When I was almost done with my NESTLÉ FITNESSE 14-Day Program, I felt the change even without checking with the scale yet. My clothes were fitting me okay, my jeans are easier to wear with and everything just felt more comfortable!

I guess that’s the real essence of losing weight. It makes you feel more comfortable, then it has a domino effect on your whole well-being: you feel good, you exude confidence and in turn, you do better at work or in school, your social life booms and everyone would say "blooming ka ah!" That indeed was what happened to me. People keep noticing my change in weight that even my pole instructors were amazed at the "healthy" weight I now have.

From this

to this

from 119 lbs to 115 lbs

28 in to 26 in

Mission Accomplished!

But I’m not quite finished yet, I’m planning to maintain this weight and do the NESTLÉ FITNESSE 14-Day Program twice a quarter (since it is not a recommended REGULAR diet).

BEING FIT adds QUALITY to your Life

It all boils down to quality of life. With proper diet, nutrition and exercise, you would feel great and you would love the life and enjoy it with your family and loved ones! 

The best part is, after my NESTLÉ FITNESSE 14-Day Program, I seem to pick healthier foods and crave less of the junk! It’s also all about training your body for the proper eating habits!

Exercise and diet, when both combined, gives you great results!

Check out the NESTLÉ FITNESSE 14-day Journal App on Facebook!

Good news friends!  To aid you in your fitnesse goals, Nestle Fitnesse gives you the 14-day Journal app on Facebook!

It’s a very helpful app to keep track of your daily meals and even exercise!

If you’re clueless on what exercise you need to do, don’t worry! Just log into your 14-day Journal and click on the Daily Exercise Tip button!

Now you don’t have any excuse to skip exercise along with your Nestle Fitnesse 14-Day diet!

What are you waiting for? a new you awaits!  All you need is to take the first step!

Like the Nestle Fitnesse Facebook page and use the 14-Day Journal app now!

 

Lots of love,

FlairCandy

So yes, exercise is good with my new healthy lifestyle kicked off by my 14-Day Nestle Fitnesse diet!   Find your exercise!  Find the exercise that fits your schedule and your goal.  As for me, I’ve been busy lately but there’s no excuse to exercise – I exercise at home.

The often most neglected part of any exercise is warm-up, stretching and conditioning.

And since I burned some good calories after a good exercise at home, I have to put bananas in my NESTLÉ FITNESSE cereal for dinner and maybe add 1 hard-boiled egg for protein (for muscle repair). My goal is to lose the fat and gain healthy muscle!

The most important part about the NESTLÉ FITNESSE 14-Day Program is that it trains my body to crave less, eat healthy, less of the junk, but at the same time it doesn’t deprive me of a full-on healthy meal every day! It trains my body to eat more nutritious food that complements my exercise, making it more effective in losing weight!

They also say, the more you exercise, the more you improve your body’s metabolism. NESTLÉ FITNESSE 14-Day Program also has the same goal. By eating 2 meals of NESTLÉ FITNESSE Cereal, 1 balanced meal, and 2 healthy snacks in between is actually more effective in improving my body’s metabolism than skipping meals and starving myself. This is based on my past experiences when I do 2-day crash diets and then end up gaining more weight than I should.

Check out the NESTLÉ FITNESSE 14-day Journal App on Facebook!

Good news friends! To aid you in your fitness goals, NESTLÉ FITNESSE gives you the 14-day Journal app on Facebook!

It’s a very helpful app to keep track of your daily meals and even exercise!

If you’re clueless on what exercise you need to do, don’t worry! Just log into your NESTLÉ FITNESSE 14-day Journal and click on the Daily Exercise Tip button!

Now you don’t have any excuse to skip exercise along with your NESTLÉ FITNESSE 14-Day diet!

What are you waiting for? a new you awaits!  All you need is to take the first step!

Like the Nestle Fitnesse Facebook page and use the 14-Day Journal app now!

Lots of love,

FlairCandy

First of all, the NESTLÉ FITNESSE cereals come with different flavors.  So, I can work on alternating flavors for one.

Second, I can incorporate more flavor to my cereal by adding fruits, using soy milk and dark chocolate bits, the list is endless!  My favorite has always been the original NESTLÉ FITNESSE flakes, milk, good bananas and mango 🙂

Healthy ways to make your NESTLÉ FITNESSE 14-Day Program more interesting:

• Add fruits to your cereal.  Like I said, banana and mango are my favorite fruits to add to my cereal.

• Add nuts to your cereal. Try almonds, pistachios and nuts that are unsalted.  NESTLÉ FITNESSE has Honey & Almonds flavor so you can try this too

• Try different flavors of NESTLÉ FITNESSE cereal
• Try alternating milk with soy or flavored milk to make the flavor interesting! You can try milk in strawberry, melon or chocolate flavor!

• Eat NESTLÉ FITNESSE cereal as is – like a snack!  I usually do this when I’m in the office.  My officemates take this as a snack too!
• Add dried fruits. Prunes and raisins! If you don’t have a fridge at home, this is ideal for you. 
• NESTLÉ Fruit Selection Yogurt

Try to experiment and find out the perfect combination for you. 

Or, if you like the simple, original cereal and milk like me then so be it :) 

Have fun! 

Love always,

Flaircandy

I was on my NESTLÉ FITNESSE14-Day Program.  The good thing is, the cereals are easy to bring along with.  For the 14-Day duration I had 2 travel destinations – one locally in Subic and the other one that was quite challenging was my trip to Jakarta.

For Subic, it was easy for me because I was with my officemates for our teambuilding.  Initially, they all teased me that they’d all be eating buffet for breakfast, dinner and lunch and I’d look SAD not being able to eat 2 meals.  Meh… like I said, it’s all about dedication and your commitment to see the results!

I wrote this down in my last blog post and I’ll write it again, my officemates LOVE NESTLÉ FITNESSE! It’s a good thing that they do because they totally supported me on my diet. They would say "Hey diba bawal ka niyan?" when they see me sneaking into the buffet table, or "Kain ka na muna kahit konti."  So I did that.

during breakfast while we were on team building

It was hard to be so strict on this diet that I had to adjust a little for the occasion.  During dinner I had approximately 3 spoonful of the food from the buffet table, just not to deprive myself.  Those served as "snacks" for me. 

As for my travel to Jakarta, it was harder! We stayed at Century Park Hotel in Jakarta and their breakfast also serves buffet! 

I didn’t eat the pancakes and waffles but I tried a bit of beef bacon and their local "fried noodles."  Good thing it wasn’t so appetizing, flavor wise, so I celebrated with the fruit and salad section!

Of course, they also had a cereal bar!

I sneaked in my own NESTLÉ FITNESSE cereal because it is richer, more nutritious and tastes better than their cereal selection.

They should include the NESTLE FITNESSE in their cereal table!

Of course, I incorporated fruits to my cereal

The weird thing is, slowly during the diet, I didn’t crave for anything "oily" and "sinful" which is amazing!  Everytime I search for my meals for lunch, I’d make sure they are balanced, not so greasy and healthy.  And for snacks, I look for fruits instead.  It makes me feel fresh, clean and maybe my body doesn’t lie.  Someway, somehow, my body is telling the "decision-making" part of my brain to choose healthy food because it is good for me. 

Airports are filled with fast-food restaurants and I am so happy I didn’t crave for any of them.  And I’m glad that part of the diet is to eat one good balanced meal per day – this didn’t deprive me of tasting the local food of Indonesia and Malaysia.

In conclusion, it might be difficult to go on a diet while traveling but if you are committed to it, nothing will stop you.  Plus, your body and brain help you in a way.  When you start the healthy diet, they would help you crave less and decide better on which food to pick.  At the end of the day, it’s all about the choices we make, and every time – we do have a choice.  Let’s pick the right one, the choice that’s good for us 🙂

Much love,

Flaircandy

“Live the Sweet Life with FlairCandy.”

Exercise

We all know this is important. Exercise keeps our heart healthy. I notice that when I exercise, my skin feels healthier too! I’m not sure about the exact science, but I’m sure the whole process of working out has a beneficial butterfly effect on our entire body’s different systems.

· Digestive system – exercise helps better metabolism. The more you exercise, the more you burn. The more you gain healthy muscle, the more you burn. The more effective process of your body absorbing the good minerals. Balanced diet also comes in but I’ll talk about that later.

· Nervous system – I just seem to be more reactive to my environment. My reflexes got better – kinda like Spiderman’s I’m kidding of course. But exercise also helps my motor skills.

· Muscular and skeletal system – this one is pretty obvious. You get healthier muscles and sturdier bones.

· Cardiovascular system – your blood circulation improves. Healthier heart – more love <3

· Respiratory system – exercise strengthens your diaphragm and has long term beneficial effects to your lungs

The 4 Letter Word: DIET

Personally, I’m a huge exercise fan – but I’m missing out on the “Eat Healthy” part. Food is just a sweet temptation! I love eating so much (I know I’m not alone in this predicament) that I exercise as much as I could so that I can eat more of the things that I want! But, no matter how much I exercise, I still couldn’t reach my “goal” of losing some inches here and there.

Diet Goals

We all have different goals for losing weight and losing inches. For some, it would be “to fit in my jeans again”, “to fit in my wedding dress”, “so I look good in a photoshoot”, etc.

For me, my goal is simply just to look good doing my favorite sport – “POLE”

I don’t think I’m fat or anything like that. In fact, that’s the reason why I simply don’t go on any “DIET” at all and just eat whatever the heck I feel like eating. It’s been like this for years for me.

Going on a Diet

I enjoy exercise and I have no problem doing it everyday.

My BIG problem is, I enjoy eating my favorite food. I don’t enjoy being on a diet. I don’t enjoy limiting my meals. I like my FREEDOM when it comes to my eating habits.

But then again, too much freedom can cost you. Freedom is only good when you have discipline. And this is my current goal: to discipline myself to achieve my body’s goal. I know I have toned muscles underneath that layer of fat I have in my body because of the exercise that I do, and my challenging Pole classes.

But, in order for my “muscle cuts” and abs to be visible – I need to lose ‘em fat covering it. I don’t just want a flat stomach, I want my abs to say “Konichiwa” to the world! One day, I dream they will show up at least for once in my life. I have very challenging genes and it’s my families’ problem part – that stomach and thighs ugh… to some women, it’s just easy, but to me it would be very challenging but nevertheless, I’d like to think it’s not impossible so we’ll see.

That’s why I decided to go on a diet – a sure and healthy way of losing fat.

Nestle Fitnesse Program

Challenge accepted!

The 14 Day Nestle Fitnesse program aims to kickstart an active and balanced lifestyle. The program includes a 14 Day meal plan together with Nestle Fitnesse that’s made with whole grain.

Whole Grain Nestle Fitnesse Cereals

Whole grains are a great source of fiber. It helps your digestive system to be as effective as it can be and it should make you full and have less cravings.

They recommend to replace 2 of my daily meals with Nestle Fitnesse cereal, skimmed milk and fruits, ensuring of course that my third meal is nutritionally balanced. And of course, with exercise!

Example of a Balanced Meal.

Day 1

I’m nervous that I might not stick to the program because I’d crave! But I understand it takes dedication and I NEED this to work for me. I want that fab body!

Now, I want to be transparent in doing this program so that we can see if this works or not. Today I start with:

Weight: 119

Waist: 28 in

119

gosh, I didn’t know I’m at 28! geez

The thing is, I stopped measuring. At this point, a lot of people I see lately say “I lost a lot of weight.” I was absent from pole class for a month, and I just came back this week and my teachers say “Hey, you lost a lot of weight” (compared to a month ago). And I am so confused, because when I step on the weighing scale, I’m heavier than ever. I believe I’m at my heaviest right now!

Then I did some research.

Since I’ve been doing pole for a year now, I significantly gained muscle mass. To check out my pole activities, you can go to my pole diary: http://polediaries.tumblr.com

They say, muscle weighs more than fat and while maybe I lost some fat from 1 month, I gained weight from muscle.

That’s why I don’t weigh anymore… I believe, you’d feel better and you will know the difference if your diet and exercise are effective when you fit better in your clothes!

This is it! I’m doing this!

My breakfast.

Good news is, this cereal tastes GREAT! Especially when you put your favorite fruit.

For dinner, I included mixed fruits for variety.

And as proof that this cereal tastes good, my officemates are loving it too!!!

My box of cereal lasted me only 2 days because a few of them tried it! Some of them made it into a snack and ate it without milk.

Yummy!

And another officemate of mine tried it with SOYA milk. I thought it would taste weird, but it’s also actually pretty good!

And of course I told them that it only costs 99 PESOS!

So they can buy it for themselves and they were like “REALLY? 99? Sulit (worth it)!”

This is Day 1. We’ll see what happens in the next few days. I bet I’ll have challenging times since my team and I are going out on a “teambuilding” with buffet for ALL meals!!!

It will be a challenge!