30 Minutes Brisk Exercise. Galaw Galaw Baka Ma Stroke

I havn't been updating my fitness/ weight loss progress merely because there really isn't any progress to it. Although, I should say and I'm proud that I still maintain the 122 lbs from way back months ago. 

What happened was, life caught up with me, seEEriousLy did. And  I lost focus on my health project. Yada Yada Yada..... I don't  wanna elaborate anymore because I don't wanna sound so defensive. 

SOOOOOO... more on the positive side. I started exercising for a week now, and it feels great doing it. Although the first few days was hard for me, TORTURE, It was really so hard to start because honestly, it's so much easier to be a potato couch right? BUT I always remind myself that I have goals to achieve. If I want to teach my family a healthy lifestyle I have to live that lifestyle too, tama? TAMA!!!! 

Hence, the exercise. 

After the third day of doing it, I observed few positive changes in me,  I am more energetic, I don't get tired easily, I see myself keeping up with my ever active toddler. (clap clap) I sleep better at night and wake up more alive in the morning. ( goodbye miss cranky ) 

Aside from my coffee, I found myself another energy booster. My 30 minutes walking exercise. You should do it too. If your goal is to lose weight, or just plainly be active or just to be healthy or if you want to give your Heart an easy daily good exercise, I recommend this to you. You can do it anywhere, even in the comforts of your own living room.

Here it is.

2 miile walk, the perfect amount of exercise to keep that heart healthy. 30 minutes a day.

What are you all waiting for. Stand up and let's get our BumBum moving. Galaw galaw baka ma stroke :)

xoxo,

PhoebeCarla  

Fitness Update: Weight Gain/ Weight Loss Update

My last fitness update was almost a month ago. I know I said I'd make a weekly update but I was pretty busy with  a lot of stuffs. And I wasn't so up to it because if you remember my last post here, it was a total failure. The simple steps I made for myself turned out to be not that simple after all.

My relatives were here for a month for our every 2 years reunion. Imagine feast for a month. Sometime in the middle, I decided to give the BSB Project a pause and indulge to the feast because it was too hard to resist and I don't want to feel guilty everytime I feed myself , you know what I mean? Plus, I want to enjoy every moment with my Aunts and cousins.

But maybe I was having too much fun, I weighed myself last July 31and  the 120 lbs became a whoooping 125 lbs! OH MY GOD!

This explained how I felt after. Oh, my God so me.

But I'm so over the depression and the regretting, drinking all the soda and eating all those yummy foods. Last week, I came to my senses and got back to my feet and back to my goals.

I'm weighing myself every Friday from now on and hope to lose a pound a week. I braved myself to the weighing scale earlier today, 122 lbs. YEY!!!! I lose the 3 pounds I gained from two weeks ago. I was sad with the 5 lbs weight I gained but, I'm always looking at the brighter side, 3 lbs off is something to be proud and happy about.

Here's what I did to lose the 3 lbs:

• Water. I made sure I drink at least a liter everyday. And I stopped drinking anything else except for coffee, I just can't let go but instead of 5 cups I cut it down to 3.

• 30 Minutes Walk everyday. 

Hopefully everything will fall into place. I realized it's so easy to gain weight but so hard to lose some. I need more motivation.

What's your secret? Care to share?

xoxo,

PhoebeCarla

Zero Calorie Drink

WATER.

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They say that one of the cheapest and healthiest way to lose weight is by drinking more water everyday. It was quite a shock when I first heard about it, because I was expecting a more complicated answer but water. But after reading articles, and after trying it out for myself here's what I learned about water and weight loss:

1. Substituting your high caloric drinks to water, saves you the extra calories to lose. With that little healthy change, pays a big benefit to your health and to your overall weight loss. 
2. Drinking more water helps detoxify your body.  Burning calories creates toxins, water flushes them out. Drinking water keeps you hydrated which is important in fat-burning process too.
3. Drinking more means eating less because it gives you the feeling full more quickly.

To be completely honest here, drinking water for me is such a challenge. I never liked drinking water but because I am all about changing to a better healthier lifestyle so I'm giving it a go go. My tips and tricks:

1. Set an alarm on your phone telling you to drink a glass of water with 2 hours interval. Until it becomes automatic. 
2. always carry cute water tumblers anywhere you go, in that way it makes it easier to remember and very accessible.
3. Drink a glass of water  

• after you wake up and before you sleep
• before and after showers
• before, in the middle and after meals
• 
  

I researched about drinks with their caloric counts and here's what I got. 

Drinks	Serving Size	Calories
Beer	1 Pint/568ml	182
Smoothie, Strawberries & Bananas, Innocent	1 Bottle/250ml	143
Cola, Coke, Coca-Cola	1 Can/330ml	142
Juice, Orange, with Bits, Tropicana	1 Bottle/330ml	141
Juice Drink, J20, Orange & Passion Fruit, Britvic	1 Bottle/275ml	132
Diet Coke	1 Serving/275ml	52
Chocolate Drink, Dry, Cadbury	1 Sachet/10g	37
Coffee, Infusion, Average, With Semi Skimmed Milk	1 Cup/220ml	14
Tea, Earl Gray, Infusion With Water	1 Mug/250ml	3
Water, Mineral or Tap	1 Glass/250ml	0

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Wouldn't you say, the healthiest drink by far is WATER, the perfect zero calorie drink...

How much water do you drink everyday?

Lets all stay healthy.

xoxo,

PhoebeCarla  

Plateau

I am having second thoughts of posting my progress with my BSB Project  this week because for one, I braved myself to the weighing scale earlier this morning and I'm still 120 lbs. What do I expect? I really didn't do anything to bring the scale down. But I would be cheating if I don't document this so pounds gain or loss rest assured you will be reading it here.

Here's  the scenario, our family (daddy's side) is having a reunion. 2 weeks ago cousins and aunts from Australia arrived and last week cousins from Canada and USA are already here. This family of ours are fan of great food. By great food I mean fatty and sweet. Did I tell you that they will be here until August. Yeah... And we made our itinerary last night at Starbucks over Fraps and cheescake (it was so good). And on our itinerary, there's a lot of partying and out of town trips involve.... Agh.... I knew it won't be easy to lose weight but I never thought it would be this hard.

Good Luck to me.

But you know, I'm not going to restrict myself for the coming days. I am still going to have a good time with my family. I am so glad we finally had this reunion realized it's been too long. So, If I happen to eat guilty foods I promise to forgive myself. But I am still dedicated to this project so in order to achieve both, I am going to compromise.

What's the plan? Baby steps.... I made only two plans for this week because I want to be realistic with the situation, you know what I mean?

For this week:

• Water and coffee.I will drink nothing but water and coffee. I'm sorry I just can't let go of coffee. It's too hard but I will limit my cups to 2 or 3 max. Definitely no more sodas for me. I will drink at least 8 glasses of water everyday. 

• 30 mins Walk. And because of the feast we are having, I'm going to walk for 30 minutes a day to get rid of the calories.

Those are my baby steps for this week. Small, realistic and very achievable steps. And for my progress report this week. I didn't lose any pounds but not gaining any is something I am happy too.

I'm still keeping my will power.

Let's all stay healthy.

xoxo,

PhoebeCarla  

{ Daily Snapshot }: Let the Walking Begin

July 10:

Baby steps. Baby Steps. 

I've started my walking this week for 30 minutes. I forgot how great it feels to sweat until today. I really hope I can keep this up. 30 minutes walking everyday. :)

Galaw galaw baka ma stroke... 

xoxo,

PhoebeCarla 

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Ready Set Go

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Wouldn't it be easier if my friends are fat? I know right. Hahahahaha...
Anyways, It's just for laughs I'm still motivated to do "Bringing Sexy Back Project:" The fun is just about to begin.

I started my BSB Project last Monday, I'm anxious and excited at the same time. Every Monday I'll try to post updates on how I did that way I will be able to document my progress. There's no backing up now!

For starters, I took my BMI (Body Mass Index) to measure my body fat based on my height and weight. This will tell me if I'm overweight, underweight or normal. The values should be as follows:

BMI Categories:

• Underweight = <18.5
• Normal weight = 18.5–24.9
• Overweight = 25–29.9
• Obesity = BMI of 30 or greater

I used the BMI calculator from here, if you want to do it manually you can do so by using this formula

English BMI Formula
BMI = ( Weight in Pounds / ( Height in inches x Height in inches ) ) x 703

My result is 23.4, meaning I'm still in the normal range. Yipee. But I know I still have to lose these bulges.

Anyhow in summary here's my measurements, I'm going to update it weekly and see how I progress.

I included my waistline because I learned from here that BMI alone isn't accurate enough to distinguish between lean, sexy, healthy muscle and excess body fat. I also learned that excess body fat raises the risk of a lot of serious diseases like stroke, diabetes, cancer and more.

So for my measurements:

Height: 5 ft tall
Weight: 120 lbs
Waistline: 29

I said before the goal is to lose 10 lbs and then 10 lbs more. Plus I want to have my muscles toned. Flabby muscles please go away!!!

Tips anyone, I highly appreciate it if you could share one or two with me :)

xoxo,

PhoebeCarla 

Bringing Sexy Back Project

I really don't consider myself super sexy but at least I wasn't this big.

I'm 5 feet tall weighing 120 lbs. Medium built. Weew... saying that feels like I'm going to a boxing match. hahaha...

I was never a skinny girl, I'm more to the chubby side but it didn't really bother me before because it was so easy to lose weight when I want to, my tummy was toned back then,  plus I don't have these extra love handles before, so I didn't have to cling to my bag everytime I sit down to hide the bulges.

Aside from being a little insicure and frustrated with this yoyo weight loss and then now gaining few pounds again. My body gets easily tired, it's hard to keep up with Sophia.



It's not really bringing sexy back. It's my evolution to a healthy and more fit me. Evolution because I was never conscious about proper food and about health in general, but when your married and have kids you become a better person, you make better decisions, you want to be the best you can be because you have your family to take care of and nurture. Personally I just want to be there for them, like really there... Play with them, travel.... have two more babies... You see the picture right?

So yeah, I'm going to lose weight for me and my love ones. I'm going to stay fit and healthy too. No popping diet pills or diet coffees or whatever artificial. I'm going to do it the natural way, coz I've learned that's the only way I'm going to keep those numbers steady.

I'll give a weekly updates on how I did... My goal is to lose the 10 lbs and then 10 lbs more after. Hmmmm. We'll see.

Can I bring her back?

WILL POWER!

xoxo,

 PhoebeCarla