Hui's Tips

I had breakfast with Hui this morning at Bakerlyn Cafe in Kiulap (photo insert: me holding her latest creation named Pixie-Corn the Unicorn. A shout out to Artz of the Heart - search for Artzoftheheart Brunei on Facebook and you will see more!) and I shared with her what I had read based on my previous posting from the Reader's Digest.

Hui also had also undergone a weight loss program about a year or two ago when she was staying in Singapore (I can't remember when exactly) and she shared some simple tips which I think are pretty practical and does not sound like you're depriving yourself!

1. A low-carb diet is effective (as stated in the previous posting De-bunked!). You can eat as much protein and vegetables as you want until you feel satisfied. Her consultant didn't limit her to portion sizes because the body and you would know when to stop eating. 

2. You must eat within a 6 hour gap and do not skip meals. If you go into starvation mode i.e. really hungry mode, your body will turn to your bones and your muscles to feed itself. So you could lose weight in the short/long run but you will be losing bone mass and muscle mass and that is not good for our bodies! If you still feel full in those 6 hours, just eat a little bit, so long as you eat.

3. Make sure you eat before 8pm each evening. It allows the tummy to digest the food so you will sleep well.

4. Within one hour of waking up, eat breakfast as the body had 'fasted' the night before. Otherwise you will go into starvation mode and what is pointed out in point 2 above will happen.

5. Her consultant advised her to avoid fried food if she could but if you had an option between no food and fried food, choose fried food. I like her consultant!

These simple steps encouraged her to undergo her weight loss program but as she and I openly admitted, we love our carbs! And so we're all still work in progress. As Dory from Finding Nemo once said, "Just keep swimming... just keep swimming... just keep swimming..."

Thank you Hui for your sharing!  We should meet again soon!