Journey to a Newly Healthy Me

Dear Readers//

2008-06-17T20:00:00.001-07:00

So sorry for not updating my meals for that past several days..Somethin happen and its so hard to keep up w/ this..I will soon post again..
Thank You

Sore Throat :(

2008-06-13T07:06:00.000-07:00

Despite my hard attempt to live healthily, sickness still attacking me..Like today, the sore throat that was just cured a week ago came back I guess. Maybe because I was never have enough sleep..Yeah, I wasn't that healthy..

Today :

Breakfast: A bowl of cut watermelon

Lunch: A plateful of oatmeal, sauteed cabbage and tahu w/ olive oil

Eve snack: 250 g of plain yogurt w/ honey

Dinner: A plateful of oatmeal, sauteed cabbage and tahu w/ olive oil

Temptation : -

Win or lose?

Exercise? Unwell, duh

Are you successful? Yup

Keep On Keeping On

2008-06-12T07:35:00.000-07:00

Its not easy to stick on healthy lifestyle while you're actually not really into it..Until now, I still have this 'diet' concept. I haven't really grasped that if this food will harm my body or "its a junk hey"..I still have this trying here and there (icip-icip) urge but I push myself to keep on keeping on..As Milton Garland once says "My advice is to go into something and STAY WITH IT until you like it"..

-Hope so-

Today :

Breakfast: - An Apple

Lunch: A plateful of oatmeal, stringbeans, and 2 fried tahus

Afternoon snack: a spoonful of honey

Dinner: Half plate of oatmeal, stringbeans, 2 steamed tahu

Eve snack : a banana

Late nite snack : 1/8 of watermelon

Temptation : Fried chicken

Win or lose? Say that I win

Exercise? No time honey

Are you successful? Pretty Much Yes

I 'Poisoned' My Body With Poison No. 1

2008-06-11T04:01:00.000-07:00

Poison No.1

White Flour

What starts out as a "good" thing, whole grains, becomes something that is poisonous to our body through processing. Most of us are aware of what happens in the milling process. First the outer shell called the bran (fiber) is removed and is either thrown away or sold at a health food store. Then the germ, which contains all the nutrients is removed because it "gums up" the machinery. The remaining endosperm is ground into a fine powder, but because it is not pure white (pretty), then it is "bleached" with an agent similar to Clorox. But now it contains no nutrients or fiber and no one will buy a product without some "benefit". So the bread maker adds some artificial coal-tar derived vitamins and minerals which have been shown to cause cancer. Now he can pass this on to the public as supposedly good food because it has been "enriched"! Notice this has no fiber and no nutrition! This is only the beginning. There is much more information regarding what this flour does once it is in our system, specifically in the colon.

Source: a site which I forgot

Today :

Breakfast: - An Apple

Lunch: A plateful of oatmeal, tahu, and string bean, AND one Mini Martabak Telor (Indonesian delicacy made from white flour, egg, and several other ingredients, fried at the end)

Afternoon snack: an apple

Dinner: A plateful of oatmeal, tahu, and string bean, and two Minis Martabak Telor, and Shrimp Crackers

Temptation : Martabak Telor and Shrimp Crackers

Win or lose? Totally lose it

Exercise? Too Lazy to do it

Are you successful? Not at all

Weight Loss Facts

2008-06-11T03:51:00.000-07:00

Low Fat Foods DON'T WORK.

You cannot lose weight using Low Fat Diets. Low fat foods have been popular for more than 15 years, but yet our society is getting more overweight as each year passes. This fact alone should tell you that eating a purely low fat menu is not the answer to losing weight.

Low Calorie Diets DON'T WORK.

You will never won't lose weight using a Low Calorie Dieting Plan either. In fact, eating low calories is the worst thing that you can do to your body, since that will only slow down your body's fat burning engine and ruin all chances of losing weight (low calorie diets may allow a few pounds of weight loss for the first few days, but then after that all weight loss comes to a halt --- known as a dieting plateau). You can never get slim by starving yourself.

Low Carb Plans DON'T WORK.

You'll probably find it extremely difficult to get slim using a Low Carb Dieting Plan. Low carb diets have recently become popular over the last couple years, but the problem with low carb menus is that they are too strict and TOO HARD TO FOLLOW for average people. Low carb menus tend to rob your body of too much energy (carbohydrates) and make it nearly impossible to remain on the program for very long. This is why so many dieters find it difficult to follow a strict low carbohydrate menu.

Source : Many

Today's :

Breakfast : an apple

Lunch : a plateful of oatmeal with tahu and string beans

Afternoon snack: an apple

Dinner : a plateful of oatmeal with tahu and string beans

Two spoonful of sausage fried rice

A spoonful of honey

A cup of cassiatoralinne tea

Late nite snack : a bowl of papayas

Temptation : Fried Noodle and Sausage Fried Rice

Win or Lose : Lose on the Sausage Fried Rice Thingy

R u Successful : 50% Successful

No Salt, No Sugar

2008-06-09T07:28:00.000-07:00

Its day three..I'm trying my best not just to be healthy but to be more healthy. One of which is lessening salt and sugar. I have learned in life taht I've always been in a circle of 'eating out' where there is no such thing as no salt no sugar there.So I promise myself to eat food with taste ONLY when I'm eating out and keep myself up whenever I'm at home..

Today :

Breakfast: an apple

Lunch: A plateful of oatmeal and half of freshly cut tomato

Eve snack: an apple

Dinner: half plate of oatmeal, 4 tahus (tofu similar), and half of freshly cut tomato

Temptation : Cakwe (Indonesian snack made from fried white flour and some other ingredients) and Gado-gado (Indonesian salad with nut dressing)

Win or lose? Win

Exercise? I am still sick so no exercise at all

Are you successful? Proudly Yes

What Happened on Sunday

2008-06-08T08:42:00.001-07:00

Oh dear, I thought I was gonna be able to come home immediately after church and cook the healthy one meself..Instead, I went with me friend..The desire to go with them was greater than coming home alone..So I ended up eating the food that could've avoided..But I wasn't that regretful..This is Sunday anyhow..hahaha..what an excuse!

Today :

Breakfast: A Banana

Lunch: A plateful of Ifumie

Eve snack: -

Dinner: Fried tahu (tofu similar) and cireng (fried white flour, Indonesian traditional)

Temptation : Ifumie and Cireng

Win or lose? Lose

Exercise? No exercise on Sunday lah..lol

Are you successful? 50% successful..

A New Beginning

2008-06-07T01:56:00.000-07:00

Today was a new beginning..As always, first start is the hardest. Just when you decided temptation chasing you like crazy..Like today, just when i was about to have my lunch..A huge bag of kripik balado (spicy delicious chips from Padang, an Indonesia's traditional food) seem to say 'try me'//

I was walking around, going upstairs downstairs to clear my conscious.."My mind was at war with my fleshy desire". If usually I gave in and ate one which eventually led to another 2,3,4 and even a bag full of chips..Today,,no is a no..

But then i remember words on weight loss from one of the experts which i downloaded from iTunes that our attempt to 'never want to hear our body' will eventually ended up in getting back or revenge..Its when our body gave up entirely and we lost our control totally..So she said the best way is to feel at ease or compromise wif your body/desire..

So then I decided to eat a small tiniest bit of chip just to fill me..I don't know when is the day when i could gain full control. Someday..someday..

Today :

Breakfast: - (I was sick so I woke very2 late and had no breakfast)

Lunch: A plateful of oatmeal

Eve snack: an apple

Dinner: A plateful of oatmeal and a freshly cut tomato

Temptation : Keripik Balado

Win or lose? Say that I win

Exercise? I am still sick so no exercise at all

Are you successful? Pretty Much Yes

Preface

2008-06-06T08:18:00.000-07:00

I've finally decided to make a new blog related to my life-long passion which is losing quite weight in a healthy way..This will be my everyday journal about things I do in order to lose weight..Any health-related information will be posted here as well..

I decided to do this because I hope this will help me motivate myself..It's been long that my weight has always been going up and down and God Knows how many people on this planet knew how long has my life been struggling to be revolved around diet or healthy lifestyle to be able to reach a slim and healthy figure I've always dreamt of..

This is an opportunity for me to challenge myself as well..; I wanna see whether i'm open, consistent, and making progress and achieving my goal..

Actually, it will be better if any of you who happened to read this and dream the same want to be part of this..That way we can support each other..Send me emails and tell that you would want to be part of this and promise to follow the rules which I will tell you if you interested and I am more than happy to be the part of our challenge..and change the link and the name of this blog..

Waiting to hear your respond..

maria (a slim, fit, healthy, and beautiful inside and outside young lady)