Hello. I’m Aqilah.

I’m a Nutrition and a Strength & Conditioning Coach, an entrepreneur, a business owner and a student.

I also love to cook and prep my meals. And I make it, cheap, fast and nutritious.

Some time in February 2010, I was diagnosed by my doctor as being clinically obese. This was how I looked like.

I’d say that was my A-ha moment in weight loss, being 19 at that time and having difficulties even keeping up with climbing up the stairs. The problem is, I didn’t know what to do then. I wanted to lose weight but I was lost.

I knew I had to exercise, but the exercise bit was taken care of by my brother who acted as a mentor back then.

But I also knew I had to eat well.

So I picked out a book – or a nutrition guide, stuck through a 1200-calorie diet and in 8 months time, I lost 20 kilos and ran my first 10km race in 1:01.

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Somehow after I’ve lost weight, I had difficulty maintaining it. I was hungry all the time, I fell into intense guilt if I consumed anything more than 1200-calories in day and I was faced with a much bigger problem than the weight loss itself – I can’t maintain the weight. Between battling a mild eating disorder and my career as a personal trainer in 2011, I tried on pretty much every single diets there are in this planet to maintain the 20 kilos lost – from meal replacement shakes to tea detoxes, to Paleo, to Atkins, to very low calorie diets but nothing really sticks.

Until I decided to study nutrition.

That’s when my life changed 360 degrees.

I believe that the only way one can change their life is to change from the inside – by paying respect to their body my being active and vital all the time, and by choosing whole, nutritious foods at least 80% of the time.

About Asian Meal Prep

They say eating healthy in Asia is nearly impossible. It’s expensive, fresh foods are difficult to get, and really – why eat healthy when we can have all this delicious and cheap street food around us.

But I want to turn that around.

Together, with you.

Asian food is awesome. It’s cheap and with certain tweaks to the recipes, you can make it healthy. And let’s face it, we’re Asians and busy, so let’s save our time and prep our meals for the next few days.

Every Thursday I will be uploading a walkthrough recipe video on YouTube that is cheap, fast and nutritious. You can either have them as a meal for your family or as a meal prep for days.

Follow Asian Meal Prep on Instagram, Facebook and subscribe to my YouTube channel! Hope to see you around soon, Asian Meal Preppers!