After watching this video from TSL where Brenda, Fauzi and Amanda ate like Sew (the pickiest eater in the office), I decided to eat clean for a week. Lol. Why??? Because reverse psychology works and also sometimes I eat like Sew, albeit with more vegetables and fruits. 

So this is LITERALLY a food log with my thoughts. Click away if not interested lol.

THE GOAL: Eat Clean = Eat less processed food like my favourite Calbee chips, cookies, ice cream, chocolate and instant noodles. I also try to avoid red meat, bad carbs, whenever possible and replace with fruits and vegetables. The goal is to shed some weight and also be healthier.

DAY ONE

Breakfast

2 sunny side eggs, a banana and half a cup of coffee.

Lunch

Home cooked turnip cake 

Tea Time

Had a mango.

DAY TWO

Breakfast

Two sunny side eggs and a banana again. Half a cup of coffee.

Lunch

I swam 16 laps in the morning so I was starving. 

Tried out a meal in a grain bowl style! Had 2 servings of shanghai greens, cherry tomatoes, pan-fried tofu with oyster sauce, and one IKEA chicken sausage. Didn't wanna eat meat but this was already opened so I was just helping to clear out the fridge. 

Tea Time

Cookies are screaming 'EAT ME!' but I manage to ignore them. Ate a mango instead.

Dinner

Ate Thai Tom Yum Bee Hoon Soup with cherry tomatoes and fishballs. It's instant but I'm not going to eat brown rice AGAIN!! Suffered at night when my sister brought home leftover fries. Didn't touch them though. I decide I need to have a cheat day and eat some cake. Maybe on Sunday.

Had a packet drink (Yuzu Honey Lemon) which was given to me at work. 

DAY THREE

Breakfast

I was really hungry the previous night and ended up looking for some breakfast inspiration online. The oats bowls looked really good and since I didn't want to have eggs for the third day running, I went for it! I cooked the quick rolled oats in boiling water, then added milk and honey before topping with some banana and peanut butter (a treat).

Also finished my coffee from the day before. Ice cold love. 

I know my coffee is bad for me (SUPER hazelnut white coffee, 159 kcal per serving), but I never did say this challenge was about reducing sugar, right? Muahaha.

Lunch

My dad came through and returned from the market with mushrooms, cauliflower, potatoes and more firm tofu. I start to prepare them for lunch! Decided to season the potatoes in my usual oil + black pepper + red flakes combo, and try a 'General Tso' style for the cauliflower.

It was kind of a fail but the cauliflower was crunchy at least! Also washed this down with coconut juice.

Tea Time

Two curry puffs (given at work, impolite to decline)

Dinner

DAY FIVE

Breakfast

Oats with milk and honey, apple

Spinach banana frozen smoothie

Lunch

Tofu pancake (with spring onions, carrots and garlic)

Boiled Spinach

Toasted Wrap

Yakult

Two sugar crackers

Dinner

Mee Goreng

A bit of lemon meringue cake and mango coconut cake

(After 5 straight days of clean eating, you can see that the plan falling apart. )

DAY SIX

Breakfast

I was still very bloated and full from the previous night's dinner...

Packet Peach Tea (Given, 90kcal)

Lunch

Chicken Soup with brown rice

Dinner

Tokyo Sundubu (5 Veg) 

White rice

Hollin caramel tea latte

DAY SEVEN

Breakfast

Toasted ciabatta

Lunch

Thai boat noodles

Thai fish cake

Vegetable spring rolls

Thai milk tea (it was all in a set)

Tea Time

Houjicha Swiss Roll (Given, shared)

Dinner

Tze char - har cheong kai, hor fun, vegetables, tofu.

Conclusion

As you can tell, the weekends became cheat days because I share meals with my family and friends. I do try to eat more vegetables (by choosing the veggie sundubu instead of beef or pork) though! 

I have never eaten so much tofu in a week. I don't think I have eaten so many vegetables and fruits in a week on my own accord either... wow! Haha. It wasn't too bad though! Just that it's way more time consuming to prepare healthy, fresh meals, but I suppose meal prep would help a lot? 

I don't know about you, but sometimes life can get a bit stale (and stifling) especially now that travelling for leisure is a no-no.

In that sentiment, I compiled a list of 101 activities to do with your significant other (or friends and family).

I'm fairly certain that you have done some items on this list, but thought it would be nice to put them altogether for easy reference anyway. Hope it comes in handy~! 

Some activities are free, some require some $$$. Whether they are fun or not, wholly depends on you!

Feel free to suggest more activities in the comments too, we are very bored (!!!)

ACTIVE

Both my partner and I want to lead a healthier lifestyle so we often go on 'active' dates. It kills two birds with one stone!

• Cycling
• Hiking
• Skateboarding
• Rollerskating
• Yoga (Did you know couple yoga was a thing?)
  
  
  
  
  
• Ice skating
• Swimming (or jacuzzi. or floating.)
• Golf (Perhaps you could start with Mini Golf at Holey Moley)
• Wakeboarding
• Axe throwing (at Axe Factor)
• Trampoline class 
• Rockclimbing
• Zumba
• Dance class
• Spin
  (Went to a spin class with my sister on Valentine's day and there were two couples in the class. When leaving, I overheard the guy saying 'I didn't expect this to be so hard'. Lmao. It's nice when your SO tries out your hobby though!)
• Dog Walking
• iFly
• Muay Thai
• Kite-flying
  
  
  
  
  
• Kickboxing
• Kayaking
• Stand up paddle board
• F45
• Gym
• Basketball (Recreate MVP 情人, which is on Netflix btw. Hilarious.)
• Volleyball
• Badminton
• Tennis
• Table Tennis
• Bowling
• Squash and other sports

• Arcade
• Laser Tag
• VR games
• Escape room
• Staycay
• Board games
• Card games
• LAN
• Video games (Wii, Xbox, PS etc)
• Library (I love to browse through the huge tomes of books that are hard to bring home.)
• Museums (National Gallery, Lee Kong Chian Natural Museum... the Chinese Cultural Centre was fun too! Virtual museums overseas work too.)

Outdoor
(Other than the obvious hiking trails, parks, reservoirs, beaches and picnics)

 

• Fishing
• Prawning
• Heritage Trails
• Geocaching 
• Vegetable Farm
• Frog Farm
• Pulau Ubin
• Lazarus, St John island 
• Beach Clean up (Click to read my experience)

Animals

What's up peeps?

I borrowed a bunch of books from NLB! Couldn't resist and went home with a haul of 14 books. It was not fun wrestling large, thick volumes with an umbrella that was threatening to fly away with the crazy wind. Apart from my usual fiction and non-fiction reads, I borrowed lots of comic/art books this time!

 Here's a comic from a Singaporean artist, Drewscape about his life as a first-time dad.

I also love how her cheeks are portrayed - such soft and gentle strokes! So cuuute. 

Checked out these two board books of art greats Andy Warhol and Salvatore Dali as I wanted to learn more about them. 

Dali seemed to be quite an eccentric and dramatic man. The book calls him a 'Child King' who is used to getting his way. He's born in Spain. 

Lobster phone, one of the surrealist objects he made.

The illustrations by Andrew Rae are stunning. This picture spread tells of one of the crazy parties thrown for Dali and his wife Gala. Music was played from a meat carcass, and guests were given a sausage upon entry. They were told to dress as their dreams. 

This page tells us about Dali's wife, Gala. "Dali describes sitting in his car, watching Gala change a tyre in the pouring rain." He admits that he is a swine. Interesting relationship dynamics???

Delved into the life of Andy Warhol next.

He seems less off putting than Dali, though he also partied with the big and famous. 

He was also described as a hoarder, collecting plenty of things that filled his home.

I liked this idea of a Time Capsule to capture the times. Perhaps I should start my own. Art books are really fun for me and inspire me to do something creative, no matter how tiny the project, in my life. 

We visited the National Gallery too! Enjoyed this Wu Guan Zhong exhibition.

Some of his student's works! I love how lively the brushstrokes are. 

The 'flatness' and perspectives are so fun. My favourites are from Li Zheng Ming

He also held an interesting take on art education - that it should be tailored to each student. Cool guy.

We went to the Georgette Chen exhibition as well. I love how she signs off as C H E N in block letters. At first I thought they were numbers. Haha. 

We also spied lots of bold fashion choices at the museum - thigh high dresses, neon scarf top, plenty of kick-ass boots and a lady in a mint green pantsuit. Digging it. 

Till next time! I'm going to try making some stuff.

Cheers,

Skye