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Attempts on exercise : Part 1

Hey there. So, as you probably know, losing weight is 80% food and 20% exercise. And to say I hate exercise is understatement, as I hate sweating, as my thigh will stick and gross overall. But I started walking on treadmill a few times a week, and thinking about smaller thigh which don't touch each other, keeps me going. My next attempt on...

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Starting a herbs garden

Hey there. At first I wanted to plant grass in between the fruit trees, but I came across an article about layering the tree, (some called it permaculture) which try to mimic nature's forest, but by designing the trees according to the height, but due to the trees in the article are usually will not survive in my place, so I just try...

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Week five, start digging holes for chilli

Hey there.Today, I went to farm a lil bit later, and we dig holes for chilli. The holes are a 20x20cm with 10cm deep. The soil will be mixed with coco peat and moss peat, as I read somewhere that it's better to mix with the natural soil there. We're too tired to dig for the fruit trees, so we just dig small...

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After high carb binge last night, today's weight?

Ok, so yesterday I ate potatoes and sweet potatoes. Today, after wake up I weight myself, anddddddd...88.6. Yay!!. Friday was 88.4. Yesterday I forgot to weight myself. And, not long after woke up, I poop(tmi, i know) thennn weight myself again, and now 88.1! Woohooo. Another 0.1 to get the elusive 87. I think it's been 3 years that I have not seen 80+...

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9 down, 9 more to go!

Hey there! So went to the farm today and although our son was up when we are just going, he stayed at home(a miracle if you ask me). We start a huge bonfire, and I put sweet potato wrapped in foil in it. We then built another bonfire and my brother's fil arrived. He teach us how to properly plant a tree, and after...

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Durian

Durian is my favorite fruit of all time. The intoxicating smell, the creamy texture. Since everyone else has cover most about this, I'm just gonna cover only for two variety that I'm planting. I bought a Musang King variety for RM18, and Duri Hitam/Black Thorn/Ochee for RM45. The DH is taller and bigger than MK with distinctive primary, secondary branch while Musang King's are...

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Say NO!

Today I went out with my mom and sis. Only for 2 hours, but boy am I tempted. There are rows and rows of mooncake, the aromatic smell of pastries, mouth watering cakes, ohh the smell. They both ate coconut ice cream, topped with walnut and almond(sis) and corn and almond(mom). Then we sat at j.co, as they picked 6 big, fat, gorgeous donuts,...

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Hugelkutur - blessing for us

Hugelkultur, meaning hill culture or hill mount, is a no dig bed that utilizes old wood that will rot and create a fertilized, moisture retaining soil, that maximize space and great for fruit and vegetables. Due to the inside of the bed is made of old rotting wood, the wood create a pocket as well as sponge like effect for the bed, thus,...

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Frumpy makes thou grumpy

When I was a kid, I was one of the tallest and fairest. Most people I met love and adore me, and often mistook me older than I am. I often thought I'm fat, but looking back I was just curvy and others are just skinny, being asian. Growing up, I loveee dressing up, make up and high heels. After my not so nice...

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Pruning tip bearing and spur bearing fruits

Hi there! Although I have a lot of land to plant these babies, we just want to concentrate on a smaller piece of land first, ie, the one with most of the fruit tree. A lot of the older fruit tree has fallen down, or ripped by elephant. We have a lot of langsat/ciku/dukung, guava, durian, cempedak but only one mangosteen, one pulasan. And my...

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First round : 18 fruit trees

Hey there, we just got back from buying our lovely trees, of which I so deserve only 7. I will try to post information that I have on each okay. 1. Rambutan. I bought 3 variety, budak sekolah, gula batu and jalur mas. Tip bearing fruit, could fruit in 3 yrs time. Thinking of multiple planting 2. Mangoes. Only two variety, harumanis (2)...

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Fruit trees to buy

Hello! I'm super excited today. I will be buying a few fruit tree today, and 7 for my weight loss, and others to encourage further weight loss. Okay, I should totally buy them AFTER I lost weight, but they are only available until 25th, so I guess it wouldn't hurt to buy more? We've made like 6 holes yesterday, but guess what? I'm...

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10 lesson I learn in 'dieting' for three weeks

I've started with 95+kg, and now I'm 90.5 (as in this morning). My weight fluctuate from a few gram such as below: 89.8 89.6 89.6 89.6 90.6 90.5 90.5 89.8 90.5 I went to 5 open house in a day, resulting in that 90.5/90.6. I start eating right according to Atkins again, and resulting in the static 90.5 and 89.8. Yesterday, I ate...

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A *mini* celebration

For the first time in three years, I weight less than 90kg. Yay! Yesterday I weight 89.9, today its 89.8. I could finally cancel the 90 mark and move to the 80's. I did and inspiration  board earlier last week, and I feel giddy and happy crossing the numbers off. I still haven't bought any of the trees yet, so crossing these numbers is...

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