My current physique is as above. This is after three weeks of minimal exercise and mindless eating on a tour around Germany, which explains why I cannot really control what I am consuming or when I can squeeze some time for a workout, nor can I choose hotels with a proper gym with more than a treadmill, elliptical and bike... but I was very happy that I got to take such a long break and let my body relax a little. Although I’m not necessarily looking bad by any means, I am definitely feeling in need of a workout and falling into a sluggish mode. So within these six months, I have set a goal for myself since I finally get to decide what I eat, when I eat or how often I train. This is also a bit hard when I live with my family back in Hong Kong since I don’t get to do my own grocery shopping or where I workout (I’ll explain this in a later post)
1. To feel my 100% by the time I step onto the plane back to Hong Kong, not only physically but also reach a state of mind I am comfortable with. A litte more about this point. As you may have read here, I used to be a full-time swimmer, trained four times a week in the morning before school started for two hours, occasionally went horse riding, golfing or running but somehow, I never got attached to any other sports. Well, at the time, it seemed like swimming was my only option when it came to sports because I was ‘good’ at swimming. So this sports background of mine gave me pretty broad shoulders and a wide back (lats) for an Asian girl that I used to hate, especially when I lived in Hong Kong when every other girl seemed to have significantly smaller figures. Fast forwarding to university back in Hong Kong, I stuck to swimming for a little bit but training wasn’t widely available if you weren’t looking to become professional or if you weren’t willing to devote hours in the pool anymore. So this is when I turned to yoga and strength training. My Journey in the gym started out like many, hours spent on the treadmill, striving to be ’small'. A few months passed, I was bored. Regardless of how technological the gym was with TVs and fancy entertainment systems, I was still bored out of my mind on that treadmill…Nor did I see any significant results, all the treadmill did for me was making feel like I was doing some form of excercise, which has grown on me. So I began to look into fitness since it was something I was passionate about and was willing to do for the rest of my life, I might as well educate myself right? Then after months of research and training myself, I finally understood the fact that I got a head start with swimming, broadening up my back and shoulders during puberty and this, I now embrace. You may now ask, how does this tie in with my one goal? Well, through that story, I was trying to say that the consciousness of how my body looked grew over the years during puberty, although I can now appreciate the way my body was built, I too, like anyone else don’t have the patience to see results (which is muscle definition for me) and if I had the choice, would go to the gym everyday and eat right every singe meal but that isn’t life, nor is it sustainable or healthy to focus on a single aspect of my life. So I wish that by June 2017, I can stop feeling like my progress is held back from my ‘naughty days/meals’ and just be able to enjoy life because to be honest, I love spending time with my friends, I love hanging out with people, especially over food. Balance is what I preach and what I do but now, I need to learn to feel. Takeaway: Embrace what has been given and use it, don’t change it.
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