Tuesday, May 02, 2006
Weight Maintenance
I weighed myself at a second-hand store today. There was an old scale for sale and I took the chance to see how heavy I am now. With my clothes on, it read 59kg; so with my birthday suit, should be about 57.5-58 kg. Alec, who was away for a study trip in Italy for 3 weeks, said a few days ago, that I have become thinner (though I feel the same as before). Quite glad with my weight, I was worried that I might gain some extra kilos.
It's a miracle that I have maintained my "Singapore weight" since my life-style is quite different in Lund. In Singapore, I will run at least twice a week for about 5km each time, do chin-ups regularly, go gym less regularly (than chin-up) and eat quite healthily; so I guess weight maintenance is a given with this life-style. But in Lund, I have become a bit lazy; running is like once a week and chin-ups only with running sessions (gym is too expensive, so out). I loaded on carbohydrates: eat lots of rice, bread and noodles, eat all the delicious pastry the gals have made, made desserts for myself and all those sugar-loaded tea and coffee. So by right, I should have gained a bit of mass.
Perhaps, it's the cold weather that helped me burn all the extra calories. My room is forever cold and I have to wear a down-jacket to keep warm sometimes. Yes, it's that cold. The heater is working but maybe it's because I'm on the ground floor. Yurui was telling me that her third-floor room in Alberta (remember that it's like always negative temperature in this place) was warm, yup, so ground floor is the coldest in a building.
Or perhaps, I have a high metabolism rate...
It's a miracle that I have maintained my "Singapore weight" since my life-style is quite different in Lund. In Singapore, I will run at least twice a week for about 5km each time, do chin-ups regularly, go gym less regularly (than chin-up) and eat quite healthily; so I guess weight maintenance is a given with this life-style. But in Lund, I have become a bit lazy; running is like once a week and chin-ups only with running sessions (gym is too expensive, so out). I loaded on carbohydrates: eat lots of rice, bread and noodles, eat all the delicious pastry the gals have made, made desserts for myself and all those sugar-loaded tea and coffee. So by right, I should have gained a bit of mass.
Perhaps, it's the cold weather that helped me burn all the extra calories. My room is forever cold and I have to wear a down-jacket to keep warm sometimes. Yes, it's that cold. The heater is working but maybe it's because I'm on the ground floor. Yurui was telling me that her third-floor room in Alberta (remember that it's like always negative temperature in this place) was warm, yup, so ground floor is the coldest in a building.
Or perhaps, I have a high metabolism rate...
# posted by William : 10:37 PM
