June 29, 2015

Only my fourth blog post and I’m already really really tired. Who knew blogging could be so stressful? HAHA! It feels like all the words have already been sucked out of me and I’ve become really really quiet, and I am never quiet.

Anyway, this is my exercise routine for the road to fitness! insert muscle emoji here

Today, I went to my university’s gymnasium to exercise. Considering I didn’t want to enroll myself in any gym anymore (in order to save up), I decided to make use of the facilities around me.

It’s still summer here, and most of the people are either in their summer classes or vacation (or rotting at home like what I used to be), so I had the oval all to myself, which was perfect since I am so insecure when I exercise.

I had full cardio for 15 minutes running at 10.5mins per km, which burned me about 70 calories (WHAT). Then had brisk walking for 10 more minutes somewhere in between that 15 minute sprint.

I then proceeded(is this a word?) with doing flexibility, and gymnastics… AND I WAS SO THRILLED TO DO A BACKBEND RECOVER WITHOUT MUCH PAIN! I also went on with cartwheels, one handed cartwheels, and practiced of achieving my aerial (which, I might say is hard when you have noone to spot you)

Ended my workout sessions with some splits, and of course, a photo to commemorate the moment (well, just a photo of my shoes HAHA)

Cheers,

Marie

Starting Out: My Paleo College Diet

I actually don’t suggest you follow this because I had a lot of cheats this day… And it’s my first day doing the diet. HAHAHA Oh, life.

Anyway, I started out by installing some apps on my phone, to fully help me and motivate me to do this diet. The one I usually use is My Fitness Pal. It’s a great calorie counter, though it tends to omit some food in my country 😦 Boohoo. So I tend to eyeball it instead (which I probably wouldn’t suggest. You know what? I suggest you skip this post HAHA).

Living in the dorm means that you really, really, really have limited food options, and I haven’t had the time to do grocery shopping this week (since I just came back last Saturday) so I had to make do with dear old 7-eleven.

Now, before you say Oh-oh, there are actually some food there that I think have some nutritional value. So now let’s take a look at my meal plan.

Breakfast:

• Fresh Tuna and Egg Salad [7-eleven] – 218 calories
• Javita Burn and Control Coffee – 11 calories

Snacks:

• Leche Flan aka Vanilla Egg Custard [7-eleven] – 195 calories

[See this is why I don’t like buying at 7-eleven, I was so tempted to buy theseee huhu and I hate the fact that I don’t regret buying this :]

Lunch:   

• Beef Tapa and Sauteed Spinach with Barbeque Sauce [Food Stand at my school] – 264 calories
• Red Rice (this is included in the meal that I bought with the Beef Tapa but I only ate half of the rice) – 124 calories

Dinner:  

• Chicken Leg with 1/4 cup of rice – 220 calories

[I was about to buy another of 7-eleven’s salads but they ran out (and I went through 2 different stores, too) so I had to go with their Fried Chicken. The rice came with the chicken and it was too salty so I can’t resist the urge to eat some rice though…]

My total for today was 1,033 calories which is nice, considering that I had to eat that Leche Flan… the app said women need to have a food intake of 1000-1200 calories a day so that was great considering I was in the range of it.

Now, the Paleo Diet strictly says that we should avoid rice, wheat, etc. However, I do not feel the slight regret of eating rice since its my first day and we cant simply have that radical change, or can we? I still hope this works though! Tomorrow, I’ll do my grocery shopping already and maybe my diet will change… who knows? Haha! Stay tuned!

Cheers,

Marie

The Blogging Challenge

I’m really surprised how easy it is for me to create blog posts. I know there’s only been two posts but I really wonder how come I can make a 600-word blog post in 15 minutes as compared to a 500 word essay in two hours…

Wondering aside, I now present The Blogging Challenge. Similar to those workout challenges (read: The 30 days squat challenge) or the diet challenges, I plan to have a blog post everyday in order for me to reflect on what I have done for the day.

I also do not know the psychology for this but I really thing blogging about my weight loss journey would be extremely helpful (hopefully).

So now WHY blog? I actually spent over an hour thinking about this… and here are my four three main goals for blogging.

1. College + Fitness. I basically have described this earlier in this post. I really do plan that we could still stay(be) fit in college.

2. The Road to Self Improvement. AKA No more rants, no more negative thoughts, and practicing my inner kindness.

3. This is really something unnecessary but in case my blog goes viral, people can share things here HAHA. wow.

4. FOR THE FAME AND FORTUNE. Which probably would never happen.

And that, my dear readers, is why I decide to blog (I had a lot to say than this in my mind though but I got discouraged because I CANNOT GET HOW WORDPRESS FORMATS THEIR POSTS UGH [and thus I have already failed at goal number 2])

That’s it for now!

Cheers,

Marie

I should make a blog.

Never have I ever thought of pursuing a blog.

There were too many reasons like, I was too obsessive compulsive. If I were to make a blog, it has to be perfect. The theme should be great, the writing should be amazing, and for me, that’s just too much work. I also thought having a blog was too cheesy, as I wasn’t the kind of girl who talks about their feelings. I also have this anxiety issue where if my real life friends would see this, I’m afraid they’ll make fun of me (and probably, at this point, they’re already judging me).

Yet, here I am, writing my first ever blog post. Fascinating how this idea just casually popped into my mind three hours ago.

See, I started going to the gym last month. It wasn’t really a “because I want to lose weight” action but more of a “I HAVE NOTHING TO DO OVER THE SUMMER!”, but the weight loss idea is still there somewhere. I actually wanted to lose weight since ever five years ago, and sometimes, I did try doing those crazy diets, but eventually failing. Which led me to being full blast YOLO  with my body.

But hey, tomorrow’s a new day, right? So now, after countless efforts of trying and trying and trying to lose weight, and asking myself numerous times why I COULDN’T lose weight when in fact I’ve read A LOT of blogs that has already posted their before and after photos of weight transformation, and even copying all their weird tactics to lose weight, I now realize that thing I’ve been missing out — a blog.

And so, this blog was born – in the hopes that maybe the movement of my fingertips as they graced around the keyboard would be the key to losing all those pounds. Also, for those who know me in real life, please note that I don’t intent to share this blog!!! Please please please don’t tell other people about this (and thus, anxiety kicks in). Who knows, maybe I’ll have the courage to go public with my friends, but for now, this is all I can afford.

And if you happen to be a complete stranger to me, then just your luck for finding this blog. Haha!

Anyway, this is all for now since I really think it’s too long to read. Wish me luck (yeah, I’m actually talking to no audience though…)

Cheers,

Marie