Breakfast: – Fried egg with ginger in it. – A small sweet potato. Lunch – A cup of Nescafe Breakfast 3-in-1 (absolutely adore the drink) – Yong tau foo stuff in bitter gourd (yes, I love bitter gourd) – Some kind of taugeh (but it is green colour and I love it too) – 2 [...]
June 2007
We have no idea how the food we eat affects us. Absolutely no idea at all. Is your life going to be happy? Felt you could do more but your stamina sets you back? Or the lack of energy robs you of a zest in life? All those years, I have read and heard advice [...]
Do you feel demotivated and demoralised because: you feel your life is slipping out of your control coz your weight is going out of control. your sweet tooth is driving you nuts and causing you weight gain every month. even after you ate a rich and sinful lunch, you still crave for an ice blended [...]
Yesterday, I spent a lot of time pouring through the book called “The Glucose Revolution”. Basically the book promotes taking food which is low in G.I or Glycemic index. Originally GI is developed as a tool for diabetics to control the blood sugar and insulin in their blood, its popularity spread through the entire world. [...]
Since increasing intake of natural food, minimizing sugar and processed carbs, and combining with my usual exerice regime, I have seen the following changes in myself: Feel so much more energized and less tired. Knee problems had dissapeared. Even though I have done yoga based exerised for a quite, I still had knee pains till [...]
I am keeping a list of useful resources. Once in a blog, easy to retrieve 1. Glycemic Index- useful tool to gauge how fast the food you are taking is being converted to blood sugar: 2. Johhny Bowden – nutritionist life coach from Diet section in Ivillage website. I really like reading his articles coz [...]
I have been packing snacks since last Thursday- stuff in my Tupperware: dried apricots, raisins, oranges, grapes, banana, baby tomatos and baby carrots, dried pumpkin seed. Where to get your snack supplies 1. Dried fruits & nuts: Shops selling baking supplies – find shops that specialised in baking supplies such as flour, cake products & [...]
Sugar free processed food (sugar free gum, soda, cakes, jam, etc) contains various ingredients like aspartame which is decrimental to your health and linked to various nerve degenerative diseases. If you really must have it, then have the real thing- so if you really must, drink Coke instead of Diet Coke (Source). Sugar free products [...]