#WeekendCoffeeShare: Weight Loss So Far…

Published on by Yinglan

Good Sunday morning and thank you for joining me for this lovely chat. It sure has been a while, hasn’t it?

What will you be drinking today? I will go with a nice cup of green tea. I am counting my calories now, you know, and something like a cappuccino or a latte can put me over the limit.

How’s your week been?

I have been hard at work at both my job and exercising. So far, I’ve lost approximately five pounds from my Thanksgiving weight. It’s the best numbers I’ve seen in a long time. I had been constantly walking, counting my steps, and meeting my goals everyday. I don’t sit to watch TV anymore. Instead, I pace around my lengthy living room. I think this not only helps me get my steps in but also helps me stay more alert to the plot of the show. I used to doze off a lot, you see.

So when did I make the decision to lose weight?

When I could only fit into the elastic-waist pants? When I couldn’t squeeze my thighs into my favorite jeans? When I looked into the mirror and saw this round-face version of myself and hating it? The most important reason, however, was when I finally felt I had enough of my aunts and uncles call me “fat girl.”

When you’re young, being a little chubby is adorable but when you’re at my age and your relatives still call you by the same nickname they’d called you when you were five, doesn’t that make you angry?

On October 29, I began eating clean. No more processed, preservative-filled bread. No more rice. I began bringing my home-made bread and salad to work with turkey breast and tomatoes. Two weeks later, I discovered I might still be eating too much because my weight was up. I reduced from two slices to one slice of bread and from four slices of turkey to three. It seemed to had worked.

Last week, I switched the bread to tortilla after reading a blog post about how tortilla has less calories than bread and I do like sandwich wraps. So I’ve been making sandwich wraps since Monday. I was not successful at first. It took a few days of experimenting to come up with the amount of each ingredient to put into the wrap.

I figured it out though.

Here’s what you need:

  • 8-inch Whole wheat tortilla
  • Quarter of an avocado
  • Two slices of turkey breast
  • About 10 grams of vegetables
  • About 40 to 50 grams of tomatoes.

You can make a breakfast wrap by substituting tomatoes with one hard-boiled egg. The wrap is about 300 calories but it won’t feel like it. I felt full after eating this and didn’t feel hungry until mid-afternoon.

I would like to point out though because it’s been on my mind and it’s something my dieting colleague wouldn’t accept. Just because you’re on a low-calorie diet doesn’t mean you don’t have to exercise. One of my co-worker consumes 600 calories a day and doesn’t exercise and she’s wondering why she’s not losing weight. Hello, don’t you know starving yourself is never the answer? Geez!

If we were having this lovely conversation, I would thank you for joining me and hopefully we both can be here again next weekend and perhaps then, I might be a pound lighter.

22 thoughts on “#WeekendCoffeeShare: Weight Loss So Far…”

    1. I think it’s the motivation my Fitbit watch gives me that keeps me going because I started my journey and quit many times before I got the watch.
      I will be sure to keep my readers updated as time goes on. 🙂

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      1. Believe it or not…. Sometimes I get a lil jealous too, went to the gym and found people sculpting their excess into awesomeness, and no matter how much I put in and protein shakes I drink I simply stay super toned not an inch bigger lol
        I stopped going. I just run
        ~B

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      4. That’s okay, I feel sorry for these men I call bosses who spend all their time working that they had forgotten the meaning of holiday spirit. I sometimes feel like they are a bunch of Scrooge waiting for the Christmas ghosts to come and wake them up. 😀

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    1. Thank you. In my mind, clean foods are those that have not been super processed like your everyday veggies. Of course, they must had been through a factory somewhere but they have not been altered in any way. Fries and potato chips, now that’s not clean. It’s got greasy oils and lots of unwanted fats and calories.
      Absolutely, meal prepping is always the key.

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