Sweet tips: Losing weight healthily...

Few months back, i was a 51kg walking meat and fat (a lots of it) on a 5 feet tall body.  For a couple of years, I was really chubby and realized that i needed to lose some weight.  But never been successful to shed some pound due to my crazy appetite and laziness to exercise.  So many people noticed my weight gain. Well, i was a thin petite girl weighing around 43kg-45kg before.  But being so happy in love for almost 3 years, i just didn't care about my weight and ate whatever i like. We both gained serious weight eventually!

I still remember the day we decided to shed some weight. 24th of May 2012.  I put up our goals on the wall so that we can see it and remind ourselves everyday.  Here's my goal. 

• I wanna be thinner like last time!

• I want to fit old clothes!

• I wanna have flat stomach and thin legs!

I also put up YES and NO stuffs.

YES

• Oats!
• Hi-Fibres!
• Green Teas!
• Exercise (At least 30mins per day!)
• Fruits!
• lots of WATER!

NO

• Fast Foods!
• Carbonated drinks!
• Fried food!
• White rice!
• Processed food !

And not to forget: my weight. Previous, aim and current and also how many i have lost so far!

Now, i proudly can say this! My current weight is 45kg! I have lost 6kg!

It's almost September now.  I maintained this weight for a month plus now.  Didn't lose any weight anymore coz i've been slacking on exercises and there were birthdays and most recently Eid.  I ate a lot. I am happy enough that i never gain any weight despite my gluttony.

So what's the secret?  Simple. Substitute rice with rolled oats and cook at home.  Avoid eating out and yeah, exercise!Rolled oats are jam packed with fibers and it's good for your heart too! Some of you may think that it's weird to eat oats with veges and meats, but believe me, it's not! It taste just like rice even though the first time, it tasted bland.  I ate a lot of veges. i mean, A LOT.  Green leaf veges like baby pak choy and choy sum taste great with oats.  Simply sauté them with chopped garlic and they're ready to be eaten.  For protein, i usually choose grey oyster mushrooms and boneless chicken over red meats.  They're easier to digest. I do eat red meats once in a while.  It depends on you how to cook it. Just don't fry it. No rendang, no masak lemak ok?  Eat a lot of fresh fruits.  I love mango!  Sometimes i juiced the fruits myself and it tasted better and definitely cheaper than what they sell outside.  Fruits and veges are sources of Vitamins too.  So, eat them!

Exercise every day. At least 30 mins.  I admit that sometimes i slacked on this.  Sometimes, i went out and didn't exercise for the day.  Sometimes i simply lazy.  But, i made sure at least 5 days in a week, i exercised.  What exercise did i do?  Well, i basically watched Youtube and followed the trainer! I like Tiffany Rothe Workouts, she has great and fun workouts.  Sometimes when i feel energized and need badass workouts, i watched Jillian Micheal  or Pump it up High Energy!  Or i just dance with full-blasted musics for 1-2hours.  I do 30 lunges, 30 squats, 10 jumping squats, 30 crunches and lift some weight for at least 40 times.   Oh yes, i do belly dance everyday for at least 15 mins.  It's fun!

So, that's how i lost weight and stay healthy. Don't starve yourself for the sake of dieting.  You may lose some weight by starving but when you start eating, the weight will bounce back.  Be smart. Eat smart.  Oh i forgot, my babe lost 12kg with this method. :)

at 51kg last year

current weight.

Sephora Haul!

I went to Sephora a couple of days ago.. And i got myself these stuffs...

1) Clinique Blended Face Powder (RM109)
- Well, the loose powder i currently use almost empty. Needed to buy a good one to set up my foundation! It's definitely a necessity.  Wait, i still have Too Faced Primed and Poreless powder! Hurm... Nevermind, i need one loose powder in my skin tone. :)

2) Urban Decay Eyeshadow Primer Potion (RM75)
 - Influenced to buy after watching Promise Phan's make up tutorial.  In fact, I don't need this coz my eyelid usually won't get so oily and my eye shadows stay pretty well without creasing throughout the day.  But hey, it can make the color appear more vibrant! Okay!

3) Sephora Base Lissante Smoothing Primer (RM49)
-  I've been using this primer for quite sometime.  Good primer i must say! Now, it's almost empty. So need to repurchase this baby.

4) Sephora Base Sublimatrice Primer (RM49)
- Basically, I just wanted to try this since the lissante one is great.  It's in my skin tone color. I hope it will give me the sheer glow it claims to give.

The Sephora sale assistant generous enough to give me 2 free sample of Burt's Bees Pomegranate Sugar Scrub and 1 Clinique Facial Wash sample (for the purchase of Clinique product).  I definitely will avoid Sephora for few months from now on. If not, i will be lured to buy stuffs again.. XD

Product reviews coming soon. xoxo

Sweet tips: Taking care of your lips.

A healthy looking lips are surely attractive.  A chapped one, not so much.  Your smile deserve great frame, which is your lips. Imagine smiling with chapped lips.  Ouch! Your lips need some tender loving care too especially now the weather is so much hotter and drier.

So what you need to do:

1) Drink a lot of water! When your body is well-hydrated, it will appear through you lips and skin! Drink at least 2.5L of water.  Malaysia is freaking hot, it will constantly dehydrate your body.  So drink up! Your body, you skin and your lips will thank you. 

2) Apply some good lip balm.  Revive the chapped lips. The primary purpose of lip balm is to provide an occlusive layer on the lip surface to seal moisture in lips and protect them from external exposure. Dry air, cold temperatures, and wind all have a drying effect on skin by drawing moisture away from the body. Lips are particularly vulnerable because the skin is so thin, and thus they are often the first to present signs of dryness.  There are plenty types of lip balms these days. Stick, pot, clear, color-tinted, shimmery, buttery, glossy.  Pick one.  or two.  or more. 

3) Scrub it! Scrub the dead skin away at least 3 times per week.  The simplest way to do this is to use a toothbrush.  How?  First, moisten up your lips with luke warm water.  Brush your lips gently in circular motion.  Rinse.  So simple right.  Or you can use sugar and honey to make a scrub.  Take 1 teaspoon of sugar and 1 teaspoon of honey. Mix them together.  Rub it on your lips.  Both ways resulting in healthy looking and soft lips.  The second method however will give you softer and moisturized lips.  Don't forget to apply some lip balm after scrubbing!

4) Choose lipstick with moisturizing formulas.  Some lipsticks formulas are really drying!  The color may look good on you but few hours later, you may feel your lips are dry and chapped.  And then your lips starts to peel and look horrible.  You wouldn't want that to happen, would you?  Nowadays, there are many brands with moisturizing properties.  For example: Maybelline Watershine Lipsticks and Revlon ColorBurst Lipstick.  Go for tinted lip balm for sheer color.  Revlon also produce ColorBurst lipbutter, which is a tinted balm with nice nearly opaque color. 

So, that's it for a healthy lips.  Did i mention healthy lips also mean kissable lips? :) xoxo

Handy little thing: AikenTea Tree Oil

Hot weather, haze, hormones imbalance, bad digestion... Well those sorts of stuffs really broke me out with pimples all over my chin and forehead.  I've tried Oxy 10% Benzyl Peroxide to clear them off, but it didn't work.  So i searched high and low for effective alternative.  I found Aiken Tea Tree Oil.  I heard good things about this stuff and most recently from Bubzbeauty.  She used Origin Tea Tree oil though. But i'm not quite sure if there's any differences.





Aiken Tea Trea Oil
Price: RM10+  dor 10ml (can't remember the cents.)

It claims to contain 100% pure Tea Tree Oil.  The texture is oily since it is oil, with a strong scent of eucalyptus-like (which is not the same but quite similar) scent.  For those who hate this strong-type scent, i bet you won't like it.  So how to use it? Simple! Just dab on finger and apply directly onto blemishes or acne or pimples or wherever skin that tend to break out.  Just like that and let it settle there.  You will feel instant cold-like sensation or stinging a little bit, you can totally feel that the oil are absorbed that quickly into your skin.  I like the sensation so no complaints from me.  You can also use it on cuts, wounds, minor burns and insect bites.  Handy huh? I got mosquito bites recently and it was so itchy. So i dabbed this little guy on the bite and hey, it wasn't itchy anymore!

So did it work? Yes.  I got this big pimple on my chin.  So i applied the oil onto it the night before.  The next morning, the pimple shrunk and dried up.

Verdict: Thumbs up.  Definitely a good purchased.  Rm10+ for 10ml of oil but worth every penny.10ml appears to be so little, but i can tell you for sure, it will last longer than your large tube of toothpaste since you will only need a very little amount to work wonders.