Loose weight, keep fit

I have been talking about weight lost for many many years now, since the time I was in Uni. People around me must have been so sien with me whenever I bring the subject up. It is one of my long term goals, something that I have set my mind to do and consider an achievement in life if I manage to do it.

On the other hand, I have this principal/belief that I must not deny my body of good food. Why do we work hard to earn money? It is to feed ourselves. If it is just to feed ourselves then there is no need to work HARD, cincai eat also can ma right? So, the reason we work hard is to eat, eat not just any food but good food.

Most of the time, good/tasty food is not healthy food. They are those that makes you fat and unfit. Think of bak kut teh, char kuey teow, seow bak, fried sotong, satay...and the list goes on.

The devil in me usually overpowered the angel, so all these years, I stick more to the principal rather than the lifetime goal. That said, I did workout occasionally. I run, I swim, I go to gym. And I enjoy doing it because I believe it will bring me one step closer to my life long goal of losing weight.

The truth is, my weight never shifted. I know it is sad and discouraging, but I never stop trying.

In Uni years, I approached Coach to ask him if I can join his athletic team, not because I wanted to run in races (not that I qualify anyway). I just wanted someone to tell me what to do so that I will do it. If it is just me alone, then laziness will easily crept in. Coach is really kind to allow me to train and run with his team, even when he did not find any running genes in me.

In working years, I signed up for Penang Bridge Marathon as a way to make myself run. It is like a short term goal to achieve the long term goal. The first year's intention was to loose weight/keep fit. Completing that first half marathon, the feeling of satisfaction was overwhelming. And signing up for PBIM becomes my annual activity. 3 years into PBIM half marathon, I decided to do a little bit more. Made that decision to go for SCKLM in KL even if I had to travel there alone. It was the best decision I have made, it was after that that I entered the 'world of running'.

Besides running, I do swimming as a way to still workout but does not hurt the knee. All these revolve around one goal, which is to loose weight and keep fit. But, again, sad to say that I am still not losing weight. I don't know how accurate the machine is but the latest check shows that ~30% of my body weight is actually fat.

Oh well, who cares I have 30% of fat right? Almost everyone around me said I'm not fat. That should be good enough. And although all these activities I did with the goal to loose weight does not work, I did improve my fitness level. Not all is bad news at least. Thinking on the bright side, at least I get to enjoy all those sinful tasty food and still not gaining weight.

A tip for you people out there who wants to loose weight, never ever starve yourselves. Weight lost due to starvation does not last, you are guaranteed to gain that weight back (if not more) in a short period of time.

I want to save money to buy the machine that measures body fat percentage liao... :)

LW's quote: "Fitness is not something hard to get but once obtained, it takes a lifelong commitment to maintain."