Weight loss
So there's a saying that once you go to college, you're going to be so spoiled with buffet meals all day everyday that you'll start packing on the pounds. "Freshman 15" is what it's called. Well, that never happened to me because I gained like a WHOPPING 25 POUNDS! Okay, maybe I already packed on half of that weight during the summer before freshman year but still...that's a lot of weight!
Anyway, after months of procrastination and self-delusion--that I am perfectly healthy and still smaller than half of the average American--and finally realizing that I can no longer fit in my old jeans, I decided to get serious and shed the extra pounds. I mean there was an incident where I was wearing an old pair of jeans and as I was bending down to move some of my boxes into my new apartment, the rear of my jeans RIPPED in half. Literally, straight down the middle...like how people depict it in cartoons. SO HILARIOUS! But yeah, that was my reality check.
To be honest, I didn't think I would be successful because my determination is usually very short-lived. The main and only reason I was able to maintain my weight in high school was through badminton. Shoot, as much as I hated the coach, I'd have to say he did a good job in working the fats out of me. LoL! Now that I've graduated high school and am no longer actively playing badminton, it's easy to see how I've quickly gained so much weight...especially since my eating habits (which consists of chowing down food non-stop any time of the day) didn't change. And so I ballooned up to become something like this:
OMG, so FAT can?! How come still got bf also dunno why. Oh wait, he quite chubby also maybe that's why. Ho ho ho. I think it's funny how back then when I was around 148lbs I used to think I was fat and needed to lose more weight. PFT! If only I knew what I would become later! When I hit like 175lbs, I said to myself, "What the heck was I thinking? 148 is totally damn skinny! Why was I so ungrateful?" Funny how we always call ourselves fat until we actually become FAT then we start appreciating and realizing that we were never really that fat in the first place. In fact, I was probably super healthy and at my peak, yet I was so unrealistic. Like if I could totally time travel back to that time, my present self would look at past self and snicker, "pft! You think you're fat now? Look at me!"
Anyhow, after like 8 months of struggling to change my eating and exercise habits, I have finally dropped 16 pounds! Can I hear a "w00t! w00t!" please? Come on, I sincerely thought that after a year, I would perhaps maintain my weight at best. But Yay! I've finally lost 16 pounds!
My end goal was to lose 25 pounds though (for now). So I've still got a long way to go. I regret not taking pictures of weight loss process like my lil' sis told me to. Part of the reason why was because I'm lazy, but it's also partly because I didn't have enough faith to see a huge change.
Anyway! No recent pictures to update but I will again soon enough when I reach my 25lbs goal.
Good luck to me!
Anyway, after months of procrastination and self-delusion--that I am perfectly healthy and still smaller than half of the average American--and finally realizing that I can no longer fit in my old jeans, I decided to get serious and shed the extra pounds. I mean there was an incident where I was wearing an old pair of jeans and as I was bending down to move some of my boxes into my new apartment, the rear of my jeans RIPPED in half. Literally, straight down the middle...like how people depict it in cartoons. SO HILARIOUS! But yeah, that was my reality check.
To be honest, I didn't think I would be successful because my determination is usually very short-lived. The main and only reason I was able to maintain my weight in high school was through badminton. Shoot, as much as I hated the coach, I'd have to say he did a good job in working the fats out of me. LoL! Now that I've graduated high school and am no longer actively playing badminton, it's easy to see how I've quickly gained so much weight...especially since my eating habits (which consists of chowing down food non-stop any time of the day) didn't change. And so I ballooned up to become something like this:
EWW. Double chin! Fat neck! Although the makeup is great. :D
OMG, so FAT can?! How come still got bf also dunno why.
Anyhow, after like 8 months of struggling to change my eating and exercise habits, I have finally dropped 16 pounds! Can I hear a "w00t! w00t!" please? Come on, I sincerely thought that after a year, I would perhaps maintain my weight at best. But Yay! I've finally lost 16 pounds!
My end goal was to lose 25 pounds though (for now). So I've still got a long way to go. I regret not taking pictures of weight loss process like my lil' sis told me to. Part of the reason why was because I'm lazy, but it's also partly because I didn't have enough faith to see a huge change.
Anyway! No recent pictures to update but I will again soon enough when I reach my 25lbs goal.
Good luck to me!
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