A D’oh moment

Pagi tadi saya sungguh lah excited bila bangun tidur.

As usual, bila bangun pagi2 buta dengan bleary eyes lagi, terus do  bodily function and then terus naik atas weighing scale. Konon2nya bila pagi2 tu, we usually have the lowest body weight lah sebab kurang air and tak makan lagi.

And bila I tengok the number, terus rasa happy giler because it’s 100g less than my target weight! Yeayyyyyyyy!!!!!!

Terus pasang cita2 nak ambik gambar buat kenang2an (masuk blog lah, apa lagi, hehehe).

So, balik aje from sending The Little Misses to school pagi tadi, I pun terus lah usung camera bawak masuk bathroom. I cuma nak ambik gambar the scale ok, nothing else!

As soon as I stepped onto the scale, terkejut I tiba2 sebab my weight mencanak naik suddenly. Nak kata I dah breakfast, belum lagi. Nak kata I pakai baju tebal2 giler, tengah Summer panas berdentung so tak kuasa I nak pakai sweater bagai.

Since I tak percaya the first result, I pun try lah again (kalah orang buat stat analysis their data aje, hahaha). Naik lah I lagi sekali on the penimbang, still the same mencanak2 naik the weight from this morning.

Uwahhhhhh!!!!!!! Sedih giler I masa tu, terus tak jadi nak ambik gambar …..

Pastu, I pun pi lah merajuk and called The Other Half….

This was what he said, “Have you thought of putting the DSLR down when you were weighing yourself?”

D’oh!!!!!!!!! Many many D’oh!!!!!!

Muahahahahahahaha…..

Silly me!

Patutlah mencanak2 naik my berat. Rupa2nya I terlupa yang I was holding the DSLR yang berat itu masa menimbang.

Lepas tu, I pun timbang lah balik semula.

Phew…… It’s gone back to the right number, hakhakhak….

Next time, either suruh orang lain ambik gambar or just guna handphone aje, baru lah betul bacaan nya kan .

I nak tunjuk gambar The Other Half before and after the 10kg transformation.

Ini gambar dia mid December last year. I know it’s a bit blurry but tak banyak gambar latest dia yg face on.

And ini pulak gambar dia sat tadi.

Ada beza tak muka dia? I think muka dia and around his neck dah kurus sikit and his waistline definitely makin kecik .

Kiranya kalau I peluk dia, lagi banyak lah my arms yg overlapping around his back, hahahaha…..

And ini pulak gambar our dinner.

Beef masak kicap special with stirfry veges and rice.

Apasal special? Sebab I masak kat slow cooker and letak kicap, oyster sauce, sweet chilli sauce and rempah ratus . So Mamak celup tu tak lah rasa rindu nak makan kari aje!

Our ‘diet’ food

Some people asked me how The Other Half managed to lose weight with the ‘delicious’ dinners that I cooked (delicious-looking aje, hehehe ).

Bila I tanya The Other Half, dia kata, “Plenty of exercise and portion control and cutting down on the junk food and sugary drink.”

Dia memang exercise a lot everyday. Mana tak nya, he rides 50kms everyday, going to work and back home. He burns so much energy cycling everyday and with his portion-controlled meals and snacks, he loses all the fat ‘easily’. You should see his calves now, kalah Lance Armstrong nya calves, hikhikhik. So well defined .

(And you should see his shrinking waistline too! Mama Mia! Hahahahaha).

He doesn’t ride on Friday but every morning (pagi2 buta) before he goes to work and I organise the girls, he and I will do about 45 minutes of core body/upper body workout on Wii.

And then on weekend, he’ll do Wii, exercise on the elliptical and occasionally go on bike ride with The Little Misses.

I yang tulis ni aje pun dah mengah as though I burn banyak calories, lagi lah dia yang buat all the exercise kan, hehehe.

And now he eats just slightly more than me. Bukannya I yang makan banyak as him but dia yang makan sejemput aje macam I. Tu yang kadang2 I rasa I terover makan bila the food tengok his plate now sebab selalu nya his food will be piled high on the plate.

Mula2 memang lah dia sentiasa lapar sebab dari big portion kena kurangkan portion. But sekarang ni, he’s really full after a small meal (sebab perut dia dah mengecut kan ). We normally will weigh our food on the scale so senang nak enter on Myfinesspal and find out how much calories we are consuming. Memang leceh sikit lah sebab everytime nak makan anything and everything, kena weigh and kena baca the calorie info on the pack.

But nak sihat and lose weight kan, so terpaksalah bersusah payah dahulu, bersenang2 kemudian, hehehehe…

Malam ni I made asian salad with grilled prawn and thai dressing. Ni pun angkara tengok MyKitchenRules last nite lah.

Since meal ni memang sikit sangat2 carbs, it’s really low in calories. Yang meninggikan calories nya was the thai dressing.

We really love the prawns .

(Psst…limau/lime tu kat sini 70sen sebiji! Hehehehe)

The Little Misses makan benda lain lah sebab diaorang tak perlu jaga calories sangat (well… except Miss 7 kot, hahaha).

And for dessert pulak, we had grilled mango cheeks with no-fat yoghurt and a drizzle of golden syrup.

It satisfied our sweet tooth and still low in cals. A win-win situation .

I’m back :-)

Angkat tangan sape rindu nak baca celoteh I? Hikhikhik…. .

Awat lah all the speculations for the reason I malas berblog semua revolve around me being bunting? Kahkahkahkahkah….

To set the record straight. I AM NOT!

No double blue lines anywhere! (Not that I checked anyway, hehehe).

(I thought of putting up a photo of my flat tummy to squash the rumour that says I’m preggy. Tapi nanti, jeles pulak Posh Spice tehngok ke ‘flat’ an tummy I so baik tak payah letak, hikhikhikhik)

I was just malas for no apparent reason.

The Other Half kata maybe sebab I dah tak tau nak cerita apa kat this blog since I’ve been blogging for a few years so dah habis segala cerita2 sensasi about us that I can write about.

We do live a boring life most of the time .

Nak cerita sensasi pasal orang lain, what’s the point kan, hehehe.

The latest cerita about us is that The Other Half has lost 9.4kg so far. While I pulak have gained a bit of weight instead of losing due to that cycle of the month. Sangat lah geramnya. Baik I melantak sakan macam ni kan, hehehe…

So, makin jauh lah nampak nya nak merealisasikan coklat kek itu……

But, let me show you what we’ve been eating the past few nights..

Vege pizza again with a scatter of diced sausage. We have fallen in love with vege pizza with not much cheese at all .

Malam yang I makan vietnamese chicken pho ni, everyone makan different things. The Little Misses makan popcorn chickens with fries, The Other Half makan oven-baked popcorn chicken with pasta and I makan this soup. Memang tak malas betul lah I masak malam tu

And then tonite, I made stuffed grilled portobello mushroom and pan-fried gnocchi in sage n olive oil with meatballs in pasta sauce.

Malam tadi we all tengok MyKitchenRules on TV and diaorang buat stuffed grilled mushroom. Tu yg tergoda nak buat, hehehe.

But ours didn’t look as pretty and as appetising as theirs. Maybe sebab ours ni kurang lemak nya version kot, hahahaha.

And baby gnocchi with meatballs in pasta sauce.

A big fat malas…..

I tengah malas nak update blog….

Nak jenguk blog pun I malas….

Nak jawab comment pun still tengah malas jugak….so sorry ok….

Sekali sekala memang mood malas nak update akan datang….

Tunggu lah my next entry ye….

Maybe in a few days time… or

Maybe tunggu the next full moon/bulan mengambang…. or

Maybe tunggu my roses in full bloom again….. or

Maybe tunggu my next planting spree…or

Maybe tunggu my choc cake entry showing a new svelte me …..

In the meantime, tengok lah dulu gambar dinner we all ni ye and thanks for dropping by

Masak pun malas, kangkung goreng belacan with baked ling.

sempoi n sedap .

Recycled food

The problem with going on our ‘diet’ is the food left over from dinners. Sometimes I akan teringat masa masak tu and will reduce all the raw ingredients accordingly. But sometimes I sort of forgot about it and still masak banyak.

Like tonite, I tak tau nak masak apa for dinner. Bukak freezer, I saw so many bags of cooked rice and hari tu punya kari. Dari buat menyemak kan freezer, baik I buat masak dinner kan.

I made nasi goreng sayur with the cooked rice but using non stick wok so you dont need oil actually. Tapi I letak jugak about 2 teaspoons which wasn’t much for about 5cups+ rice. I saje masak banyak2, pastu boleh simpan balik dlm freezer or makan for lunch esok, hehehe.

This was my plate. Our diet is a calorie-controlled diet so boleh makan everything (healthy stuff and non healthy stuff) including all the carbs. We love our carbs and we will always eat it no matter what and we can’t live without it. .

But we also exercise everyday at the same time.

I know ramai orang yg kalau sebut diet, maksudnya tak boleh makan nasi. But nasi ni lebih kurang aje calorie dengan white bread or potato or mee or pasta or any other starch. What’s the point of not eating rice but bantai white bread and potato like mad, hehehe.

The Other Half has lost 8kg+ so far and I’ve only got 500g to go before reaching my dream weight, hehehe. The Other Half still has his treats occasionally which for him is potato crisps. But he makes sure he portions it so he knows how many calories he’s consuming. Tu yang buat dia lagi happy sebab still losing weight and can eat his beloved Pringles at the same time, hikhikhik….

(I know I asik cerita pasal our weight loss journey and diet aje kan. But mana lah tau kan, ada orang yang baca ni tergerak hati nak start losing weight secara healthy.)

I told The Other Half yang once I have reached that weight, I’m going to celebrate by making myself a decadent choc cake . The Other Half tak kisah sbb dia tak suka sangat choc cake ni so kalau I buat pun, dia tak kan tergoda punya, hahaha.

Can’t wait for that day to arrive so I can makan choc cake!

So, kalau tetiba I tayang gambar choc cake kat blog ni, maksudnya I dah berjaya capai my target weight lah .

Their first day

First day of school went really well for The Little Misses. Miss 7 got the same teachers she had last year so she was really happy. I am happy as well because they were really good teachers. And some of her good friends are still in the same class as her so adalah kawan dia nak main2 and pergi makan sama .

But it was sad to see her teacher (the one who had a stillborn baby) standing there in the class and us knowing how sad she must have been. Miss 7 straight away hugged her teacher when she saw her and said, “I’m really sorry and sad about what happened to your baby.” And she answered, “It is sad.”

It is funny kan yang we adults will feel awkward in that situation, not knowing what is the right thing to say to that bereaved person. And not knowing how to act either. But with kids, they are so innocent, they will say what’s in their mind and what they are feeling at the time. And they normally say the right thing….

Miss 11 had a blast as well on her first day of school. I sent her to the school gate aje and there were already ‘big’ students which they call ‘peer leaders’ and teachers waiting for the new students to take them around.

After primary school, her high school seems so big. It is the biggest public school in WA so I guess memang besar betul2 lah kan the school, hehehe. They were given maps of the school as well so they won’t get lost when going around the school ground looking for their classes which are everywhere. Dah lah anak I tu kecik aje banding dgn budak2 lain, sure nya lah boleh hilang kat tengah2 lautan manusia tu, hehehe.

Luckily the high school finishes 15 minutes earlier than the primary school so I have asked Miss 11 to go to Miss 7’s school lepas habis sekolah and wait for me there. Tak kuasa I nak mencari dia kat the high school, memang tak kan jumpa punyalah .

And for a treat tonite, I made crispy baked chicken, oven-baked fries and low calorie coleslaw for dinner. Ye lah, nak makan kfc, mana ada yg halal kat sini. Kalau beli kat chicken shop, sure punya the chicken and fries will be deep fried kan and the coleslaw penuh dgn lemak. Habislah diet we all, hehehe.

But, the chicken set that I made tonite was only 420cals aje but still rasa macam makan kfc, hikhikhik…

I had 2 pieces of chicken, 100g of coleslaw, 100g of fries and a bit of sauce. Memang sangat2 mengenyangkan.

I sort of guna this recipe for the chicken wings but I didn’t have a few of the ingredients so I tukar ganti with a few other spices. Memang rasa dia sangat2 crispy but much lower in fat.

Nak buat coleslaw rendah calorie and lemak, you can substitute the mayo with reduced fat mayo or cari yg lower calories and use half mayo half very light sour cream. The taste is still creamy but less fat.

Miss 7 makan coleslaw tadi lagi banyak dari we all, hikhikhik. She even requested to have the coleslaw untuk lunch esok .

The Other Half was 1 very happy man sebab dapat makan this set tanpa rasa guilty, hahahahaha….

The night before schools start

The schools opening tomorrow and everyone is excited, from Emak to Bapak to anak2, hehehehe…

Sepatutnya I pergi Miss 7’s school petang tadi to find out which class she’ll be in. But malas betul nak keluar rumah bila dah panas tadi and we are going to find out esok pagi anyway masa kat sekolah so might as well just wait until esok kan . We just hope some of her good friends are in the same class as her so tak lah dia rasa lonely sangat.

And since tugas I sebagai supir and makcik kantin will be starting again esok, kenalah I masuk tidur awal starting from tonite. Tak boleh lah I nak tidur balik lepas Subuh nanti, hehehe….

The Little Misses have asked for fruit salad and buttered popcorns for recess and I’ve made sausage roll for their lunches. Tu yang kena tidur awal sebab nak buat fruit salad n popcorns esok pagi2, hehehe. (Nasib baik the popcorns beli yang microwavable tu so senang kerja I, hehehehe).

So, instead of borak panjang, I tayang our dinner aje lah.

We had thai beef salad on a base of japanese noodles.

The noodles I cuma boiled in water flavoured with soy sauce and sesame oil aje so dia tak clash dengan the thai flavouring.

I marinated the beef using this recipe and then grilled it in a grill pan. But for the girls, I guna marinate lain yang tak pedas and I tak bagi banyak sayur.

Memang ada rupa rabbits dah we all sekarang ni sebab makan greens aje hari2!