Lesson from Teochew Kuey

My sister-in-law loves cooking.  Today she made some fantastic Kuey!  The bean paste was home made.  It was not overwhelmed with sugar and I could taste the beans.  The dough was very soft and almost non-existent as you chewed it.  It was dripping with oil, but luckily the oil was clean and there was no taste of foul smell.  It was really delicious!

I looked that box of Kuey and thought to myself.

In the past, I would gobbled up the entire box of kuey in minutes.  That was how I was.  "Once I exercise, I will burn away my calories.  So I can afford to eat what I want."  That was how I thought in the past.

Yet, few months ago, I went to the other extreme and would have freaked out.  Anything that was fried in oil was a "no" "no" in my current health dictionary.

Today, I took 2 and enjoyed every single mouthful of the paste, the dough and the oil, and saved the rest for others and later.

On hindsight, i think I have crossed the bridges of the many groups of people. 

The one group that think they should just enjoy life and eat to their fill what they like and do nothing to address it.  The other group who think they are exercising, so as long as they walk, eat and sleep. There is nothing wrong with them and they are very healthy. On the other spectrum, there are people who think are overly concerned about health, hypochondriac and not touched anything that is "unhealth".

And I think I enjoyed the kuey better without gobbling down.  Food - our biggest addiction.  Which group do you belong to? 

I lost another 3 kg this December?

I weighed 56kg when I was 12, and 72kg when I was 21.  Never bothered and never thought that my weight would go below 70.  Since I started colon and liver cleansing, my weight has been wavering around 68kg.  My liver must be more efficient now.

I recently lost 3 kg in the three weeks that my family was on holiday. There were only 3 things that i did differently.

1) A strictly enforced no food after 8 pm and no fried food.  It was easier to do that without mom around.

2) I went for Bikram Yoga.  There were 26 poses that we did.  It was not strenuous and we did not really hold for a long period.  In any case, I only went 3 times.  I was looking for cardiac exercises that that can burn my internal fats.  But I sure perspired a lot in that hot room.

3) I drank a whole box of enzymes. But mom made some organic Roselle enzyme before she went on holiday.. It was taking up the fridge space and I finished it all by myself.  Our bodies need large amount of good enzymes. Could this be the reason?  Hmmm... let me check it out and let you know.

I was happy that I lost weight in time to fit into that white dress for my cousin's wedding... But I still  need to get into a good exercise routine, work on my heart muscles and burn that internal fats...

How old do you want to live until?

Sister Theresa Hsu just passed away.  She said that she wants to live to the age of 120.  There were many things she wanted to do.

Since the year I got to know her, she has been an amazing inspiration to me in many ways.

She has an unbeatable spirit to go for the things that she believed in.  She wanted an education and put herself through school.  After the war, when she realised that nursing is a skill that can help people, and wrote to many schools to enrol herself.  She was already past 30 then.  If you talked to her, it is always about her brothers and sisters that she is always thinking.  She is never afraid to do the things she believes in and she knows help always come her way. 

She never stops learning.  She picked up yoga only after 60 years old and went on to be a yoga instructor, and even at a ripe old age past 100, she was always reading.  Shelves after shelves of books filled her house. 

I want to live to the age of 200 cos there are many things I want to do.  How old do you want to live until?  How do you want to be remembered?