Dropping Kilos

To say that my weight has fluctuated over the years will be an understatement. When I was in Primary school I was reasonably thin, almost skinny but I was a kid then. In my secondary years I started to pile on the kilos until I did my O'levels where I was weighing in at 70 kilos and wearing size 34 pants. I had a beer belly even though beer was not available. Once I started higher secondary education and began to notice the girls in my class I decided finally to do soemthing about my weight.

Thus began the jogging and exercising with friends. I even joined a gym, Muscleload with another friend and I was down to a very comfortable weight when I went to India in 1997 on a sociology trip which ended just as ramadan began which meant my gym and the exercising came to a halt and i began slowly gaining the weight that I had lost.

At the end of my education I was drafted into the NSS and during the four months of my recruit training I was the fittest I had ever been. I was a mere 60 kilos and had good muscle tone (for the first time in my life which is probably the only thing I will thank the training regiment for...) The next four years I managed to hold my weight between 60 and 65. Thus when I left for Australia in the beginning of 2003 I was 65 kilos and looking slender.

Somehow the three years in Australia with all the beef and chicken and lamb (and some kangaroo) I managed to pile on more than 20 kilos . When I finally got a scale after moving into my new apartment with my new wife I found that I weighed in at 88 kilos. This made me a bit sad after all that I had gone through so my wife and me decided to play a little game of "The biggest Loser." This didnt really work that well as I lost only 2.4 kilos over 22 weeks. Then I started working and with the combined fasting of ramdan I have managed to lose 6.4 kilos over the last 4 weeks. This morning when I weighed myself I found I was 80 kilos.

Now I just have to start exercising regularly so that I continue to lose weight and gain some muscle tone again and reach my target weight of 65 kilos. Wish me luck!