My Running Journey
I would have remembered to have written years ago bout my obsession with loosing weight myself in my other blog. And with the series of the first 4 pieces I just wrote lately, I’d like to share my own experience on this topic of losing weight and being fit.
Also surprisingly after my holidays of 22 days in the Philippines for Christmas of 2008 recently which meant lots of eating and just a few 30KMs a week of running, sitting all day, the day I arrived at my flat in Oz the first thing I did is run to my weighing scale so afraid I gained weight. So I weighed after almost a month of not bothering to weigh myself, I still got the same weight of 43Kls when I got back!! So I think my metabolism is back to normal. Not that I stuffed myself with junk while I was on holiday too but i did eat more food than what i was taking. And so many deserts. Yum!
Anyway here’s my share:
My Heaviest weight: 2 years ago around the end of 2006 I could have weighed 54 KLS (118.8 Lbs.) and according to Filipino Body Mass Index (BMI) at a height of 5 ft., I would be a first-degree obesity. I put on some weight starting in 2005 with a very unhealthy lifestyle. too much alcohol, partying every night, eating too much, eating at the wrong time of the day, and being involved in a career that does not involve physical activity but just sitting down staring at your notebook, and rolling your chair next to your colleague! Then a year and a half later on, I was assigned to a project in Indonesia for almost 7 months and lived a life in a hotel with an everyday buffet breakfast, a driver to pick me up at the hotel to work, and not even have to make your bed when you wake up. Working late and having made it at midnight for dinner almost every day. I got spoiled with that life and obviously, I gained weight heaps!
My current weight: I weight currently plays around from 41.5 – 44 Kls. Heaviest when I get bloated at that time of the month. And I go my lightest most of the time, it can be said that I am underweight according to the BMI but i think I am still doing well with the measurement.
My lightest weight: I could have remembered that I did not even realize I was looking very very thin not until the day my sister and my friend visited me in Cebu while I was on a project there, and according to them they swear that I do look so haggard like a drug junkie. I think I did weigh myself at 41 KLs by that time and I was not doing much weight training, but all cardio – bike at the gym and running and swimming.
After that, I promised not to ever weigh and look like that again like a drug addict.
What made you realize you need to get back on track and be fit and healthy? After that stint in Jakarta, I went for a short business/leisure trip to Oz. And this time I was doing lots of walking to and from the apartment to the hotel, drinking lots of water because I was told that you get dehydrated easily down under. Then I got back home and I lost weight like 4 kls at the time and my friends think i look better. Also, I got tired when people/friends would tell me: “You look so F-A-T”, “what happened? why are you so FAT”, “Are you pregnant?!”, (I mean people get so MEAN) and so I did get serious about running to keep losing my weight and I did lose 12 KLS in a year from 54-42. And ever since I never felt better and not got ill so often so lately.
As a baby, I was diagnosed to have primary complex, and weak lungs so had bronchitis when I was growing up then became asthma then I got flu easily and skin asthma but ever since I was on the track it was so rare that these ailments came back. So I felt pleased.
