Depending on which side you’re on, you can think that sugar is evil and I’d like to think so too. But it’s not like we can escape from it as everything we consume and things that gets into our body has some type of “sugar”. Recently, I have been on a sugar binge from visiting a sweet tooth paradise to drinking copious amount of cappuccino and milk-based coffee. This week, I’ve been back on the roll, doing my best avoiding added sugar and trying to speed up my weight loss. While I have lost more than 20kg in the past 17 months, I need a little challenge and shock to how I run my life. As I discussed before, there’s something called “curse of comfy” and it’s time to shake things up and shock my system.

I got this wake up call the other day about my cafe visit when I realized I added baziliion sugar into my diet these past 2 weeks. And as I reached to my third cup of coffee, I ended up opting for americano. Americano is the safest bet when you’re visiting a cafe and wants all the perk but keeping it healthy. Obviously, always say without sugar because sometimes an ignorant barista would instantly add sugar inside of it. The worst part if it’s liquid sugar.

While I generally have a fixed diet lately where I consume everything in moderation, since going out a lot, I couldn’t control that aspect. I noticed a striking difference in terms of my energy levels as well as just overall feeling where I feel a lot more horrible due to the sugar that I had been consuming. But since I also enjoy exploring new drinks, going to cafe, I decided to go back to my previous schedule where in a week, I would check on 2 new places instead going daily as I’ve been these past few weeks.

Somehow, going daily ruined my experience too as I often feels everything gets too monotonous. This schedule was something I had the past few months and everything was going good. I discovered amazing places thanks to that habit since I tend to research thoroughly before even going there. I also enjoyed beautiful drinks like this more than when I used to have it too often.

Also December is the month where I love to start exploring places. I enjoy walking when it’s a lot colder and pleasant temperature. As you see some of my Wednesday walk post, as many events are also scattered all around the city and places, it’s really time to walk more and adding more steps into my life. While these days I am already good with moving and being active, I’d like to wander and getting lost in a new areas and place.

As I grew old and understand more about nutrition, weight loss and how it works, I am going on the safer side with goals like 6 pounds a month instead drastic 20 pounds/month change. From experiencing yo-yo diet and so many other diets that only made me gain weight, since committing to do a drastic and life changing lifestyle from the last two year, I was more satisfied with everything.

So far this bullet points of changes in my life.

📍I still consume rice in moderation
📍I have days where I still take sugar ( 2 days/week) or days when I have to be outside all day.
📍I walk daily for 30 minutes and only skipping when I overslept
📍I minimize buying food outside and cook for myself
📍I opt for cheaper produce than a fancy it girl diet style or menu.

While it’s not as fast as other people nor as impressive, I am happy that I was somewhat consistent with the basics such as moving more and eating less. It took me many years to reach this point in life where I am comfortable doing OMAD (one meal a day) long term and sometimes, Two meal a day; one is big meal and another is light snacks. I am also content that I can do this almost consistently without experiencing yo-yo or feeling unhappy about my food choices and the choices I made for my health.