Fitness goals and the taste of success!

Another one for the record again!

I promise I'm not that obsessed with weight. But I'm excited to realise I've lost more weight this morning. I seriously have not seen this number for years, a quick check on MyFitnessPal showed that the lowest I hit was 53.5kg when I just started keto 2 years ago. I had religiously tracked and followed the recommendations for my macros then, while now I'm just lazier and trying to stay on track as much as possible. I would say for most days I'm certainly dirty ketoing. Sometimes, when I have a few mouthful of rice, my diet is not even considered doing keto, but just low carb diet.

There's nothing much I can post about at this moment, as I've not been to places even in Phase 2 of post CB days. Many people were out and about for the past 10 days since they announced the nation entering into Phase 2 on 19th June, but I still try to keep to what I've been doing during CB period. It's been almost 2 months since I even go to Junction 8, which is just ten minutes walk away. I think the last time I've been there was to pick up dinner and get a new yoga mat for my workouts in May. Other than that, I've been to only three places the past 2 months. The first is of course my workplace. And I've visited my parents and celebrated Fathers' day with my family two weeks ago.

Last Monday, it was the first time I've dined out after months. The school is a nomination centre for the upcoming GE2020 so we could get off early on Monday afternoon and out we went for afternoon tea. On top of that, I've been taking Grab around and I've not taken public transport since March.

Chloe Ting rocks! 

Unbelievably, for the month of June, I only missed one day of not working out. It's crazy, I've always been quite active but I've never worked out for so many consecutive days before. It is easy to keep to this routine after I switched to home workouts, but nowadays I frequently do it late at night like hours after dinner and we dont really do together as a group on Zoom anymore. I'm now into Day 6 of Chloe's latest Intense Core Challenge and boy, it's really quite intensive and challenging. 

The month of July

I really missed Italy and traveling. We got so used to eating gelato daily during our trip then, we even had special missions hunting down gelato shops those days. I was delighted to see a post selling keto gelato last week and ordered these two tubs. Now I'm having these daily and I love the avocado chocolate one, the taste is really authentic. I've just put in my second order as I've finished the first tub of these.

Yummy Keto Gelato ice cream

Honestly I love rice and noodles, and probably noodles even more than rice. I'm able to cut out rice totally except for the occasional one or two bites of rice I pinched from P's plate. Other than that, I'm fine without rice and been doing okay with cauliflower rice for my occasional aaroz caldo dish. For noodles, it's hard to create dishes without them so I tried out different keto alternatives lately. I've been whipping up dishes using Lokarb and I've made my second purchase with just the fettucine. I also bought kelp noodles from iherb for my korean army stew, to replace the glass noodles as the texture is similar. Recently, I saw a post on facebook selling oat fibre noodles and these are now my favourites as the taste and texture is really similar to normal mee. The best thing is it does not need preparation unlike the other two options. I have shirataki noodles lying around but I had bad experiences with its taste so I've not touched those for ages. 

Different type of noodles while on keto diet 

My atas skincare collection, new routine daily

I've been buying stuff online a lot and that's the only mode for my purchases these months. Many shops are also having sales to clear off their stuff and I bought some skincare products that I've been eyeing for quite some time. I had not bite the bullet due to the price previously, but these were having such great discounts that I could not resist. 

Yippie! Another new low for my weight

With daily exercise and almost OMAD most of the times, I hit another new low for my weight, I think the whole of 2019 I did not see this number at all. I'm in the 55+ ish weight range now and I think it can hit 54kg soon. Ganbatte! 

New workout bench

P bought another addition to our home gym. He did not mention anything and just bought it offline so I was surprised when the bulky item was delivered. I was worried it will take up a lot of space but we managed to cleared up the boxes lying around and it's quite foldable.