Sustainable lifestyle for a healthier me 💪🏼

Recent small wins to celebrate after a few of my friends suddenly realised I grew muscles & pointed out to me 🫣🤣

📝 My Journey From Feb to Sept 2024

I've always been more inclined to go for low/no-cost workouts to be more cost effective & I do believe we can still stay healthy/fit through them! Personally I used to focus more on running or YouTube workout videos periodically and wasn't as consistent, especially after I started to work.

Then I decided to embark on a 60-day transformation journey with a community of friends & also got my sis + bro-in-law to join together! It is a lot more fun when you have a community & accountability partners 👭🏻

I've always believed in developing a sustainable lifestyle that I can continue to have, rather than a crash diet with potential rebound too! I still very much love my coffee & desserts ☕🎂😋

Sharing what I feel worked for me but please seek medical advice if you require it:

1. High protein, low carbs diet 🍳

- Learnt to calculate how much protein I should take (depending on our goal of maintaining or building muscles)

- Took plant-based soy protein powder on a daily basis to hit my daily required protein intake & also because I learnt that plant protein is much better for us

2. Find what's enjoyable & doable🏃🏻‍♀️🏊🏼‍♀️🏸

- Running at a slower pace for fat burn instead of losing our muscles (Approx 70% of our max heart rate to be at an optimal state for fat burn)

- Community workouts & doing it with friends (Zumba, kickboxing, HIIT, running club etc—let me know if anyone is keen to join or have a workout community!)

- Exercised around 2 to 3 times a week

3. Strength/Resistance training is a crucial part to build muscles 💪🏼

- It's not all about having to go to the gym & lift heavy weights!

- Start with using our body weight and do simple exercises like squats, sit ups, push ups

- Incorporate light dumbbells/weights for home workouts (I used 2x 4kg at home & bought from ezbuy years ago when I was in poly haha)

4. Track results consistently 📈

- Did mine through a body analysis machine (Inbody) linked to an app. I can help others to use it for free if anyone wants to—just comment/DM me ☺️

- Look at stats for body fat, visceral fat & muscle mass for accurate results of your progress (my weight increased a little but I lost fats & gained muscle mass!)

Happiest of all is able to share my journey & inspiring some friends to start theirs too ☺️✨ Told them I'm quite shy to post HAHAH but many were very encouraging which I also hope to be able to add value to more people!

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