Thin to fat to fit
Recently, I started to write about two of the things that I am passionate about. Since I'm no writer, I was anxious and asked my friends to read my article and asked for their opinions. One of them suggested to talk about how I fell in love with this healthy active lifestyle. So I figured for this next article, I wanted to throw out a few more details about myself so that all of you can better understand who I am and why I'm doing this.
Okay so you know how everyone tell you when you were young and you feel and look kinda awkward, that it is just a phase? Well mine is more like a decade. Almost my entire childhood years and teenage life I was underweight. I was always the skinny girl, and my classmates would call me "Palito" (Matchstick). And because of that I just ate whatever I want to eat, drank whatever I want to drink coz I figured nothing's gonna change. Sabi ko pa noon ang hirap naman magpataba! (I even said before, it's so hard to get fat).
Then I graduated from
college and I started working in an office. Having a mindset of never getting fat and earning my own money, I was
comfortable with what I was doing. It was such a joy to have your own money and
just buy whatever you want to eat. But then I noticed that I'm starting to gain
some weight. Things just kept on piling up and I'm not just talking about the
events in my life. Love handles and muffin tops were starting to show up and I told
myself okay lang at least may laman na ako (I said it was okay at least I'm
having some curves already). To spice things up, my six years relationship with
my first boyfriend ended and then I started dating a new guy (Hi Honey!). Break
ups and new romance means more ways to eat all the emotions you're feeling.
Well all in all I gained 35
lbs.
After a
while of this (and trust me, it didn’t take long), I grew unhappy with my body
and overall ended up feeling terrible about who I was as a person and what I
looked like. Though I was never heavy, the weight looked like a lot
on my weak and un-toned 5 foot 4 frame.
So what
did I do? I went to the internet and typed "How to lose weight fast"
and groan under the hundreds of brand-new weight
loss/diet/exercise/nutrition/juice article in the hope that one of those
"How tos" will contain some magical insight that will allow me
to transform my body from fat to fit…without having to sweat…eat spinach…or
lever my big butt off the sofa.
I tried
almost everything. GM Diet, No Carbs/rice diet, Carnivore diet, eat-just-1200
cal-a-day diet, before six o'clock diet etc. And though some of these worked
out for others (it maybe working out for you right now), it didn't work out for
me. So I figured, fine let's do some exercise then. But the problem is I get easily distracted and I
somehow made myself believe that since I'm working out it's okay to eat a lot. Basically what happened was I lost a
pound a week then gained three pounds more during the weekend/cheat days.
This kind of lifestyle went on for almost a year until one day, my mom who was also overweight, met a client who owns a Nutrition Club. She then invited my mom to try this 10 days program in which she enrolled into and in just a few days I saw my mom looking smaller and well looking younger too. I was so curious and so I finally asked her what her diet was. The thing is she said she wasn't doing any diet. I can't believe what she was saying so after that, I went with her to take a look at this program. That's when I met Tita Baby who introduced me to what we call good nutrition.
Ever since
then I started learning about good nutrition and applying it together with my
exercise. That was when I stopped looking for shortcuts and try to really
understand and love my body. It's like when you're new in a relationship, you
try to know more about the other person, her likes and dislikes, what will make
her happy, what will make your love for each other stronger and so and so
forth.
That's what
I did with my body.
I started
to learn to love the journey and accepted that it is never going to be that
easy. I found
out that with this process you need to eat a healthy breakfast and to never
skip meals. You have to move and you’re
going to stop spending every night on the couch watching tv and/or play XBox.
And that's why I'm doing this blog.
While I am going to write
about health and fitness, I am also writing to express myself, share what’s going
on in my life, and inspire and help others be their best self, despite the
constant battle of giving up with their journey of being healthy. I wanted to
be a friend instead of preaching fitness and making you feel that you have
to look like me to be healthy. I want to share what I can to help you see that
you can look after yourself without killing yourself to do it.
If ever you're reading this
because you're starting out, or you're a pro, I want
you to know that this blog is here to support you. In fitness and in life we are
all different. But know that we're all in this together and that we work with
what we got, because, face it, that’s all we can really do. We should all be working toward lifting each other up rather
than beating each other down. That's what being healthy is all about.
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