And today I'll be talking about sort of the experiences I've went through while I was on a diet

And basically talk through how I kind of went about going on my diet

To give you guys a bit of background of how much weight I lost, I lost 7 kg over the period of 3 months

So I'll be talking about how I did that

Keep in mind I'm not a diet expert, I'm not a dietitian, I'm not here to give you any official medical or health advise

I'm just, pretty much, sharing with you guys my diet story so definitely take it as that

For those of you guys that didn't get to watch part one, I've linked it down below

That was pretty much talking through my diet story

Pretty much what I weight through my life from when I was kind of like a baby, through primary school, high school

So check that out I've you haven't seen it already, I encourage you guys to watch that first

So to give you guys a bit of background about why I started wanting to go on a diet and to lose weight

It was pretty much because I suddenly realise I gained a lot of weight

And you know, I was in a period of my life where I didn't really weight myself regularly

If you watch part one of my story you've realise I have a pretty fast metabolism

I've never had any major issues with my weight, I've always been kind of underweight or on the skinny side

Typically, because I was born that way, is my genes

And also I have a really small bone structure which makes me weight less as well

As you get older, is actually harder to, I guess, eat at the same rate

Now, for those of you guys that actually have a fast metabolism

You'll be lucky enough to experience the fact that you could pretty much eat whatever you want

Junk food, you can overeat all the time and still remain stick skinny

Now, that was the case for me but suddenly, you know, without my knowledge, I suddenly out on a lot of pounds

And because you're kind of looking yourself every day you don't really realise the weight you've put on

You just kind of feel the same and it wasn't until I kind of saw myself

You know, like when you look at photos, or videos, or things and you look at yourself

You look at it more objectively than you do every day in the mirror. I'm not sure why that is

But then I realised I've put on a lot of weight, I step on the scales that haven't step on a lot of time

And I realised I'd put on like 7 kg since my natural weight

And when I refer to natural weight I'm just referring to how much you weight when you eat healthy

And you eat the right proportions for your body, so not really putting a BMI sort of average on your weight

And I feel like it's really important to know what your natural weight is

And for those of you guys that are keen on the medical stand of your BMI

I don't actually feel that it always applicable to everyone

I know people that were born underweight

And they pretty much spend their whole life trying to fit into that BMI stand

And it was basically impossible for them because they never put on weight, no matter what they did

They went to the doctors and they couldn't help them

So I think it's really important to know what your baseline weight is

When you eat healthy, you eat the right proportion, you do a regular amount of exercise

And you don't over or under eat and my weight at that time was 42 kg

And yeah, I pretty much blew up, mainly because I ate a lot more than I should have

I pretty much ate an extra meal at about 12 am every night

In addition, I always had like chips in the house and I would always have like chips and dip it in avocado

Like really late at night, as an extra meal. That was definitely overeating and not eating right

I would drink a lot of sugary drinks, like soft drinks as well and I hadn't actually done that for a long time

I had been relatively healthy but I sort of moved in with my boyfriend at the time

And I think that when you live with someone their, sort of, dietary habits really rub off on you

And he was able to eat everything and still remain skinny because he still had a really great metabolism

I didn't. I ate the same and then I definitely gained a lot of weight from that

When I started dieting, it was the hardest thing ever

Those of you guys that are looking to go on a diet and have never been or never been able to stick to it

I think it's one of those things where we kind of all know what to do

Like there is a ton of information about how to go on a diet, there's, you know, lots of articles online

I don't think that's the hard part, knowing how to diet, I feel it's not the difficult part

The hardest part about going on a diet, especially for me that had never had to look after what they ate

Was pretty much the self-control I had to have to stick to, you know, the regular meals and the calorie intake

That I was supposed to have while losing weight

That was so hard because I was the kind of person that was like: I feel like eating you know, chips right now

I'm going to go eat it, or I'm craving KFC and I'm just going to go have it right now

I've never really had to limit myself through my whole entire life

So that was like the hardest part for me, being able to curb those craving for junk food

And what I regularly ate as a habit and then making sure I ate health instead

And actually, healthy food, when you start going on a diet, healthy food taste so bland

I mean, if your used to eating high sugar, high sodium meals like snacks, or KFC, or junk food

You'll realise that eating healthy is going to be really, really different for you

Also I cut a lot of carbs out of my diet

Because carbs were kind of one of those empty calorie things that I could've eaten something nutritious instead

And it's much easier to stick to a limited calorie intake while eating a lot of veggies

And getting your nutrients that way than filling it up with empty carbs like white rice

And I think, yeah, for those of you guys all going on diet, that's going to be the hardest thing you'll ever experience

And that's what I experienced, especially when I was in a habit of eating at like 12 am

I was about to go to bed and always loved to eat before I slept and that's so bad for you

But every time like I craved it, it was really hard to hold back and not eat

I started of basically replacing what I ate

So instead of eating chips and avocado I try and eat like a salad or a chicken salad instead

So I didn't really go cold turkey and not eat at all because that would have been way too hard for me

Because it was just like a habit that I had

So I started doing this "swap it, don't stop it thing"

Which is a really good idea if you don't really have self-control to go on a diet either

It's just swapping slowly the things that you used to have for a healthier version

And I've been kind of just doing that consistently over time

If you pretty much swap all the unhealthy things and the high calorie things in your diet

Over time you'll start to be able to stick to a much lower calorie intake

Without really feeling like you're missing out

There were two major things that I used while I was going on a diet that really, really helped me

One, was "My Fitness Pal"; and if you watch my other diet videos I highly recommend going on it

And even for research purposes

The reason why is it pretty much calculates a healthy calorie intake for you, for your weight loss goal

So it does that for you as soon you sign on, you tell them your height, your weight

And they'll tell you how many calories you need to eat per day to get to your goal

I don't condone drastic weight loss methods either so they pick a healthy sort of calorie intake for you too

And give you expectations that it will take, you know, a certain amount of months before you reach that goal weight

I feel like crash diets are really bad way to go because you're going to gain it really, really quickly afterwards

Changing your overall eating habits will be a way to stick to your new ideal weight as well

So crash diets and fat diets, to me, aren't really, something I liked to use

Or something I actually even considered while losing weight

What I learned from My Fitness pal was basically how many calories all the food I ate was

That's really, really, important if you want to go on a diet

It's really just to get the knowledge about what you're putting into your body

And you'll be like super surprised at the amount of calories some things you eat

It really, it feels insignificant when you eat it

But the amount of calories is simply crazy compared to maybe like a healthy alternative

So one example I really love to share it's pretty much you can have 11 doritos chips

Or you can pretty much have an egg, a fried egg on toast combination if you do it healthy

That's kind of like the same calories but you get a lot more for with the egg on toast than with 11 doritos chips

So you can see that without knowing how much calories you're eating

You can actually overeat in terms of calories without even knowing and still feel hungry at the end of the day

The first thing I did when I was dieting was learn how much calories each, you know, food item has

Until this day, I pretty much learned so much that I can just look at something now

I kind of guesstimate the amount of calories in that particular meal

You also find the importance of serving sizes

You realise that in most western countries serving sizes are way too big for you, especially if you're of a small build

Like if you think about it they serve the same serving size to men and women

Even though women have a much lower calorie intake than men do

And that's just something that you need to know and be aware of

So don't eat everything that you're given, just know how much you're supposed to eat

Eat that much and take it away; you can turn one meal into two meals and save a lot of money at the same time

And yeah, those are the kind of things that I started learning

And the other thing that I really used a lot was a diet tea that I heard was really good

So I just ordered it of the internet. It was called Lou, Lou long tea, I think

But anyways, it was endorsed by Oprah and diet tea and I pretty much drank that religiously

And normal tea can actually reduce the amount of calories you have by like 70 per meal

Just because it increases your metabolism and it does good thing to your body

Keep in mind that there are a lot of comments as well

You guys also mentioned that tea can reduce the amount of iron that your body absorbs

So be careful not to use this method for a long period of time or take iron supplements while you're doing it

But I basically did this for three to six months

And you'll find that when you drink it actually makes you flush things out of your system

So be prepared to go to the toilet a lot, this is one side effect of drinking the tea regularly, like 3 times a day

You'll find that you'll be going to the toilet a lot more and flushing all the food out of your body

And you might be quite runny as well while you're doing it, so that's not really the best image I can give to you

And I wouldn't actually use this tea that frequently for a long period of time

I think it's a good thing to use initially to get the ball rolling, getting some momentum with your weight loss

I definitely don't drink this tea that regularly anymore

While I was trying to reach my goal weight I pretty much used it religiously

And I guess when you flush the food out of your system quickly

Like you'll feel lighter and you'll feel like much slimmer

Anyways as a side effect I think it might be good if you're going to an event

And you want to, you know, slim out for that event

But yeah, not a long-term solution, definitely works as a short-term solution

So that's something else I did while I went on a diet

In terms of the actual diet, in three months I actually lost all the weight

And I got to my goal weight of 42 again and I was really, really excited about that

And you'll find that during the diet process it'll be hard

Because, one you won't notice any, like weight loss

I think that weight loss it's so subtle that it takes a period of time for you to realise

But while you're in the zone of losing weight you won't realise you're losing weight

So it might feel hard because you have to change all these life style habits that you had

And were comfortable with and that made you happy

But you don't notice anything different about your body for a while

So that's something that I went through that I thought was really hard

And you guys might experience it as well in terms of going on a diet

The other thing you realise it's sometimes you can't actually be like a normal social person with friends

Because I became really, really obsessed with losing weight

And people don't want to hear, you know, all this weight loss talk from someone that they think looked skinny

So that's one thing that you'll get as well

You might feel, I guess, socially awkward

The second thing is eating out is not going to be good for you during this time when you want to lose weight

When I was losing weight I never ate out, I made all my meals, I bought my meals to work

If I ate out I would only limit it to once per week

Because when you eat out you realise you don't know what they put in the food

Like it could just take one tablespoon of oil extra in your meal to throw you off your calorie count

And you don't know when you got to a restaurant, you don't know what they put in it

You don't know how much sugar they put in it

So it's actually really, really scary to eat out when you're trying to go on a diet and lose weight

And you'll find that when your friends invite you out it's going to be very difficult for you to go and eat the same amount

They might look at you funny. I basically had not much of a social life for a while