Obesity and Habit

I like to share some thots on this heating issue. I been up and down in fighting to reduce my weight . As personnel that work with Defence Ministry , the weight control is alarmingly eminent. It really a determining factor to excel in my career path. This was the carrot and stick or the motivation which I subordinate all this while. I need to maintain my Body Mass Index ( BMI ) not to exceed more than 26.9 . But this grievous weight control struggle always ended up myself in dismay. I failed to continuously maintain the index due to my great habit of food lover.

Today food temptations are unresistable, we being served 24 hour daily , fast feeding food, Mamak stalls with the mini cinema which invite customer to join together and having one Malaysia delicacies all day long. This external factor very contagiously attract new kind of eating habit. Unlimited consume of food at uncertain time contribute greatly to obesity.

But why even I manage reduce my weight below 26.9 BMI , for certain purpose especially when to attend courses or on promotion board, but still I unable to maintain that weight for longer time ? This is something associate to habit . I have developed bad pattern of eating which then become my bad habit. Habit is something we do continuously and it is an auto – pilot kind of act. This means if we have the good habit of eating and life style , this issue won’t arise. This is critical challenge, to create and change the habit of eating and lifestyle. That all it takes.

But habit not built over night. It takes gradual time which involve knowledge , desire and skills to evolve. When this awareness and consciousness is inseparable to someone, it would naturally indicate when you need to buckling down to control your weight and lifestyle. The habit must be nurture at very young ages, so the adolescent aware this important habit at any level of age.

Excess food that not burnt will become saturated fats. This means the food that we consume doesn’t equal to the activity that we do. I always remind myself if I want enjoy more of my favorite temptations, subsequently I need to counter them by any activity which with the food consumed. Some food for thought.