5 tips to faster weight loss

1. Drink only water
Yes, 1st tip is the one that everyone know so very well. Not only does water have 0kcal, it also improves our digestive system therefore boosting our metabolism rate and it's the only liquid that truly quench thirst. So do not only drink more water but drink ONLY water.

This is the simplest way to kick off your diet! Think of it this way, you drink a glass of your favorite bubble tea or whatever shit that contain 200-400kcal and it doesn't make you feel any fuller so why not save the calories and spend it elsewhere.

I always carry my big ass water bottle everywhere I go so that I have no excuses to order any other canned drinks or any other whatever drinks. You can do so too, start by bringing water when you eat out or order only mineral water every single time you eat out. Over time, it will become a habit and you will always order water wherever you go.

2. Always choose standing over sitting
Standing burns about 50% more than sitting. Too much sitting also results in wider hips. So the next time you are in a train or bus choose standing even if there are seats. Not only will you burn more calories, you can avoid being snapped when you never give up your seats (LOL). You can also stand while watching TV, chatting on phone or even eating.

3. Do not weigh in so frequently
You might ask "Don't weigh in frequently then how I know if I lost weight?". Trust me, your clothes will tell you. To achieve a successful and sustainable weight loss is about changing the lifestyle and not about the number.

When you weigh frequently, there are likely 2 possible scenarios: one is that you didn't managed to lose your weight as fast as you expected or worst you gained some pounds (at initial stage of weight loss, it's natural to gain a little pound especially true for those who incorporate exercise). This may throw you off balance and loses focus or worst give up. Another possible scenario is that you lost weight as fast as you wanted it to or even faster than you planned it to, this may make you over confident and eat more thinking that you had already lost all the weight therefore it's ok that you binge to 'reward' yourself.

Either way from my personal experience weighing in less make you stay more in focus and make the weight loss process easier. When you finally weigh in and see that you have lost so much, the sense of achievement will put you even more in control to sustain the weight.

(P.S Btw, the number on the scale is not my weight hor! I'm not so heavy.)

4. Concentrate while eating
Eating while watching TV, surfing internet or any other secondary activities makes your brain less aware of your fullness level resulting in over-eating. So the next time you take a meal, make sure you concentrate on eating and stop eating when you are about 70-80% full.

I used to eat on my dressing table whenever I eat at home. I find it very useful as I eat and look myself in the mirror and remind myself of my focus and desires, I consumed almost 50% lesser than I usually do.

5. Take the stairs
One thing good about being Singaporeans is that most of us stay in some form of high rise building which have flats and flats of stairs. Make good use of it! Climbing the stairs for 15mins can burn up to 150kcal, so the next time you leave your house or return from work give the lift a miss. If you stay really high up there like 10th floor or worst 20th floor, then take the stairs till 5th floor and take the lift up from the 5th floor.

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I know some of you may disagrees with my tips or even thinks it's too extreme but I'm only trying to share what works for me and you don't have to try it anyway if you don't feel comfortable about it.

Losing weight is never a easy thing to do therefore there is also no easy way out of this. If you want your weight off, you have to pay a price!

(P.S I had lost 3kg since I declare the start of my weight loss warz!)

GOOD LUCK, BABES!

Review on Ossion Mild Touch Detox Bubble Mask

What is a Bubble Mask?
That was the question I had when I saw this product.

It claims to enhance facial V-line by reducing facial fats and firming also stimulates oxygen delivery to cleanse our pores deeply therefore removing blackheads, whiteheads and clogged pores.

So let's put it to try...

After cleansing the face, apply the mask on wet face and massage in circular motion
After a while, the mask will start to bubble up!

Continue massaging.. It's so fun! I can feel the bubble working on my pores. *Burp* *Burp*

After the mask bubble for 30 seconds, wash it off.
See how clean and glowy my skin look!

This is a great product! Not only is it easy to use, it also show visible effect only after one use! How to not heart this product you tell me? Oh, did I not mention that it had a very nice & luxurious smell. Seriously it smell like some of those counter brand skincare.

Smell 4.5/5
Effectiveness 4.5/5
Fun Factor 5/5!!

Sample from TSS

Review on Bio-Essence Hydra Spa Energy Sleeping Mask

I had never tried a sleeping mask before because I'm sceptical about it effectiveness and I'm afraid it might give me breakout or are very sticky therefore will dirty my bed.

Anyhow when I saw the Bio-Essence Hydra Spa Energy Sleeping Mask sample available in the Sample Store, I decided to order it for a try.

Excited and fearful, I try the sample after receiving it a few days later.

After applying daily routine skincare including moisturiser, apply a coating of the sleeping mask all over your face.

The best part is you don't have to wait for 20mins or wash it off. You just sleep it off..

And wake up to smooth, plump, radiance young skin!!

After applying makeup, skin is so smooth n hydrated makeup glided on so easily.

Bio-Essence Hydra Spa Energy Sleeping Mask totally alter any fear of mine. Not only does it not give me any breakouts, it is also very easily and quickly absorbed by skin after applying! Not to mention the result is visible only after 1 use! I'm going to buy the retail pack right now..

Lavender Food Centre with Family

Went to Lavender Food Centre a few days ago to do a review for the food blog I set up recently with my brother.

If you have nothing to do, go and read my review ya?!

The curry I reviewed on

The writers of The Calorie Sibling! My bro, Jackie and me.

Jackie & Jeffrey

Of course I have to camwhore

Delicious looking frog legs, too bad I don't dare to eat them.

Sinful cheese & ham pancake.

I end the post with my fav creation..

I don't how I end up with this effect but I love it!!

Weight Loss Recipe: Vege Soup

Today I'm going to share 1 of the main food that I eat when I want to lose weight and for me it really work very well. Any of you wanna lose a few pound should try this.

The recipe can cook for about 1-2 week volume, so after cooking you can keep it in the refrigerator and reheat a portion everytime you want to eat. For me, I replace about 90% of my meals with the soup. It's very useful, you can replace your breakfast & dinner with this and consume some carb on lunch.

Note: You will need a very big soup pot for it


Ingredients

1. 1 cube of Vegetable Stock Cube
2. 1 small size Cabbage
3. 1 Yellow Onion (you can use red onion too)
4. 1 bunch of Celery
5. 1 block of Silken Tofu
6. 4 Potatoes
(Potato is not very recommend as it's higher carb vegetable but I can't help adding it because potatoes are my favortie! You can replace with carrot)
7. 3 Tomatoes

Preparation
Cabbage - coarsely chop up
Onion - thinly slice
Celery - de-vein and cut to about 1 inch tube
Tofu - cut into cubes
Potato - peel and cut into cubes
Tomato - cut into wedges (you can deseed it too)

Process

Firstly fill your pot with water to about 3/4 full and let it boil over medium fire. It's important to leave enough allowance for your ingredients you'll be surprise by how much the water level raises.

After the water starts to bubble, add in the vegetable stock and let it sit for awhile before stirring it.

After the stock cube dissolve, add in the potatoes and onion and let it simmer for a few minutes until the onion turn slightly transparent. In the mean time, you can cut the cabbage.

After the onion turn slightly transparent, add in the cabbage and turn the fire small to let it simmer. In the meantime, prepare the celery.

BTW if you don't know what is de-veining you just snap one end of the celery and pull across. This way the outer harder crust will be peeled off. If you prefer your celery to be more crunchy you can skip the de-veining.

After the cabbage soften slightly, add in the celery and let it cook while you prepare the tofu and tomatoes.

After the celery and cabbage lost abit of colour, add in the tofu and let it cook for awhile. At this time you can start cleaning up the mess you made. HAHA!

Note: after adding the tofu, avoid too much stirring as it will break up the tofu.

After 3mins, you can add in the tomato and turn up the fire to medium. It's done when your soup started boiling.

Note: Make sure you do not cook the soup too long after adding tomato if not the tomatoes will break up.

Ta-dah, all done! Beautiful, isn't it?

This is the normal portion I will eat every meal. I usually replace breakfast & dinner (sometime lunch too) and eat something else for lunch.

Hope this recipe helps and good luck to fellow folks trying to lose weight like me =.="

Decalring the start of my silmming down warz!

If you had been following me on twitter, you'll know that I'm going to start to silm down and decided to blog the process.

As the 1st post to declare the start, I will talk a little about my history of weight issue. I'm always little since young although I'm never skinny but I'm far from plump. After my puberty I started to gain fats (not height), I believe it due to drinking lots of milk at that period thinking that it will convert to height but sadly it doesn't.

However having said that, my weight has never go over 43kg (well, I'm short so 43kg is actually heavy for me). Until I got into nightlife and started working in pubs, the regular drinking and supper make me shoot to 49kg when I was 19years old.

At that time, I never really realized that I was fat because I don't really experience any guy issue so I just continue being blindly confident. Until I went to work at this Japanese pub, the girls there are all good looking with fabulous body! I started to feel the pressure and the Japanese man there have no issue about telling you straight in your face that you are fat! Soon I realize that I had to do something about my weight and thankfully I had a great boss, she is like a elder sister to me and she started guiding me along and keeping an eye on me losing the kilos off.

With super determination and extreme diet and exercise regime, I lost 8kg in about 3 months. I know people will say it unhealthy to lose that much in such short time but I will say the methods I use only work well on me, it might not work well on other people. The future posts that I will post on this topic is only to share my experience not to advice people to follow my ways to losing weight. In fact, I highly do not recommend my methods for normal people unless you are like me who loves unhealthy food like my own life and super not discipline and gets dishearten very easily.

Ok, done with the disclaimer. I maintain my weight around 40-43kg for the next 2 years and eventually I quit my job. After quitting the job, there no need for me to maintain my weight and I had more time to spend eating (my fav activity) so after another 3 years, I gain all my kilo back! T_T

So here I am now declaring that I will follow the same regime and methods I use before to see if I can lose some weight again. I believe the result will not be as good as when I'm 19 because come on I'm almost 25 now, my body just don't burn fat that fast anymore but I believe if I can be DISCIPLINE enough I could go back to 42kg in about 6 months or so.

That's all on my background, I officially declare today as the start of the program. I will blog on my results, my diets, exercise regime, some product I find useful and more tips and tricks.

**Wish Me Luck**

X Men: First Class review

X-Men: First Class is a 2011 American superhero film directed by Matthew Vaughn. Based on the characters appearing in Marvel Comics, it is a prequel to the X-Men film series. X-Men: First Class was released June 1, 2011 in the UK and on June 3 in the US.

The film is set primarily in 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis and focuses on the relationship between Professor X and Magneto and the origin of their groups, the X-Men and the Brotherhood of Mutants. The film stars James McAvoy as Professor X and Michael Fassbender as Magneto. Other cast members include Kevin Bacon, January Jones, Rose Byrne, Jennifer Lawrence, Zoë Kravitz, Nicholas Hoult and Lucas Till. The film was mostly shot in England and parts of the United States.

Source from Wiki

This movie exceeded my expectation so much that I feel the need to blog it!

A little fact about me and my movies: Firstly, I had no interests in X Men at all or as the matter of fact I had no interest in any marvel heros. Secondly, I totally hate watching action blockbuster movies simply because they never fail to put me asleep. Lastly, I only watch action movies when my brothers wants to watch it and being a LOVING SISTER *ahem* it's hard for me to say 'No'.

So from the facts above, you figures the reason why I watched the X Men: First Class. Jackie (one of my younger brothers) and I watched the show 2 nights ago, we brought the midnight 2:30am show because all the tickets are selling like crazy and I figure that 2:30am will be just right for me to fall asleep in the theatre.

But but but... to my surprise not only did I stay awake through the whole show, I also love it!! This show is not the kind of action movies that go wooha on the CGs and action plot and forgets about the storyline (which is why I hate action or heavily CG movies. This actually had a very solid storyline which make you invovle emotionally. Not only will you see amazing CG effects and fantasy action pack scenes, you will also see the emotional factors of it. The struggle between humans and mutants, mutants and mutants. The friendship behind the enemy and the determination in Professor X's belief.

This show will really blow you away and I'm not even paid to say this!!

People go watch it if you haven't, I demand!! (LOL)