When your skinny friend tells you that she put on weight...

.....I will not hate her. Because I know the feeling of keep putting on weight unconsciously (tau tau dah chubby). A happy girl selalunya akan suka makan, tak kisah dah badan. Bila dah naik baru nak tersedar (for those who concern about their look and weight). Tapi in this case, Dayang is not even close to chubby...... She is too slim for me!
By the way, Dayang, if you read this..... I love you as you are one of them who keep sharing beauty tips and stuffs and believe that I can be slimmer than now 💓 (since 2014 😝)

Last three weeks I asked Dayang if she ever went vegan (Vegetarian diet) because I was interested in it. Without studying more I started my vege diet. I could say it's a rash because I did not study the right proportion, where should I get my protein from, and my fat source. It ended up sucked me as I gained weight and got bloated all day, week.... Until I feel like giving up on my meal plan.

Then I realised the biggest mistake of mine was to not consider my protein intake. I avoided meat for days but did not replaced right. My protein source was only whey protein (which I drink after hard run/ workout). All meals were carbohydrate (bread, rice and pasta) with tomatoes. Everything I cooked, I put tomatoes inside. Well... tomatoes taste good actually. After a few weeks, I feel like the fat expanded to all body parts (or that's just a feeling).

But since I am back on track, I'm about to share about me & Dayang's meal plan. We won't make it 💯vegetarian but to go four days per week meatless. And after a week of doing it, I feel easy and comfortable.

So here's the plan:

Monday- Meatless, more veggie

Tuesday- More fish more fun

Wednesday- Meatless, more fruits

Thursday- Veggie day

Friday- Meatless

Saturday- Chicken day!

Sunday- Meatless, pasta day!

Where I go meatless on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. I'll find another protein source from kacang-kacang like walnut, almond, and tempe (MY FAV)
The other day, eat your meat! But fish is my priority as it contains less saturated fat than red meat (Keep your jantung healthy ♡)

If you ask me why I trouble myself to go for this kind of diet plan, and blocking myself to eat delicious food. I'll tell you we can make our meal tastes good in a very lot of way. I need to lose weight as I love running so much, and I believe I'll run better if I'm lighter.
Not so rajin to share my cookings but I'll do if people keep requesting.

Oh by the way, here's today's lunch! And I loved the kimchi, bought it at Tesco for RM 12 (small bottle). My 2nd attempt of buying kimchi. The first one did not taste good.

Note: I don't strict myself to follow the plan, I'll change based on my activities and training intensity. Above is reference for me to plan my weekly consumption.

Lovely uncle at stadium

Ssup!

About an hour before leaving the office and I have a little time to write here now!
Last week was a week of recovery after seven days of fever, flu and diarrhoea. I was happy, like very happy! Haha you know, a feeling when an active person can't get her things done, does a comeback. So last week, I feel so fresh and happy to run again, after a week of not running. And last week I hit my highest mileage within six weeks of proper training! I clocked 60 km last week, yay. I believe I can do more, like most of people did.

I usually run at Stadium Selayang every morning, with easy pace and some abs workout (that doesn't work even until now hahaha), correcting my form and breathing, building up my base. Speedwork? Interval? Only once a week. I give myself chance to get better heart rate and aerobic zone.

But here's the real story...
One day, an uncle approached me after I finished my training session (7km of easy run) and said "You banyak hari training sini, bagus aaa". I smiled and keep searching for my bottle that went missing (I was so pissed off because I bancuh amino dalam botol tu and I needed it urgently!) But then when I realised my bottle was gone then I answered uncle "Sorry uncle. Haah saya training lari biasa je, mau kurus uncle" We kept the conversation and uncle asked me to do some speed work to build up some muscle and asked me to makan banyak (Hello uncle I gained almost 4kgs since February)

That uncle said he could see my improvement since the first day I ran there (I was touched idk why maybe because I feel loved and cared lol) and uncle is 83 now. But uncle runs a lot! Uncle said "You don't worry ok, if you be patient you will improve more, uncle happy to see youngsters run and play sport."

A thing that made me feel good when someone who doesn't even know us, gives advices and make us believe ourself better. Sometimes we feel about to lose hope, but God doesn't will.

Eh guys I gotta go now, ttyl!

My first SCKLM - SCKLM 2018: 10 Years of Running

How's your working day? Did your Monday went well? Or are you drowning in bundle of works, stressing out waiting for weekend to come by?

The second day of work did not treat me good. I woke up sluggish in the morning, having flu now and my head's banging bang bang! But writing now may be a good therapy before having a short nap.

Just being here to write about my experience of participating the biggest running event in Malaysia last week, the Standard Chartered Kuala Lumpur Marathon.  My Instagram feed's still sorted with SCKLM pictures, throwback, experiences and stories about how excited the people were during the event. 

As a newbie in running world, I did not expect that I would participate in the event, as we (Dayang, Yanie and me) did not managed to register due to website crash every time we tried to. The slots had been sold out within 24 hours! I kept searching for bib and a lovely sister sold me out her half marathon bib. Yay! That was a week before the event.

I did not train for SCKLM. I do train everyday, I run every morning before heading to work, because it is a part of my life now. Can't go a day perfectly if I don't run.Specifically, I did not train for my 2nd HM. YBut yknow, an adrenaline rush can't resist  exciting things. Getting a bib and chance to run brought nervousness since I failed my first attempt to get sub 2:30 hours finish time during my first HM (Twincity Marathon 2018). I set my mind up to "Just run, whatever the result is, you rocked it". 

Wasn't trying to be competitive but to myself.

During the race day, I rocked out my new Adizero Adios 3, which I just found out that it doesn't need break in, you can just wear it straight for racing. Someone told me "You're not fast enough to run with these pair" but who cares anyway. Flag off was 5.30AM but I was late due to traffic. So I parked at KL Sentral, took free LRT to Masjid Jamek to go to Dataran Merdeka. As I was kinda late, I skipped warm up session. The flag off was on time and I was happy with it. The route of SCKLM is well known for its crazy killing slopes but thanks to pacer Sahlan, I managed to control my emotion. My first HM at Twincity- I pushed my pacer because he kept forcing me to go faster. Sorry, pacer! I started slow considering it's a warming up and went a little bit faster than my easy pace at KM2 & 3, and I slowed down until KM 15, he told me I could break previous timing even though if I run with my recovery pace. Yeah, I made it 2:30:13. Shaved off 10 minutes from my VHM, so decided to more breaking PB afterwards!

The water stations were perfect, there were also bands along the routes to cheer the runners up and the volunteers also being super supportive. They even did a gesture by hanging on the medals to the runners' necks. Oh I felt overwhelmed and appreciated.  The medal is so nice with pretty floral design, and a spinning middle part. Yey, another medal to the collection! The only disappointing thing was only no finisher tee for HM finishers. (Road to FM? hehe)

Special thanks here to my pacer who keeps motivating me to run and monitoring my progress, to the crews and runners at the cheering zone (I spotted Kyserunkrew, Naked Spirit Runners and LululemonMy. To anyone who chanted my name loud (Hahaha rasa macam retis) you guys are superbly awesome.
To Amir, Izzaz and Razmi for completing their VHM and 10KM run with nice timing and free injury.

And also to Dayang for picking me up, spending your time with me after the race and congratulates me more than five times and being proud of me, you are the best sister!

Foremost, to mom for not stopping me to run, for the support, and the carboload meal a day before. Hehe!

Day by day I fall in love more with running world, and I speak it out by training, reading and researching. A chubby girl here can run, why can't you? Let us run and shake off those fats!

Congratulations guys for breaking the wall!

llao llao reward!

with KL Striders superpower

Sub 3:30 Full Marathon finishers. Kudos all

Fresh from oven, mengantuk

Next mission?

I guess, it's time for a short power nap now. Till next time.

My two cents

It's bedtime now. My routine has changed about a month ago. I wake up early and go run before heading to office. I limit myself from staying up late at night, even though that's hard but I am happy with my new life.

Just being here to rant about some self dissatisfaction. I do not know why I am so not confident with myself. Like in anything or everything I do, I will never reach the finishing line. In love, life, or any small or big issues. Does anyone feel this too? Is it normal or not? Even though now, I am writing this, I'd been thinking repeatedly if should I or should not I post this. 

I always fear if I cannot do my best to make people happy, and if I say no I'll hurt people, I'd rather hurt than saying "I don't want this" or "No, I cannot do this" and these things are slowly killing me inside. No one loves to bring hope with no ending, and I always stranded in those things. 

I guess that's all. It's not about I have no one to talk to. It's about I don't want to trouble anyone. Because people don't have time for silly thing and thought.

Maybe I'm just too tired.