Dieting Is Expensive!
Monday, February 4, 2008
We Asians, especially Chinese, are at a disadvantage when it comes to health and healthy diet. We eat mainly RICE, which is basically Carbohydrates. The meat and veggies are mainly "side dishes" to go with the rice. So that means, lotta carbs, very little "other stuff".
In the grand scheme of things, that's not good. For losing weight, you need to cut down on carbs, because unused carbs get turned into fats (if I remember what I learnt back in 1998 is still correct). For gaining muscle, you need protein (meat, egg whites etc), not carbs.
So, when we cut down on carbs, we need "fillers"... and that either means more meat or more eggs. Somehow I don't think we'll feel "full" if we ate only eggs.
The past couple of days I have been really cutting way down on rice/noodles. And, since I have been working to muscle failure, I eat alot of eggs and meat. For some strange reason, I don't feel "hungry" per se. It's probably because I ate enough so that the body doesn't trigger any "craving" mechanisms to tell me that I lack something.
To eat like the ang mos, which I think is actually more ideal if building muscles, is gonna be expensive. Then I'd be eating western food most of the time. Yeah well, at least, eat like the ang mos at home. If you eat Western outside, you get all the unhealthy mayonnaise, salad dressings etc. If I cook at home, at least I can cook the meat plain (no oil needed), and the veggies are simply boiled. No extra useless calories.
In any case, my body is aching today, so I didn't even do the circuit training workouts. Guess my original plan has a couple of flaws :p I forgot to take into account bodyaches after the weekend intensive training...
Labels: diet, dieting, eating, workout
Pigged out!
Monday, October 22, 2007
It so happened that a colleague had tendered resignation, and his last day is this Wednesday. As such, a bunch of guys decided to bring the happy resignee out for lunch.
We totally pigged out there! Fish, mutton, chicken, you name it, they had it there on the table. All 9 of us stuffed our faces.
Well, I guess my "1 day a week of cheating" on the diet and workout program has just been used up for this week... *sigh*
