The end is near...

If this semester have been any longer, I would probably have died. But I'll die in good shape ;)

I only had three modules this semesters, but two of them were extremely intensive with assignments due every week. And because the due dates are Monday and Friday respectively, I find myself not sleeping at all (or at most an hour's sleep) on every Sunday night and Thursday night for about two-third of the semester. And because of my timetable, I'll sometimes just skip lunch on Mondays and Fridays.

Well guess what, my weight has finally reached the target (I am not going to reveal the number, but it is what I have always weighed back in Year 1 and 2). So now, I am going to aim for another 2-3kg loss and try to squeeze into this dress below without any sign of suffocation:

This dress was bought online quite a while back last year, when I was still delusional about my weight issue. I could barely fit into it and my tummy was bulging out! *gasp! runs and hides in corner* 

There was no way I could comfortably walk about in this without self-consciously sucking in my breath and trying to hide my tummy. So I would occasionally try to squeeze into this piece at home and use it as my motivation. Hahaha. I guess I'm on the way to conquer it! :D

Some updates relating to school:

My final semester is more or less over for me! Save for one more class on Friday and a final year project that is about 70-80% completed. There was supposed to be a quiz next Monday for one of the heavy workload modules but the professor decided that we have real done quite a lot over the whole semester so he cancelled the quiz! Woohoo~~

And so, I am pretty free now!!! Liberation (partial) at last!! No more burning midnight oil for the next few months before work start! :)

My first cuppa green tea...

...and it taste yucky >.<

I was never a fan of green tea. I find it bitter with a weird taste. I would much rather drink plain water. But just for the sake of getting rid of my excess weight, I shall drink a cuppa green tea everyday. Only because one great benefit of green tea is that it increases our metabolism rate. Some substance in green tea called polyphenols stimulates fat oxidation.

Perhaps I should also try peppermint tea. Other than its calming effects, peppermint tea can also relieve pain and used to ease headaches, sore throats, puffy eyes, menstrual cramps etc. It is also speeds up digestion and hence might help with weight loss, though I don't see many articles supporting this view.

Confessions and Resolutions

So I haven't stepped on the weighing machine for about 1 year (or maybe longer), and I know I have been gaining weight. After all, I have been snacking a lot with zero physical activities to burn off the calories that I had shamelessly and un-hesitantly absorbed (who could resist that refreshing cuppa milk tea with its chewy pearls in the midst of the hot weather? or the burst of flavours from the ever-increasing ice-cream outlets sprouting up in all corners of Singapore? or the tiny bites of joy and sweetness to keep lethargy and boredom at bay during lessons?).

And now, with J's endless taunting of my ever-expanding tummy, I am starting to examine my own body and I have to say I am highly alarmed. I finally plucked up the courage to step on the weighing machine again today and lo and behold, the number displayed jumped past my delusional 54kg!! (which is already bad enough to begin with >.<) I shall not announce my exact weight as I would still like to maintain whatever image left of me, but anyways, J's taunting and the number on my weighing machine has raised a high alarm and I am looking at my weight issue seriously.

I have in fact, started on simple workouts (mainly squats and sit-ups) for the past week since school started, and boy, it's tough! Having not exercised for so long, my body felt so rusty and badly out of condition. :((

BUT, I have resolved (I hate using this word because I rarely keep to my resolutions but let's hope it'll be an exception this time round) I shall continue with my simple workouts and add some cardio activities (jogging/skipping) for the coming days. Cardio workouts' really effective, or that's what everyone else says on the internet.

So, 30-45 min for each jogging/skipping session and at least 4 sessions a week. I really hope I can pull this through!

Hwaiting~!

p.s. and I read somewhere that green tea boosts the metabolism rate, so it shall be my new drink of the day instead of coffee from now on. :)