Showing posts with label Diet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Diet. Show all posts

Saturday, February 2, 2013

kilo khronicles is in full swing

Sorry for another unintentional lull in the blogging, guys! Sumpah tak sengaja!

I've been really caught up updating my newest Kilo Khronicles journey (will story mory more in a bit!) sampai takde time and energy to invest into my Kahwin Khronicles punya journey ni. Really unfortunate sekarang pun dah no free time in office! Workload has expanded a fair bit so no blogging until I clear my work email inbox which is almost never nowadays :(

Not that there's anything much to update until April/May 2013 period actually, so for now my mat and I are busy tackling the problem that both of us have been neglecting (or ignoring, in my case, heh heh), which is our weight problem. Ini weight problem kan, memang satu berat punya masalah ah. Dari zaman Teenage Textbook Movie asyik naik turun naik turun naik turun, pikir funfair pe?! Rollercoaster jadi jadian pe?!

Because of this masalah berat, I've been spending most of my free time after work going for gym and Zumba sessions, and by the time I  reach home after these sessions, I'll have to quickly prepare meals for next day's lunch and dinner before concussing on my bed. Kalah pakcik drive teksi 7 hari 7 malam nak kasi anak anak dan bini bini makan. Pastu next day repeat same pattern! Tak lama lagi nak berak nak kencing pun kena make an appointment agaknya, sebab ni serious tak bedek punya case of takde free time to spare.

This #kilokhronicles journey has been really really exhausting but I am so goddamn determined to fit into my bridal outfits, you have no goddamn idea. Granted sekarang considered belum rabak sangat ah because I'll only be starting my 4 times a week workout regime next week before increasing to 5 times (or 6 times!) a week nearer to the wedding date. Cita cita gila, I know, but this whole wedding preparation journey is already a gila thing by itself, yes? Niat nak bernikah tu tak gila sebenarnye, tapi hal ehwal majlis nye yang gila yer.

One of the good things that came out of this whole #kilokhronicles journey is an app recommendation made by Nad (who's also cutting down her weight in preparation for her bridemaid duties for the 8 or so weddings next year hahahahaha you are truly Jane Nichols reincarnated into a booty-pumpin' Pitbull-lovin' minah Melayu lah babe) - it's called My Fitness Pal and it helps to track your calorie intake per day! So kalau you termakan terlebih sampai ter-exceed your recommended calories intake you can op op op oppa gangnam style opocot, jaga jaga yer sedara, tak boleh makan anything else for the day yer sedara.

You know what's another thing that's my saviour throughout this #kilokhronicles journey besides My Fitness Pal app and of course, the ever so easy-to-use Happy Call pan?

This awesome website called Yummly.com!!! Eh awesome ok, concept dia is similar macam Pinterest.com, and all you need to do is key in a keyword e.g. grilled chicken, chicken salad, healthy beef, healthy egg, healthy rumput (in case you need to makan rumput for the rest of the month.....) etc and they'll pull out all the different types of recipes you can try yourself! The ingredients will be listed on the Yummly page itself then kalau you interested to try the recipe, you'll have to click on the link under 'Preparation' to retrieve the full directions on how to prepare and cook the dish. 

I've been cooking and eating homecooked healthy dishes for the past month and I'm glad to say there are enough recipes to help me "spice up" my meals so tak sampai bosan hari hari telan salad and buah aje. Siape mau layan lagi sembilan bulan makan sayur and buah aje! Tak pasal pasal kena sumpah jadi kambing kwa kwa kwaa...

And of course this #kilokhronicles journey will not be complete without... a gym membership! Aku very feberet with this gym that I signed up with because it's located less than 10 minutes' walk from my rumah! That place is great for me lah ok. It's an all-women gym so you don't feel so shy or intidimated as opposed to working out in a male-dominated or co-ed gym, and you don't have to wait to use their equipment because there's a set timer for each person to use each piece of equipment - when the timer goes off, everyone moves to the next station. The other gym members and the trainers themselves are friendly as hell (at least the outlet I'm going to) and very helpful and tak condescending langsung when teaching or correcting me in the gym. This is good for someone like me who is a total noob when it comes to exercising lah! Plus I'm not very disciplined when it comes to exercising so tak boleh harapkan nak "exercise kat rumah" je selalu. Jangan nak step exercise kat rumah, please. Nanti cuma mulut aku jer yang ber-exercising, dah kenal sangat perangai.

(Heads up! If there's anyone out there who wants a 1-day gym trial pass, let me know ok! I have two free passes to give away, and I'll be more than happy to give them away to brides-to-be who are serious about losing their weight for the big day)

Ok now, since we're on this weight problem topic - can I just mention how menyampah and geram I am towards UK size 6/8 girls who freaking whine about how bloody fat they are or insist "ya I'm a UK size 8 but my tummy boncit and my arms mengelebeh and my thighs are so huge omg macam kaki gajah!"

Oh yeah? Try going up to UK size 14/16, try fitting TIGA LAPIS tummy yang boncit and mengelebeh into your baju, having arms as big as your thighs, huge thighs that actually gesek gesek against each other like they're going to mothereffing get laid in the club tonight when you jalan and a double chin that appears without you even having to press your chin against your face!

Mesti you all terjun katil, terjun kerusi, terjun meja segala ok.

Lagi nak banyak cakap. Satu satu seriously mintak kena lenyek dengan kaki gajah. Korang pergi mintak maaf dengan itu kaki gajah sekarang jugak! Tsk.

Few months back, this happened:


APAKAH MAKNA SEMUA INI????? ADAKAH DIA JAHIL??? ATAUPUN MAHA JAHIL???

URGH. Kalau UK size 14 me already so bingit listening to you stick-thin girls whine about your perceived fatness, what about those yang more than UK size 14??? You all ada spare a thought for them tak??? So insensitive bacin. I know some of their argument is that "Ya I'm UK8 but my pipi is so TEMBAB / perut is so BONCET!"

Bitch please, your "perut boncet" is the size of my tapak tangan. MY TAPAK TANGAN, you hear me? Tapak tangan that will melayang to your face if you want to insist that you're "fat". And your "pipi tembam"? Na-uh nigga, that's not tembam, that's healthy. How do you want your pipi to be??? Cengkung??? Like a tengkorak??? Which rightfully belongs six feet down on the ground and not the face of this Earth???

Seriously.

But do you know what's even worse than that? "I'm fat because I weight 50kg OMG!!!!!" Not if you're 1.65m, woman, now shut your goddamn hole because I am going to fervently pray that all you bloody insensitive skinnies gain more than 30kg and get what you all deserve for not appreciating your society-accepted figures!!! Nak sangat declare yourself as a fat person kan. You have no idea how many real struggling fat girls want your figure and there you are whining about your so-called pipi tembams and perut boncits.

WOULD YOU LIKE TO EXCHANGE FIGURES WITH ME THEN??? Tak nak kan?! Takut kan?!

When I lost weight from UK14 to UK10 just before I left poly (that's the smallest I've ever been ok, YOU UK4/6/8 UNAPPRECIATIVE BASTARDS) I was so happy and so appreciative that I could shop for all the cheap cheap good good baju and not look swollen macam I telan a tank of oxygen or something that I always marvelled at how nice and healthy I look... and I think I must've taken about a million pictures of myself during that period ah hahahahaha

Kalau about staying healthy tu lain tau. Kalau you're already slim but you want to exercise to keep fit and healthy, that is totally fine. But some of these girls!!! Sekali aku tiup, LU JADI HABUK OK BEB.

Ok bye. Nak tidur siang because tomorrow we're going to Universal Studios Singapore (USS) with our orang orang kuat!!! EH IDEA. Macam nak tanya my mamat nak buat wedding photoshoot kat USS tak!!! HOW ABOUT?!?!?! Pakai bridal gown naik rollercoaster to ambik gambar segala!!!!!

Although I suspect my mamat mesti nak ambik gambar atas rollercoaster macam gini ah:


Korang tengok lah dekni punya irritating. Nak jugak aku kahwin dengan si badut ni eh.

Sunday, January 6, 2013

kicking off 2013

Guess what's been coooooking for me since the start of this fabulous year??? Oh ho ho ho ho, here's what!



I tried cooking and eating steamed fish like I mentioned in an earlier entry but TAK BOLEH TELAN AH GENG. Lu cocok itu ikan masuk tekak gua pakai peniti pun confirm terhembus terkeluar balik punya! My body system seriously benci ikan with a vengeance ok. Boleh nangis airmata berdarah sak makan itu binatang.

I've stopped eating fish (except for tuna, sardine and ikan bilis) since I was in primary school and I don't think I can ever go back to eating fish ever again, at least not without vomitting everything out ala girls gone wild punya night out. Sooooo I've decided to stick to something more bearable, which is good old chicken, y'all! (I'm a hardcore beef lover so chicken's pretty meh to me but it's still not as terrible as fish ah *shudders*)

Think I've mentioned this before but I want to say it again because nothing wrong with reiterating the truth - seriously sayang ke hujung dunia kat whoever yang came up with Happy Call pan because that thing is a bloody godsend for people yang tak reti dan tak febret masak ni semua!!! Yours truly is nowhere close to Nigella Lawson but at least belum sampai termasak ayam rasa macam tayar skateboard yet ah.

Ever so thankful to my middle sister Farahin for being so supportive in my struggle to lose weight for my wedding too - she Googled healthy grilled chicken recipes for me, which pretty much explains the sudden interest in grilling chicken mua ha ha. I'm currently trying out recipes from this link she gave me: 15 Healthy Grilled Chicken Recipes (No brainer title there) - no instructions and no video tutorials whatsoever so I'm really just testing and experimenting as I go along. (Although it's not really much of an experiment if all you have to do is dump ingredients into a Happy Call pan is it?! Hwa hwa hwaaaaa)

I've also been going for Zumba classes once in awhile but I'll need to ramp up my exercise regime before I can see and feel any actual weight loss... which is why I'm going to start exercising at a women-only gym located just 10 minutes away from my home next week! In shaa Allah menjadi. Kalau tetap tak menjadi and I still don't look ~fabulous~ by this November, aku seriously going to duduk BELAKANG PELAMIN OK. Actually niat hati nak threaten sembunyi bawah pelamin ah, tapi takut tak muat sebab perut boncet sangat lah kan hahahahaha

Ooh! Talking about exercise, someone recently mentioned Tabata training to me as well - thinking of incorporating and giving it a shot once I get into the groove of exercising:


All you need is 4 minutes, you guys! 4 minutes aje! Step all you need is 4 minutes aje konon, nanti tak sampai seminit dah tercungap cungap mintak sedut oxygen tank ini bertuah punya anak.

Another awesome thing that happened when the year started was our choice masjid finally releasing their dates for kursus rumahtangga, y'all! So tanpa berlengah lagi we've booked a slot and due to attend the course on my 26th birthday! No parties, no outings, no hoorah hooray for my birthday this time round, only valuable knowledge for our marriage, my future husband and I ^^


Really can't wait to see what's in store for us at kursus!

Oh, and here's a little something else that I recently received via mail at the start of the new year:


Thank you so so much for the lovely postcards, Zakaria Zainal! And my heartiest congratulations on all your achievements and milestones that you rightfully deserve so far! In case you guys have no idea who he is - he is this freaking awesome photographer I wrote about before in this entry - I truly and sincerely find his works freaking ah-mazing and I love them to bits and pieces. Still can't get over the fact that I didn't know about him until a few months back, really. If you've never heard about him or seen his stuff before, THEN WHAT THE EFF ARE YOU WAITING FOR, FELLAS - clickety click.

Oh, and thank you for sending mail addressed to me as Ms Kahwin Khronicles too! Don't think I'll receive another one like this ever again so off it goes into my chestbox of memories! Teehee!

Thursday, December 27, 2012

updates: diet and decor


Finally starting my diet proper today!

Ventured out to Mustafa Centre last night to buy ingredients for my gaya hidup sihat quest and because I have no idea how to choose and beli ikan ('Scuse me akak, budak baru nak belajar here so don't judge mafakas!!!), I had to get guidance on how to do so from my very own future husband who is truly a true blue makcik.

This man I'm marrying is so makcik, I'm going to buy him a trolley pasar for his next birthday ok. I'd buy a serkup tudung for him, but he already has that in his makcik collection.....



HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA *insert emoji ketawa sampai nangis here*

(I am so going to kena jotos for this.)

Aaaaanyway, now that I'm done laughing *stifles a giggle* - presenting my lunch staple for the next 10 months! (With a 'cheat' day once a week, of course. Mua ha ha ha. Kalau takde 'cheat' day macam mana nak gi on a Penny University date with my bridesmaids nanti!)


Amaciam cun tak?!

Hahaha ok laaahhhhh actually ni play cheat sikit because the ikan ikan that I bought to masak and makan is different from the ikan dalam the above gambar hur hur hur. Reached home to proudly show my gaya hidup sihat haul off to my mother, who promptly fished out the dish that she already prepared from the fridge -_-

Why my mother such an awesome supermother ni?!?!?! All I did was tell her of my intention to start makan healthily (steamed fish, grilled chicken breast, vegetable mixes, etc) and the next night aku masih terkial kial bawak balik ikan macam fisherman's friend, dia dah habis prepare the dish pun dah, tinggal nak steam je besok pagi nye before I go to work.

Lurb you supermother!!!!! What would I do without you supermother!!!!!

Why I tak inherit your superpowers ni, supermother?!?!?!

Well, talking about mothers.

Remember I previously blogged about having to present the wedding decor proposal to my future mother-in-law (who is also a supermother in her own right)? We did it together at his place last week and the outcome was.....



..... A SUKSES!!!!! His mother approved our decor ideas sooooo we're good to goooooooooo woo hoo hoo!!!

(Much credit and love goes to his brother (our in-house artsy fartsy design guru) jugak because he sat in during the discussion and gave us so many good pointers and suggestions - seriously wish he can be around when we meet Kasai Sayang next!!! Aku sampai propose dia sit in during the appointment via Skype segala seh.)

Hur hur hur. Ok lah, technically our wedding theme and colour scheme is not really confirmed confirmed yet, because we decided to come up with two other alternative ideas after the discussion, just in case. We already have one other alternative so still keeping our hearts and heads open for more ideas for one more alternative.

Nanti bila dah choose satu, yang lagi dua ideas tu boleh kasi our brothers and sisters recycle ke.....

Tuesday, December 25, 2012

resepi berkasih

I'm not much of a cook, and I absolutely hate eating fish and veg so I have no idea what the hell I'm thinking, trying to cook this Thai steamed sea bass dish tomorrow in my quest to find another way to lose more weight:


Found this recipe (that looks) easy and yummy on KitchenAholics and I love the fact that there's a video of the whole process, which makes it so much more easier and much more attractive for non-cooking lazypokes like me to attempt. Hur hur. I also chose this recipe because it's a Thai dish! I LOVE THAI FOOD TO DEATH OK!!! If my jodoh wasn't with my mat, it'd probably be with some mamat Thai who has a mother who cooks mean Thai dishes (haha sembarang)


I might hate fish, and I might hate veg, but the least I can do is to cook them in a style I love most, right?!

If I can keep this up, I'll probably start using a lot of recipes from Mama Bliss who posts a ton of Happy Call Yummies recipes on her Youtube channel. Love her simple and quick recipes which, again, are good for lazypokes like me when it comes to cooking (other cooking videos that take more than 3 minutes bore me sampai menguap macam harimau mengaum and make me want to speed dial McDonalds delivery) + I have a Happy Call pan lying around somewhere in my kitchen because I gave it to my mum for Mother's Day once.

Some recipes from Mama Bliss' Happy Call Yummies series that I want to attempt:





Orang yang tak pernah masak and tak pernah makan healthily akan start masak and makan healthily besok!!! Wish me all the luck in the world because I'm going to need it!!!

Wahai baju pengantin Versari Ade, ni semua LU PUNYA PASAL.