, deep fried fritters of sorts. Was it worth my calories? Hell no. But, come dinner time at Komalas? Oh yes. 

We got tanned after a recent swimming session lol

This is what I'm talking about. KOMALAS. I love komalas, its like sin but vegan style. I don't know if I am the only one but the idea of it being vegetarian used to make me feel better just because there's no meat. But now that I know more about my food, they are really just plates of carbs, carbs, carbs and more carbs.

BUT, I cannot give this childhood sweetheart a miss and honestly, I felt alot more guilty about my 3 tiny vadais than polishing off most of the food on my plate. ( I left the rice out) These are calories well spent okay! I'd gladly come back any day for my Indian food fix. 

Oh did I mention, the plate of south indian set costs SGD$6.20. lol so cheap omgz. My boyfriend had the uhm... I can't remember the name of it but it's that triangle giant tortilla lookalike. That was about SGD$5.80? Super affordable. Super NAISE.

Anywaysssss, Happy Hari Raya Haji to everyone!

Gluten & Grain free cupcakes with honey-ed lavender & strawberry cashew cream

This week's new workouts that I tried :)

Train Insane HIIT Workout!

For some reason, I can't seem to embed blogilates' new video here. But it's ok, there's the link and judging from the title, you should know what it is. It is a HIIT workout. Not the toughest from her that I've done, but worked me up a sweat in no time.

And then there was:

Brazilian Booty Burn Workout: Burn to the Beat- Keaira LaShae

To feed my obessesion with building a bigger butt. It felt more like a regular dance cardio workout and I am thankful that I do most of my exercises in the comfort of my home because no one would want to watch me try to keep up with this lady and her dance moves. I'm terrible at keeping with dance cardios. This is one of the easiest ones that I've done. Although I love the idea of dance cardio, but my body just CANNOT COORDINATE FAST ENOUGH. 

The next cardio workout I tried was:

30 Day Fat Burn: Cardio Crush Workout by BeFit

I still prefer doing a set by set, rep by rep kind of workout. This one was pretty good. It was easy to follow, simple enough moves, worked me up a good sweat too. I'll probably fit this into days where I just have to work one part of my body. A little cardio to supplement spot toning!

I got these bright coloured cupcake liners recently. They make me want to bake all the time! I've always been a little skeptical about plastic products and heat but these babies can withstand up to 200deg celsius. Pretty cool huh? 

Spinach, tuna and cheese frittata that i made the other day, so prettyyy

Compared to regular paper liners, removing these plastic liners is like dream. It came off so easily my jaw dropped. So if you hate the annoying problem of food sticking to cupcake liners, this is a great option.

I was experimenting again and want to try to make some kidney bean cupcakes with lavender & strawberry cashew cream cheese. This time tweaking the recipe a little but replacing cocoa powder with 'coconut flour' (grinded from dessicated coconut). 

Little kidney bean cupcake babies in-the-baking.

These cashew nuts are gonna be soaked overnight, blended honey, lavender, and 4 microwaved strawberries to make lavender strawberry cashew cream .

Finally, the cupcake is born! 

The addition of 'coconut flour' did help to fluff up the batter a little so its starting to taste more like a regular cake, without all the nasties :)

Cheers to healthy cupcakes :D

Metabolic booster workout and legs

Hello Fluffies, 

I haven't been updating much because it's been pretty much blogilates videos everyday. I didn't have time to think about what I really want to do to 'up' my workouts so I just did whatever's on the calendar. 

But for today, I decided to add 2 more workouts to my calendar routine. These are new and I've never done them before.

1. 30 Day Fat Burn: Metabolic Booster Workout:

This one was tiring.. Not as tiring as a full on kick boxing cardio or HIIT workout but still tiring nonetheless. 

2. 30 Day Fat Burn: Legs and Butt Shaper Workout:

This one was... okay? Compared to most blogilates booty workouts, I'd say this is pretty mild. So doable, I can't really feel the burn.

I didn't try the whole 30 day thing. In fact I've never followed any specific diet and exercise plans. I just can't bring myself to cut off all that ice cream and chocolates. My vices.. but they're good for my soul. That's why I've never had the motivation to follow through those 30 day plans, bikini body in 4 weeks kinda thing. I'd much rather take it slow and have no time limit. It's a lifestyle right? Yes. I said yes for you. You have to agree with me lol.

Maybe I'll update again soon after my literature review submission. Until then.. its blogilates videos alll the wayyyy as I drown in school work and my part time job :/

1000 SQUATS

Hi Fluffies,

It's been quite a busy week so far. Despite the hustle and bustle, I did not stop working out and I'm proud to say that I have accomplished the craziest fitness feat for myself so far. 

Absolutely one of my proudest moment.

THE THOUSAND SQUAT CHALLENGE.

I . PERSPIRED . LIKE . A . PIG .

Can I do a 1000 squats? Sure as hell you can. You can go through this 45mins of leg burning because its really not as hard it sounds. I chickened out when the video first came out. Now, I wouldn't mind doing it again.

The final set of 100 squats was the hardest because the rollover squat variation took a toll on my lower back for some reason. Otherwise, it was good.

The rest of the week would be a ton of blogilates videos according to the calendar which I urge you to check it out because it is sooo convenient to be able to just follow a regime for the whole week and not worry about which parts to work everyday!

Saturday Cardio & toning and Sunday GYM DAY WITH BOYFRIEND FOR THE FIRST TIME

Hello Fluffies,

Its a week of getting used to new things. For instance, the gym that I've been going to is going to close down soon. I'm gonna start my part time job next weekend which means :( no more gymming on sundays :( no more ice cream sundays :( 

Definitely a lot of planning and scheduling to be done. Oh and my first assignment is due Sept 12th. I think I'm gonna struggle with the 3000 word essay. 

Anyways, I hit the gym with my boyfriend for the first time today! It's leg day for the both of us and we did a few exercises. Not as much as usual but I was sweating ALOT more than usual.. which is quite disgusting coz a bead of my sweat actually dripped onto my boyfriend's lap >.<

What I did:
1. Running with 4 incline:
    1.2km
2. Squats with 15kg weights each side:
    3 sets of 10 reps 
3. Squats with 15kg weights each side with 20kg Barbell:
    3 sets of 8 reps 
4. Hamstring curls with 4kg weight:
    3 sets of 8 reps 
5. Standing kickbacks with 6kg weight:
    3 sets of 10 reps each leg 
6. Standing side swing with 5kg weight:
    2 sets of 10 reps each leg
7. Random punches:
    A few times
8. AB rollers:
    2 failed attempts

That was it for the day. Not alot of work done considering I would usually do dead lifts, walking lunges and quad extensions. But I felt more tired than usual :/

Last night, I went to Crystal jade at Holland Village for the XLB buffet with my friends. It was a buffet, I definitely had to 'prep' and workout before I head out to sin big time. So here's the workout for Saturday's Piggin' Out:

Fitness Blender's 1000 Calorie workout (I DID ONLY DID HIIT PORTION.)

8 minute abs

5 best muffintop melting moves:

Spring fling 1: Toning Workout

Playa Del Plank

Now for the fun bit, here's the food that we had yesterday: 

Gula Melaka Soft serve on Waffles from Sunday Folks

Here's us after Sunday folks because soft serve ain't got nothing on real scooped ice cream

Us at 10pm, feasting our lives away on XLBs...

 

Stacks of XLBs

This was supposed to be dessert after drinks at Wala but everyone was too stuffed so each of us took one home. These cupcakes from Plain Vanilla are awesome. I haven't had a good cupcake in a while!

I had the chocolate banana cupcake and it was dope :>

Handsome boiboiz90

I had the best pocky of my entire life yesterday, courtesy of my boyfriend. If you ever come across Matcha Chocolate pocky please do not let it slip away. Please BUY IT. It's worth the calories honey.

Backlogs and Friday ARMS!

Hello Fluffies,

It's been a short while since I last did a log! Like ever since the day I left for Bangkok I think. I did follow through working out regularly but just did not have the time and energy to post them. I've been waking up and leaving home early in the morning and going home late at night. Thank god my boyfriend's been by my side these few days to help me pull through the sudden crazy schedule.

If you are wondering about how my Bangkok trip was, I will be doing a separate post on it, filled with pictures and ADDRESSES so you can go check those places out if you happen to be heading to Bangkok anytime soon. 

And yes I did managed to workout ONCE while in Bangkok haha. Here's a picture of the hotel gym. Can I say its very badly stocked??? NO BAR BELLS. WHAT. and no squat machine. We had to share the machines. 

Here's the workout sequence that I did(base on what I can remember):

1. Running on thread mill:

    15mins 

2. Squats, holding 2 of 8kg dumbbells:

    3 sets of 15 reps 

3. Walking lunges with kick backs, holding 2 of 8kg dumbbells:

    3 sets of 15 reps 

4. Tricep stretch with 8kg dumbell:

    1 set of 15 reps (My arms nearly snapped)

5. 20 sit ups (lol, I rly hate sit ups)

Yesterday, I was pressed for time but wanted to pack more punch into the short workout time that I had. So here's my choice of workouts if you are interested to know how I try to fit in more work into a short frame of time.:

1. Best cardio kickboxing workout <- Cardio

2. Thigh trimmer and butt lifter <- Toning work

3. Lolo jones legs and lunges workout <- Toning and light cardio

I try to work more of my legs whenever I'm pressed for time because our quad muscles burn more calories as compared to the other muscles in your body. Short intense HIITs or cardio workouts are also the way to go to have the effect of afterburn so that your body stays fired up for the most part of the day. 

For today, I had more time and did more toning work and because its the time of the month, I didnt want to go too crazy on my body in the cardio department.:

Bikini Blaster 7: Bodacious Back and Sleek Shoulders:

POP Pilates: Tricep Toner:

POP Pilates: Never ever getting back together workout:

Like Money Apartment Friendly cardio workout:

3 Min Thighs:

That's all for today!

Tuesday Abs and Wednesday Arms&Shoulders

Hello fluffies,

There's a whole lotta blogilates videos coming up.

It was cardio abs workouts for Tuesday! I switched one of the ab workouts out for a cardio instead because cardio is more important than ab exercises if what you really want is to achieve 6pec abs etc.

1. 5 Minute Fat Burner:

2. Flat Stomach Fat Melter:

3. Lower Belly Flattener:

4. The 5 Best & Most effective ab exercises:

5: Abs on Fire: 

For some reason, this workout seemed a little harder to do today.

6. The bold & the bootiful workout:

For Wednesday's workout, it was a little bit more special. It featured Sexy broom workout and Towel Tonefest workout. I know you haven't seen these featured on my posts so far. In fact I can't remember the last time I did them. They were so tough but so good too. Cassey finally decided to bring these 2 crazy mamas back into the calendar. I gotta admit I got worried when I saw Wednesday's workout plan but as usual, I went with it anyway.

1. Sexy broom burn for trim thighs and sculpted back:

All you really need is a stick. A long stick.

2. Towel Tonefest workout:

3. Toned arms & sculpted back POP pilates:

4. Back On Fire POP pilates : 

Sunday Gymless butt day & Monday Core day

Hi Fluffies,

On Sunday's I'm supposed to gym to build my butt. The sore throat and flu just wouldn't go away >.< 

However, I did some low impact butt workouts. Here's what I did:

1. Victoria's secret Angel booty:

2. Tracey mallet firm butt workout:

3. 5 Best Butt exercises to lift that booty: 

4. Thigh Trimmer & Butt Lifter:

You might have noticed that I've been trying to incorporate this video into my workouts. I have to say this is probably one of my top favourite videos from blogilates :)

Come monday, Still not that much better. But I did a set of core workouts which aren't too strenuous.. For me at least lol.

1. POP Pilates Body Slimming workout

2. WHOA WHOA!! Whole body Workout:

3. Beautiful Body Pilates workout:

4. The Ultimate Hot body workout:

5. Lean Body sculpt video, exclusive to the blogilates app. It was basically 4 main workout moves, targetting the triceps, glutes, a little bit of thighs and obliques. 

Friday rest day

It's Fridayyyyyy

Not that it makes much of a difference to me but, TGIF! I hope you will have a wonderful weekend :)

Headed down to the east today and basically got caught in a series of never ending blizzards. My attempt to warm myself up by walking through the night market and eating hot food didn't help much. In fact, I'm down with a flu now. :(

Luckily, I did my workouts earlier today before heading out. Or else I would have no strength to do anything!

1. Fat Burning Cardio Workout at Home:

2. Victoria's secret angel arm workout:

3. 100 squats. 

My inspiration for doing a random 100 squats came from watching Cassey's new 1000 squats challenge. I used to think weight 20 squats to like... 5 burpees maybe. Now, a 100 is not many. In fact, it barely felt like a warm up. Working out everyday definitely made me a stronger girl. The numbers do sound scary. But I do believe that with effort, they are achievable.. Maybe one of these days, I'll give the 1000 squats challenge a try. But right now after a long cardio and arm toning session, what do we say to a 1000 squats?

NOT TODAY!

Cardio Core Thursday and Wednesday Arms

Hello Fluffies,

This was yesterday's workout.

1. Sleek and sexy arms for beginners

2. Arms on fire

3. Back on fire

It was arms day and because I thought I would be making a trip to the zoo with my boyfriend, I only did 3 workout videos thinking that I would be clocking in alot calories burned in the cardio department. Unfortunately, we were stuck in Vivocity due to the rainy weather :/

I had the intention of finishing up my arm workout today but decided not to because I got lazy lol

So for today, its cardio core!

1.Flat Belly fat burner:

2. 5 min Fat burner:

3. 5 Best Abs exercises:

4. POP Pilates: Hot Abs:

6. Thigh trimmer & Butt Lifter:

I ended it off by switching one of the ab workouts to a butt workout just because.

 I found out something amazing today.. I can do fried barley! So yay to more fibre and lower GI carb alternative :) If you're wondering, this lunchtime mess is fried barley with vegetables and eggs with sriracha sauce topped with sesame seeds. 

After my student orientation session at SIM (I was so nervous for some reason), I spent a part of my afternoon waiting in Wang Coffeeshop for my passport photo to be done. While waiting, I decided to do some sketching to kill time.

*This picture was taken yesterday*