Thread: Healed and Ready for Tougher Goals

Originally Posted by PreMier

What is stewed fish? Fish in stew? What kind of stew?

yes J, it's fish in a sort of tangy stew, with lemon slices, a dash of curry powder and some LF milk .. the fish is pre- marinated in garlic, ginger and soy sauce... lemme know if you want the recipe... it's quite yummiesss!

Any nails yet?

Kerri, I actaully got them done 2 weeks ago, but since in this city of 3 million people there's only one salon where one can get gel nails done LOL, I had to ask those questions that were in my head

At first I really loved them... then 10 days later one of my plastic tips split vertically ( my nails were verrry short, so they had to attach plastic tips and then do gel over), also, the technician used an electric drill and I wasn't too happy about that, but admitedly she only used it for a bit on the gel surface and used normal files for tidying up around cuticles... then when she fished the broken tip, and applied an extra layer of gel, two other nails bubbled up LOL....

So I figured out, since I have to do it there anyway ( and all in all it's actually a decent job), I am gonna find out as much as I can about application process, and give her pointers....

I am sooo angry!! I woke up extra early this morning - at 6.45 am to go for my biking class and there was a massive traffic jam due to a really bad road accident, and I missed it!! I was 30 min late, and decided to skip all together!!

No training yesterday, no cardio... the only training was 2 hours of window-shopping in the mall Ended up only buying raw almonds and walnuts for roasting.

Diet:

M1 ( 9 am) : Lentil soup, 2 eggs, 1 EW, celery sticks, 1 orange
11.00 am - 1 carrot

M2 ( 12.30): 1/2 C boiled brown barley, fish fillet, spinach, pumpkin
3.30 : 1 apple

M3 ( 4.30): 1/2 C CC

M4 ( 7.30): grilled salmon, steamed long beans, 2 spoonfuls of mash
10.00 pm : 3 TBS of ice cream

I bet it was some asian guy with 'status' doing his nails. Sorry you missed your class though.

Originally Posted by PreMier

I bet it was some asian guy with 'status' doing his nails. Sorry you missed your class though.

SMART ASS!!

Well actually the whole jam was because people here bet a lot and all the time, and they believe in yin/yang thing, so every misfortune draws a good fortune..... and so they bet on the numbers from the license plate of a car involved in the acident, for that reason everyone slows down to take the digits down....

Originally Posted by greekblondechic

I know !! It usually just causes even more accidents coz everyone is trying so badly to jot those numbers down no one's paying any attention to the road!!

Originally Posted by dalila

Kerri, I actaully got them done 2 weeks ago, but since in this city of 3 million people there's only one salon where one can get gel nails done LOL, I had to ask those questions that were in my head

At first I really loved them... then 10 days later one of my plastic tips split vertically ( my nails were verrry short, so they had to attach plastic tips and then do gel over), also, the technician used an electric drill and I wasn't too happy about that, but admitedly she only used it for a bit on the gel surface and used normal files for tidying up around cuticles... then when she fished the broken tip, and applied an extra layer of gel, two other nails bubbled up LOL....

So I figured out, since I have to do it there anyway ( and all in all it's actually a decent job), I am gonna find out as much as I can about application process, and give her pointers....

OMG! That sucks! What a bad experience. I've never had that happen. Hate to say it, but your nail lady sucks. Why are they even using plastic tips? The lady that does mine even sculpts the tips, she's awesome. Too bad I can't send her down to you to do your nails for you

Originally Posted by klmclean

OMG! That sucks! What a bad experience. I've never had that happen. Hate to say it, but your nail lady sucks. Why are they even using plastic tips? The lady that does mine even sculpts the tips, she's awesome. Too bad I can't send her down to you to do your nails for you

I know but what can I do... my nails look so awful without some sort of work.... and I guess they don't do sculpted tips..what's the diff though? I wish you could send your nail technician down to Malaysia too LOL

Maybe you should stick to acrylics?

Greeky - I like the feel of ( or rather the fact that I can't feel) gel nails.... they also look nicer, you don't even have to wear nail polish....

Yesterday's training - Lower body

BB squats
45lbsx 15
55lbs X 11 @ 4 sets

Walking Lunges
15lbs X 12 ( each leg, i.e. 24 steps) @ 4 sets

Seated Leg Curls
55lbs X 12 @ 3 sets

Cable Abduction ( decided to give them a shot , and found them really tough!)
1.5 plate (30lbs) X 10 @ 3 set - 3 sets for one leg then switch


Yesterday's Diet

M1: 1/2 C raw oats, whey, apple, 2 sticks celery
M2: 2 slices LF cheese, 1 carrot
M3: 1/2 C boiled brown barley, chicken stew ( only chicken eaten), veg
M4: 1/2 C CC
M5 (PW): whey + oats
M6: grilled fish, jumbo shrimp, mussels and 5 french fried; 2 glasses red wine

Today my bum-bums is ouchie, but I like it!! Let the bloody stubbron cellulite feel it and suffer in pain!! I said it will leave by hook or by crook , and it didn't listen to me, so there now!!!

I know I know, I lost it! LOL

Originally Posted by dalila

M6: grilled fish, jumbo shrimo, mussels and 5 french fried; 2 glasses red wine
I love seafood

Today my bum-bums is ouchie, but I like it!! Let the bloody stubbron cellulite feel it and suffer in pain!! I said it will leave by hook or by crook , and it didn't listen to me, so there now!!!

I know I know, I lost it! LOL

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Originally Posted by dalila

I know but what can I do... my nails look so awful without some sort of work.... and I guess they don't do sculpted tips..what's the diff though? I wish you could send your nail technician down to Malaysia too LOL

Re: the sculped tips, she just makes the tip out of the same gel she puts on the nail and scupts it into a tip with a file. I just had them done yesterday, and I must say, they look fabulous I would shop around and see if someone else can do a better job.

Hello everyone!!

Weekend came YAY, and ended Awwww!! What can I say, I love weekends, I can even wake up at an ungodly hour at 7.30am on weekends - something that eludes me every working day!

It was nice... I watched some really good local stand up comedians who always make fun of political and racial situation in Malaysia, got pretty pissed on good wine LOL... the hangover actually wasn't too bad, so I went for friend's BBQ party the next day- yum, lots and lots of seafood, and on sunday I just chilled at home, swam for a while, wacthed lots of TV ....

Happy Monday everyone!

Hi

Hi Jakie

And so I finally made quinoa... something like paella but with quinoa..and it was really good!! I loved it. And the grain expands so much - 1 C of dry quinoa makes a full pot, like 4-5 big portions, so it's actually pretty decent in cals.

Yesterday's training:

45 min high intensity step class - my heart rate was at 180-200 almost all the way through

Abs - decline crunches, decline reverse crunches, really slow floor sit ups with 5lbs plate

Yesterday's diet:

M1: 1/2 C cooked oat groats, 3 EW, 1 WE, apple
M2: 1/2 C cooked brown rice, veg, fish
M3: 2 slices LF cheese, raw celery, raw carrots
M4: (PW) whey + oats
M5: quinoa with lamb, mushrooms

Yesterday's Diet:
M1: quinoa with lamb and mushrooms, 1 apple
M2: 1/2 C cooked brown rice, chicken, 1 stalk raw celery
M3: 1 stalk raw celery, 3 EW +1 WE
M4 (PW): whey + oats
M5: Fish filet, boiled french beans, 4 TBS of SG whipped cream

Training - Back and Shoulders:

Assisted Chin Ups
8plates (40lbs assistance) X8X6X6X5
10plates X 10 @ 2 sets

WG Pull Downs
62lbs X 10X8X8X8

Seated DB Shoudler Presses
20lbs X 12 X12X10X8 ----> these are getting easy, time to try 25s

EZ Upward Rows
45lbs X8 @ 4 sets

EZ Bent Over Rows
45lbs X12 X10X10X8 -----> I am still being cautious with these

One Arm DB Row
20lbs X10 @ 3 sets ----> these are gettign easy too

Lateral DB Raises
10lbs X 10 @ 3 sets ------> When I used to work shoulders alone I could lift 12lbs DBs for 12 reps, but in this combo, no way. So I try to hold for 3 counts on top

Pronated DB Face Pulls
12lbs X 10 @ 4 sets -----> Finally getting the hang of these, today my rear delts feel nicely sore

Happy Wednesday everyone!

Originally Posted by dalila

Seated DB Shoudler Presses
20lbs X 12 X12X10X8 ----> these are getting easy, time to try 25s

Hi everyone, it's the end of working Friday for me Niceeeeee! :lol

I didn't train on Wednesday, it was my day of rest.

Thur training - Chest and Arms

Incline DB Chest Presses
20lbs X12 @ 2
25lbs X8 @ 8

Flat BB chest presses
60lbs X 8 @ 4

Cable chest flyes
60lbs X 8 @ 3

EZ Bi Curls
30lbs X10 @ 3

Standing Alt. DB curls
15lbs X 8 @ 4

--------> arms definitely getting stronger!!

Straight bar Tri pushdowns
31lbs X 10 @ 4

Alternate DB kickbacks
10ls X 0 @ 3

Bench Dips ( legs on the floor)
BW X 10 @ 3

Thur Diet

M1: 1/2 can tuna, 1/2 C cooked oats, apple
M2: 1/2 C cooked brown rice, omelette with leeks and 2 chicken drumsticks
M3: raw celery and carrots, 10 almonds
M4 PW: whey + oats
M5: 1/2 C rice, sirloin steak, salad ( lettuce and tomaotes)

have a great weekend everyone!!

Have a good weekend! Doing anything fun?

Hi everyone, it's Monday here, blech! Hate Mondays...

Weekend was good, although Saturday started really yucky .. I woke up, and then this caffeine addict realized there was no coffee in the house!!! Then I, not very smartly, figure out, well, Kahlua liqueur has lots of caffeine so I"ll have coffee liqueur ( 26% alcohol) with milk ... at 9am!! That of course not only didn't help, but the alcohol further lowered my blood pressure and I felt truly zombified, until 3pm, when I went out to meet some girlfriends for a nice and strong cuppa! Sigh......

Oh, I and checked my BF on friday..... In my gym they use Tanita scales hooked up to some funny reader/printer, that prints all your stats... and the bloody thing said my BF was 23%!!!! Then I checked it again with Omron ( something I've been using all this while as my gym doesn't have calipers and I never got them coz I don't think I'd know how to use them), and it said 21%... I know neither is really accurate but still, I am not a happy camper!!

The funny thing is that my tape-measurments haven't changed at all from the time the silly Omron gadget was showing 19%...

And another disappointing thing was that I am actually shorter than I thought!! arrrrrrgh!!!!

Anyways, the diet wasn't very good this weekend, as I went out partying on Friday, and on sunday I attended a wedding....

Training.... finally managed to get my fiance to train and he only agreed to go as far the gym in our condo, so I had no choice but to train with him and make do with whatever little equipment I had in there to train legs:

Sunday - Legs:

BB Squats:
55lbs X 15
75lbs X 12X 12X 10X 10X 10 --> PB , and was wasted after all these sets!!!

BB ( step back) lunges
40lbs X 10 @ 3 sets

DB Plies
22lbs X 12 @ 3 sets

Stretching.

Hey hun don't worry about the bodyfat % .. every trainer measures diffrently, they may pinch more than they supposed to and that would increase the numbers..
I learned to worry about tape measurments, mirror and how clothes fit me..

looks like you had a busy busy weekend! How do they celebrate weddings there?

H everyone,

I am not posting lately, cuz I am not training.... you may wonder what the reason is. Well, it might be stupid ( heck it IS stupid) BUT, I've seriously decided to start training in the morning before work, because if I train after work, I never have any time for anything else, I just come back home and crash!

So far I haven't been successful, I just can't wake up in the morning to train ( while I can for everything else!) and I know that's because my body "knows" that even if I oversleep in the morning, I will still go after work. So I've decided NOT to train in the evening, hoping this will create enough guilt to get me to wake up early!!

No I don't study psychology, and no I don't think am psychotic!

Wish me luck!!

Originally Posted by dalila

So far I haven't been successful, I just can't wake up in the morning to train ( while I can for everything else!) and I know that's because my body "knows" that even if I oversleep in the morning, I will still go after work. So I've decided NOT to train in the evening, hoping this will create enough guilt to get me to wake up early!!

Hi dalila
It took me about a week or so to get used to getting up 4:30-5:00 am and hurry to the gym for morning cardio.. it takes few lousy, crappy early wakeups alarms .. then you get used to it

Good luck

Originally Posted by sara

Hey hun don't worry about the bodyfat % .. every trainer measures diffrently, they may pinch more than they supposed to and that would increase the numbers..
I learned to worry about tape measurments, mirror and how clothes fit me..

looks like you had a busy busy weekend! How do they celebrate weddings there?

Hey Sara, it wasn't calipers my gym used, it was Tanita scales, and that funny thing you hold with your hands..? I guess I was upset because I've been training really hard, and I don't see much BF reduction ... Can my wine drinking really be detrimental?

Wedding celebrations here are very versatile....

1. There are Christian weddings in the church, followed by reception - dinner and dance

2. Then there are muslim weddings in the mosque or at home, followed by dinner while the happy couple sits on a "throne" - no dancing or drinking here,

3. Then there are hindu weddigns, were the bride gets heavily decorated with henna and jewels, the couple walks around the fire to purify and strengthen their reltionaship, this is usually followed by a vegeterian dinner if the ceremony is held in a temple, or by dinner with meat, and drinks and dance if the reception is held outside the temple.

4. And then there are Chinese weddigns, which are really a tea ceremony and a reception. Cantonese Chinese have a custom of putting obstacles for the groom to get over to get to the bride ( as in to show how much he really wants to marry her ... sometimes those are the locked doors, and slippery floors and... you get the picture.