Tweeted about having tea with a Uni friend while waiting for my experiment to be done in the afternoon when Sally replied "Please don't go back to your poly attachment time. Lol" Got me laughing for a while because i knew exactly what she was referring to - my sudden weight gain during that short 5 months poly internship in NUS.
The battle of controlling my weight has been an ongoing one. Even though i don't see myself as being obese, i've always been wanting to achieve a toned body. I lose weight pretty quickly whenever i exercise regularly but whenever i become caught up with school and whatnot, i gain that weight back just as fast -__-"
This is how i look, when i was much much younger:
Why is my bro so adorable when he was younger??!?!!?! It's so unfair he's got that big round eyes and cute smile while i pretty much looked like a...tomboy? Mum's never too keen to grow my hair long when i was younger so i had that "Mushroom" hairstyle for quite a while. haha.
I was from Chinese Dance during primary school days so all that dance training kept me skinny and healthy!
And then puberty came and goodbye skinny me =(
Warning: Pictures of me looking (ridiculously) chubby ahead!! hahaha.
WAHAHAAHHA. Look at my face, arms and waist!!!!! Even the growing boobs didn't help salvage the situation. LOL!
And look how horrible i looked on Gorgor's wedding day:
Didn't help that i've got such bad taste in fashion! HAHAHAHA. Batik prints, watch that is a tad too big for my wrist and unflattering dress cut? Lol.
So after i graduated from sec school and waiting for entry to poly, i got fed up with my flabby arms and thighs. I finally decided i need to LOSE WEIGHT.
I did try dieting for a very short period of time but this method is not suitable for me. How do people go hungry for days is beyond me. I get all cranky and grumpy whenever im hungry! I'm kinda glad this method will never work on me anyway, love my food TOO much =)
Some of you might know i have been a member of the local fitness centre for a while now. Actually, i began attending gym classes when i was 17, after being influenced by Jie, who was desperate to get skinnier (which she eventually did!).
I slimmed down quite a bit with the help of the aerobic classes in the gym and after i signed up for a package at a dance studio, I was dancing 3 times a week religiously. I could fit into a S or even XS at times then!
I was slightly underweight at a certain point of time, without even having to control the amount of food i eat! I was eating all the food i love, going out for supper whenever i feel like it, having no worries that eating too much will affect the way i look. This is when i know exercising is the way to lose the fats, at least for me.
Unfortunately, the 5-month internship stint started during my final year in poly and i was working 9am - 9pm every single day from Monday to Friday, and sometimes even Saturday (without a single cent. free child labour, i call it) I was so caught up with writing my thesis, running experiments in the lab that i don't even have time to get proper sleep, much less attend gym classes =(
In addition, i drink 2-4 cups of coffee every day to keep myself awake. I don't think people realise how much sugar is present in every cup of coffee/tea we consume outside!
I didn't know i gained so much weight until the end of my internship. When i returned back to school, people started asking my best friend if i was having thyroid problems and taking medication that caused my sudden weight gain -__-"
Dug out some photos from those days and boy, i really look horrible with my fat cheeks =*(
See how my fat-ass cheeks made my big-ass nose even bigger?!?!
Thankfully, i found time to head back to the gym after i graduated. Getting attached to a guy who trains and hits the gym oh-so-often made me even more motivated to lose the flabs! haha.
My recent pictures:
Well well, still a longgg way to go before reaching my goal of a toned body like Jennifer Garner's but I'm so not going back to my poly internship look so exercise exercise exercise it shall be =))
Oh and in case you think the lady standing behind me in that "batik print" photo looks familiar, yes, that is jie almost 10 years ago and this is her at her wedding last month after spending the past years hitting the gym religiously ;)
So yes Sally, im never going back to poly attachment days!!!! =P
Until next time~
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