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Journey To Wellness

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I’m sure most of you who read my updates regularly will know about my fitness and gym routines, but in this post I need to share about another aspect of health and wellness that not too many people think about.

If we rewind back to 2013, I blogged about my “special” heart (https://www.bobostephanie.com/my-special-heart/ & https://www.bobostephanie.com/my-heart-procedure-experience/) where I undergone a procedure called cardiac ablation to fix my very special heart which has a condition called Supraventricular Tachycardia (SVT). Basically my heart has an extra impulse compared to a normal heart and this causes abnormal heart rhythm. The procedure uses a laser to ZAP the cells triggering the extra beat.

For more than a year, I had been suffering from the effects of SVT unknowingly, where I had many episodes of increased heartbeat in a week, leading to dizziness, loss of focus, nausea, and many other symptoms, and when they got really bad, I eventually visited a cardiologist.

Initially I was put on medication at around RM400 a month to control my heart beat and things got a bit better. Jo was very kind and understanding and took very good care of me throughout these few months. I had to stay clear of any food or activities that would increase my heart rate such as heavy cardio exercises, caffeine, and I even gave up clubbing.

After a few months, things eventually got worse, and ultimately Jo and I came to a very stressful decision to undergo the procedure that would cost RM30,000 including my hospital stay and follow ups. It was super hard to decide whether to continue on medication or to do the procedure because it was not 100% effective and also has some risks involved.

I’m not joking when I tell you that on a few occasions I did talk to Jo about what would happen if I passed away…I think this was a life-changing experience for me.

Thank god that all this was covered by my insurance, and I am very proud to announce that I am currently very healthy and have continued to embrace my new lease of life after this procedure.

This was really a big turning point in my life as it forced me to give up my lifestyle and to adopt a new one. My journey to wellness really started from here and from here, I started to eat healthy and also go to the gym. I want to be with the people I love for as long as I can. I guess when you have someone you love, you will do whatever it takes to change and I changed my lifestyle for them.

What I’m really trying to tell you guys is this, your health and wellness is really important, and everyone should be prepared, even from a young age. I was only 28 when I was diagnosed with a heart condition!

When I was diagnosed with SVT, I had just started working for a couple of years and as any fresh graduates will know, it is really tough to try and save money and be financially stable, let alone paying for insurance. In my case, signing up for medical insurance was one of the best decisions I made when I was younger.

Even if I had managed to save a little bit of money for, let’s say my dream wedding or a down payment for my dream home, it wouldn’t even have been enough to cover my heart procedure.

If you guys have been saving up for your future, you should guarantee your financial stability by making sure that any health complications will be taken care of, and would not affect your future.

Zurich Flexilife Plus

Zurich Flexilife Plus is a premium investment-linked insurance plan that is designed to take into account your different life stages. Put very very simply, with Zurich Flexilife Plus, you can customize your plan to suit you best at every stage of life.

You can choose your level of coverage, where you can add on early care critical illness coverage, comprehensive medical coverage, female critical illness coverage, and even maternity care coverage.

You can choose how much to apportion your premiums for investment.

You can also choose how much savings to include monthly. You can even make one-off top ups if lets say you get a big bonus at the end of the year.

It is also flexible where you can increase or decrease your coverage and premiums to accommodate your needs at different life stages, and there is even a no lapse policy for the first 3 years.

For more info please visit https://www.zurich.com.my/en/show-me-zurich-products/for-myself-protection/for-my-life/zurich-flexilife-plus

By the way, there is a contest going on https://www.facebook.com/ZurichInsuranceMalaysia/!

All you need to do is to ‘LIKE’ Zurich Insurance Malaysia.

Then required to click and enter the ‘Zurich #JourneyToWellness’ game tab. I strongly recommend you to go through the game tutorial before starting the game play =)

So the purpose of the game is to collect as many points as possible in a total of 3 minute! Once you’re satisfied with you result just clicks ‘Submit’.

Here are the amazing prizes for the winners of #JourneyToWellnessPrizes!

Grand Prize:1 x Travel Voucher Worth RM4,000.00+ RM,1,000.00 Cash Allowance

2nd Place:2 x iPhone 6s 16GB + Armband

3rd Place:2 x Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge + Armband

4th Place:

3 x Fitbit Charge HR WristbandConsolation Prize:10 x RM300.00 Cash Prize

You can also check out this heartwarming story of a little girl here

Have fun and all the best !

♥

June 28, 2016
PEDIGREE DENTASTIX – Closer Cuddles

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So finally we have completed our Pedigree 30 Days Challenge with our Nacho boy, and I can definitely say that not only Jo and I, but our babyboy as well, had lots of fun and learned many new tricks and activities through this challenge!

Probably our favorite activity with him so far is the “cup game challenge” where we put a DentaStix into an upside-down cup, and switching places with two other empty cups.

Then, we let him sniff the cups to find the DentaStix! The first time we played, babyboy just sat there, waiting for us to give him his favorite DentaStix but after some encouragement he will now actively look for it!

After feeding him Pedigree DentaStix for the last 30 days, I can tell you that his oral health has improved tremendously, no doubt thanks to the unique X-shaped treats, which have been clinically proven to reduce tartar build-up by to 80% and also 2 active ingredients in the DentaStix, sodium tripolyphosphate and zinc sulphate that eases plaque removal.

His teeth and gum lines are markedly cleaner and his breath smells like he has been brushed everyday!

I used to avoid letting him kiss or lick me but not anymore!

We also love all the attention we’ve been getting from him ‘cause he’s constantly expecting us to play a game with him and feed him his DentaStix. Yes, if you’ve read my last post, he is still constantly following us around.

Oh, Pedigree is running a Closer Cuddles content on their facebook page here!

All you need to do is just to take a picture with your dog (show them how much you love your dog!) and complete the given slogan in the most creative way to win. Contest starts on 16^th June until 11^th July 2016, so hurry up! P/S: Each contest starts on Wednesday and ends on the following Monday!

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June 20, 2016
#BoboinBali – Ubud 1

This is the second in a series of posts on my recent trip to Bali, so if you missed my first entry, click HERE.

So, back to where I stopped in my last post, we had lunch at Delphi Rock Bar in Blue Point and then started on our 2 hour journey in to Ubud.

This was our room for the next 2 nights, a private pool villa in Wapa Di Ume Resort! This resort is set in the middle of a paddy field and is absolutely beautiful! So quiet and peaceful as well. Anyway we quickly checked-in, changed, and went back out to Ubud town for dinner at my all-time favorite restaurant in Bali.

Naughty Nuri’s Warung for their amazing BBQ pork ribs, mie goreng, and pork satay! Haha, we were actually very full after our meal but we ordered another rack of ribs, and the second one they gave us was bigger than the first! Don’t know whether to be thankful or not for that, hahaha.

After dinner, our driver dropped us off back in Ubud town so we could attempt to walk-off our dinner. Ubud is really beautiful with all it’s temples and the atmosphere is really chill and laid-back. Wapa Di Ume provides free shuttles to and from town so it was really convenient for us.

Took a nice hot bath and attempted to take some pictures of us cause I just realized we didn’t have a picture together all day, hahaha. We were really tired after a long day so we went to bed really early, not to mention we had to wake up very early for a paddy field walk/tour!

Put on a thick layer of mosquito repellant from head-to-toe and we were ready to go! Met up with the nicest guide ever who also works at the front desk, haha. There are few guests here so the staff are really intimate with us.

This is the entrance to a communal home in Ubud where up to five or six families would live together.

Complete with their own altars and temples in their yard!

Along the walk, our guide told us about the Hindu religion, beliefs, different types of temples, and even their architecture, so it was very informative and thankfully I wasn’t bored at all, hahaha.

She also explained how the paddy fields are plot and belongs to different owners. Nowadays most of the owners outsource the farming work to specialists who care and harvest the fields as more and more of the young are not interested anymore.

She also insisted Jo to take a picture, hahahaha. He was reluctant cause he’s vain and said he wasn’t dressed nice.

After the walk, we went back to our room and changed again, or well, I got changed again, hahaha, this time into my bikini so we can go out to have breakfast and then for a quick swim! The weather was awesome, sunny with a cooling breeze, perfect for tanning! Took some pictures by our private pool with Jo’s manual 135mm lens and the pictures turned out great!

This is what happens when you’re trying to prevent your face from getting burnt while trying to Snapchat, hahaha.

I was quite brave to sit on the edge of the pool to take this shot lol.

We explored both pools in the resort and then headed back to our own private pool!

Going to have to split this post into two if not it’s going to be super long, so do stay tuned for the next and last post!

♥

June 16, 2016
I’m Restarting Kayla 1.0!

Hi all, it has been a while since I last blogged about my fitness journey and obviously the reason is because I’ve gotten lazy and slacked off. Recently all our trips are done and over, so there isn’t a lot of motivation for me to keep track of my workout and goals, so I end up just going to the gym and doing whatever I feel like.

If i’m too lazy to do anything too intense such as cardio or Kayla’s legs day, I will just do weight training but I will make sure that I run for at least 15 min. Since I’m quite motivated to blog today so I thought I should quickly share my review for Kayla BBG Guide for 1.0 and 2.0!

Yupe, I have completed both guides. I’m quite surprised at my determination towards this because I have a very very short attention span at things that I’m doing haha. Ok, I think I will just list down whats the differences between 1.0 and 2.0!

Disclaimer- It’s all based on my personal experience ya!

Workout Routine

Kayla 1.0 – I’ve completed 1.0 3 rounds before I started 2.0. I started 1.0 when I was pretty much new to the gym. I find 1.0 is more intense and tiring compared to 2.0 because it involves a lot of cardio such as burpess, jump lunges and stepups! The good thing about doing a lot of cardio is that it helps to burn a lot of calories and it makes your daily activity like climbing stairs or jogging much more easier. I can clearly feel that my stamina improved A LOT after completing the first round of 1.0.

Kayla 2.0 – So obviously, 2.0 is the next level of 1.0 so in this guide you will see a lot of workouts that requires weights (dumbbell, barbell and etc)! When I first started 2.0 I fell in love with it instantly because it has less cardio and I hate doing cardio hahaha. That’s when I started following Jo on doing weights at the gym.

Body Shape

Kayla 1.0 – After completing 1.0 I can tell that I loose a lot of weight/ fat. My body is now slimmer than before and I can slowly see my arms and legs are more lean and in better shape. If you’re looking to loose weight and to look fit, you should consider following Kayla 1.0! The trick is to keep repeating 1.0 guide for best result.

This picture taken when I was in week 10 of Kayla 1.0 for the 3rd time.

You can tell from this picture that I lost a lot of fat and it made my legs looks so much slimmer and longer haha. I also achieved what I wanted, thigh gap ^^ My butt also firmer and rounder (thanks to all the uncountable squats)

My progress of doing Kayla 1.0 for 3 times goes like this…

1st round, I manage to complete only 1 round each circuit and by the end of the guide, I loose a lot of weight and manage to do all workouts in the correct forms.

2nd round, I’m stronger compared to 1st because I managed to do more burpees and also pushups! I also managed to complete more circuits (1 and a half sometimes 2) in 7 mins! My abs is more obvious and my hands are more firm!

3rd round, I can obviously see my body is way more leaner than before and muscles are showing! I also got bored of following Kayla 1.0 because I feel that I can do more than just cardio!

Kayla 2.0 – Like I mentioned, in 2.0 it requires more weight lifting than cardio so it’s pushing my body towards to bodybuilding.

This picture was taken when I was in Kayla 2.0 for the first time ( I dont remember which week edi). My arms and abs muscle were quite obvious which I really really like!!! So I asked to join Jo in his shoulders and back routine! I like it when see my arms muscles are more defined and obvious now!

Diet

Kayla 1.0 – I was pretty determined and hardcore when I started 1.0 so I was very strict with my own diet. I eat a lot of homecooked clean food (I blogged about it here and here) like salmon, chicken breast and salads!

Kayla 2.0 – I EAT WATEVER I WANT LOL. I sort of give up eating clean because i’m a bit sick of eating salmon and chicken breast T___T. So I stopped eating as clean but I still avoid fat food like fast food, oily or deep fried! I eat a lot of Chai Bar salad for dinner though haha. So from the picture you can easily tell, my tummy not as flat LOL but still acceptable la.

Workout besides Kayla

Kayla 1.0 – I focused more on workouts that help to cut fat such as cycling.

Kayla 2.0 – I fell in love with doing weights so I joined Jo to work on more on my shoulders and back when I’m off from Kayla.

because of that, I can slowly see the result of my back and shoulder workout more which I really really like!

I think that’s pretty much on my experiences of Kayla 1.0 and 2.0!

As for the title, yes! I’m restarting Kayla 1.0 even though how much I hate doing cardio because it really helps on burning away of my fat which I have somewhat regained.

I will still continue doing weights with Jo so that the result will be more balanced and also faster, I have not patience lol.

Anyway, I have a few tips for those who are planning to start Kayla BBG guide.

* Get someone who knows the correct form of doing squats and other exercises. They can help correcting or teaching u the right posture for each workout before starting. I have seen a few people doing squat wrongly and it’s so painful to watch because she/he tot that they are doing it right T_T

* DO NOT blindly follow whoever you see on Instagram because everyone has different bodies, whatever she or he is doing doesn’t mean it works on you.

* You dont have to eat super clean, just avoid eating too much carbs, yes even sugar are carbs, full-fat dairy products, oily and fried food, or whatever that may contain these. The trick is choosing the right portion size and eating less fat, and make smart choices! Trust me, I’m not a fan of eating salad or wholemeal products everyday because it’s so meaningless. I want to enjoy food not being tortured.

* Get a friend or two to start BBG with you and motivate each other!

* DO NOT skip meals because it will only hurt your health, it doesn’t help to lose weight.

Last but not least,

* Keep telling yourself YOU CAN DO THIS!

If you’re restarting or starting Kayla 1.0, lets add oil together!!!!

♥

May 30, 2016
Acer Revo One Hello Kitty Edition

I’m sure most of you already know that I’m a super fan of Hello Kitty, and my love for Hello Kitty has never faded even though I’m now an aunty T_T. Whenever there is a new product that involves Hello Kitty I will try my very best to buy or own it. So, obviously if there is a computer that is in PINK and it’s branded as a Hello Kitty, I have to be the first one to experience it.

I was super happy when I was invited by Acer to attend the launch of Acer Revo One Hello Kitty Edition, and just hearing the name I could basically imagine the pinkness and the cuteness of this little machine! *take all my money!

When there is Hello Kitty you will find Bobo and Audrey, yup we are both crazy fans of cute things. I’m sure you can easily tell right? Lol

The launch was held at Hello Kitty Café in Sunway Pyramid. I have never been to the café and I have no idea what took me so long to visit this cute café!!! When I first stepped into the café everything shouts CUTE and PINK! I was brought to my table that was full of pink technology! My first impression of Revo One Hello Kitty edition was WOW, I need to buy this! Look at the pink bow on the case and the pink colored keyboard and the mouse and the mouse pad!! Where have u been in my life?

The launch started with a welcome speech from Mr Johnson Seet, Head of Products, Acer Sales & Service SDN BHD then we have Mr Jeffrey Lai to show us how this cute little machine works.

So let me share a bit on the spec of Acer Revo One Hello Kitty edition.

Hello Kitty fans have the option of selecting a model running on Intel Core i3 processor (RM2099) or Intel Celeron processor (RM1499) and the corresponding 1TB or 500 GB storage, with upgradable 4GB DDR3L RAM.

This Hello Kitty edition offers the same functionality as any other Acer Revo One so you can use it as a traditional Windows 10 desktop or just hook it up as a media streaming device.

Also, you can turn any Android phone or device into a remote control! When you hook up the Revo One to your screen or TV, you can control it using this app instead of the supplied wireless keyboard and mouse.

So let’s say you are streaming a movie and want to pause to look up some information online, just grab your phone to do it!

The Revo One is also perfect for those who love taking videos and photos when you’re travelling because if your camera or phone runs out of storage you can just use this app to transfer the images or videos into your Revo One at home, as long as it is connected to the Internet!! No need to worry about deleting your images or videos!

After the speech we got to play with the device a bit! Look at the cute desktop!

Photo opportunity for the media!

Obviously I prefer to take picture with this pretty girl instead =)

This cable storage case is super cute too!!!

Group picture with the pretty ladies and thanks to Acer for having us!

For more information on Acer Revo One Hello Kitty Edition please check out www.acer.com.my and Acer FB page at https://www.facebook.com/AcerMalaysia/?fref=ts#

♥

May 11, 2016