Maintenance Day 12, 13 and 14

Weight verdict : I am now yo-yoing between 72.2 and 71.7kg.

The ultimate I thought was yesterday i.e. Friday when my early morning sahur was just one boiled egg, coffee with lowfat milk and lots and lots of water.  For most of the morning at work, I didn't really feel hungry but by the end of the day I was famished.  I texted Pyl and Arlin and told them I was hungry!!

Of course, all hell broke loose during breakfasting.  I began disciplined enough, one drumstick ayam percik and another piece of chicken baked by my maid.  The temptation was just too great with my maid's jemput2 sayur and I succumbed to a good one and a half piece of that.  Then there was rojak.  While I didn't take the tauhu and the kuih that came along with the rojak, preferring the cucumber and boiled eggs, the rojak sauce was the killer.  Laden with sugar I am sure.  But then again I also had spinach and a good helping of salad.  And plain water for drinks.

My late mother's maid, is good in making tempeyek and she made over the weekend about 10 huge plastic bottles worth of tempeyek kacang.  Oh the temptation to munch and munch away!  That was my snack before last night before I figured out that all I needed was an apple to satisfy my sweet craving.  Not that the tempeyek did the job but I needed to munch on something.  The apple was my saviour.  After the apple, I didn't feel like eating anymore, ha ha!

Therefore I am pleased to see that I am this morning at 72.2kg, a good 900 kg lighter from my weight at transition.  I think I need to be a bit more disciplined with my buka puasa food.  With the discipline, I think I should be able to reach 71kg sooner than I thought.  And who knows, I may even reach 70kg.

My sahur this morning is one piece of baked chicken, a sip of coffee with milk and water, water, water.  So far today I am doing good.

The days before i.e. 12 and 13 were pretty much the same, protein either in the form of rendang ayam with a lot of salad and cucumber.  And a tempeyek or two, he he.  Oh yes, I had a lot of oranges after breakfasting on Thursday, and that helped the motion bit a lot!

After two weeks of maintenance, I find that if I ate really a lot, like I did at the barbecue buffet dinner at Cyberview Lodge, provided that the food is protein and green veggies, I would put on about 500gms.  I have been disciplined in taking the ACV everynight before I go to sleep.

MrM is sufferring from diet fatigue syndrome.  He has been taking a bit of carbo, mostly in the form of rojak, and sugar.  He tells me his body needs a bit more food compared to mine.  I tell him I have reserves from the years of pregnancy and eating as I please.  MrM's BMI is now 24.5, a normal range.  Mine is still at 27, which means that I needed to lose another 6kg to be at a healthy BMI.

Pyl, if you are reading this, experiment with your maintenance phase.  I think you need to allow yourself to eat according to the maintenance protocol and weigh the next day to see the impact and then adjust.  That's what I did.  I remember Jai saying during lunch at Chinoz that you can even eat a whole chicken if you wanted to.  That was the first thing that I wanted to do after transition.  Eat a whole chicken.  But the barbecue buffet dinner compensated for that, ha ha!