Why You Need To Drink More Water

The past couple of weeks, I have been unwell. Body aches, sore eyes, stomach cramps, feeling feverish and just overall unwell. The funny thing was I was completely fine one minute and not the next. I thought it was just me, tired from a long night. I went to work like normal and I was still feeling feverish. I went home, took some medication, had a hot porridge for dinner and slept early. Next day, I felt slightly better but still feverish, but I could somehow sense that my body wasn't fighting whatever I was getting as fast as it should. So I went to see a doctor, I explained to her what was happening to my body. At that point, I developed a cold sore - That was a sign of something viral in my body. She asked me to take a urine test to see if I was drinking enough water. Test results showed that I was hydrated. Really hydrated.

14 Little Ways To Start Living Healthier

Running around the foreshore!

Being with Don has made me more conscious on my health. He managed to help me kick a bad habit (smoking) by telling me that facts and the effects of it to us and the people around me. Not by telling me STOP BECAUSE ITS DISGUSTING AND YOU'RE A HORRIBLE PERSON. Staying healthier and being fit is not only for you, it's also for the people around you. Friends and family who love you. When you fall sick, it's them who has to take care of you. If anything happens to you, it's them who worries about you. Their mental health goes down with your selfishness. I want a long lasting life with Don and my loved ones. Since then, I have been putting a conscious mind to be healthier, both mind and body.

Here are some things I have been doing:

5 Ways To Stay Motivated When You Are In a Fitness Rut

I know working out can sometimes feel like a chore. It's so hard to get yourself motivated and feel good about yourself. All you want to do is curl up on your bed, cuddle your cat and watch Netflix. I know how it feels. Once upon a time, that was me. I have a big problem. I love food. I love eating good food. Most of the time my definition of eating good food also means... accidentally eating too much. I am very much aware that abs are made in the kitchen, but life is too short to be eating ONLY healthy food!! I want my Nasi Lemak breakfast. I want my beef bowl for lunch. Tom yam with hot rice for dinner. After that, rub my belly and go into a food coma.

Well, such is life. But I can't. I have this thing called low metabolism stopping me. In order for me to eat, I must work out. I either play futsal, yoga or random fitness classes on KFIT. Even though, I play futsal daily. Sometimes, it's really hard for me to say "IN" when the organiser asks me (to play futsal). It's really hard to stay motivated to staying fit, but over the years, I've made friends with my coaches, yogis and instructors. They are wonderful people are always helping me stay motivated and pushing me beyond my limits.

SO MUCH PAIN

The minute i got back from Perth, i went on a futsal binge! Three weeks of being away from my favourite sport, it really did feel good to be back with the boys.

1. Third place for FKS league Season 1 week 10. We played the big fifa court and i was a confused girl.
2. Second place for Apeng's Insanity special. This is where we play 3 games back to back.
3. First place for Thethursdaykick All girls Sunday Special.
4. Did my first handstand and it felt amazing! Didnt feel so amazing the next few days, but really happy!
5. A bunch of mid-20s to late-20s playing against 20 year olds... FKS league vs SholleyFC. EVERYONE in the picture was flat after our games. They are physically fitter than us and definitely have more energy. KIDS! FKS didnt make it to the top 3, haha! Best part about this game was i got best female player and won socks.
6. First place for Apeng's Hari Raya Haji special! - Been playing with them on and off for almost a year and this is my 3rd win with them. #somuchwin

After days of continously playing, you are more proned to injures :( and when you are getting older, your body doesnt recover as fast. I am hoping i can keep this wininng streak for a while, hehe!

STRONG

I like working out, doing sports and being sweaty. I am passed the "i work out because i want to lose weight" phrase. i am happy with my current weight but you know, can always do better, but right now my main focus is to get stronger *flex guns* and improve my form (in all aspects). I have been playing (winning too!) lots of futsal and working out my legs that my arms are getting weak!! My upper body strength is pathetic. Havent been able to find the time to go to my crossfit classes because...i like playing futsal more, haha! But i really should go, i like lifting.

#teamwin

#teamdidntwin

Last night, i was at Rudy's house, while talking to the Izuddin brothers, i couldnt concentrate on their conversations, the whole time i was thinking, can i still do a push up? in the middle of the conversation, i did a push up. They gave me WTF?! faces, too funny! I couldnt go more than 5 before i wanted to cry. That lead to Anwar (baby bro) showing off his handstand push ups and me...doing a headstand while they supported my legs. Arms...please get stronger. :(

Don suggested that i start with 10 push ups + 1 every day until i can do 50 easily *cry* and i thought while im at it, i should work on my core if i want to work my way to do this.  Come October, i should be able to do a few core yoga poses. #icandothis #teamwin #lookgoodnaked 

Challenge accepted!

CIMB Color Run 2014

It was CRAZY and eventful weekend for me! It started off with Helium & Kofentti's Cross City Challenge but that event deserves an entry on its own. So ill skip right through that to one of the most colorful Sundays of my life.

I was super cranky that morning, it was mostly due to being really tired from #crosscitychallenge and a friend's wedding the day before. I can say that i am pretty laid back, easy going but that morning i was shocking. I hated EVERYONE. Why are these people so happy at 7am?! Can you stop talking? Why is your hair down for a freaking run?! I couldnt crack a smile and was just in my own world. Its scary what tiredness can do to people.

Took the train to Padang Merbok 

The whole train was filled with people on the way to the run. I went to the run with my sister+Bil and their friends. My sister+Bil are camwhores. They are the vainest couple i know. They MUST take a picture of everything... if you think im bad, they are worse. I will admit, my bil takes pretty cool pictures, so its okay... While waiting to be flagged off - we got flagged off in waves. There were SO many people that it took about an hour before we got to the start line to run.

I felt bad that i was being a sourpuss, so i thought okay, just suck it up. Get in the moment and take pictures. You are going to regret it later. Put on a fake smile and joined them for pictures! :D 

My legs were sore from futsal on Friday night and running around KL on Saturday. The plan was just to "walk" and get coloured, but my sister+Bil decided they wanted to jog...leaving sore Khaira at the back. It was when i got to the first 1km and the first colour zone, i got bored. I was still in my shitty mood and i thought...just run. you hate running and there is nothing to do... Just run. I ran! FYI, i really hate running. Running is my least favourite physical activity. I rather do 50 burpees than run 5km straight but i run because its the easiest form of exercise and fastest way to lose weight. #firstworldproblems Me joining marathon is just because... i want to be in the cool crowd. 

Blue zone 

Running alone also meant that i wasnt getting coloured as much as the rest of the runners. People were throwing coloured powder to each other. Friends laughing, giggling and getting sprinkled/attacked with powder. While i just watched....and ran through. :( I had nothing from the blue zone because i need to loo so badly which meant i had to get out from the colour zone. :( Picture above was taken by a volunteer because i wanted to see...how coloured i was, but hmm... not colourful enough. 

I continued running along until a familiar face and hands reached out to me! Michi, my classmate back in Melaka!!!!! It was so nice seeing a familiar face and just catching up with him. Of course, finally having a proper conversation with Tun. I love their story. Its funny how we were course mates (the 3 of us) and years later...they get together! We went to the same uni for 5 years and boom! love story! Back to color run, we were pretty clean having gone through 4 colour zones. 

When we go to the last color zone, the volunteers went "You guys are too clean!" BAM! We got covered with pink/blue/orange/green powder in less than a second!

When we got to the finish line, i instantly felt better. I dont know, it didnt feel like we walked/ran 5k but it just that feeling you finished something and the fact that i ran half the run. Yay! Felt so much better, yay to finish lines!

There was a massive rave party going in the middle of the field which i took a video of but will edit it soon, you can check my ista-video my personal instagram here to get an idea of "rave"-ing it was. It was weird seeing people partying at 830-9am. Fists up in the air, dancing like there no tomorrow and jumping up and down. By then i was exhausted, just wanted to go home and sleeeeep. I managed to get ahead of my my sister+Bil who ran off ahead of me early in the run, while waiting for them to finish the run. I bought two steamed buns (sooooo hungry) and ate my buns quietly, while judging people in my mind for having so much energy. 

The only part i didnt like about the color run was my precious Nike Frees getting powdered, they are a pain to clean! I tried wiping them off with wet wipes/wet towel but no avail. Might have to soak them in water. Overall, it definitely good fun run! Despite my shitty start of the day, i had alot of fun. As much as i wanted to run with my friends, i was kinda glad i ran alone. Its been a while since i did something fun by myself! 

Yoga: Headstand

My beloved mother is here, to summon me back to KL. We were supposed to take the 4 pm flight but HAHA we missed it and now waiting for the next flight out at 10 pm. About 4 hours waiting time, surprisingly i am okay with waiting. I get extremely restless when i am at one place for too long. Maybe i am growing up! My mom is keeping herself entertained by taking pictures of me (doing yoga) and uploading them on her Instagram. She takes the most honest photos ever. Pretty much what you see, is what she is seeing. Check out her Instagram here! Its mostly pictures of her food, cats, my niece, her children and me.

Yoga: Crow Pose

Crow pose is one of my favourite poses because it works my upper body muscles and core muscles which i lack of.

I practise this pose all the time and fail miserably. My housemates and i would be sitting down at our living room watching TV, playing Fifa or just talking and i would stop what i am doing and break out a crow pose. Sometimes they would join me, sometimes they make fun of me and sometimes they would entertain me and take my pictures/videos. Today, i managed to lift my tush and balance for more than 10 seconds!!! Practice, practice and practice. I love how yoga teaches me to be patience. Yay to hitting all my yoga milestones!

I did it!

(Excuse the messy background in my picture) 

Yoga/Body Balance is my new found love. A few years ago, i had two bad fall on my tail bone within 6 months. Since then it hasn't been right. I went to see a chiropractor and he said that my hip bone is slanted. After weeks of painful massages and cupping, it got better as in my hips were aligned but shit happens, i got injured playing sports. Minor aches here and there. My hips and back started to get stiff. I didn't realise how stiff i was when i did crossfit. I was so sore from my crossfit classes that i couldn't even stretch and that made me stiff. 

Sugar Police.

Obvious drop of picture quality in this entry because i was behind the camera, woohoo! This is a continuation of my little sugar story from yesterday's entry. The past two months, i decided to go off sugar and processed food. I knew it was going to be hard, so i did it slowly. I stopped drinking bottled water (eg: sodas, flavoured teas and etc) and juices. Once i got off the liquid sugar, i went off baked goods (eg: cupcakes, cakes, pastries and etc) then i went off chocolates and candies (including cereal) and the last thing i went off which to me is the hardest - CHIPS! POTATO CHIPS! My favourite thing in the world to eat is potato chips especially red rock deli honey soy chicken. It worked. i lost 2kg and i felt lighter.

my relapsed started when...i was at a friend's house and we were hungry. All he had was cereal. Fruit loops and Nutri grain. i was being a polite guest and i didnt want to come off as fussy. Erm, no thanks, i dont eat cereal. Do you have anything else? So, i reluctantly had a bowl of Fruit loops which i have to add is one of my favourite cereal after Cookie Crisp. Saying i didnt want it at all would be a lie.

When i got home, i complained to my housemates that i had cereal and it didnt help that while we were sitting around our dining table, Chelsea (housemate #3) was baking cupcakes and frosting them infront of us. She offered us a cupcake to share and it looked really good (she is the baker in the house). I thought you know what, fuck it, i already had a bowl of cereal, today is my cheat day! Yeah, cheat day every day from that day onwards!

We share a communal shelf in the house - mostly alcohol, cereal and chocolates. I had to tell Nyssa (housemate #2) to stop putting chocolates in the communal shelf because i will eat them and yeah, chocolates are kept away from me, in her room. Its been chocolate free for quite sometime until Mike (housemate #5 aka Sugar Police) bought a value pack of Tim Tams.

I have no will power. I blame it on my body and its stupid sugar cravings. i think i deprived my body of sugar from processed food that it started craving for it after i had that bowl of Fruit loops! i scoffed down most of the value pack and left two bars because i felt bad for eating most of them! if not, i would have gladly finished them all. Everytime i took one bar from the shelf, Mike (below) would pass a comment or give me a look - Wtf are you eating? One night we were all hanging out infront of the TV, when Stephen (housemate #8) mentioned a Tim Tam slam. Nyssa and Mike wanted to try it and before they got up. Mike turned to me "I hope you didnt finish all the Tim Tams"

So yesterday i went to Coles to buy my weekly groceries, TIM TAMS WAS ON SALE FOR 4 DOLLARS. i bought them and put them in the communal shelf. I had one bar walking back from Coles to my house and had another one while i cooked dinner (note: weak will power). While i was having dinner infront of the TV, the whole gang comes back from a shopping trip and Mike for some reason decided to go to the communal shelf to take something and of course...

Mike: Yo! Who bought Tim tams? (He is Canadian, i hope it explains his "yo!")

Kay: .....me?

Mike: What? Im disappointed.

Kay: TO BE FAIR, I ONLY HAD ONE (okay, i lied!)

Mike: to be fair... all the junk food in the house is bought by you and Chelsea!

Kay: ........

I honestly dont know what is his deal with my sugar diet but i am super grateful i have someone in the house that hates on me when i eat sugar. Because that following night, i was having my late-night cravings, so i decided to have cereal at 1230pm, when i walked out to the kitchen, Mike was sitting outside at the living room doing his assignment. i walked back in my room. HAHAHAHA!

This is the hardest part, starting the diet again. but i am determined! I am going back to my no sugar diet again starting NOW.

Super Green Detox Juice

I started green juicing early last year when i wanted to my health and fitness in check. Like most of you, green is not my favourite colour. It was struggle for me and honestly it is still a struggle for me. I started with a ratio of 70% fruits and 30% vegetables and slowly, like one year later slow, i am transitioning into 70% vegetables and 30% fruits. I am going through what i think is a quarter life crisis. For the past few weeks, my body has been doing some grieving - lack of appettie and sleep disturbances. I was a convenient eater, whatever was easy and accessible, i had it. I started breaking out and feeling sluggish, enough was enough! I had to take care of my body. So... i researched on detoxing juices and found this...

Super Green Detox Juice

1. Handful of spinach
2. Handful of kale
3. Handful of corriander
4. Small cucumber
5. Celery sticks x 3
6. Green apple x 1
7. Squeeze of lemon
8. 1 1/2 cup of water

Blend and enjoy! I get about 2 and 1/2 cups from all this ratio and i drink it throughout the day. I would have this first thing in the morning on empty stomach, like wake up, prepare the veggies/fruits, blend, brush my teeth and drink. i drank this for 3 days straight and felt so much better. My face started to clear up and my tummy became flat, which is always a plus. :)

Can someone buy me a blendtec/vitamix blender for my birthday? Its in 3 weeks :D

Nike Tech Pack Poncho

This week was a rather stressful and eventful for me. My supervisor basically told me in a very nice way that i should get my act together and start focusing on my thesis, as she went into details on how i should plan my day to write and i went into depression mode. I was overwhelmed as it is with the first step that after meeting my supervisor, i wanted to just go home and sleep. Is that what depress people do? sleep? But i didn't, i was a sport and went to meet up with my classmate. I felt much better that my fellow classmates were also struggling with their first step, but the feeling still lingered.

To make myself feel better, i went for a little (and expensive) retail therapy. I have been wanting to get the Nike Tech Pack sweater since it came out last year October but just held back because winter was over, KL is freaking hot and i don't need another sweater.

I wanted this beautiful cape sweater. I regret not buying it. I went into Nike in the city and voila~ the Tech Pack line had a new 2014 collection. Again, i was contemplating to get one. I love everything about the line, but it was still not practical for me to get because...i have too many jumpers, sweaters, coats and jackets for my last winter in Perth.  

As i was walking out, i noticed the sales girl was holding on to a different sweater, i asked her if i could see it, it was a poncho and it was love at first sight. ok, it was love at second sight. SB had sent me a picture of the poncho when he was in Jakarta but i brushed it off because it was too expensive and again i didn't need any more warm gears.

But seeing it in person and it touching it and being able to actually try it on. I fell in love. I wanted it and it was the last piece in my size!!!!!!!! 

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I succumbed and got it. I can't wait for the weather to cool down so i can wear it out! Sorry for the bad picture, no effort went into making the picture pretty, i was too excited and (really) guilty for spending money i don't have. i feel good and that's all that matters. 

2013 New Year Resolution

Yes, i know i am almost 2 months late for this! i still have a week left to the end of February, its better late than never.

• To invest in timeless heels and WEAR them more. Ive always loved heels but feel so self concious for being overly tall. but no more, i am going to work it like Kimora Lee Simmons. (she was already 5'10 at 10 years old!!) 
• Eat healthier. Ive already started on green smoothie diet. Less sugar, less fat, less salt. 

• Start yoga. - i am not flexible. i hurt my back a few year back by falling down my uncles wet drive way, ever since then, my back became stiff. 
• Get my masters. 

Good luck to me!!