For the past two months, I have brought almost ten of my old skirts and pants to the tailor to have the waist part tightened. I know that I’ve lost about 2kg since early this year. But what I didn’t realize was how much my waist has shrunk. It’s a frigging 3cm! No wonder my pants and skirts kept dropping off my waist and I thought that they have shrunk in our rather new washing machine that seems to spin rather wildly.
For the record, my waist is now 68cm, down from 71cm! This means I’m almost back to my pre-pre-pre-pregnancy waist and weight! I used to be 42~43kg before I became a mother.
Besides ramping up my 5-day a week exercise duration and intensity, I am back at cutting down bread and noodles. Another secret is portion control on food.
I share EVERYTHING that I eat with my daughters, hubs and mil. They are happy too as everyone is very, very cautious on their weight and sugar level at their age now!
In the trunk of my car, I have a tiffin carrier and multiple stainless steel food containers in various sizes. Whenever I eat out, I stash a food container in my tote bag or lug the 2-tier tiffin carrier along. When my dish arrives, I place half or three quarter of the food in the food container first before I dig into my portion. Thus, I only eat a quarter or half of what I’ve ordered. This way, I always leave the eatery feeling half full and without guilt!
This is what I had for lunch with the hubs at LDG yesterday ~ chicken chop.
Before digging into it, I quickly kept three quarter of it in a food container for Sherilyn who’s waiting for her lunch at home:
My lunch at PappaRich with Sherilyn earlier this week:
And I kept three quarter of the food in a food container, for Cass’ lunch later.
I don’t really snack in between meals and if I have to, my go-to snacks are always nuts, seeds, sugar-free skinny yoghurt, nut butters, organic milk kefir or organic almond milk with oat bran.
But I’m no angel, I still indulge in sinful carbs and my kryptonite is kuih-muih! 😆 But instead of stuffing the entire kuih into my mouth, I share half of it with my daughters.
Sahara is my current favorite brand of organic milk kefir, imported from Australia. It has assisted me greatly in my evacuation job every morning! Love the taste too.
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