Day 15: Success!

Did my weekly followup with Nadine yesterday and was so happy with the results: in one week I lost 3.8 lbs. and 2 inches from my waist! That’s one week since my detox spa day, and 3 days since meal delivery started.

To sum up, in the 2 weeks since I started Nadine’s detox and Pounds Away program, I’ve lost:

• 4.4 lbs
• 3 inches from the waist
• 1.5% body fat

Nadine has a special weighing scale to take all these measurements… it even takes your body water into account. In addition to weight-loss coaching, she also gave me her brochure, “Tips for Healthy Living, Shopping, Cooking & Eating,” which informs you on simple changes you can make to help you lose weight for good.

Some interesting facts I picked up:

• You need to do at least an hour of exercise per session in order to lose weight; 30 minutes is just for maintenance and won’t cut it
• You can divide that hour into 20 minutes cardio, 20 minutes strength training & 20 minutes flexibility
• Food acts like a drug and has the power to affect your moods
• Stress makes you fat, and…
• A good diet can help combat the effects of stress.

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Pounds Away

They’ve put me on the 14-day Pounds Away program: every day for 2 weeks your meal for the next day is delivered fresh, and you don’t need to weigh your food or count calories. All the work has been done; all your daily nutritional requirements have been factored in. One of the things I like about it is that I can take it as baon to work — no more bingeing on oily pizza!

Yesterday, on the first day, I never felt weak or hungry. The food’s really tasty, portions are generous and larger even than what I would normally eat. Just goes to show that if you prepare food healthily, you can eat more of it. I notice that breakfast is always substantial, with rice, while dinner usually consists of a lean protein and vegetables. 

I only had difficulty the first night because I’m a late-night snacker — I saved my second snack (sugar-free Jell-O) as dessert after dinner but it was a long stretch till bedtime with nothing else to nosh on.

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Day 13: Daily visits from The Sexy Chef

With a frisson of excitement my brother announced, “You got a delivery from The Sexy Chef!” 

A guy on a motorcycle with a pink cooler had pulled up to the house with a plastic bag full of goodies — next day’s meal in microwaveable containers — all clearly labeled and classified into Breakfast, Snack 1, Lunch, Snack 2, and Dinner.  

This aptly named business is owned and run by two very sexy women — singer Rachel Alejandro and her sister, chef Barni Alejandro — former clients of Nadine who now work in concert with her. Nadine does all the research and diet-formulating, the Alejandro sisters do all the marketing, cooking and delivering, and together they’ve formulated special menus to help clients lose weight healthily yet quickly.

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The organic mani-pedi

Detox spa day was capped by a vegan mani-pedi courtesy of Organic Rituals owner Nikki Ang-angco, who sells toluene-free Zoya nail polishes for a reasonable P380. I chose hot-pink Whitney for my hands and gunmetal Freja for my toes, and fell in love with Get Even, Zoya’s ridge-filling base coat, which even whitens nails.

Then Nadine gave me her version of takeout food: Morroccan veggie detox soup for dinner and a fruit-veg Tummy Trimmer to drink before bedtime. We were joking with her other client Janet that health food so often means “sad food,” but I can honestly say that I enjoyed Nadine’s healthy fare as much as I did those rich, gourmet cholesterol specials served by those 6 celebrity chefs.  

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