You are what you eat

I didn’t realized how much I had consumed in the past 1 – 2 years to gain approx 6Kg. Some days, I will have a cup of milk tea or coffee during the afternoon break with colleagues and that is about 100cal for a sweetened drink like this.  If I were to have bee hoon with fried egg for breakfast with cuppa coffee, that will be around 600cal.  Char siew rice for lunch will add another 600cal. A piece of fruit another 50cal. A few squares of chocolate eaten mindlessly while working will be around 150 – 300cal. Dinner of rice and dishes may be 600cal and munching on the donut after dinner another 300cal + coffee 100cal.  WOW…. That is approx 2350cal for a person with sedentary lifestyle who needs only 1500cal.

 

This may not be the usual meal you have daily but anything around this, will lead you to Fat-dom. With me watching and estimate counting all those stuff that I gobble down my throat.  It is not difficult to realized that I had eaten way way too much. I am trying my best to keep my food intake at 1500cal daily which is a realistic goal.  Reducing too much intake suddenly may fool our body into thinking that we are starving and begin to store fats.

 

Rome is not build in one day… my 6kg is not gained in 1 day but over a span of 1 year.  I should try to lose them over a period of 6 – 12 mths.

 

Food that I will missed and only gets to eat them once in a blue moon from now on. Mee Siam, Laksa, Char Kway Teow, Cheesecake, Sesame paste, Almond paste.  Arrrghhhh the forbidden food list may go on. I better stop here before I miss them too much.