Friday, October 29, 2010

HOW TO KEEP FIT DURING DIWALI!

Eat only the foods you really enjoy.
Limit yourself to eating only those foods you really enjoy. Do not use the season as an excuse to over-indulge.
Watch out for emotional eating.
Watch out for stuffing your mouth to relieve some of that stress from arranging and attending parties and meeting friends and family.
Get enough sleep.
Believe it or not, some studies have shown that when people are short on sleep, they eat more.
Have realistic expectations.
Diwali is not the time to try and lose weight. Consider yourself successful just to maintain your weight. Don’t feel guilty either if, in spite of your best efforts, you put on a kg or two. A few kgs are easily taken care of when your schedule gets back to normal in December.
Beware the “all-or-nothing” attitude.
This time can be deadly if you have the “all-or-nothing” attitude towards food. This attitude says: “What’s the use? I over ate during the Diwali party. I might as well stop watching what I eat and go all the way”
Create lower calorie versions of high calorie favorites.
If you are talented in the kitchen, consider modifying some of your favorite recipes to make them lower in total calorie content.
Eat low-calorie at home, high-calorie when eating out.
To really enjoy all the rich food that is served at parties without putting on too much weight, eat low calorie meals at home to even out the total damage.
Modify your fitness routine.
You need exercise now more than any other time during the year to manage stress levels and to burn off all those excess calories.
Instead of not exercising at all, try modifying your usual routine by cutting down on either the frequency or the duration of your workouts. If you are used to working out daily, try cutting it down to two to three times a week. If you are used to one-hour workouts, try doing only thirty minutes. The whole point is that you should continue to do some exercise instead of none at all. Not only will this maintain your fitness till the end of year, but it will also help calm you.
                                                          



"Trick or treat?"

"Trick or treat?" by good mood factory
"Trick or treat?", a photo by good mood factory on Flickr.

Friday with an illustration.


A ilustração da semana.

Pumpkin Cookies

Weight Watchers 1 Point Pumpkin Cookies


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rebekah reminded me that I haven't posted this recipe here yet. This one is a favorite at my house.  I'm already a big fan of pumpkin cookies, but this recipe makes me sing! Fast, easy, take the ingredients right out of the pantry, and yummy!  But, best of all - a ONE point treat!!

 

Pumpkin Cookies

1 box spice cake mix
1 (15 oz. ) can pumpkin
3/4 cup milk chocolate chips

Combine together. Drop by spoonful on a lightly greased cookie sheet. Bake at 350 degrees F. for 18-20 minutes. Makes 3 dozen cookies. 1 point each. (woo-hoo!)

*Hints:

I have found that using name-brand ingredients counts here. I made these once using generic brands, and I'm sorry...they just weren't as good! Here's what I use:

♦  Libby's canned pumpkin
♦  Guittard milk chocolate chips
♦  Duncan Hines (or any of the other name-brands) cake mix

malam pengepit wedding kak lin!

salam. disebabkan ia adalah majlis perkahwinan, yang jarang-jarang berlaku dalam keluarga sy *anak tunggal lah katakan*, tak adalah sampai sepupu kahwin every year kan. So, sila lah tgk semuaaa GAMBAR BESAR GEDABAK :P


date : 23rd october 2010

venue : Dewan Jubli Perak, Teluk Cempedak,
Kuantan, Pahang

time : 8:00pm - 11:30pm


ini adalah pelamin di saat semua orang belum datang. putih-cream.


wedding cake.


tempat makan high table pengantin.


pengapit pengepit - bak kata lishah 'the debabs' :P


CRAZY COUSINS - engineer. architecture student. astro. chef. Doctor.
and that tiny little one - aisyah, a 1o years old budak kecik :P


i snap this picture and i love it so much.
cam cantik gile, TAK ADE EDITING OKAY!


itu adalah abg boy. sepupu sulung. lg seorg itulah kak sally, yg tinggal dgn sy.
abg boy malas nak ambik gmbr, tu muke x leh blaaaaa.


kak ngah dgn anak abg boy yg SUPER HYPER - amsyar amar.
die panggil sy 'auntie QIYAHHH' pfttt. ''-___-''


ini konon berangan lah. tak kuasa nak kahwin sepupu. wahaha.


abg boy dgn kak aizam. kak aizam tgh tnggu masa nak bersalin :)
mereka sengal. jodoh melalui internet wkt both of them study dkt UK. hee.


ni muke sememeh sebab dah penat. tu je la gmbr dkt high table.


and then, semua guest dah balik, berangkat pulang... MAMA org pertameee pergi karokae. adehlah. sempoi betullah mama. apsal anak die ni pengecut, penyegan teramat sgt ha? wuuu T__T and guess what, mama jugalahhh org pertameeee mulakan POCO-POCO.


azwa (2pupu), aisyah, mama.

mama start poco-poco. seorang die je!!!
lepas tu kak ngah, lishah, faris, aisyah, teh,
kawan-kawan kak lin, SEMUAAA join & belajar time tu jgk ''-___-''

okay, balik rumah dah around 1am. bila semua dah sampai rumah, angkat-angkat barang... tibe-tibe baru perasan... "siapa ambik pengantin?" semua org tertnggl pengantin. lepas tu pengantin SMS - "lin tumpang kawan" hua3... kesian tak pengantin tumpang kawan? HAHA.



a part of those gift. most of them mmg blender, gelas, rice cooker. etc.


sampai rumah lepas tumpang kawan, terus buka hadiah. dgn gown2 tuh.
sbb semua org dah mengantuk nak mati. HAHA


it was greattt... aman, semua org enjoy, well terutama mama lah kan. die yg mula karokae & poco-poco dlu. huu. bunga telur segala goodies, habis. makanan pun okay, baju kak lin pun cantik-cantik. and the next day, semua muka penat tak boleh blah. dan semua pun beransur pulang, utk kerja...

so, who's next? sy bet kema. after kak sally. HAHA :P

now i feel like running, backwards.

this could be ur 'face of guilt', Mc Dreamy.

i do feel like crying, alone now.
*sekejap je suka duka tu silih berganti. life, as we know it*



At the end of the day, when it comes down to it, all we really want is to be close to somebody. So this thing, where we all keep our distance and pretend not to care about each other, is usually a load of bull. So we pick and choose who we want to remain close to, and once we've chosen those people, we tend to stick close by. No matter how much we hurt them, the people that are still with you at the end of the day - those are the ones worth keeping. And sure, sometimes close can be too close. But sometimes, that invasion of personal space, it can be exactly what you need.


At the end of the day, there are some things you just can't help but talk about. Some things we just don't want to hear, and some things we say because we can't be silent any longer. Some things are more than what you say, they're what you do. Some things you say cause there's no other choice. Some things you keep to yourself. And not too often, but every now and then, some things simply speak for themselves.


Maybe we're not supposed to be happy. Maybe gratitude has nothing to do with joy. Maybe being grateful means recognizing what you have for what it is. Appreciating small victories. Admiring the struggle it takes simply to be human. Maybe we're thankful for the familiar things we know. And maybe we're thankful for the things we'll never know. At the end of the day, the fact that we have the courage to still be standing is reason enough to celebrate.