Hello everyone! How are you doing during this Movement Control Order (MCO) ? Enjoying your homey time? Haha! whatever it is, stay safe & stay connected to people around you of course via online.

Staying home will make us gain weight - especially, when you had your frequent trip to the kitchen. Open refrigerator some more! Anyway, today, I'll be talking about how I lost 16kg in 3 months!

.During pregnancy, I gained 16kg. My pre pregnancy weight was 58kg, and on the last day before I was admitted to prenatal ward, I was 74 kg! I never imagined that I could reach the 70++ kg of my life. But, pregnancy did it!

So, how I lost 16kg? Now, let's get back to the confinement facts & basic. Usually, during confinement, some women will start to avoid certain types of foods - avoid cold foods, avoid spicy foods, avoid oily foods, because some said, it will affect your body & also it will hard for you to lose weight.

There is no research that supports restricting food intake during confinement will give benefits to woman. However, our tradition has a stronger beliefs on that. Although, I don't deny that, I also did not fully agree by that. This is because, scientifically, by restricting your foods & calories intake -you will get a rebounce effect!. While, it is good to start eating healthy during confinement, but ask yourself - will I sustain eating like this even after I finished confinement? IF yes, then, thank you for reading my blog.. Good Bye :P.

Else, if you think, you can't sustain, please continue reading this post.

The concept is to make sure you are taking the same calories intake during confinement & post confinement. During confinement, our body is using a lot of energy due to our stress level are higher,. so higher stress level, we then need higher energy intake. If we maintain the intake of our calories, and you are breast feeding some more, definitely you will lose weight!

Since, I have never been on the higher side of my body weight before pregnant, I took the chance to experiment everything that I have preached to my clients.

Basic things that I told them :

1) Make sure to eat 5 meals/ day - never skip meals
2) Drink a lot of water.
3) Never eat lesser than 1000kcal/day, else you will easily gain weight.


So, during the first month of confinement. , I eat lesser than 1000kcal!, because honestly, I was stress to see my body weight is not reducing - that's normal. So, I eat less. In 2 weeks, I managed to lose 10kg! From 74kg to 64 kg!! What do you expect from a breastfeeding mom, and eating lesser calories some more!

Soon after that, in only 1 week - I gained another 5kg! so, 69kg it is!

So point number 3 - Never eat lesser than 1000 kcal/day , else you will gain weight easily! - THIS IS PROVEN .


Hence, I started to eat like usual, I made sure I consumed 1500 -1800 kcal, which is my normal calories intake . From the nutrition principle, breastfeeding mom can have extra 500 kcal. However, I did not apply during this period. Instead, I did 5 meals - meals/ day. Small yet frequent.  In 2 months, I saw some changes , I can wear my jeans & all my pre-pregnancy clothes   & YES, I MANAGED TO GET BACK TO MY PRE- PREGNANCY WEIGHT!

Regarding the food selections - first of all, I am Sabahan - so you know our cooking method. Healthy & low in calories. However, my husband is Malay. So, you know how Malay foods - hence, during confinement, I eat all types of food, Malay, sabahan, Japanese, western & kfc, mcD some more! Because, at the end of the day - I will be eating those foods. No harm.

So, same goes to you. I never like the idea of eating clean, coz, at the end of the day - you will get back to your root. If you are Malay , then you will eat Malay, if you are Indian/ Chinese, then Indian or Chinese it is! Nothing wrong with your food, embrace it !

So bring home messages!

1) DON'T REDUCE YOUR CALORIES INTAKE DURING CONFINEMENT to 1000kcal/day
2) Eat small and frequent meals - 5 - 6 meals/ day.
3) Drink a lot of water
4) Only weight your body once a month!


Thanks for reading!

One of our favourite things to do during our leisure time is to do staycation or trying out hotels dishes around Klang Valley,  be it buffet or in house room service. Aily and I always comparing which hotel provides the best, affordable & delicious dishes. Out of all, majority of the prices are beyond the affordable price, and I advise you to continue your reading and be blown away by the price of their signature meals!

Recently, I have been given some  chance & privileged to try the 5 signature dishes by The Premiere Hotel, Klang. The dishes have been prepared by their most experienced chefs and I shall say, while talking to the chefs, I can feel their honesty in creating such dishes - this is the most important value ones should have while preparing the foods. About a mins of small talk, I get to know that the recipes for their signature dishes are created from scratches and they have done a lot of dry runs in order to make sure the taste & their palatability achieve the standard or even more.

Upon reaching there, I was welcomed by their friendly concierge whom assisted me to show the direction towards The Buzz.

One of my friend told me, she had an expectation that I might running slow after I had my first kid. To her, having a kid making our goal stuck & our movement limited. Well, I had my own doubt at first. I, myself was not sure whether I can become like the old me, or the brand new Masfara-the mommy version, or Masfara-the mommy version + the old Masfara.

I, myself was not sure if I can handle the feelings of being away from Mikael, but I think I did a great job separating my own-mommy's feeling & become a staff. When I was in the office, I am really focused on my job, and I make sure, it will be done before I head home. OF course, I am playing here and there, but, when there is a job, it has to be done. NOW and NOW.

So, after almost 3 weeks working, I developed a stronger version of Masfara. The mommy version, the wife version, the old version & the entrepreneur version. One thing I realised from myself, I am just a restless type. In a good way. Often time, when Aily & Mikael asleep, I will just open my laptop & looking for the tasks or trying to find some tasks to be completed, or somehow just chatting my clients through our system, just to check how their day went.

Anyway, points to ponder :

1) Having a kid, should never limit your potentials. God did not give you something to let you stuck. He definitely wants you to grow.

2) Having a kid, makes you understand your spouse & your spouse to understand you. It's even makes both of you closer.

3) Everyone has 24 hours. It's how you do your work & how do you manage your time. In my case, I wake up at 5am, and settle everything!


I think, there are two plus points that I have in my situation now :
1) My current company offers flexibility.
2) Aily is a very good husband, in which he understand my situation & he helped me a lot.

Hence, I manage to stay sane as a human being, a mother and a wife. I am not sure, how those working mom managed their time. But, whoever you are, we are awesome. God has created everyone with a different strength and tolerance. He does not test you beyond your ability.


Good luck & Good Night!

I got a lot of questions from instastory (I am really active there) regarding our staycation activities. Some of them I answered & some I ignored. So, I am making a blogpost to answer some of the questions that I got.

1) Aily and I agreed that we can't travel overseas until Mikael is 1 year old.

2) It's very hard for Aily to take leave, because he handles operation of his company, especially early and the last month.

3) We prefer to enjoy short distance vacation as of now.

4) We spend less than RM1.5K for our staycation.

5) Aily works as an executive but, I am not sure of his title, in which I always address him working as an engineer, as the term itself is self-explained, so I saved my time explaining, because I also do not know what to explain and how to explain about his job?

6) Somehow, I felt bad spending RM55 for nasi lemak, but the reason for our staycation is to enjoy every luxuries there

7) I have mixed feelings about spending thousands for 1 night. Happy, because we can manage to experience the opulence at the particular place - had we travel overseas, we probably need to keep on calculating expenses, due to the currency exchange. Sad, ah, because of the hard earned money is wasted in only 1 night. But, the percentage of happiness to sadness is 80/20. So, its cool.

8) You guys also asked about our salary range which is quite P&C, but we are earning an amount that can feed our lifestyle. So, in that sense, it's quite comfortable.

These are all I could answer for now.

Thank you for reading .  XOXO.