Fairy Tales Won't Work: Cerita Weight Loss

Oh my! Loving this and love sharing it with all the blog reader out there or whoever yang bumped into this blog and read on my endless entries. Here a little bit of my precious one year experience of working hard and endless effort to regain the ideal weight.

Truth, I started to consume extra weight since 2008. I was still in my ideal weight during my Uni days and the 'over eating and over stuffing era' started when I started working. (guess that was a time where money comes in and since my office was in Petronas Twin Towers building, therefore the source of consuming great food was everywhere and easy!). It became worst when I got pregnant with my boy in 2009 / 2010 as pregnancy add more fat to my body and I hit the heaviest weight during pregnancy; 83kilos.

I was greatly determined during pregnancy, that these extra fats need to be shed away during confinement period by proper eating, 'bertungku', ' barut' and all the traditional stuff women usually do during pantang, but unfortunately, nothing was within my control for I have to deliver my baby thru C-Sec due to leakage of the amniotic sac at 32 weeks.It kind of motivational downfall and shattering for me for I have to forget all the things I've planned to do during 'pantang'. So long story short, taking care of the family and managing career life were quite a troublesome for me at that point of time, further the exhaustion over endless responsibility from various obligations as mother, wife and employee has put me into somewhat depression and guess where did I turn to, to distract my stress and fatigue over my endless responsibilities? Food, off course!

I ate and turn to food for comfort. The emotions ups and down and unstable hormones has further adding up the reason to find food for distressing myself. I never feel full (kenyang). I can eat up lontong and nescafe tarik at 9am in the morning and turn to nasi ayam at 12 noon, eat kuih and teh tarik in the evening and still eating nasi goreng and sate at 9pm not to mention all the snack between meals such cendol, a slice of cakes and rojak. Worst of all, I still can feed up nasi putih and ayam bakar Wong Solo after finished up my class at 10 p.m. Yum! And the next thing I know, by the end of 2012, my body has consume 36% of fat with 75kg of weight. The symptoms of being obese has started to show as I was easily get tired, fatigue even to get up from bed in the morning and I was so lazy to play with my kids. That was somewhat a strong triggering alarm that told me this food insanity should be stopped and I need to get back my athletic figure which I used to have before married (proud to announce that I was a school athlete back then in high school)

Ever since, in the end of 2012, I start the diet regime by stop consuming carbo for 2 months, drank lots of water (4 liters a day) and pumping up my body for cardiovascular workout for 20 minutes a day, 2 times daily. In 4 months, it started to show the desired result as my weight started to drop from 75kg to 69kg. Since it has fall to 'somewhat' ideal weight, I start to consume carbohydrate again, but at a very cautious portion, exercise a healthy habit of eating by eating only when hungry and keep the meal at the size of my palm (since that's the size of our stomach) plus keep exercise regularly.

Now that almost a year going through a healthy habit of eating and regular workout, I am now lighter at 64kg. Now, my goal is not to drop more kilos but to maintain the weight, toning up muscle and shed extra 'luggage' especially at the most problematic area such tummy, inner thigh and arms. All these weight-loss achievement doesn't even cost me a Ringgit. It's just with the help of Youtube (tune in to Xhit for Victoria Secret model workout and Fitness Blender workout channels), motivation, time and eating right. Frankly now, I don't diet. I live for food and I love food but I eat at small portion and vigorously stop eating after 8pm.

Importantly, being skinny is not the ultimate goal, but being fit is far beyond matter. -nho