MY FIRST

Ok… this post has nothing to do with “you know what” or is this going to be a humorous post. I have never made any new year resolution cause I don’t think there’s any point in them just like going for motivation talks… most of the time, it only last between 2 weeks to 1 month and after that most people would revert back to their old self back (this statement is research backed). But this year, against what research has shown, I will make my first and my one and only NEW YEAR RESOLUTION!

MY NEW YEAR RESOLUTION

FOR 2013 IS………..

TO EAT HEALTHY!!!

I know my wife and my mum (who verbalizes this a lot) and dad (who doesn’t really verbalize this often but gives me the serious talk about eating healthy) are probably jumping for joy and my brother is probably going… “Why so difficult. Just take the pill and you can eat anything without any worry like me”.

My wife comes from a family where healthy food is served most of the time (no si ham, no skin, no oil, but lotsa natural nyonya santan – fruit k… so healthy :P) while my family as much as my mum propagates for us to eat healthy, there would be the frequent fei chu yok (fatty pork dish) that is served (and she serves them because she knows how much we love them). But to be fair, she has balanced the fatty pork dishes with saltless food, skinless chicken, brown rice, etc… but I still love the fatty pork.

So why this particular new year resolution?

Firstly, my cholesterol level is high (or what I would always tell myself… “A little bit high”), LDL level is off the roof (“A little bit high”) and sugar level is “kinda high” (but this can be constituted to the fact that I ate tones of lozenges the past few days before my test). Of course for the past years I have been breaking borders (slightly over the border/max limit) but have never gone into pills cause my trusted insurance agent tells me, the moment you take the pill, you’ll gotta declare it in your insurance and you’re gonna have to pay more. So unlike the Matrix, taking the blue/red pill here is definitely not an option. Gotta go flat out nude/all natural.

Secondly, today is the 21 December 2012 where the world is suppose to end and didn’t. So I’m stuck in this world for the next 50 years (as I am only 28) without any nearest doomsday prediction in sight. So, I’ve got to make sure I remain healthy and don’t have to pay for a bypass, dialysis etc. even though I think my company covers for such expenses.

In the past, I’ve successfully managed to reduce my weight significantly via my famous Banana Milkshake diet (from 90kg – 70kg in 2 months. Better than any slimming centre out there. Diet involved replacing dinner with banana milkshake drink) and recently through my going to be famous “Brink of Death (Sort of) Diet” when in 2 weeks I lost 2 kg (this also I didn’t follow strictly). Diet involves controlling calorie intake to less than 600 calories a day. So either lunch/dinner I would have tuna in a can (300 calories) and 1 cucumber while for the other meal is 2 x box milk and loads of coffee (black, no sugar, no milk) to suppress hunger. But through this 2 diet plans, I have also gained back significantly fast and now weigh about 79kg. So this time around, I’ve got to work out a more sustainable diet plan to lower cholesterol and maintain a reduced weight.

To make sure I am successfully in this, I have developed a new diet regime and hope this works better. This shall be called the “1200 Calorie Diet”. In the most simplistic way, for one if the meals in a day (I generally only have 2 – lunch and dinner. I don’t usually have breakfast), I’m going to have my usual food.. i.e  chap fan, chap fan, chap fan (which should be around the 800 calorie range) and for the other meal, I would ensure that my calorie intake does not exceed 400 calories and is mostly protein base (which is actually quite easy to achieve). So the 400 calorie meal can still be a very fulfilling meal for me cause lotsa protein means lotsa meat (just lean ones) and eggs (without yolk). Imagine, I can have like an Oven Baked Ribeye (406 calories @ 200g) and 4 hardboiled egg without yolk (68 calories) and it would still be a total calorie of 474! Or better still Oven Baked Pork Chop (285 calories/255g) with 4 hardboiled egg without yolk (68 calories) – Total calories of 353 only! That beats eating Pan Mee @ 474 calories. So at the looks of it, it’s not going to be really difficult. Just have to keep track of my calorie intake and to consciously increase protein and reduce carbs and fats in my diet. Still got a lot of good, delicious option for food.

FYI… Mc Donalds Big Mac Meal has a total calorie count of 1160!!! Burger@480 calories, large fries@455 calories and large coke@255 calories. Eating Bak Kut Teh (342 calories with rice(242 calories) (Total calorie@584) beats eating McDonalds.

Like I said, still got a lot of good alternative around. Of course BKT would have to be lean (non-fatty) meat (and I’m not saying everyday k… just when the craving to eat bad comes along… hopefully not too often). Other good low calorie food are wan ton (45 calories per), yong tau fu (80 calories per fried, 40 calories per non-fried), tandori chicken (260 calories) and fish ball noodle (330 calories).

The long and short of it all, 2013 would be the year I’m going to eat healthy and keep an eye on my calorie intake and taking special notice of carb and fat content.

Note: I wrote this article on the 21 December 2012 and am only publishing it now less my wife cancels all Christmas food plan after she finds out my numbers for my blood test results… she seems to have forgotten that I’ve done the test with all her year-end paper marking busyness (divine intervention)… :P Love you dear and I’m going to be around longer than you think… :D