Saturday, April 14, 2012
5 Days to Canberra Half Marathon
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Friday, March 2, 2012
Monday, February 27, 2012
19 days Atkins
Herm back to Atkins. The last time I did this diet I managed to lost 3KGs in a week. It was awesome. But if I can recall, after that the weight seems to be stagnant for a while and I decided to stop. No harm giving this a second try because I have got the prove that it's actually works!
But this time lets just give it a 19 days as for the beginning. I will be happy if I can lose 6 or 7? Yeah those are good numbers. Before that I really need to address the challenges that I was facing the last time I did the diet, which were also among the key factors of me quitting.
1) Atkins food price
- Food is quite expensive. U know like chicken, meat and fish. To buy the raw meat is quite troublesome here but with decent price while to get the cooked food from restaurant is even painful to the pocket.
2) Food contribute to constipation
- I should actually put this on top. There was one time I spend almost an hour crying in the toilet. [No further explanation necessary].
3) Lack of sugar or carbo leave me fatigue
- After few days in the diet, climbing up two levels of stairs in my residential house feels like really a lot of work. Sometimes I'm shivering and having trouble to deal with sugar lose.
So these three are among the top reasons that I still remember. However, throughout the sweet (when I lose the weight) and painful (when u I'm having the constipation e.g.) of the diet, i have actually manage to figured out few solutions to the above factors.
I can take eggs as my main food because it's cheaper than the rest of the options. Eating raw spinach (allowed in the diet) definitely help with my constipation) and taking vitamin B or multivitamin may help a little bit in the nutrition lose (this one is not clearly seen though). So yeah, for the next 19 days, let's do this.
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Thursday, February 23, 2012
Comeback!
I made a comeback today. Since I had only one class in the evening and no work at all. Today is the right time to give it another shot I told my self. Yeah and I did another 5K today! Yahuuuu (asyik2 5K, macam mane nak run 20k half marathon?, wallahualam..ni keje tuhan :P)
Luckily I haven't loose my fitness (fitness lah sangat kan) and keep improing my record. So today I did the 5K in 38 minutes and 31 seconds. :D Kudos MS KELI! U r the man!! Ngeh ngeh ngeh. Maybe because today I was accompanied by a friend and indirectly the body co-operate well, nak tunjuk hebatlah sangat. Agaknyer. Hahaha.. Last2 orang tu run 10km/hour - 12km/hour, aku run 9km/hour jerk.
Ha that's ok. Good thing came out of it. I improved my record by a minute! :D Every small milestone counts ok. None will be neglected. I appreciate you strong body, strong mind. Please keep it that way until we reach our ultimate goal of running 21k ya.
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Saturday, February 18, 2012
What the heck is Half Marathon?
So far best record for Half Marathon in the world adalah a guy name Zerseney from negara yang bernama Eritrea (pelik2 nama meke ni) dengan catatan rekod 58 minutes 23 seconds. Super laju kan? Maknanya dia ni lari dengan kelajuan tak kurang dari 21km/hour! Gilo kan? Macam naik motor sejam bawak 21km tapi ini berlari tanpa henti. Dasat!
Rekod perempuan adalah dipegang oleh Mery Keitany from Kenya dengan catatan masa 65 minutes 50 saat. Maklumlah perempuan banyak aset so lambat sikit lari. Banyak nak kene usung. But still, impressive record isn't it? Dan saya Ms Keli berazam untuk join Half Marathon ni dan finish this 21 kilometers in 3 hours or to be exact 180 minutes. Kekekekek. Janji siap ok?
Rules and regulation setiap Half Marathon ni adakalanya berbeza depend on the organizer. Tapi most of the competition will set maximum time for you to reach the finish line or you will be disqualified. Yerlah kalau sampai lambat-lambat tak boleh dah nak panggil Marathon baik panggil Jogathon or Walkaton kan.
Rasa aku lebih ready nak masuk jogathon kowts. Tapi nak wat macam mano, sendiri carik penyakit, kito harung yolah yo... Owh yer, anyway my mission to join this Half Marathon is not to win the prize (lamo lagi nak berhasil!) or untuk catat rekod dunia ker daerah ker ape. Jauh sekali nak melakar nama dimata dunia. Sah-sah berangan. At first, saja nak push myself for the Hal Marathon training so that I will lose the weight along the way.
But as time passed by, the run itself tend to be more interesting and thrilling than loosing the stubborn weight! Rasa macam best when you did something that u thought u can never done before - in my case so far the 5K. This feeling doesn't last on the thread mill but you carry it along in your other commitments. You will tend to trust yourself more and work harder for what you desire. That's how I feel throughout the training.
Nonetheless, it does show up in the scale I weigh 78.1 KG today in compare to 79.5 KG last week. Just wish I can stick my butt to this one a little more longer than usual ;)
Allah....bless me. :D
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Thursday, February 16, 2012
Fasting and half marathon training again
I will let it be because thus far by focusing on the Half Marathon training and forget about my weight issue works like throw 2 birds with one stone (herm betul ker ni?). Kirenya meaning to say, serampang dua matalah..tembak satu dua2 kena.
So pagi tadi tak sahur sebab terlampau kenyang. Luckily I didn't work today so I got to enjoy half day nap (the hell nap??) before hit the gym at about 7.30 p.m. I was in between whether to break fast first and do the 5K or do the 5K first and break fast right after I finish.
I eventually hit the gym first after being nagged by Mr Keli. I kind of agree though because if I eat first I might having trouble to carry all the fats and the foods during the run. Hah! Ingatkan I couldn't do better than my record last two days. Yelah puasa kan, siap tak sahur lagi. Siap frust2 and giveup dengan diri sendiri and boleh pulak fikir nak stop and go home when I reached 2.5K. Last2 pujuk diri sendiri and jalan2 slow and to my surprise mood, semangat and tenaga tu datang balik sikit2.
So friends, if you feel like quitting, just hang in there a little longer who knows you can change your mind and push your body to the extra maximum. That's what I did. And I..
tereng......
teng tereng.....
teng.....teng...teng..
ok enough already.....
Manage to finish the 5K in 39 minutes and 51 seconds. I know you will be like: "ek eleh minah ni, ingat 15 minutes siap 5K tadi. Kecoh jer". Hahahaha..but whatever ok. Sebabkan saya puasa saya amat2 puas hati. it takes time people. It seriously does.
When I talked to a best friend yesterday, "Die, can this fat me run a Half Marathon with consistent training". She was like, "Of course darling, is not about your weight but your endurance. How your heart is going to take it makes a different, your body is always capable (provided you train enough),". Oh by the way, she's a physiotherapist.
And trust me, that's not lines of comfort from her. This friend of mine will hardly lie. She will tell the truth straight to my face or anyone. Like for example, "You're not gonna get married to this useless guy, just leave him already, don't dream too much,".
Ouchhhh right? I know.. :D That's my best friend a.k.a big sister Didie!
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Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Very first training for Half Marathon
I was thinking about it almost every seconds. And most of the time I end up feeling that I have made such a huge mistake. I'm never a runner. I'm not even a jogger. I will be kicked out in the first 15 minutes of the marathon. These lines keep playing in my mind. Ok stop whining already! Huh! Kalau layan feeling ni..memang duk complain je 24 jam.
But still for the past two days I actually dragged my legs to the gym and finished up a couple of 5K. Kudos to my dying self. The first trial was hard. And the second one was harder! Yes, surprisingly. These are my shameful records:
1st Day 5K
Time : 40 minutes 45 seconds
Average pace : NIL
Average speed: NIL
And actually during the second trial I had stomach pain after a short run. I keep holding it in throughout the 5K. My body and my mind wasn't as good as the first time. So I was thinking that my timing is going to be really out today. But then I keep forcing myself to stay on track like yesterday. I won't be able to finish it 20 seconds faster(as you can see below) if I didn't speed upto 10.5km/hour for the last minutes. I think I'm more of a sprinter than a marathoner. Huh jangan mimpi actually neither a sprinter nor a marathoner. Mimpi sajer!
2nd Day 5K
Time : 40 minutes 25 seconds
Average pace : NIL
Average speed: 7.2km/hour
When I was running/jogging I did a lot of calculation. With my current time, I will definitely be disqualified before even get to the half point of the half marathon. I am too slow. And it's really killing me because I think I gave my best in these two 5K. My heart sometimes feel like it's going to pop out when I'm running especially on the last few minutes that I 'try' to sprint. How am I going to finish up a 21K for in the same speed for the sake of the Half Marathon? God knows.
But I'm wishing as I keep training 2-3 times per week and lose few KGs I would be able to run a little longer, a bit faster, and having a more trusted endurance level. Aminn...Allah bless. As for know, just get the legs to do the bloody 5K every other day.
p/s: To join a 5K dash in Canberra Running Festivals you need to finish up within 25 minutes or off you go. My best record is 15 minutes after that max time. I did a mistake for signing up a Half Marathon. Didn't I?
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Monday, February 13, 2012
Flash Back on Fitness
Aghh..Takpe. Ringkasannya video tu suppose to update on my weight and fitness progress la. The last diet program was okay but it didn’t last that long for me to get the desired result. My aim nak dapat ideal weight before engagement day was totally devastated. Even I have lost about 5KGS. It wasn't enough.
Agak sedih juga. I can tell through the photo of the E-day that I still chubby in my 79KG. Really ugly. I mean as Allah creation I’m all good and perfect but my size made me look damn ugly. It's totally my bad. I stuffed all the rubbish for at least the past 18 years. I didn't look like a bride to be at all. Even my fiance didn’t say anything about it, I still felt that I had embarrass him by being so fat! Sorry darling!
I looked obviously bigger than my 'future mother in law' (FMIL)
who has 4 kids. That sucks.
I might look happy..tp dalam hati yang sedih
dan segan ni Allah je yang tahu.
I liked this photo. But honestly I should looked bigger
if not because of the brilliant photographer.
And eventually my worst nightmare came true. One of his relatives did comment on my body. "So chubby with plum cheeks". I know that's definitely me and therefore I shouldn't be angry about it. But memang rasa horrible gila. Feeling that I'm ugly and I don't deserve to be a bride. Memanglah people would say all this doesn't matter yang penting cantik dalam. But what if you don't own any of them? Shitty right!
But as I keep telling myself..no matter how many diet I failed, how many times I gave up, and how hard it's going to be, I will keep making comebacks until I achieved this particular childhood dream of being slim, slender, strong and healthy of course!
So my very latest resolution that I have decided on was to register for a marathon like I mentioned earlier and I had began my training yesterday. Will story more about this. Definitely! I have no idea whether this is going to work or just another 'failure going to be'. But I just don't care. I just need to do it. No matter how tough it is. I just need to do it. I doubt myself every single seconds of my breath but still...it needs to be done.
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Saturday, February 11, 2012
Keja Gila!
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