25th Day: Making Procrastination Work for Me :)

Tee-hee..

Its almost Eid and we are currently off season at work, so there are tons of opportunities to not really work. I am currently planning ahead the things to do etc once the season kicks off in Oct, but right now.. I'm not. :p

Im using this time to re-read my diary in the newyouforum, giving myself a reminder of who I was or how I was on plan. I surprised myself a few times with what I wrote. I admire that woman, so tough, deviation free for almost 70-80 days? :D

I've also been reading up on other posts and the links that Koh had suggested. Tons of great material! That forum is really amazing, and it does help to keep your head straight to goal. Read up on a few diaries too.

The forum is way too quiet. It does help when people respond, because its nice to know that you are being heard? at the same time though, if there were a lot of people active there, it means a lot of people are also trying to lose weight (?). Anyhoo, I hope those people who were commenting on my diary are well out of the cycle of trying to get to goal, or at least living in health.

I'm still on plan and deviation free. Nothing to report much. 

I have a problem with sleeping though. I get to bed by 10 and I dont sleep until late.. past midnight. I just cant sleep good. But in the afternoon, I do. Like yesterday, reached home around 4:30, had some crackers, and did some stuff around the house to keep myself awake. Did some mindless browsing, and at around 7 dozed off! uff, at 7:30 bf came home and I woke up from the deepest sleep I ever had!! It was so good. Why cant I have that when its actually time to sleep?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!

Argh.

We have a very long weekend next week and Im not travelling anywhere.. 8 days of being at home. Im already enumerating the things I should do because knowing me, when Im bored, I think of eating and thats a long time of being bored that I just might deviate by not being prepared.

Day 25 - All meals, fruits & crackers taken, vitamins too. Deviation free.

24th Day: Revelations Lost in Time

Ok, so here am I thinking and complaining Im losing weight so slowly and just waking up everyday, weighing and getting off the scale disappointed. But someone from the forum suggested to check my past results, which I haven’t thought of doing because I thought I lost all that data in my corrupted hard drive. Luckily, I have this blog where I wrote Round-ups. I checked my ROUND UP ->Week 1 to 4 & Results and lo and behold, Im just being paranoid about my losses now. On my first 4 weeks during my first try, I lost 8.7kgs in total, and right now, I’ve already lost 6.4kgs and I still have 8 days to go until I complete 1 month.

So I guess this is in order:

 

But before I read the post in the forum, I already am a bit enlightened by the changes in my body in the span of 3 weeks: 

1. Clothes definitely fit better

1. My face looks less bloated

1. Skin looks so much better. I don’t really wear makeup and Im fortunate to work in an office that I can get away with bare skin.

I’m still tweaking my plan, trying to figure out which is causing me to lose at the rate that Im losing. I’m reducing my cracker intake and keeping off the mayo for a few days. I bought that Barts Mild Curry Powder and used it once, Im also going to wait until after my weigh in to use it again. I also really need to sort my sleep. Im not sleeping well and I feel tired. I think this is the missing factor to really get the best out of this diet.I also plan to do the same tracking as I used to, Im just not sure if I will have the patience for it. 😃Cheers to the day, still deviation free.

21st Day - On Plan and Cranky (and the Xiaomi Scale)

https://www.mi.com/global/mi-body-composition-scale/

I bet you dont get to read that often if you have been on the Newyouforum reading the diaries of those who are OP.

I have been on plan for about 21 days now, not totally deviation free. I may have eaten a few more crackers or ate a whole mango in one sitting at the beginning, but no nasties whatsoever. I did have that Cohen high maybe a week ago, but I guess my period is coming up that's why Im a bit short tempered. PLUS, my scale hasn't moved down for 2 days!!

I bought a Xiaomi Body Composition Scale 15 days ago, that shows also the BMR, Fat %, Water %, Protein %, BMR kcal, Visceral fat, Muscle kg, Bone Mass kg and Body age... The weight part is accurate. I dont know how accurate the other metrics are, but it doesn't paint a good picture. As of today:

	26-May
Weight	82.9
Body Score	41
BMI	30.4
Fat %	41.9%
Water %	41.4%
Protein %	13.1%
BMR kcal	1409
Visceral	9
Muscle kg	45.3
Bone Mass kg	2.8
Body Age	68

Body age of 68 - FTW?!

Don't get me started on where I am losing my weight, apparently its from my Muscle.  Whilst my BF, who is on his High Fat diet, gained muscle and lost weight!! Hmmmm...

My bf is also on a diet, he is on a high fat diet, 1 meal a day thing. He eats oats for fiber but thats it and he is having tremendous losses per day!!! Plus his work allows him to move a lot by default. He cooks huge steaks and pork belly in our cast iron and I cry inside when the bacon smell hits me and the house smells of bacon until the next day. :'( who doesn't love bacon!??!?! 

but i am standing strong, i keep telling him what may work for him may not work for me. Although in ALL of the diets I've tried in my life, I haven't tried the high fat one. 

I haven't been sleeping well too. I take a nap in the afternoons due to the shortened Ramadan timings. I tried to read but I keep falling asleep, and then by midnight, I am wide awake.

I feel like im doing something wrong in the plan.. but i cant pinpoint what it is.

07th Day: Crash and Burn

The title says it all. Crashed and burned to pizza , popcorn and m&ms.

This diet is really a mind game. I know I could have not touched the food and went OP. But I didnt.

Oh my soul... The pizza was so good, I didnt even feel sorry about it until I was in bed at night. The pizza was really good.

OFF THE WAGON. NOT DEVIATION FREE

6th Day: Bring on the hunger

The perils of daily weighing! Im up by 400grams! I think it’s the soda I had after my dinner, I had 1 less fruit for the day. Again was sleepy by 10pm. We usually go to bed by 10:30 and it usually takes me a longer time to fall asleep from that point. But these past 2 days I slept like a baby, woke up at the same time as my bf (5:30) and refused to get out of bed til 7:20 today :D. I was having an allergy I guess coz my nose wont stop running. Got up, cooked by breakfast and lunch and reached work late.

I didn’t put any make up on as we have a field set-up in the morning. I looked in the mirror and my face looked… hmmm.. dewy (?) 👩basically I liked what Im seeing. After typing this, I had to go back to the office bathroom to check again! hahahaha I don’t know if it’s the collagen supplements or the diet or could be both.

I am so hungry today. I forgot to bring fruits so I had nothing to snack on. I held my resolve until 7pm and got to eat a peach at home but I was still so hungry. KFC and pizza were on my head, I so wanted to give in.. restart tomorrow. 

BF: egg, veggies, crackers Centrum

LU: beef, veggies, cracker

SN: noon- coke light | night - peach

DI: chicken, veggies, cracker

CAF: 1 black coffee

VIT: collagen 1&3n, hyaluronic, collagen 2

Day 6 - deviation free