Well, week 5 was rubbish... Change in tactics?
I can't lie, the dedicated weighing and food input to MyFitnessPal has been getting a bit to me. While it does help me watch what I eat, it's also making me too fixated on it. It almost felt like a full time job, just constantly thinking about what my next meal should be and how many calories I've got left. It was affecting my mental health and not in a good way. So I had to make some changes. Do I want to count my calories for the rest of my life? Not really! Nothing has changed in terms of portion control. After many years of learning about nutrition at specialised institutions, doing my own research and testing out things on my own I understand the portion sizes and dietary requirements so whether I input data somewhere or not makes no difference. So I say bye-bye to MyFitnessPal for now while I work on something else.
One of the great things I noticed is the accountability while writing this blog. Even if nobody reads this I still feel responsible. Mostly because I've been in the position of trying to find somebody's story, day to day life details when reaching certain goals. I like reading blogs for topics I'm interested in. I'm back to blogging after so many years and it feels really good to be creative in the writing area again.
Another new thing is that in the past couple of weeks I've been pretty busy as my husband took on a new work opportunity as a private chef. He was originally planning to do it all by himself but after some deliberation and we realised that it would be very difficult for him to do it all by himself (confirmed after the first event) so I joined him in this venture as a manager / chef de partie / waitress / kitchen porter. 🤣
So, my updates from now on will be general weight loss and life updates because I don't want the fight for weight loss to consume me too much and that to define me. I'll be sharing food photos/videos and interesting life updates.
Week 6: December 13th - December 19th
Day 1:
- 0.4 kg / - 0.4 kg weekly loss / - 2.2 kg total loss
The craziest thing starter happening to me. Couple days before Week 6 of my weight loss started, my husband got inspired and decided to make a video for this dish he came up with. The dish is sort of like Hawaiian Poké Bowl / Japanese Donburi inspired Surf & Turf style rice bowl. It consisted of ribeye steak cooked blue/rare, salmon fillet and some veg on a bed of rice. I was responsible for all the filming. So after we ate and finished up the meal I made a quick silly video from all the footage I've got and uploaded it on TikTok. Since my husband started his private chef job he wanted a bigger social media presence so I've been uploading things here and there but nothing very consistent. I'm not also not very keen on TikTok. So when I uploaded this video I didn't think too much of it:
@rinatsuchan When professional chef only cares to make one photo op worthy dish. It progressively gets worse and worse. 🤣🤣 #cheflife #chefsoftiktok #chef #cookingathometiktoktv #cookingtiktok #cookingvideo #cookingvideos #cookingshow #cooking #professionalchef #privatechef ♬ Música de Comidas para Video - Carabina Sounds
If video isn't playing you can watch it here.
Pretty much immediately after I uploaded it, the views started climbing much MUCH quicker than before so I knew that something is different this time. 2 days after the upload we were looking at 303K views:
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| My TikTok video started going viral |
I've been uploading all sorts of things throughout my life to social media. From nature photography, make up videos, to crafts and funny easy going stuff but I never had any video go viral like that so I had to grab this opportunity and do something about it. I started making videos about the food myself or my husband makes. Before this my phone only had fancy food photos every week weeks. Now it started to become every few days kind of occurrence lol.
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| Homemade wontons with mushroom dashi. This is actually my husband's bowl as it looked better lol |
Day 2:
+ 1.1 / + 0.7 kg weekly gain / - 1.1 kg total loss
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| I had to get these tiny tools at The Range. As funny as they look, they've been very useful at our private events |
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| Salmon poké bowl |
I love fish. Or seafood. Either one. I think they're amazing. If I have to choose between meat or seafood I'll definitely choose seafood. The amount of flavour in seafood is actually insane. You can't get that just by eating steak. Don't come at me, it's the truth lol. I love sushi but it's a pain to make and eating out in UK can be very expensive so I love making a sort of deconstructed version of that. It could easily be called salmon donburi, as donburi stands for rice bowl with toppings. But we like to jazz it up a little bit and make a dish more similar to poké bowl, consisting of different veg and seasonings. It must be one of my favourite homemade foods.
Day 3:
+ 0.6 kg / + 1.3 kg weekly gain / - 0.5 kg total loss
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| You know you live a good life when you know an Egg Man 😁 |
Day 4:
- 1.1 kg / + 0.2 kg weekly gain / - 1.6 kg total loss
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| Thai inspired coconut curry with salmon |
Day 5:
0 kg / + 0.2 kg weekly gain / - 1.6 kg total loss
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| Pan-fried salmon with brandy cream sauce |
Day 6:
- 0.8 kg / - 0.6 kg weekly loss / - 2.4 kg total loss
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| His name is Murphy! |
My friend recently got a puppy. I drove her to pick him up and he's the cutest. I feel like a proud auntie. He loves me so much and gives me so much attention. My heart is happy. 😁
Day 7:
+ 0.6 kg / 0 kg weekly loss / - 1.8 kg total loss
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| Week 6 weight loss chart |
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| Two sets on a row machine completed |
It's the end of week 6 and I feel frustrated again as there has been no changes all week. Apart from usual jumping up and down, at the end of the day I'm at 0. To release my frustration I went to the gym and done a cardio workout. I absolutely hate cardio but I know that I really need it. The problem is that I'm easily distracted and I get super bored really quickly. So if I'm on a treadmill (I usually do an incline walk for a period of time), I watch a show on Netflix lol. My heart is weak af so to make it pump I went on a row machine for the last 5 minutes to really make myself sweat. Well, that was definitely achieved.
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| Already at 702K views! |
At this point my viral TikTok video has doubled up in views and my profile was blowing up with likes, comments and follows. The most shocking part would be waking up in the morning, checking TikTok after 8 hours and seeing crazy numbers lol.
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| Waking up to crazy numbers |
Well, that definitely didn't stop there but I'll tell you more in my next blog post. It's been a rollercoaster week (just like my weight loss lol). And while I didn't achieve anything in the weight loss area I definitely had some interesting events throughout the week. Let's see what next week brings!
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