Ways to improve your diet

Anyone who has worked or still working in an office environment knows how bad it is to lose weight & yet maintain a healthy weight. You think that it's pretty impossible to lose weight when you spend almost 7 hours sitting down in office & you're too lazy to get your ass moving in the gym after working hours. But the truth is in order to lose/maintain your weight, you really need to have a healthy diet during working hours & start some evening activities.

For healthy eating habits, a few tips here.

Breakfast is a must
To get your day started, breakfast is an important meal of the day. It helps your mind and body to function well & boost your metabolism to burn more calories. Have a heavy breakfast keeping yourself full which is equivalent to less snacking.

Get out during lunch hours
Alot of you tend to feel tired in the day & will wanna stay in office to nap or the worst scenario is that you're just plain lazy to walk under the sun. In fact if you get out of office during hours, you spent 1st 30mins on lunch & the rest of the 30mins having a brisk walk. This is just 1 of the method to get yourself ready for evening activities.

Snacks after lunch?
If you really need to snack after lunch, instead of those peanuts and tidbits why not replace them with fruits? Especially apples, they will hold you till dinner & good enough to help people like us who's weight conscious.

Evening activities
If you're really that lazy to hit the gym after work, you could avoid the lift & take the stairs. While you're home you could also do some housework to work it out. Here's a list of how much calories you can burn off while doing housework.

Vacuuming - 75 – 125 calories

Mopping Floors - 193.7 calories

Ironing - 113.1 calories

Cleaning Windows - 180.3 calories

Walking up & down stairs - 516.3 calories

By doing all these, you could easily burn off 1000 calories in an evening & you can get everything done. Isn't that great? :)

Dinner is a trap
If you're having dinner at home, you can use a salad plate instead of a dinner plate. That will ensure you will smaller servings of food. Fill half your plate with veggies. Avoid taking heavy carbs dinner, if you really dislike the idea of having leftover food on your plate. You should also try to have dinner 4 hours before you turn in. The food in your body needs at least 4 hours to breakdown else it'd turn into fats. Drink more water, it aids in digestion, has no calories & benefits every system in the body.

Above mentioned are just a few tips from my own opinion, tried and tested. However results may vary from each. Do let me know if it works for you. :)

xoxo,
Queen

What Quinie eats?

I believe most of you must be fighting with your fats over the years because they have been giving you trouble be it phototaking or size of clothes. Quinie is STILL fighting her fats now and i have been doing it like every other day. Really! Okay let me share with you what i usually do on a daily basis.

For the past 7 years, i have been skipping carbo food like rice & potatoes. I'll still eat noodles but not everyday. I show you my daily meals intake.

Breakfast
- A cup of coffee + 2 slices of bread (be it plain or not)

Lunch
- Usually i DO NOT take lunch. :D Maybe a cup of tea to perk myself up.

Dinner
- When i'm home for dinner, i'll drink soup and grab a few bites(when i say a few bites, it's really 3-4 bites).
- Then go jogging for 30mins on alternate days.

- OR if i'm out for dinner. Usually i'll take salad or share food with friend. Because my appetite is really small! =.=

- When i'm home before i bathe, i'll do at least 50 crunches / 100 situps.
- Do not intake too much of water. It's to prevent yourself looking bloated the next day!

YAH! That's what i've been doing on a daily basis AND that's only applicable when i'm out working. SO if i'm at home the whole day like on a weekend., i'll take in even lesser food.

Breakfast
- A cup of coffee + 1 or 2 slices of bread

NO LUNCH

Then go for swimming/skipping/cycling/jogging.

Dinner
- Drink soup.
- Do 50 crunches / 100 situps & skip for 1000 or 2000 times.

That's how i usually live my days. I know alot of my friends have been calling me sick or anorexic. BUT i'm not! In fact, i used to be even slimmer than now! I was once 39kg. But now i'm like 43kg. =.= I DON'T LIKE IT! FYI, i'm still on a diet. It's always good to be able to lose 1 or 2kg. Makes yourself happier too!

BUT please do not follow my sick appetite unless you are very determined! Because this comes with exercise as well as determination to hold onto this diet. Once you decided to break the rule and starts taking in plenty of rice and potatoes, i'm sure you will cry the next time when you weigh yourself on the weighing scale.

And you must be thinking, bread is also part of carbo. Why am i still taking bread? That's because Quinie loves bread to the max & CANNOT LAY HER HANDS OFF BREAD AT ALL! LOL! You can always replace bread with fruits or biscuits. Just make sure you have a good breakfast to start your day, that way you will feel better and work better too!

Just a piece of advise, try not to intake any food 4 hours before you sleep. Why? Because food in your body needs 4 hours to breakdown. And if you sleep within 4 hours after eating, in the long run i'm sure you can say HI to your belly. :)

I know i know. It feels so good to sleep right after eating. But in order too look good there's sacrifices to be made, isn't it? :)

That's about it, how Quinie eats.

For the next entry, i'm gonna do more about how to eat healthily and what you should avoid.

Hang on!

Laters.

xoxo,
Queen