I am clearly not the person to give advise. I cannot tell you what to do but I'll tell you what I did. Here's a back story. I had birth my children when I was still young. I was skinny and it made me conscious because I don't look like a mother instead I look like an older sister to my children- and it's not flattering. Teachers, Social workers and Doctors doesn't seemed to trust my own children with me because I look like a kid myself. So I piled on weight. At the same time my divorce was finalized and I was free. I was also started on medication. After a few months I had gained 20 kg and I became overweight. I intended for a little weight gain but not being obese. I look at the mirror and I was devastated. Over the years, in my twenties I battled weight gained and depleting confidence. Then the pandemic came. It was during the fasting month of Ramadhan that I started working out after breaking my fast. I lost only two kilos. Then when the lock down was slowly redu...
I am clearly not the person to give advise. I cannot tell you what to do but I'll tell you what I did.
Here's a back story.
I had birth my children when I was still young. I was skinny and it made me conscious because I don't look like a mother instead I look like an older sister to my children- and it's not flattering. Teachers, Social workers and Doctors doesn't seemed to trust my own children with me because I look like a kid myself. So I piled on weight. At the same time my divorce was finalized and I was free. I was also started on medication.
After a few months I had gained 20 kg and I became overweight. I intended for a little weight gain but not being obese. I look at the mirror and I was devastated.
Over the years, in my twenties I battled weight gained and depleting confidence.
Then the pandemic came. It was during the fasting month of Ramadhan that I started working out after breaking my fast. I lost only two kilos. Then when the lock down was slowly reduced to some flexibility, I started a job at the warehouse. It was tough but I lost a ton of weight.
I stopped working for a while and I still have a lot of weight to lose.
And since we were still on lock down, I don't want to be exercising in the gym or wear a mask. So I took a daily walk at the neighborhood park twice a day and slowly increase the distance. I lost two dress sizes and 18 kg.
The park had a walking path of 2.4 kilometers and I walked three rounds in the morning and in the evening. Slowly I increased my walks to ten rounds in the morning and seven rounds in the evening. I stopped doing other workouts when I started.
And of course being out of work and also needing new clothes, this was when I chance upon minimalism and slow living. It was timely too because minimalism saved my life from chaos and depression.
I changed my perspective and learn to look at life in a different light.
I no longer felt hopeless about my weight and always dreaming about getting expensive gym memberships to workout at- I was never going to be ready. Looking at a different way of exercising and at a common neighborhood place was something I had overlook. Luckily I found a lady online and that paved way for me.
Even when I am poor, I am filled with calmness- this suffice me much.
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