I have made a point to have at least 6 hours of sleep since I started on the XNDO programme. I should aim for 7-8 hours.
I decided I better listen to my mom about sleep. She even went as far as to cut out an article from Reader’s Digest [...]

I registered a loss of 300 g today. I knew I made a loss because my Armani jeans are starting to get loose. Both my muscle mass and fat went down, so I am told to maintain a high protein diet and increase my reps of static exercises to 100 from 80 [...]

Throughout my growing up years, my mom would say “It’s better to waste it than to waist it,” when it comes to eating. I never listened to her, of course, preferring to eat her money’s worth at buffets.
Now, my mom has been watching her weight and passing me her fat [...]

Today, I registered a miserable loss of 200 g. But my consultant (Christine) found something to cheer about: my muscle mass went up. But most importantly, my visceral fat (fat around my internal organs) has gone down from 6% to 5%.
This seemed mighty important as that means my risk of getting [...]

Elaine Yap

Yes! That’s a photo of me in my Armani jeans. I heard that to look slimmer I should pose this way… with one leg infront of the other… hahaha… but yes. I am truly slimmer if not I wouldn’t have fit into the jeans in the first place.
 

Wardrobe expansion!
A month ago, before I started on a XNDO programme, I went to my shopaholic friend’s house to help offload some clothes from her bulging wardrobe.
She had some clothes and a lot of jeans which she could not wear anymore as she has lost weight. They were quite new and mainly branded stuff like [...]

Mere Mortals Can Run
I had gone from not exercising at all to running 10 km in less than 3 months. I don’t think I ran. Maybe a slower version of jog…more like plod.
I was inspired by my two role mortals…oops models (see Role Models blog). Valerie and Irine are both older than me and they [...]

Today’s weigh in is the most satisfactory.
I lost 600g and it’s mostly fat lost. The muscle mass was maintained.
This was despite a raw heel from wearing high heels and not being able to exercise much as a result.

Hmm, what would it have been if I just did not eat that Magnum ice-cream [...]

I approached my most recent weigh-in with trepidation…I did not ‘feel’ lighter. Then, to my surprise, I actually lost 800 g.
But the bad news is, I lost mainly muscles, and just a little fat. XNDO has an incredible weighing scale that even measures your basal metabolic rate. Mine’s gone down.
My consultant this time [...]

Sigh. It’s taking me a long time to admit it, but I only lost a measly 100g at my second weigh in.
I think it was due to 3 bad decisions:
1)One Sunday afternoon, I went to Golden Mile Complex trying to eat authentic Thai street food. I took a little rice with my pig intestines, omelette [...]