happy and healthy...is what i want to be! :)

This ain’t a diet/weight loss/nutrition blog. This is simply, my blog about the ‘blocks’ I face in wanting to lead a healthy lifestyle…about my journey towards nourishing my mind, body and soul.

I believe I’ve done it all – popping pills, replacement shakes, purging after meals/food, extreme diets etc. I’m proud of none…but neither am I ashamed. When the desire (and pressure) so strong to lose weight takes over…not everyone’s capable of handling it in the right way. When quick fixes are promised, who gives a damn about the old fashioned and boring way of eating right and exercising? Everyone's looking for the easy way out…and so was I.

Hope is a powerful driver. It took me a loooong time to realise 2 obvious patterns: 1) the quicker the fix, the more expensive 2) the quicker u lose the weight, the faster u pile it back on once u quit the fix. The day finally came where I was sick of infomercials that promised transforming Godzillas into bunnies…sick of swallowing pills I swore were the size of bullets…sick of folking out so much money to make my own life miserable. The fact that the pounds somehow still managed to find its way said it all.

i suppose even as a Nutritionist today, it sucks a little to know that it was good ol' healthy eating and exercising that melted the weight. When I look at how hard it was to change my own diet…I can’t help but think how am I going to change others’? Like all other journeys in life…there’re bound to be ups and downs. There’ll be some meals more healthy than others…there’ll be days u just wanna slack away and OD on cake.

So its a good thing that the rules to staying healthy are simple and straightforward..and if you play it right, you can even bend the rules once in a while. At the end of the day, I just wanna be healthy and happy…mind, body and soul nourished. Join me on this journey, would u? :)