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NESTLE FITNESSE 14 Day Challenge: Part I

As i was getting ready to go out on a saturday afternoon for lunch, i stepped on the scale to weigh myself as my clothes has been feeling a bit tight these days. True enough my weight stands at 55kg and that means my BMI is 23.8! Slightly more than the optimum BMI for asian women which should be around 23 and below. My ideal weight would be around 50 to 52kg and the last time my weight hit 55kg was way back in 2007. And so, i saw this Nestle Fitnesse 14 day challenge and went to the supermarket straight away and bought 3 big boxes for the 14 day challenge.

This program expects you to replace two meals a day with a bow of nestle fitnesse cereal with skimmed milk and a piece of fruit. Breakfast should be easy but lunch or dinner can be a bit tough. However, you can also vary the food intake ie. you can add on a glass of chocolate milk, a small tub of yoghurt, a bowl of vegetables, more fruits or maybe toss in  a scramble egg so you would not get so hungry on the diet. Remember, this is not about starving yourself but selecting healthy low calory food and not skimp on nutrients.

I have also registered myself for The Star online Shape Up Your Lifestyle 14 Day Challenge. The contest is running from 1 December 2010 to 28 December 2010. Contestants are to go on the recommended cereal diet and record a daily diary of  food intake and activities during the 14 days challenge in less than 150 words. Click on the link below to know more about the contest:


http://contests.thestar.com.my/nestle_fitnesse_14days/default.asp

The blog will record exactly what i submitted for the contest so follow me on my 14 days journey to drop a jeans size and wish me luck! :)

Day 1: Sunday, 5 Dec 2010
Today is the start of my 14 day program. Since i had a really late night last night and just recovered from flu the day before, it was not that exciting to eat only cereals for two meals. Breakfast: a bowl of cereal with milk, a glass of strawberry milk and a piece of fruit. Lunch: a half serving of nasi goreng pattaya with stir fried vegetable and a glass of orange juice. A piece of chicken bun for afternoon snack. Dinner: a bowl of cereal with milk and a plate of sotong kangkung. No exercise today as i am still feeling a bit tired.

Day 2:
Still feeling under the weather as i march on in day 2. No exercise today as i was too drowsy from all the medication and slept almost the whole day. Breakfast: A bowl of cereal with chocolate milk and a piece of fruit.Lunch: Half a portion of rice with vegetables, fried fish and oxtail soup. Dinner: A bowl of cereal with milk and a bowl of long beans and carrots sauteed with garlic and soy sauce.

Day 3:
Day 3 looked more promising as i  was feeling  better and  managed to slot in a half an hour  of brisk walking on the treadmill which burns about 100 calories. Breakfast: A bowl of cereal with milk ,an apple, a piece of papaya and  a small tub of yoghurt. Lunch: Rice with fried fish, curry ,and  ulam.  Half a chocolate croissant for afternoon snack. Dinner: A bowl of cereal with milk and  salad with 2 pieces of grilled small prawns, a piece of grilled fish cutlet and small  beef cubes.

Day 4:

Its a working day today and i am back in the office.  Started  the day with walking as i park my car two blocks away from the office.  As part of my exercise plan, no more taking the  lift from today onwards so i took the stairs instead from ground floor to level 3. During lunch i walked about 3 blocks away from my office to Pavillion  to have lunch and walked back to office. Wow, l love it that i do alot of walking today :)  My food diary for today- Breakfast as usual with cereal and two pieces of fruits. Lunch:  half a serving of fried rice with chicken , a small bowl of tomyam soup and mango salad. Ate two more pieces of fruits for afternoon snack to keep me full until dinner. Dinner: I had to improvise as i had to eat dinner with the family. I ended up with a quarter  piece of murtabak, a piece of fruit and half a bowl of cereal with milk.

Day 5:

I continued on with my walking and stairs climbing routine. Today was quite a challenge as it is my mom’s birthday and we went out for dinner. I had Japanese food for lunch and my mom wanted to have Japanese for dinner as well. So I had to eat Japanese food twice today haha :p Breakfast: The usual cereal with milk, two pieces of fruits and a small bottle of magnolia good morning milk. Lunch: Half a bowl of rice topped with crab omelette and gravy, 4 pieces of salmon sushi and green tea. Dinner: Some sashimi, beef tataki, a soft shell crab hand roll and a spider maki. I think dinner was quite healthy because I ate mostly protein and tried to skimp on the rice.

Day 6:

It’s Friday and I can smell the weekends already!  :) Oh I missed out something in the calendar yesterday – I actually managed to slot in a 40 minutes running on the treadmill before dinner and that was a good progress. Sticking on to my usual workday routine today, breakfast was the usual. I managed to go the gym during lunch for a 45 minutes workout. Lunch was a bowl of cereal and milk again because I was too lazy to look for food..Dinner was half a serving of nasi pattaya and beef paprik.

Day 7: 

It was Saturday and I woke up late. So had lunch half a plate of fried kueytiow. Ate lots of fruits. Since lunch was late I had an early dinner at about 7pm with a bowl of cereal. I went out to hang out with friends and it was really tough as there was food around and I was feeling a bit more hungry than usual. So I had toast and egg around 9pm and supper of capati with a piece of tandoori chicken at 3am to satisfy my grumbling stomache. Since I did not have breakfast, I think the calories I took for the day was still alright. I also managed to exercise for about 40 minutes on the bicycle.

To be continued so stay tuned...............

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A winning entry :)

I stumbled across a website last week called the Receipt Stories and thought it was rather interesting. I can’t really remember where I read about it but I decided to submit two short story entries anyway. Basically in Receipt Stories, you can share any of your short stories, poem or haiku provided that it is not more than 100 words. You can send in as many entries as you want and if you are lucky, you will be picked as one of the winning stories.

To my surprise, I received an email yesterday from receipt stories @ book Xcess congratulating me that one of my entries has been selected as one of the winners in the 7^th round of their short stories campaign. Selected winners will receive a RM20 vouchers (valid until 31st Jan 2011), Pandanus Bookmark and Bookxcess Bookmark Autumn Edition.

And, the best part is - the stories will be printed on the receipts for 14 days from 6th Dec 2010 to 19th Dec 2010! So, if you ever go to buy books at bookXcess on those dates, keep a lookout on the receipts alright J It would look like this..

Yup, that’s my story alright with the title ‘more than words’. It's a bit small to read over here so i suggest you to click on the link below to read more of the story:

http://bookxcessblog.com/

This would be the first time in my life that my work has ever been published! J ‘More than words’ is actually an excerpt of my blog that I wrote back in 2008. If you could go back to the archive in November 2008, the piece is called ‘Contrary niceties’. You can read the rest of the post after the excerpt so you would understand the whole piece.

Personally, I think this is an excellent campaign from BookXcess. Apart from promoting its books and stores, this campaign aims to encourage Malaysians to read and write. You will be surprised of the many entries where people always have something to write and to express themselves.

I’ve always had a dream to publish my work and Receipt Stories definitely give a good kick start of confidence and encouragement. Even though it is just on a receipt, I’m still proud of myself. Maybe I shouldn’t give up on my dream yet ;)

So, do join in the fun either by writing in an entry or reading the posted entries J

Click on:  

http://www.receiptstories.my/

Jailbird

Okay so here goes the story of five friends who made it for dinner on a cool Wednesday night at The Pink Sage in Solaris Dutamas. For a start, everyone was late due to: 1) unbelievably absurd traffic congestion in Ampang 2) one who decided to leave a bit later 3) an extra hour of exercise time to make room for a heavy meal, and 4) work commitment allowing her to leave only at around 2000 hour (note the military style timing). We were supposed to meet at around 8.15 ish but everyone turned up after 9pm J The usual Malaysian timing I guess except for miss #catty1 who is always on time J

After a few minutes hanging at the curb trying to decide where to eat, we decided to head up to The Pink Sage. The pancake was comfortingly awesome. Its beef tacos, spagetti and quasadellas were very tasty and the crust of its Banoffee pie is interestingly yummy. After an hour and plus of gossiping on bloggers, eating all the food, commenting on Katy Perry’s Peacock song and laughing our head off, we decided to have a drink at the nearby mamak for a bit.

As the clock hits 11pm we decided to call it a night and went on to find our respective cars parked by the side of the road for convenience purposes. Mind you the cars were not obstructing traffic at all but it was all parked on the yellow line. To my horror, my car, which would be the easiest one to spot, was nowhere to be found! I was like ‘ hey I parked it here! I did! I remember!’ Another friend of mine, lets just call her #catty2 for now, was about to go to her car when she realized that her car was not there anymore as well. She was parked a few cars in front of mine. And then another friend, #catty3, called from the other end and her car was gone as well. It all dawned upon us that it cannot be stolen it must have been towed! True enough after frantically browsing on the Blackberry for DBKL number and a few rounds of getting the wrong department ( we got Flood department as well ok ) we got the car depot number in Jinjang Utara.

Since one of us parked inside that night, her car was the only one saved. So miss #catty4 drove to the depot since #catty3 needed to get some important stuff from her car for work the next day. So here’s the pic for our cars…in jail! We had to wait for the next day to bail them out because the abang said ‘counter dah tutup pukul 10’… but they towed our cars at around 10pm!!! Talk about DBKL and tow trucks trying to make money.

So in conclusion,

Dinner at the pink sage : rm25 ++

Quality dinner time w gfs: priceless

Visit car jail: superbbb priceless

Bailout money: rm210……..after discount…….DBKL sucks..

I think we’ve all learnt our lesson not to park illegally anymore, anywhere and anytime. You will never know when the DBKL will come towing..haha. So guys, please be mindful when you want to park by the side of the road even for just a while..

* Please not that all my friends will be called catty to conceal their identity, hence the blurred faces since the Cat would like to remain an enigma for nowJ