Fat battle
Losing weight, or rather fats seem to be a woman’s lifelong career and often unattainable goal.
Being someone who appreciates food, and without a high metabolism rate, I often find myself in the typical yoyo situation in the weight category.
I guess genes is also not on my side, when my father’s sisters are all on the large side. Since young I was a chubby kid, which amazingly is cute to adults. Luckily I lost the fats when I was growing up. Looking back, except for being tall and big-boned, I was considered an OK size throughout my schooling days. Even though I thought I was a tad fleshy in during JC years, I now see that I was so ‘slim’ comparatively.
In Uni, I ballooned. I blamed it on the discontinuation of Physical Education (exercise periods in school where all have to engage in ball games, exercises and other physical exertions), the fantastic western food in NUS Arts Canteen, late-night studying aka bingeing sessions among others.
I was not happy with my weight of course, but found little motivation to diet or to exercise. In 2003, with lots of encourgement from friends, I went on a drastic diet consisting of only carrot and green apple juice and also Hunza health supplements. I lost a lot of weight in about 5 weeks and sport a slender figure. At first, I was careful to maintain my new found figure with a non-indulgent diet, as time passed, it was hard to keep up that kind of diet so the fats came back, bit by bit, thus began my yoyo regime with numbers on the weighing scales from 2003 to 2006 (the year I held my wedding).
I used to say married women cannot get lazy but it was really easier said than done for me. of course, there are many married women, some with children even, who still make an effort on looking good. 佩æœï¼ä½©æœï¼Not that I go out into the streets with unkempt hair and torn clothes, NO! I just prefer a more fuss-free way to groom myself and often goes with just bare minimum make up. It also does not help that my feet will ache if I wear heels for too long, so I usually opt for a less flattering footwear.
Recently, I forced myself to be more active physically and hopefully less indulgent with the diet in the hopes of losing some weight. I know that crash dieting will not work for me as I am bound to pile on the weight afterwards through experience. I joined the company’s gym and I have my weekly aerobics class and badminton session with Mic.
Hope I can persevere and carry through. It will surely take damn long to see results. Hope Mic doesn’t get too lonely snacking alone… hahahaha!