Losing the Kilos

Losing the Kilos.

After about 7 weeks of child labor, I have lost a total of 17 kilos. (pelanggan setia dari Bangi, Puan Clipper telah pun memenangi hadiah dari SlimmingZoo. Berat sebelum, 72 kg. Berat selepas, 55kg).

Wah.. that looks like a lot to brag.

Except for the fact that:
1. 10 kgs consist of the baby, the water, the placenta and some tissues were lost during that painful child labor.
2. another 2 kgs was lost within a week after child labor. I read Adele Puhn’s book, it is still the tissues or something which were holding the womb.

However 5 kilos was what I really deserve the credit for. I was back to my pre pregnancy weight. Ehm.. pre third-pregnancy weight, to be exact. My target was to get to 50kg, which is my pre first-pregnancy weight, but figured out 5 kilos is really a big deal thus I need to celebrate.

Let me take this moment bowing to all the credits thrown at me. Even the Man’s mom a.k.a. my mother in law bragged to the whole family on how comel I look now (agh.. malu la saya.. hahaha). Just let me enjoy this moment, before I am back at work and start piling up some more kilos.

Jadi Puan Clipper, bagaimanakah cara Puan Clipper kembali langsing seperti sebelum mengandung dulu? How do you manage to stay back in shape? Apakah petua petua yang boleh dikongsi bersama? Okay pembaca setia blog saya, ini hadiah untuk anda.. (eik nak termuntah pulak aku). See whether these work for you, in fact I wouldn’t really know which one is the real cause of losing weight.

1. Pakai bengkung for 30 days and nights with some slimming lotion. You may get the Halia mustajab or mujarab something. Orang dolu dolu use the kapur and some lime squeezed to it, sekarang ni senang, get the slimming lotion. I got two pairs of bengkung yang ikat cam tali kasut, costs around RM35 each. Di waktu bibik tak ada balik kampong, kekadang satu tu pakai sampai dua malam. The first few days lepas balik hospital, suruh makcik urut tu yang ikat bengkung. Aku sedap pakai bengkung sebab bila nak batuk ke nak jerit ke nak gelak ke, abdomen tak rasa pedih sangat. And bengkung tak sama effect dengan girdle. Ada satu hari tu aku malas nak ikat bengkung and opted for girdle instead. Dua tiga hari lepas tu I felt like the womb is pressing downwards, ngilu siyot..

2. Water. Water. Water. I drank like two glasses of water before each meal and another two after. I drank in between the nursing. Bila dah pakai bengkung tu, you can feel macam penuh gila perut, thus you will eat less.

3. However, jangan makan sulam air. Ini petua Boy, laki si Syima. Don’t know whether that works but aku follow je.

4. If you can get a masseur who knows the lympathic nodes for slimming purpose, you might wanna get one. My makcik urut kononnya boleh urut pecah lemak. So the first two sessions lepas balik spital tu, she urut untuk lembutkan urat yang tegang meneran baby, but the sessions after tu, she bantai kuat kuat untuk pecah lemak. I am not really a believer in the massage for slimming purpose but perhaps that works. I got a total of 9 sessions spread out through the whole 8 weeks. (sebenarnye I booked for 10 tapi makcik tu makin lama makin kuat dia urut, sakit.. wa tak tahan!)

5. Portion control. Mak aku, mak lang aku, bibik aku semua bising kalau aku tak makan nasi. Pagi pun kadang kadang kena makan nasi. Kalau tak diorang kata nanti perut masuk angin and baby senang nak kena colic. So makan je la dua senduk gitu pagi, petang and malam. Tapi bila aku rasa nak bantai tu, bantai jugak.

6. Don’t write off the whole week. Maksudnya kalau kau dah bersemangat nak control makan hari isnin, tapi hari tu lauk sedap kau bantai makan banyak, hari selasa pun cam tu gak jadinya, jangan give up and ingat nak start next week Monday je. start je the immediate day, or better still, the immediate meal time. The best time to shed those pounds is really waktu berpantang, the moments you are confined at home dan pandangan tak luas sangat kearah restoran mamak, Tony Romas, buffet buffet hotel, kenduri kendara dan cendul tepi jalan. Nanti bila dah naik kerja, banyak gangguan, stress lah member ajak lunch lah, kenduri lah. So take this golden opportunity real good.

7. After my second child, aku rajin buat sauna kat spa. For 10 mins. Itu memang cepat aku rasa all the water retention menghilang. Pastu aku rajin buat sendiri kat rumah. Air panas (kalau tengah mengada, daun serai wangi) taruk dalam baldi, stand over the baldi with your legs spread, get an old bedsheet and wrap around your body. 10 minutes cukup. Ini aku tiru idea si Fuzet, makcik urut dia buatkan beranggang untuk dia. Hot charcoal with daun semalu and stand over the hot charcoal with the old bedsheet wrapped around your body. Tapi aku malas nak cari charcoal charcoal ni and di samping nak mengelakkan unsur unsur Coal dalam waktu rehat ni, aku invent sendiri lah itu baldi and air panas.

8. Mandi air wangi wangi. Recipies keluarga aku for air mandi is daun serai wangi, daun capor and daun ganda rusa. Kalau tak de, daun serai wangi tu je pun boleh. I don’t think it contributes to the weight loss but after mandi tu memang rasa segar je. So in a way it calms you down during berpantang ni.

9. 40 days without coke, ice lemon tea, the tarik Boleh buat? Mesti boleh punya. Milo pun aku buat milo kosong. Sampai kalau la ni aku minum milo yang taruk gula, mesti rasa manis teramat sangat. the only thing yang aku minum ada gula is kopi-o. itu pun ration nye once in two-day time.

10. Minum air akar kayu. Or in my case, my mom ambik air kulit kayu ada beberapa jenis. air ni rebus pagi and biar je satu periuk tu sepanjang hari. Bila nak minum campur sket dengan air panas so that it’ll be warm. To be frank, I don’t know the medicinal properties of these stuffs but yang aku tahu, setiap kali lepas minum, my body berpeluh peluh. Kalau dah tahan minum tak rasa nak muntah muntah lagi, gulp this down in replacement of water masa nak breastfeeding or meal time. Tapi tengok jugak baby, macam Anna tak berapa tahan perut dia bila aku minum kayu kayu ni, so I stopped at around 10th day. This third baby Nampak okay so sampai 54th day ni aku bantai. Stop if you feel this kayu kayan buat badan panas , you’d know bila tekak sakit and mulut pecah pecah. Or water down. The trick is, kena minum waktu dia suam, baru badan berpeluh Kalau air kat periuk tu dah sejuk, campur air suam waktu kau nak togok. Tak de le kau bagi alasan air dah sejuk la camne nak minum.

11. I took ikan haruan for the first 10 days, nothing else. Ikan haruan, sayur sawi + carrot and nasi. Itu je. Bila dah boring sket, substitute ngan ikan tenggiri. But selagi tak habis ikan haruan dalam freezer tu, selagi tu lah kena makan. I asked them kalau nak tumis pakai sesame or sunflower oil, only for my cooking. For fruit I took apple, oranges and pear. After 10 days boleh dah aku nak makan chicken ke daging ke. Must take all these chicken or daging sebab these are your protein sources. I took calcium and sangobion/obimin as supplement.

12. Bertungku. But I don’t think this contributes to the weight loss. People said it helps to contract the womb. I am a bit skeptical about that but aku suka the feeling of the heavy warm batu on my abdomen. It calms me down. And the smell of daun daun yang diorang balut the batu tu pun is very nice and relaxing. and bila batu panas tu kena perut, mesti angin keluar.. ikut mulut pun ada ikut bawah pun ada..

13. Breakfast. I eat breakfast banyak gila,lunch in moderation and dinner kalau boleh sket. Susah sebab The Man came back only for dinner, so i tend to eat banyak sebab duk berborak time dinner. nak ratah ratah sayur pun cepat benor rasanya aku perabihkan sup sayur tu. So kena control. But breakfast memang bantai banyak. After feeding yang subuh 5:30 tu, i always went down and gulped a glass of Milo with 4 slices of bread. Bread aku try toast without butter. Dalam dua tiga hari rasa dah used to the feeling of empty toast. Then 8 a.m. bantai oat dengan milo taruk nestum, kalau ada nasi goreng ambk la dalam semangkuk. I must make sure that my tummy is really full for breakfast. somehow it boosts the metabolism, i think.

14. Breast feeding. Ini memang aku rasa the main cause of weight loss. I read “How to Lose Weight While Breastfeeding” and she said about 700kcal is lost per day during nursing. Breastfeeding takes up a lot of kcal out from your body but it also increases your metobalism which can make you hungrier. masa my first kid, I reached out for chocolate cookies every single time after nursing. Hence little weight loss.
The trick aku buat kali ni is, masa baby dah uwek uwek nangis nak susu, cecepat gulp down one or two big glasses of water, baru feeding baby. lepas feeding, another two big glasses. Masa feeding pun kalau nak minum, aku galakkan sangat (provided your water refilling fairy ada la mengisi botol air kau). So you won’t feel the hunger sebab perut dah penuh. I have tall big bottles in all rooms.

Itu je lah yang saya buat. 5 kilos within 7 weeks? Boleh punya..