Foods Are Your Allies In Losing Weight- Mumbles

It's funny that I live in an environment that takes the term WEIGHT LOSS as 

Starvation! Excessive Exercises! Not Eating! Eat those slimming pills! Cutting Off Socializing! A single piece of carrot a day!

No Food Allowed!

 No Food Allowed! 

No Food Allowed!

LOL.

I guess that's how my family and friends especially the ladies ( you know aunts, cousins, grandmas) view me nowadays. Coz everytime I went back or seeing my relatives especially, they'll try to feed me with foods as if I'm a kid that's been starving a long long long time. It's funny though.

Yeah, I have been losing 20kg or 44 pounds throughout these 3 years ( with soooo manytimes of up and down). But I never starved my self. Or do excessive exercise and such things.

Exercise moderately 3x a week is enough. For me.

But, the quality of the foods that you consume is the main important things in order to cutting of those weight. Only if you can't go with quality then you can go with quantity.

Nowadays it is easier to find information on what to eat or what not to eat. What is good for you or what is bad.

It's just that how you use all of that knowledge in order to to keep on your goals.

Foods are what build you, your body and soul. If you keep yourself in a starvation mode for a long time, there will many bad complication upon your body rather than a good one. For example:

• Your metabolic rate will drop rapidly, thus your body can't burn those fat faster.
• Your body will lose the optimal condition to function
• Brain cannot function too!!
• Emotional changes as your hormones go haywire
• Binge eating later and your body will go Ka-Pooff!!

You get what I'm saying right

So, eat right. There are a lot of websites, pages that can teach you on how to. and probably gives you better recipes that you might like it. 

Like "Eating Peanut Butter and still losing weight!"

"Guilt-less Triple Chocolate Cake"

Lol, I love these kind of posts.

Below I'm sharing with you types of info that I got from Instagram (Yeah, I print screen them for my own references.)

These are from Shredz. ( I hope they are okay with me posting this in my blog)

They got quite cool inspirational posts on getting fit and weightloss.

Sweet Heart

Because its ice cream
Ice cream mend the broken heart
Ice cream soothe the burning soul
Ice cream fill the empty feel
I love youu ice creamm

Random Wednesday

Curry Puff, Fried crunchy spinach, Fried mushroom and dunno what-fritters.. 

Blame pms..

Oat Oatmeal Oatlala

I love oats!!

Well there I say it..

There are times where I really2 hate emm..The times when people said I should eat it coz its good for body,heart, cholestrol yada yada yada..

I actually forced myself to eat those full bowl..

After quite awhile and I already getting used to the taste,hey,its actually okay,fulfilling my always-hungry tummy and I can have em in any way I want it too..

Ermm yummm... (^_^)

Another reason for me to love oats is that less time consuming.. Instant oat is much more instant-er to cook than instant noodles!!lol!

I always had those overnight oats when I know its gonna be a chaostic morning on the next day..

Even cooking rice takes time,so I will just substitute my carbs with oats..

Oaaatyyyy!!!

Clean Eating or Just Trying To Find Balance in Everything?

Around two years ago I went to a medical check up and doctor told me I was Obese. Note that I was always an overweight girl throughout my years growing up and already adapt to the idea of Being-Heavy..

But, when doctor said the word Obese, I was like "Oh, did I just exceed my limit??"

With the longgg nag from the doctor and somehow "friendly" nurse about every single sickness that I could guess, the mind started to ponder. 

The first step was hard.. like really really really really hard.. I was not quiet a sport person type and my favourite foods was always fast foods. During my uni life, i would probably went to McDonalds almost everyday with Spicy chicken McDeluxe wit nuggets, icecream,pies and extra fries as side dished.. lol..

(Did I mentioned bout my weight? I was 76kg or in pound would be around 168 lb)

Yeah for some it is not that heavy, but that amount gave enough pressure on my kinda injured back to annoyed me with pain.

Somehow I managed to persuade myself to cut out the fast food and went for swim. (I should not put it as swim cause I don,t really know how to.. let just say I self taught my self to move from one point to another with muchhhh effort.. hahahaha..)

After a year I manage to cut out more than 10kg. (yeah..it's a long run but atleast the weight ain't come back..)

Only in the second year that I learn bout the terms of clean eating, all types of diets, HIIT, cardio, weight training, calories intake, metabolic rate, all sort of stuff.. And I've met many awesome people along the way..

Though I've managed to put out 16kg.. the struggle is still there.. Maybe it's about emotional state that I should learn on how to control.. My mind is still saying I'm that obese girl.. sigh..

There's one part of me telling my self bout how I should control my food intake.. All 'clean', less sugar, less salt, organic, self prepared and all.. But believe me, in the world where I lived, it's a hard one.. Malaysian food are known for the spice, cholestrol-ish,oilish and with those the balance must come with salty and sugary dishes. It's quiet a struggle to restrain yourself from the foods we grew up with. And worse, the environment, the people around us does not understand the struggle and keep sarcastically telling us how unworthy all the efforts are.. 

Being in the situation, I learn to find a peace in between. I just eat like normal people, but trying (quiet hard) to control the portion and having the healthiest choice that I could make. It is still hard for other people to accept that way, but at least I compromise with myself.. what I want..

People will feel intimidate when they see or know something that are different from their normal life believes. And when they see others achieving their goals with that 'differences' , people will either be scared or supportive. That's how life goes..

So, let's end this mumbling with food pics.. There are times I tried to be lean so I prepared my meal.. I tried..I tried..(^_^)

Foods @ Makanan (Oh Sweetnya Terasa)

As I mumbled before I'm in a great chaos situation..

Thus this past 2 months I turned to sweet stuff for comfort..

The feeling of beating the butter by own hand (kita baca dia sebagai pukul butter)..I guess do gave me some comfort..

But the problem comes after that.. I've lost some weight within 8 months and right now I'm gaining 2 kg in 3 months!! 15% gain!! Ufff!!!

Main reason probably there's only 3 people in my house.. My parents n me..my mom is way too picky bout this cake stuff... n dad,right now he has to control his sugar intake..

So you can say everything goes through my belly.. (oh,kadang2 ada la jugak mangsa2 lain seperti kawan2 yg baik hati cakap sedap kat semua yang ada..)

Still, that "Aww,my cake jadii..." feeling still beats the guilt within that temporary moments..

Victoria Sandwich Cake

Devil's Food Chocolate Cake

Congo Bars

Red Velvet Cuppies

I took the recipes from The Kitchen Guardian's blog as I am a keen follower of her blog and Instagram..

Actually i followed many bakers' blogs n Instagram.. Boleh jadi gila tengok makanan yang super duper awesome hari2..

I blame you Instagram for my weight gain!!