day 38 Monday 30-6-2008

Weight 183.5 pounds, I am still with my weekly target drop of 184 pounds.
21.5 % fat

Day 30 23 June 08

weight 184 pounds
24.2 % body fat

Not much weight drop this week, just less than a pound. I am still on track as by the forth week my target weight should be 186 pounds. I need to recheck my calorie intake, the coming week. I have been eating a lot of fruits, especially durians, and this might be the reason the weight has stagnated.

Day 22 third week Mon (16/6/08)

I don't expect much weight reduction last week as i've been eating more calories than expected due to the fishing trip. Anyhow, here is the figures:
Weight 184.8 pounds
21.7 % fat

I've still reach my target of 1 pound every week (should be 187 pounds in the third week).

Day 15 Monday (9/6/08) Measurement Day

Weight 184 pounds (down 2 pounds from last week)
24 % fat

I feel a bit loose around the waist and I can fit my pants comfortably. The coming weeks would be difficult as the body is adjusting to the reduction in weight, and reducing the metabolic rate to conserve fat. The body thinks I am starving !! More exercise and weight training will boost the metabolism.

Day 11 Measurement Day 5/6/08

Belly round the belly button 39 in, but i can still fit in a size 36 pants.
Chest 40 in
Butt 41.5 in
Thigh 23.5 in

I am targeting my belly to be 30-32 in (Form Five size lah). I'd be happy if i can reduce 1 inch a month. In 2003 I managed to reach 30 in, no kidding! Chest and the rest will follow suit. I have not eaten any rice or any simple carbohydrate for 10 days. Some friends can't even miss their rice for a day! Maybe I'll treat myself for some simple carbohydrate twice a month, i.e every two weeks, just to get the body metabolic rate rattle and turbo charged again.

Day 10 (4/6/08) Wednesday

No posting yesterday, was busy as a bee. Food intake is the same as per previous day, so i guess I am still on target yesterday.

Breakfast

• same as previous day 350 cal

Lunch

• Shake (Bananas, whey protein, fruit enzyme) 350 cal

3-5 pm

• 2 cup of coffee and shake 300 cal

5pm
Batminton. Felt very tired today. 5 sets of hard fought match really takes it's toll. -ve 300 cal

7-9.30pm. The biggest jam in the world. Waisted 2.5 hours on the road.

Dinner

• charu kerutop 300 cal
• sayor taugeh goreng tauhu 100 cal
• fruits and coffee 200 cal

Net calorie: 1300 calories. Good day.

Negative calorie foods

Asparagus	Fennel *
Aubergine *	Gourd *
Broccoli	Leek
Cabbage *	Lettuce *
Carrots	Marrow *
Cauliflower	Peppers
Celery *	Radish *
Chicory *	Spinach
Cress *	Tomato *
Cucumber *	Turnip

Apricot	Mandarin orange
Blackberry *	Melon Canteloupe *
Blackcurrant	Peaches
Clementines	Plums
Damsons	Raspberry *
Grapefruit	Rhubarb **
Guava *	Strawberry
Honeydew Melon	Tangerine
Lemon *	Watermelon

Eat these and surely the pounds will shed.

The Negative Calorie diet – Against:

• No scientific proof to confirm its effectiveness
• Very little information surrounding diet
• More theoretical than practical

The Negative Calorie diet – For:

• Little effort involved
• Promotes consumption of foods rich in vitamins and minerals
• Increases the body’s metabolism

The Negative Calorie diet works on the concept that certain negative calorie foods contain a surplus of vitamins and minerals which can speed up enzyme production in quantities sufficient to break down not only its own calories, but possible additional calories present in the digestion system. These negative calorie foods includes:

• Asparagus
• Watermelon
• Pineapple
• Grape Fruit
• Papaya

The Negative Calorie Diet is based on the pretence that you eat food that has negative calories. The only problem with this is that all foods contain calories.

"Negative Calorie Foods" are foods that take up more caloric energy to digest then the calories that are in them. Your body has to expend energy in order to digest and absorb foods, in fact, 10% of your daily caloric intake is used to process foods in your body. So these "negative" calorie foods are foods that take more calories to digest then actual calories in the item of food. Foods such as asparagus, broccoli, beets, cabbage (green), cauliflower, clams, celery root, chile peppers (hot) cucumber, dandelion, carrots, endive, garden cress, garlic, papaya, radishes, spinach, turnip, zucchini, cranberries, apples, oranges, lettuce, grapefruit, pineapples, tangerines, strawberries, raspberries, and onions are just a some of the foods that you can eat that take more energy to consume than the calories that are in the foods.

One thing to remember, negative calorie foods are eaten in their natural state, if you cook, add butter, and other things to them it changes the caloric makeup of the food. In addition, this diet plan is very restrictive to just fruits and vegetables. This would be very hard to stick to if you were not a committed vegetarian.

A better option for long-term weight loss success would be consuming the foods listed above as part of a balanced diet with exercise. By doing this you will have the best possible options for long-term weight loss success.

Day 8 (measurement day)

I started with 190 pounds and 26% body fat 7 days ago. This morning when i weigh up, surprise surprise..... 186 pounds and 24% body fat. Most probably the 3 pounds is not all fat, but still, i am sure i have achieved the one pound fat reduction in one week. I can feel some reduction around my waist, although very little. This week i intend to start on some weight lifting program, two times for this week with light weights, just to get the body into tune and to increase the metabolic rate. For foods, it will be the same as previous week, but with some addition of fruits.

Breakfast

• Pancakes 300 cal
• coffee 100 cal
• 2 jambu merah 150 cal
• 550 cal

Lunch

• whey protein, fruit enzyme and 2 bananas shake 300 cal
• coffee 100 cal

4-6 pm

• 5 bananas 350 cal

5pm
Batminton -ve 200 cal

Kacang goreng 300 cal

Dinner

• charu goreng pedas 300 cal
• coffee 100 cal
• 2 tahu 150 cal
• salad 50 cal
• jambu 100 cal
• 700 cal

Net calorie 1800 calorie. Tomorrow need to have more calorie deficit.

Day 5,6,7 (I am taking a break)