I hit plateau

or maybe I didn’t.

The highlight of this week is that I managed to lose 8 pounds and kept it off. I was hoping when I made this update right here Self Growth & Discovery (90 Day Challenge) Week 5, I would lost another 2 pounds. Unfortunately, that week was pretty catastrophic and I ended up not losing any weight due to my poor eating habit. Who could survive with just iced coffee? (it’s me) but you know, you can’t have them way too much otherwise it messes the way you eat and I proved it right.

A glimpse of what I ate in the week

Just as you see above, a huge Vietnamese iced coffee with eggs. Then, some other snacks, cakes, and iced desserts that also was the highlight of what I ate throughout the week. The food that I had wasn’t necessarily typical of my previous weeks. They were full of sweets and sugar laced. When I am a little sane, this is the meal that I have, a 100 gr of tempe, 150g of chicken, and 2 scrambled eggs with curly lettuce to make Ssam the korean way of eating wrapped meat.

My fitness pal's weekly digest mentioned that I ate 9541 calories for the entire week while only burning 806 through exercises which were mainly cardio. However, one big change that I add into my routine is daily plank and upper body strength training for 100 reps each. It is brutal and I don’t recommend it if you’re only starting out.

New Habit this week...

With my other habits such as reading, 2lt water daily, studying have become a little more autonomous. So, I feel like it’s good but at the same time, I need to add something new, a habit that could improve my life further.

That is.. no youtube/screen during meals.

The thing is, whenever I eat, I always put in youtube/ screen time while enjoying my food. I would eat in front of my laptop rather than in the dining room. It made my meal time that was supposed to only be 30 to an hour stretched into endless hours of youtube scrolling and consuming information that I might not need. When I don’t do that, I become a lot more efficient and would only consume youtube when I am about to sleep or when everything else is finished. So, it’s going to be a challenge to eat without a screen as my mind wanders A LOT.

My personal blog is also all over the place but I’ve been enjoying commenting more

I suppose with my newly found confidence and all that jazz, I enjoyed commenting more. It’s such a strange concept but I certainly don’t want to just be on the sidelines and passively consuming. I find enjoyment in learning something new and interacting again. Also, thank you to everyone who posts over Hive book club lately. It is awesome to see the place thrive one more time and revive from its long hiatus and break.

This week the goal is to get back on what I normally do at the current pace. Book review every Monday and everything else in between. Sunday is for reset content and reflection time, and the rest throughout the week is either movies, tech or whatever fancies me including coffee. I might start talking about gardening updates again because now, my chili is growing and I have one unidentified plant growing tall in one of my pots.

There are still about 4-5 weeks to finish this challenge but I’ve been loving it so far. Here’s what I mostly gained in short sentences:

• I read more books.
• I lost weight
• I eat better
• I workout
• I have way more confidence that I ever could
• I feel healthier too.

While some weeks feel longer, I am sure by the end of this challenge, I could do something more and even build better habits that could help me improve my life. This time, not just about talking it out but actually doing it. That whatever challenges thrown my way, I could overcome it.

See you next week in another update!