If you followed my last blog post, you'll know how much I've suffered for this entire summer. From eating antacids just to be able to go to sleep on my extreme diet to swimming laps in the pool close to passing out and drowning. Yet, all this physical pain is trivial compared to the emotional trauma that being obese has done to me :( That's right... I would never have wished being fat on any of my enemies because that truly is the worst thing ever. But here's the good news... it DOESN'T HAVE TO STAY THAT WAY! If I can do it so can you!
In this blog post I have done photo recreations of some of the most Fugly photos I have seen myself and did a 'before and after comparison'. If you have seen me around on April 2014 you'll probably see me as the 'before' part. Fugly, awkward, and disgusting... (That's how I feel :() For a long time I have never told anyone my weight because I was embarrassed. But this time I am going to just SPILL... (please brace yourself)
I WAS A FREAKING 112KG IN THE BEFORE PHOTOS!!!! BUT no longer... In just 2.5 months of sweat, blood, tears and pain... today I have lost 28kg! I'm 84kg now... (Still not perfect of course but I am STILL WORKING ON IT)
Goodbye to my A-cup MOOBS (used to be... I felt I put some flat chested women to shame actually then) and my horrible muffin top. And thank GOD I can finally see my chin and my neck! Hallelujah!
Now I'm not posting all these pictures to gloat about my success or to tell the World that I have an iron determination. What I want people to know is that weight loss is all about having that drive to get what you want! To all my friends who believed in me I hope this post will be my way of expressing to your my huge resolve and my voice. How I've transformed myself from inside to outside; how I've tried and learned to love my body more... Most importantly how touched I am that... even in all those 'before' pictures... that no matter how ugly and fat and obnoxious I looked that I still always had friends who never felt I was ugly or ever felt ashamed just being around me T.T
For a long time... I always felt very bad just to be seen around friends who were so attractive to me... I wallowed in self pity and fell into a deep whole of denial... Denial that fate was meant to be; that I could do nothing to change life only the way I viewed life.
I wanted an average life... just to eat normally like everyone else and to walk on the streets feeling like a normal human being. As much ridiculous as it may seem... Being fat made me feel I was dumb and also that I was not ever as talented as anyone else... not worthy...
I'm still far from being perfect and I am still trying very hard each and every single day to lose all that FAT! To all those who wanna lose weight I offer these 5 IMPORTANT but often overlooked tips:
#1: Do not be over ambitious. Do NOT ever start your workout routine and do crazy things like run 6 km to KILL that fat (as much as that surely will). This is especially true if you have not exercised for a long time. Reason being you'll probably feel immense pain and discomfort after the exercise and the next day and this will give you the PERFECT excuse to say 'I can't take this... I give up!' Trust me... Been there done that!
#2: Memorize calorie charts. Having knowledge of the calorie count of almost everything I ate transformed my mind into a calories calculator. This deters me from eating stuff A LOT! For example... do you know that a cup of milk is already 120 kcal (around there)? Ok that IS SCARY to me...
#3: Always do your workouts at a particular time of the day. For me I always do 1 hour right after I wake up (so if i go to work at 7am i jolly well wake up at 4.30am to do it before going out to work) and 1-2 hours in the evening. Having this designated time... your body and brain will make this a habit and if you fail to do these things during that particular time you are VERY LIKELY to feel guilty or restless and do it even if you dread it. trust me... your body may scream but it will THANK you afterward.
#4: Drink cold water and take even colder bathes. Your body is warm blooded and ingesting cold stuff (especially water) will force your body to burn your brown fat just to heat your body to normal temperature again. Same thing applies for cold showers. P.S. please do not imagine drinking hot water and imagining the hot water melting the fat... that DOES NOT happen.
#5: Download motivating workout songs. That HELPS a lot. I am running on the track and I become a Lion hearing 'Roar' by Katy Parry and JUST when I am about to give up... Britney comes up with 'Work Bitch!' and I am working that track like a crazy bitch! It WORKS!
#6: Look at your fugly photos everyday. It brings me to tears but it also reminds me of the horror of being fat and hence even more fire to burn out those fatty bits!
#7: FOLLOW CASSEY HO for Blogilates (find her on youtube or even google her). SHE IS MY INSPIRATION! Pilates really tones up those saggy muscles of yours and makes you more flexible. At the end of the day you even have a better posture and look more confident!
Just always remember... ALWAYS... There is NO elevator to success... You FREAKIN TAKE the stairs!
