My 7 week shred with Hybrid Gym is officially over, and I ended up dropping from 33% body fat to 27% body fat, a 20% decrease! 🥳 While it started with a 2 week elimination diet followed by 1 week of Nutrition Kitchen meals, there was a 1 week break of nonstop indulgence for Lunar New Year 😅 So my final 3 weeks of Nutrition Kitchen’s healthy meal delivery really helped me pull through to the end, as it made it super easy to keep up with my macro goals of 1300 calories and 130 grams of protein while still getting to enjoy the tasty meals.
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I dropped a total of 3 kg (6.6 lbs), as my body converted fat into heavier muscle. My measurements of skinfolds (where a caliper is used to measure the fat in certain parts of my body) dropped from 190mm to 143mm with the biggest drops in my abdominal region and thigh.
You can see my measurements below, with the middle row being my measurements right after completing my no carb/dairy/sugar/alcohol/soy elimination diet. I apparently had some inflammation in my body when I did my final skinfolds measurements, so my chest measurements were actually just a bit higher and my tricep was only just lower than before I started the shred, even though I’m very clearly more toned now. So my actual body fat percentage drop is likely even a bit higher!
What really matters is how I feel though, and I definitely feel more fit when I do my home workouts with Hybrid Gym and just feel better compared to the over-the-top holiday season where I often felt like 💩 You can also see clear changes in my back so it’s an important lesson in not being too focused on numbers that don’t tell the whole story!
I probably could have seen ever more significant results if Lunar New Year didn’t happen in between too, but Nutrition Kitchen made it that much easier to stay on track since my meals came to the rescue that Monday after. And even though I cheated from my diet on the weekends and reintroduced drinking alcohol after my initial 2 week elimination diet was over, I was STILL able to bring down my measurements in various parts of my body thanks to the portioned Nutrition Kitchen meals.
They have 3 different dietary options for meals: regular with a mix of meat and fish, vegetarian which includes both vegetable-focused meals plus plant-based proteins, and flexitarian which has a combination of meat, fish, and vegetarian meals throughout the week with at least 1 fully vegetarian meal per day.
From there, you can choose between small and regular portion sizes. For the regular dietary meal plans, there is also the option for low carb where any rice or pasta is replaced with vegetables, or balanced which includes a moderate amount of these dense carbs for more active individuals. My husband Mike actually did the balanced flexitarian meal plan, and you can see the difference in our calories since his had brown rice instead of more cauliflower.
What’s great is you can see every single meal offered for the next 4 weeks, and you can choose the exact meals you want. For example, if you know you have lunch plans one day, you could switch the lunch that day for breakfast. Or if you really love a particular meal, you could even double up on it.
Some of my favorite meals are actually included in next week’s menu: herb marinated snapper, chicken laksa, kerala style coconut fish curry, and teriyaki glazed salmon. Also look out for the Balinese barramundi, coconut curry chicken, Brazilian fish stew, achiote marinated sole fish and prawns and Sichuan marinated sole fish in future menus!
The breakfasts were especially delicious, and such a nice change up from the same scrambled eggs I would eat every day during the elimination diet. They also somehow ALWAYS delivered perfectly poached eggs, like in the green shakshuka with chicken breast and halloumi that was probably my favorite meal of them all! Also look out for the smoked salmon omelette or scrambled eggs, and anything with their smoked chicken (like the smoked chicken breast mediterranean scrambled egg on next week’s menu).
If you are trying to lose weight, I think the most important thing is to be conscious of calories in vs. out. For my body, eating 1300 calories per day plus burning 400-500 calories from working out meant I was in enough of a calorie deficit to help my body lose weight quickly. You can calculate your resting metabolic rate (how many calories you burn while resting just to keep your body alive) and choose a Nutrition Kitchen meal plan that matches that or is below that, which should keep you in a calorie deficit depending on how active you are if you’re trying to achieve similar results.
Both new and existing clients can get HK$200 off a 2 Week Meal Plan with my code INDULGENTEATS200 – just order before Friday at 12PM to start getting your Nutrition Kitchen meals on Monday!
