Let the Books still Open...

Back then I was never brave enough to do anything before being expert about all of the theories. I always did the same thing : collected tons of references and read many books, while planning to sink my teeth into it when all the books are closed. No wonder I had never been moving forward because I never had finished reading all the books. They're too many.

One day I heard Mr. Mario encouraging people to make an early start. Essentially he said, “Start before you ready, don’t wait until you become perfect!” I was surprised. I thought what I’ve done is perfectly right, but in fact it’s not recommended at all? Oh, please.. Come to think of it now, I must've wasted plenty of chances, just because I think I'm not perfect... Poor me! Glad to know this but also regret of knowing this too late.. :-(

I’ve been following Mr. Mario’s advice ever since and unexpectedly I become a ‘brave-man’. Suddenly I am in the middle of doing something and here I am... learning new things everyday while keep working on my projects, with my books still open! Thank you, Mr. Mario...

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SO DON'T WHINGE!

Many reactions come from my relatives after my successful of slimmed down 10-11 kg in only two or three months. Most of them asked me if I had been using drugs to lose it. Of course I hadn’t. I do only healthy diet. Some of them believe, and some don’t. To them who believe, I’ve recommended my nutrition doctor to visit. For sure I will not suggest anybody to diet without guidance.

After some time, I asked them about the progress. I was happy to hear that one of my friends had been showing meaningful progress in 1 month. Contrary to this, I rather upset with the other friend who hadn’t struggled enough to achieve what she wants. Actually she had used many drugs before, but her weight still won’t trimmed down. Moreover, she had suffered illness caused by side effects of the drugs.

Knowing she dared to take the risk of using drugs, I think she must be in a high importance of being thin. She was also rather whinging. But the fact is a far cry from my thought. When I told her to visit my doctor, she do visit but didn’t follow the doctor’s instruction. She followed it only for one or couple days, but the rest she said she couldn’t stand starving. Or.. my guess, she couldn’t stand thinking that she’s going to be suffered.

I always convinced her that the hungry feeling wouldn’t last long. That her body will need only a while to adjust with new eating pattern, just like when we were fasting. On the first day we may frequently hungry, but soon we’ll get used to it. She seemed agree at that time but still… I don’t know, maybe she expects that putting a lot of effort into losing weight will be as pleasant as eating a box of chocolate.

What I did to my friend, motivating her, absolutely can’t compare great motivation she’ll find inside herself if she's focus with what she really wants or how much this mean to her. I was able to motivate myself because I have two reasons : first, is to get healthier, and second, is in order to make easier finding fit clothes. These two wishes maybe looked simple for other people, but since these are really important to me, I have to treat them like “important” things. How do we deal with important thing? It should be on top of our priority list, and we push ourselves hard to make it works, right? I realize that I could be suffer, but every action certainly have its consequences. If I'm not ready to take the consequences, maybe I'm not really mean with what I want. So, DON’T WHINGE!

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Just Do It !

I starred at my doctor’s face, repeating to myself the words he'd just said, ”You have to reduce at least 8 kg!” At that time I looked at him as if he had thrown me into a dumpster. I did nothing but smiled, felt so pessimistic that I could lose my weight drastically.

“I recommend dr.S for you to visit, she’s a nutrition doctor,” he gave me piece of paper while mentioned one of his friend whom he believe could help me.

The next week, I started to visit this middle-aged and friendly doctor. She is so informing and quite satisfying to ask to. She started measuring me after observing what kind of food I used to eat and how my eating habit was. She laughed when she found that my belly-round was only 3 cm smaller than my hip ;) I joined to laugh and visualized my husband’s exhausted face while we were searching through every edge of the stores finding a fit trousers for me. Haha…

We were discussing for quite a long minute until she came up with the conclusion that I have to reduce around 12 kg to get my ideal weight! Something impossible I thought, considering my eating habit. I imagined that I have to bear myself starving. Soo depressing!

At first, following the doctor’s rule indeed makes me starving and I broke it on the first day. However, if I didn’t think of my health or how much money I –exactly my husband- already spent for visiting doctors, maybe I would’ve gave it up. So, I was just trying everyday not to think of anything and keep motivating myself with this slogan: "Just Do It".

Surprisingly, after 2 months I found this magical slogan of Nike makes all my sacrifices worth it. I had been successfully reducing 9 kg without using any drugs at all! Can you feel my joy? I was over the moon! I've been putting an effort and in the end it brings me a delightful real result. It was hard at the beginning, but once I got used to, it's getting easier.

Now, I've adjusted to my new portion of meal –half of I used to- and you know what? Actually the whole process I've been through is not suffering at all from the beginning to the end. It was just my thoughts kept telling me I would suffer!

Trust me, if you just do it and don't think of what the situation will be before you start, you can be as successful as me. This is a reminder for me too : the next time I wish for something seems hard to get, I have to get rid all unnecessary thoughts and simply start it, Just Like Nike! ;)

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