So yesterday I was talking to my mom (we have a long-distance relationship going on these days) and she asked, "So did (friend-from-high-school-who-visited-this-weekend)'s jaw drop when he saw you?", referring obviously to the fact that I'm not as skinny as I was in high school. So for once I actually agree with my mom (reluctantly) that I am in bad shape and need to do something about it. Pronto.
You see, this time last year I was back home for the summer and thanks to the inspiration that is Michael Phelps, I was a total swimfreak for 3 months. I didn't lose much weight, maybe 3kgs, but at the time I was quite a healthy weight for my height and the goal wasn't to shed the kilogrammes/pounds/whatever, it was to shed the flab and have an awesomely tight swimmers body and to look good in my new Speedo.
Well lets just say its easy to swim every evening when you're living at home and have someone to do the cooking and cleaning for you. This summer was different, my job was more physically and mentally demanding and I had nobody to cook healthy meals for me everyday. I often had nothing but coffee for breakfast, followed by a lunch of Chinese vegetarian food (usually brown rice). After hours, I'd meet up with friends in town and have a pretty substantial dinner, pasta or bread-based and usually in large portions and sometimes covered in cheese.
Now the summer's ending, I have only one more day left at work (which explains my writing here, I'm lazy to finish that stupid asset list now - argh) and soon it will be back to school. There will be changes in life patterns and habits. I like momentuous moments like this. Time for a change, and what better place to start than with my corporeal form which has been under a lot of unnecessary stress and requires renewal.
Every process of change needs the initial push to get it started. Last year my health-consciousness was inspired from within myself, with Phelps as the role model and flab and lethargy as the enemy. This time the inspiration is my mom, and a desire to have my old body and self back.
Since realistically I will not be able to go back to the eat-healthy, swim-everyday routine from summer '07, this time I need a different plan. So here's the new plan, mostly suggested by my mom:
- Healthy, filling breakfast of cereal and milk and 1 fruit (a doc once told me I should eat at least 2 fruits a day- fruit juice doesn't have half the benefits of the natural whole fruit)
- Heavy lunch - rice/noodles with veggies and 1 fruit
- Light dinner - fruits/ salad / soup with a cup of milk or yogurt
- Lots of water, and iron and vitamin supplements everyday since I don't eat meat and am anemic
But Mom's right, in the long run its going to make me feel a whole lot better than having cheesy-baked-pasta or fries for dinner. Definitely no fries at dinner! But they do qualify as a veggie at lunch =p hehe!!!
Things to avoid consuming:
- Carb-heavy dinner
- Coffee once in a while is ok but not everyday and certainly no more than one per day
- Sugary drinks
- Sugar-based candy, mints and chocolate
- Creamy creamy ice creamy - sherbets or yogurt without sugar are ok
- Bakery products (good thing my cupcake-obsessed friend is off on exchange soon)
- Anything with mayonnaise and too much cheese or deep fried (sniff - fries!)
Here it begins. I had a cup of oats for breakfast, brown rice with veggies for lunch (with Cecilia's amazingly fiery chilli sauce). What's amazing about Cecilia's chilli sauce is that you only need a small pinch of it to get your eyes streaming - unlike others which are more oil and less chilli...ok I digress.. I'm not exactly looking forward to a dinner of just fruit, so maybe I'll get the subway salad instead. Let's see if I'm still standing without carbs at 7pm. The more I think about not having carbs, the more I want them.
Peace out hombres!
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