I'm currently doing 30 minutes of elliptical at home and stretching for about 10 minutes everyday. I think because of my long history of yo yo dieting, my body is just not responding to exercise. At least, that's what I think is happening.

I've decided to add more exercises. Since last week, I'm doing jump ropes every night. I started with 500 jumps and will be adding 50 more every week. I'm currently doing 550. When I had a membership at the Lifetime Fitness Center, I exercised at least 1 hour each session, but exercising at home, for more than an hour is pretty challenging.

13 days have gone already since I re-started my diet. So far, I'm doing OK. Not losing weight fast, but I see some progress with my eating habits. To start with, I didn't plan on drastically reducing my daily food intake. I was more focusing on replacing unhealthy food with more healthier food.

Today, I visited the Tysons Galleria in Norther Virginia with my wife to exchange a gift that we've received. We planned on eating out. We ended up eating at the food corner in the mall. Fortunately, because Tysons Galleria is a upscale shopping mall, there was plenty of gourmet food available.

I ended up eating Gyro platter with Greek salad. It wasn't bad at all. Gyro smelled like...hmm Gyro.. if you know what I mean. Anyway the food looked healthy and my stomach was full! When I left the house, I was really concerned about the lunch, but it worked out pretty well today.

My wife and I had absolutely no time to work at the kitchen today because of baby, Candice. She just wouldn't sleep much today, demanding us to be right next to her almost all day long. I was working in front of my PC most of the day, but my wife had one of the worst days so far.

I didn't want to make noise or ask Sunny to cook my dinner tonight. Little noise can wake our baby up. If I wake her up, Sunny will kill me. Anyway, I had a canned-food dinner tonight. It wasn't that bad.

DelMonte Mixed Fruit Lite : 50 Calories
Trader Joe's Whole Kernel Corn : 210 Calories

Hmm... I'm still hungry :(

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We had to visit IKEA again today because we forgot purchase a curtain for our baby's room. While we were there, my wife and I ate ice cream! $1 each, non-fat yogurt, to be exact. It was non-fat, but I believe it had a few hundred calories. Anyway, I skipped my usual soda and coffee today because of that ice cream I ate.

Today was a successful day with my diet plan except the ice cream part. For my lunch and dinner, I ate beans and steamed vegetables with Bragg's Amino Acid. Steamed vegetables tasted much better! Ah... almost forgot, I drank a cup of soy milk around 7 pm and that will be my last food for the day.

I think I did pretty well today with my diet plan. I know I shouldn't skip the breakfast, but I didn't feel like eating at all until 11 am. My wife and I visited IKEA today with our baby Candice. We had our lunch there. IKEA has some decent menus under $6. I had herb roasted chicken for $5.99. It was very juicy and perfectly cooked. That's the only meal I had today. Ah.. I drank a can of Diet Pepsi MAX around 3 PM today.

My wife prepared a vegetable dinner for me already. If I eat that and eat nothing else, today's total intake calorie will stay under 1,500. By the way, I skipped my morning coffee as well. I'm sort of proud of myself :)

My dinner doesn't look that fancy, but it's a great start. I will have to come up with some alternatives soon, but I'm more than satisfied with what my wife cooked for me tonight. No meat!

My Lunch! IKEA's Herb Roasted Chicken Meal

My Vegetable Dinner!

There are two drinks I think I'm addicted to; diet soda and coffee. I drink at least two diet sodas (cans) and about three cups of coffee each day. I know I know... too much caffeine and diet drinks are bad..

So what should I do about my caffeine addiction? Although I usually put a tiny bit of cream and Splenda in my coffee, I can probably drink coffee without those. I will probably have to cut it to a cup a day. I once tried to stop drink diet sodas and coffee completely and failed miserably. This time, I'm going to reduce gradually.

I can survive with a can of diet soda and a cup of coffee each day. I know many of you are laughing! but it is a big challenge for me. I usually drink a can of Diet Pepsi MAX (the best!) in the morning and one at night when I'm working on my computer (I need some boost). I can drink a can at night instead of morning.

Well, these are my plans on my diet soda and coffee addiction. I've already done this successfully yesterday and I'm sticking to the plan today as well.

When I began dieting, I wouldn't think it was going to be this challenging. If I stuck with my original plan, I should've already lost 40 lbs by now. I made myself a good excuse for not continuing the weight loss plan with my new born baby, but I've realized that it was just a terrible mistake.

I'm a bit depressed on the fact that I failed twice already with my weight loss journey. I was determined on each try, but couldn't sustain my determination for a long time. Here comes my third try. I'm not as motivated as I was, but I'm going to do it anyway.

Even if I fail once more, I believe it is better than doing nothing. Oh God help me :) I truly have respect for the people who have accomplished weight loss goals. And I now understand why people say "if you manage to lose weight, you can accomplish anything you want" It's hard!

My new week 1 begins today. Wish me a luck.

It has been almost 4 months from the last post. I'm supposed to lose about 15 pounds by now. guess what? I've managed to lose weight down to 190 at the end of April and gain back almost 20 pounds back in last two months. Wow! this is much harder than I thought. The moment I stopped working out, the pounds started add up.

My baby girl, Candice was born in May and I couldn't exercise at all. My wife and I canceled the gym membership and purchased a used elliptical for us. So we can exercise at home. Now that the baby is settled own a bit, I have the time to exercise again. (excuse! excuse!)

I have to start again with my plans and goals. I was back to 210 in June, but I managed to lose 5 pounds at the end of June. I'm a bit embarrassed. Well, this blog is all about me struggling and battling against my 20 year old habit. So expect more setbacks..

Here I go again...yikes!

It's been sometime since I updated on my progress. I'd like to tell you that I'm still working hard on it. I've failed to keep up with my plan once already in the past, and I blogged about it. Since then, my weight went up to record-breaking 214! I started with 200 and lost down to 195. Then gained almost 20 pounds. That was very weird to me. I didn't over eat or anything, but once I changed my diet plan just a little bit, I gained weight like crazy.

It was very frustrating, but I was keep eating healthy food, and exercise. I'm eating often. About 5 small meals each day. Over the past few months, I got myself back to 202. I got down to around 199 in the morning, but I think 202 is more accurate at this point. So I'm back to where I started in the first place.

It feels as if I can't get pass under 200 pounds mark anymore. I was hitting between 199 - 203 pounds a few weeks even with carefully watched meals and regular exercises. Losing a pound a week take so much patience. It's hard, but I will do it no matter how many times I stumble.

Thanks all for your comments and supports.