Archive for the ‘Thoughts & such’ Category
How to design your weight loss plan
Posted by: poundsaway on: February 7, 2009
Before you sign up with that weight loss centre, adopt a popular diet or join that expensive gym (that you may not even need!), you need to do your groundwork.
Trust me, I’m a veteran weight loser, so I’ve had to learn things the hard way. This is my community service to prevent you from [...]
Do you need an exercise machine at home?
Posted by: poundsaway on: February 4, 2009
In my parents’ home, the study room is a graveyard for fitness equipment. A threadmill now serves as a clothes hanger than a place to sweat it out. A rowing machine lies folded in one corner, dusty from years of unuse. A mini stepper is used to hold books.
Things are quite different in my apartment. [...]
Midnight exercise
Posted by: poundsaway on: February 3, 2009
I was so annoyed with thwarted attempt to exercise this evening that I did the craziest thing: I put on an Kathy Smith aerobics DVD and worked out – at 11.30pm!
At a time when most people were already in bed, I decided to go crazy in front of the TV. Never in a million [...]
6 ways to fit exercise into your daily routine
Posted by: poundsaway on: February 3, 2009
1. Exercise at a time you preferI know with absolute certainty that I’m not a night exerciser. Which is why I’m sitting here typing this instead of being in RPM class like I originally (and very foolhardedly) planned. The reason? The traffic snarl in front of my office, which would most assuredly make me late [...]
The Insulin Resistance Diet
Posted by: poundsaway on: January 24, 2009
This book changed my life.
I’ve always found it notoriously difficult to lose weight. I blamed in on my lack of will power for not eating clean enough and not exercising enough to shed the pounds off. (Enough, meaning, working out 7 hours a week, high intensity all the way.) I didn’t realise that I was [...]
You want a better career? Lose weight!
Posted by: poundsaway on: May 28, 2008
Today, someone told me straight to my face: I need to lose weight to really succeed in my career.
At first I wasn’t sure how to take her advice. Should I be seriously offended? Upset? Nod in total agreement?
After all, the advice wasn’t unsolicited. I did ask her what to do with my current state [...]
My wake up call
Posted by: poundsaway on: February 27, 2008
Reading Kery of Color Me Fit’s post about her wake up call got me thinking about mine.
Ironically, my wake up call came when my sister began her emigration process to the United States. The whole thing shook me up because she was changing her life. I wasn’t. I know that I’m unhappy the way I [...]
Rejoined the gym
Posted by: poundsaway on: February 27, 2008
I rejoined my old gym. Didn’t like my new gym much because the whole “atmosphere” was too masculine, if that makes any sense. But I half regret my move because I thought I could’ve saved money. I’m so weak when it comes to salespeople – all I wanted to do was ask my how much [...]
My diet personality
Posted by: poundsaway on: February 5, 2008
I took this Diet personality quiz and here are my results:
Your eating personality is Hearty Portioner
Hearty Portioners put too much food on their plates, usually finish it and feel stuffed. You eat quickly and really aren’t sure what constitutes a normal, healthy portion of food. Part of the problem is that restaurants serve such large [...]
The fat comments of Chinese New Year
Posted by: poundsaway on: February 2, 2009
Wow. I survived Chinese New Year, which meant that I survived my relatives!
I hated CNY for as long as I remember. Not only for the “when are you getting married, why are you still single” pesky queries, but for my relatives’ creative ways of telling me that I’m fat.
Now, being fat and Asian is like [...]