Getting back into shape

Yoyo effect have you heard of that? It's like being slim then fat again, slim and fat again. That would be my typical body story. I had slim body then I became fat didn't like it try my best to be slim again. So far the fastest way for me be slim is when I'm stress out but at some point stress is also the fastest way for me to gain weight. Well it just depends on how my body responds to stress.

I want to formulate a diet and exercise routine that would motivate me without interfering with my life style. I am a pretty busy teacher. I also don't like the feeling of depriving myself form the food I want. I do write blogs about food so you could just imagine fast I could gain weight.

1. Exercise.

There are a lot of Youtube video that you could watch that would suit you. As for me, I don't like a video wherein the instructor talk to much and move to fast because I'm pretty slow. sometime I just edit the video and combine the parts that I like. I usually go with those relaxing type of video.

2. Diet.

As of now I just eat whatever we have. But before when I was on a diet I would buy oatmeal or cereal good for a month and just eat that. I also try my best to stay away from eating rice of I just eat it during lunch. I buy fruits and yogurt for snack it was pretty much controlled. If some one ask me out to eat my face would change like disgust cause I'm think of the weight I would gain. It was pretty weird like who would give that reaction to food.

3. Motivation.

A friend of mine once told me that he would like to see me slimmer. He was my friend since highschool until now and we are comfortable saying those things to each other without being offended. I was slim when I was in highschool. So I tried my best to lose weight even thought I knew he wouldn't see me that often cause his working in a different place. But the thing is he kept me motivated like he would say "stay away from certain food", "try eating Nestle Fitness", "go to the gym" and many other things. Believe it or not those days were my slimmest days. Like I get to wear tuck in without being conscious about my belly, I was that slim. My other friend were even shock to see how slim I was. I only took my 3 months. After that healthy life style, a stressful workplace cause me to even lose more weight, not good.

I wish we could see each other again and I wish he would would say that he likes to see me slimmer but sad to say medical school have been keeping him busy and we hardly see each other now.

The point is in order for me to lose weight I need someone to acknowledge that I need to lose weight a side from myself and I need the continuous support to keep myself motivated and I know that other people sees the same way. The problem is my family would always say "ok lang katawan mo" even though my clothes are popping out out because of to much weight.

Getting back into shape

Now here is what I'm going to do and this is base from my experience on losing weight and other videos I watch in weight lose.

1. Exercise.

A. Follow some exercise video I download every morning for 30 minutes.

B. Go back to my morning walk every weekend, hopefully it doesn't rain

C. Get 8 hours of sleep but I'm not sure I can do this since I busy with paper works but I will try.

2. Diet.

A. I will only eat rice during lunch.

B. My snack will only be fruits, yogurt, frozen Chuckie

C. If ever I eat something sweet I need to work out 20 minutes

D. I will do my best to stay away from over eating.

E. I will go back to eating cereal and oatmeal.
F. Once a week I will have a cheat day wherein I can eat 1 food that I like, not all the food I like because my diet would be useless if that is the case.

3. Motivation

A. Today I chat with that friend of mine I told you. Hopefully will see each other and I can get motivation again about getting slimmer.

B. My clothes in the cabinet that I haven't worn because I doesn't fit rather that being depress about it I'll use it as a motivation that in 3 months time I can wear them again.

C. The people telling me I'm fat, wait for it next you'll say I'm slim hehehehe!

Hopefully, I be back in shape and won't yoyo back to being fat.

9/25/2016 It has been 1 week since I wrote this blog was I successful? No! I actually violated all. I ate icecream, I didn't work out, I slept late, I only ate cereal twice in this week. In short my motivation was low. But this doesn't mean I should give up I just have to try again just like what my friend said. I'm not delaying my back to shape goal I just have to search for other exercise videos does that I can do. I also need to look for other meals I can eat. Baby steps.

10/1/2016 I did yoga once this week. I also ate cold oatmeal with peanut butter and banana. Actually cold oatmeal taste better than warm oatmeal. Still no weight lost but I'll get there... Baby steps... I'll soon wear clothes without a problem.

10/16/2016 At some point I was pretty good in following my diet I even list down the food I eat but my schedule became demanding because it is examination week so I ate some unhealthy food like those from fast food chain. Since I didn't want to do that again I bought some small identical container and I'm going to prepare my meal for the week so that I won't have to do it every morning.
Saying No to rice isn't easy specially because I'm a Filipino and rice is our staple food having that said I still do eat rice during dinner and I know it is not the right time but it is the time I can eat rice. During breakfast and lunch I eat my oatmeal or hard boiled egg without rice.  I also make it a point to drink a lot of water, according to a weight loss videos I watched drinking water will help you loss weight by letting your body let go of the other water it is holding in. I'm also eating fruits everyday and again this is base on a video I watched about diet, our body can easy digest food that are natural. If it is process the body will just store it as fats so stay away from it ok. Choose the regular yogurt the one without flavor it is more healthy. 
I also did some research on diet recipe like oatmeal with dark chocolate, egg and banana pancake, oatmeal with carrots, fruits with yogurt don't worry if the fruit turns brown the taste doesn't change, I also did some infuse water. Again prepare food ahead of time is the key to keeping up with a diet plan and make sure to give time to eat the food you really want so you won't feel deprived. Just don't eat too many. Ok! Look dieting doesn't mean Saying NO to every food you like it is more of find better food to eat and stay with it.

10/27/2016 It has been 1 month and 2 days since I started steps in getting back to shape and I'm happy to say that I am getting use to my diet and happy to say that I am doing some workout because it is sembreak and we don't have class. If you are wondering if there are improvements? Well to be honest I hardly see it I still have my belly fat (muffin top when I wear my pants) and my wiggly arms. But I'm not losing hope I just have to be more determine in doing my exercise and diet.

The Burger List By Meiam

          First and foremost, I’m not chef or food expert but I do know if a food taste good or not and I do love to eat, like who doesn’t like to eat. Second, I wanted to write something about burger because it gives me another reason to eat burger hahaha! Just kidding, I just want to appraise the burgers available here in our city.

          But before that let’s define BURGER, a sandwich consisting of a bun, a cooked beef patty, and often other ingredients such as cheese, onion slices, lettuce, or condiments, this is according to ”the free dictionary by Farlex”

1. Jollibee “Cheesy Beacon Mushroom Yum”- To be honest, Jollibee will always have a special place in my heart, I am a Jollibee kid. Every bite of the Yum Burger is like a step back of to my childhood and the taste haven’t change one bit. It is truly “langhap-Sarap”. I love fact that the taste stays in my mouth after I eat the Yum Burger.

               

   

2. Barney’s Burger “Beacon Cheese Burger”- The price range of Barney’s Burger is from 59 to 120. Classic is 1 scoop and Supreme is 2 scoop. I love the powerful red color of the venue. Nice crew, they serve water without me ask, lovely smile and they answered my question about how is this classic different from supreme etc. Now it’s time to get back to busy the taste of the burger. It was delicious, I love the beefy taste and as I look closely in the cooked beef, I saw the green herbs and spices inside it. The melting cheese was dreamy and very mouth watering.

            

3. Big Boss Burger “Little Bossing”- Volcanic rock grilled this is what makes Big Boss Burger different from other burgers. What does that mean? I’m not exactly sure but since it said volcanic rock grilled maybe it was grilled with Igneous rock. Well anyway going back, when I saw the little bossing the first thing that came out of my mind was “How am I suppose to eat this, it’s too big and take note this is just the little bossing”. I was eating like a kid without manners because ingredients of the burger were falling every time I bite it. While eating it I could smell not beef but the volcanic grill. There was this yellow thing in the burger and I don’t know what it was, my brother said it was onion rings with thick coating. The taste was fine. The crew was funny the thought I was Japanese. The place was ok and if you are not comfortable eating in front of the road they have a second floor. Another nice thing about their place is that it is near Ilovemilktea so I brought a milktea to pair with my burger. Milktea and Burger, who ever thought it could be a pair, right? Oh! well that's me.

            

For now those are the burgers that I have tried but I’m still planning to eat at other places and add the here. Until next time.