Why Skipping Lunch Is Not That Good

No Lunch policy like me? Hehehehe. Oh well. If you do it because you think that can help you shed the pounds, maybe it’s not helpful.

What I read from the Biggest Loser tips, skipping meals is not good for weight loss. It’s because even if you have stuffed enough food for you to feel full all day, not having meals for many hours would lead your body into “thinking” that you’re in hunger. So it stores calories for you instead of burning them. So it’s suggested that we break the big breakfast meal into smaller ones, and yes, it’s okay to have meals every 2 hours cos that actually gives the body the order to keep burning more and more calories. So now I understand why holding back from foods don’t always work. Cutting meals from 1 plate to 1 spoon will help us to lose the weight but from what I learn, our body can have “revenge” if you change your meal portion as sudden as that. The weight loss isn’t gonna stay and is coming back twice. It’s all about playing the “mind game” with our body. We have to make our body response the way it should benefit us. Maybe that explains why some people eat so much and still don’t gain weight compared to those who always watch how much they eat everyday. Oh that’s tiring.

Another thing is about metabolism. Metabolism is the ability of our body to burn calories. It differs from one person to another. One tips from the Biggest Loser is – Drinking plain water can certainly help to increase metabolism. I mean, Ouch? Plain water, are you sure? Yes, but people like me don’t find that simple. I’m not used to drinking a lot of plain water so it’s like a torture to me. But since it’s the innocent plain water, I can talk down my body to accept at least a bottle of big mineral water in a day. The last time I did that, I certainly felt so much better with my body. I don’t know why. I have the impression that my body is hydrated, it keeps me away from binge and unhealthy craving and I think that water just makes us go back to the old way when people don’t have sweet drinks to quench their thirst and guess what? They lived longer. *giggles.

Oh, another tips please. Do you know that we have to cheat our brains to help us lose weight too? That is a simple White Lie. Just save your money from buying bigger plate cos you should settle for a smaller one. Fill it with food you like and your brain will get cheated into thinking that you have eaten A Lot so it sends the signal to your whole body that “Yup, I’m Full Now” when u actually eat ¼ of your normal portion. This way, your brain doesn’t notice that you actually cut your meal but you still feel full. The good news is, less calories are going inside your body which will result Less fat transformation and before you know…You’re Fit again… Oh yayy… hahaahahahahaha.

When your brains and your body are not given sudden cut-meal shock which will mess your system, the possibility of you to retain the new weight is very high. It’s because your body has learnt how to accept the new eating environment without fighting back. Cos from what I heard, holding back food in an unhealthy way will cause in funny reactions that makes your metabolism drops to the floor and pumped more calories and fat in your body. Ouch… Then you know what to do. This advice is also for me cos like you, I also want to lose weight for Health and NOT looks. (Hahaahahahahahahahahahahahaha) Lets together use the tips for better HEALTH okay? Hehehehehe.

The Big C and The Big D

We are all terrified to hear the Big C. The Big C refers to Cancer. People who are diagnosed with the Big C, is going to face the Big D very soon. That’s what people thought. The Big D stands for Death. The Big C is predicted to be the number one killer of the human race. Sepa sangka…sel2 dalam tubuh yang bekerja untuk kita ini akhirnya ada cara untuk bermusuh sesama sendiri dan memusnahkan “mereka2” yang baik. Dapatkah kita halang sel2 ini daripada merosakkan selebihnya sel2 baik yang bertungkus lumus buat badan kita sihat dan cergas buat aktiviti harian? It’s such a painful truth. Tidak cukup lagikah dengan hal2 di luar yang tidak mampu kita sentuh, melihat “kekotoran” dunia ini yang dipenuhi perjuangan yang sia-sia dan greediness yang menyesatkan. Omigawd….tidak cukup lagika? Bila2 masa kita tidak tau macamana any of this outside element could end our life in a second. Tidak cukup lagi dengan tu semua…rupanya diri kita sendiri pun bila2 saja akan berpaling tadah kan menamatkan riwayat hidup kita dengan tragis sekali.

I am a bit emotional when I write this. Yesterday, one of my goodfriends dropped by at my office and I told her about the bad news about one of our goodfriends. That friend’s husband is recently diagnosed with nose cancer. We all feel sorry for her. She has been the softest person among us but she’s blessed with a good life. Now life is turning its back on her. We get the news from someone else and not from her own mouth. Whether she thinks that it’s not that serious to share it with us, or she is just so affected by it that she rather not let many people know.

So when I told that friend who dropped by yesterday, she gave a different reaction. This friend is nothing new to the big C. She lost her mom from breast cancer years ago. So when I told her about the pitiful situation of our other friend whose husband diagnosed with nose cancer, she said, “It’s not that terrible. He could still recover. You never know.”

Even the Big C is not giving a clear view of HOW close it is to the Big D. According to her, breast cancer could run in her family cos her other aunt is also one sufferer. And surprisingly, her aunt is still alive until today. Her mom first discovered a small lump on the breast which was very early and it was considered only the 1st stage. You hear it so much from the TV that if you detect the disease at the early stage, your chance of recovery is almost 100%. But this is what happened to my friend’s mom. After the cancerous lump was removed, it came again silently after spreading to the chest area after only a few years of relief. And it was when things were not going better for her mom. Finally, her mom called to eternal rest after years of fight. Speaking of the aunt, who was only diagnosed with breast cancer at 4th stage, which my friend would refer her breast as “totally damaged”, which was given only 6 months to survive, is still around after 10 years suffering from it. The damaged breast was not even removed. She only visits the hospital for the monthly procedure. Yes, she is still very much with her normal life. She eats anything like healthy people. So my friend has a reason why she is not so alarmed talking about the Big C, cos the fact is…You Never Know how close you are to the Big D. You might not be that close and still have many years to live. You just never know.

But speaking of not having to deal with the Big C, don’t forget that the Big D is going to happen eventually. Then I told my friend… “Don’t you think these diseases are just excuses so that we don’t just die from sudden death?” Or maybe, it’s not even excuses at all. Actually, we need NO excuses at all. If it’s time, it will happen. The Big D doesn’t need an excuse or a reason. You can just sit there healthily and laughing and your life could be snatched from you in a split second. You never know.

I don’t know what to say. I just hope that we are given enough time to experience this life and to spend enough time with our loved ones and carry out our mission in this world. I just hope that The Big D isn’t so scary to us anymore– knowing that we are blessed so much with such a wonderful chance to be once be alive and that we have no regrets…Cos we have lived our life to the fullest. What are we waiting for, right?

We have so much things to do. We have a life and we must begin appreciating this biggest gift, NOW!! Do we have time to quit hoping because of our troubles? Do we have time to ruin other people’s lives out of jealousy and hatred and greed? Now you know how small these problems are when you think that Everything will come to an end once your have reached the end of your road.

Let’s start LIVING now, guys. We have a lot of jobs to do. :)

Note: The most interesting line that my friend said was, "It all depends on how badly do you want to stay alive. If you quit hoping, you'll lose the fight against anything that is trying to invade your body." Maybe that's the secret why the sick Aunt is still around despite late detection. Ask yourself. How badly do you want to be alive? Suddenly this is a lot more than just a The Big C and the Big D. Don't quit this fight to stay alive. Survive this till our last breathe.

Take That Freaking Medicine!!!

Believe it or not, I was once a kind of person who said NO to medicine. If I fell sick, I would rely entirely on this so-called self-healing. Yes!! Stupid enough?

Flu is my ANNUAL sickness. It's the most common illness that I get. This is how it starts. I wake up in the morning and I feel discomfort in my throat. This is the sign that the annual disease is starting to attack my immune system. And then, for the whole day, I will feel like only half myself. I will feel cold all over and I don't sweat like I normally do. This is a bad sign that the viruses are starting to overpower my immunity. Ouch!

So, back then I was a bit terrified with medicines. I always thought that taking medication would only bring side effect to my body. I couldn't stand feeling sleeping during lecture, and I would hate sleeping away the whole day – feeling weak and not be able to do my normal activity, Yeah, that was what I THOUGHT back then!! I refused to go to the clinic. I refused to even go to the pharmacy because I don't believe in medicines. I was so stubborn back then and I would wait for a week or two just as long as I heal all by myself. To me, it was the PROPER healing that my body needs. Any healing that comes from medicine comes is adding some chemical into my system. Ouch? Hahahaahahahahahahahahahhaahaha.

This is my Self-healing. If you want to try this out, you may do so. I will quarantine myself in the room. I drink only warm drinks, and NO to aircond or fan, wear sweater so I will sweat away, as much sweat as possible. I spend my time on the bed so that I get the rest I need. If I can sleep, much better. But I sleep in extra temperature. The key is TO SWEAT and sweat until your body temperature gets normal again. So if you can set your time for this healing, you can almost heal after one day. The sore throat will surprisingly go away even after one day, but your voice is still weak to go out like usual. But be thankful that you don't have to turn into a rock star in a day (*Lols). And if you extend this for another day, trust me you'll be back 100% in 2 days! If you do this self-healing with a lot of "commercial breaks" in between – your healing will have to extend to one week, two weeks or so. So if you have to attend lecture in the "icebox" with centralized aircond, this is really bad news to self healing. It was so crazy that the students were treated like FROZEN MEAT when they have to deal with such coldness, almost to freezing level. Hahaahahahahahahahaa. Dammit, I hate to remember those days inicebox lecturer halls. Erkss!!

Imagine, I was like that for all time I was at school. Only after I finished school, I started to get pissed with slow-healing. I realize that Self healing is good, but when you have more commitments, than maybe you don't even have time for self-healing. So I said to myself, "I HAVE NO TIME FOR SELF-HEALING". It was when I changed my view about taking medicines. I need to heal FAST!!!! I don't have time to quarantine myself and lay myself on the bed for the whole day. So since then, I start to take medicine. Luckily, thought Flu is my annual sickness, but usually only flu is bothering me. I'm thankful enough because I am not that susceptible to eye sickness or other things, unlike my sister. So, do you think I still need to complain why I need to take medicine for this sickness?

One more thing. Now I realize that Self-healing is actually an act of selfishness. Because you allow yourself to take longer to heal, you could spread the virus to MORE people. Now I understand what my housemates felt. They won't clap their hands for my self-healing, instead, they were in extra alert because I could be spreading the virus even when I was talking or making physical contacts with them. That's why I got soooo pissed off with people who think they WANT TO WAIT until they heal all by themselves.

I don't care what your excuse is. I don't care if you think that the cough syrup is not tasty or you just hate to swallow liquid medicine. I don't want to hear all that. These are all nothing but stupid excuses. Anybody in the house who does this, will get "sharp torture" from me because delaying your recovery will get more people infected. Maybe you think you're being "Natural" and you believe in natural healing. To the drain with all that!! If you live alone, MAYBE! If you live with other people in the house, then have some heart.

Do you guys know why I am sounding this way? I always got my sickness from other people back in schooldays. I HATE IT. I know that my immunity is very low in flu. I tell you that Flu just loves me! So if you heal late, I will get mad if I get infected cos I have a weak body. Back in schooldays, I could forgive you but if anybody pass viruses to me NOW, I hope I could sue you!!!(Hahahaahahahahahahahahahahaha). Imagine my work that I have to delay because you can't just find the right medicine to treat your sickness.

If you say that you hate to think that chemical is getting into your blood, HEY, even what you eat on lunch has all the chemicals you don't recognized and hell, your body is already full off chemicals from the pollutions and plastic products that you use daily, SO don't speak as if chemicals in ANYTHING NEW!!! Take that freaking medicine, pray that you body can handle thousands of chemicals with funny names and still be the healthy productive you. Yeah, maybe we can't be counting how much funny stuff get into the blood, as long as you can be healthy and do your normal activity as a human being. That's the real point actually!!!

Then?? Go take that freaking medicine and get healed FAST!! No more delay okay?? Better do it, guys!!! Gggrrrrrrr… (Hahahaahhahahahhahahahahaha)

Stay Healthy and Happy peeps! :)

Kisah Sebuah Penderitaan

You guys agree with me when I say that Grey’s Anatomy is a very good drama? It’s in fact, one of my favourites. Siapa sangka kerjaya sebagai pakar bedah sebenarnya boleh mendedahkan kita kepada seribu satu macam realiti kehidupan. Pergelutan dengan nyawa yang berjuang untuk hidup, dan how they actually see the lives fly away before their very eyes. Sometimes they even decide when to take the life supporting machine and come with the breaking news for the patient’s family, “Sorry, we already did all we can to save him.”

I take this chance to write about something that I have in mind since ages. Kamu cuba fikir betul2. Banyak orang sakit di luar sana yang menghabiskan masa mendapat rawatan di hospital. Dibedah, dibius, diberi ubat – ada yang terlantar di katil hospital selama berbulan-bulan, bertahun-tahun – selama itulah juga dorang tidak dapat melihat apa yang terjadi di luar sana. Sama ada dorang pikir yg dorang akan kembali kepada kehidupan itu, or adakah dorang hanya berserah dan pasrah sekiranya nafas dorang terhenti bila2 masa?

Sia tengok macam2 movie yang inspire me. How a person yg kena diagnose with a serious disease, given a few options how to treat the disease. But sebelum kena diagnose, orang tu macam orang normal saja. Dia lalui hidup dia dengan suka duka, pergi kerja, jumpa kawan2 dan makan macam2 yang dia suka. Tiba2 bila dia tau dia ada penyakit, semua berubah. Penyakit itu belum pun menyakiti dia. Dia tidak rasa pun yang dia ada penyakit. Tapi dengan kaedah perubatan moden, doktor tu cakap dalam badan dia tu macam2 kerosakan. Kalau dibiarkan, dia mungkin akan hidup kurang dari 1 tahun. Then, what should the person do?

Then when kamu cakap, “Bolehkah biarkan saja?”. Doktor tu akan cakap macam ni. “Kalau dibiarkan, kau hanya ada 3 bulan hidup.” Then org tu tanya, “Tapi kalau dibedah, macamana?” Doktor tu jawab, “Kalau dibedah, kau mungkin akan hidup sekurang-kurangnya 2 tahun.” Tapi kau sudah nampak apa yang dilalui oleh org lain. Apa guna hidup 2 tahun lagi kalau serupa bangkai bernyawa? Suddenly kau tersedar betapa bagusnya hidup 3 bulan yg dipenuhi makna dan keseronokan. Biarlah singkat, tapi ia betul2 kehidupan dalam ertikata yang sebenarnya.

Actually, ramai yang telah menggunakan pendekatan itu. They decide yang dorang akan teruskan hidup macam biasa dan tidak perlu berduka tentang penyakit dorang. Sampaikan orang2 keliling pun tidak tau. Bila tiba masanya, dorang pergi secara tiba2. Terdetik di hati orang2 keliling dia, kenapa la dia tidak bagitau yg dia sakit? Kenapa dia tidak pergi jalani rawatan?

Actually, mendapatkan rawatan ni memang undeniably cara yang terbaik.untuk FIGHT. Fight untuk mendapatkan peluang hidup yg lebih lama. Tapi nothing is sure. Apa yang sure adalah once kau dapat rawatan, kau akan buang berbulan-bulan atau tahun untuk even pulih dari rawatan tu. Sedangkan kita tau, masa berbulan-bulan tu boleh jadi macam2 benda. Banyak benda kita miss. Dan sekiranya kau refuse untuk jalani rawatan, kau tidak akan lalui benda tu semua. Kau akan save masa di katil bedah. Masa tu kau boleh guna sebaik-baiknya untuk enjoy hidup kau. Orang mungkin cakap kau sudah give up untuk cuba rawat penyakit kau. But looking at it the other way, sebenarnya kau cuma mau jadi realistic. Dalam kes penyakit itu tidak boleh diubati, seolah-olah kamu hanya akan menghabiskan semua duit kamu untuk memanjangkan hayat kamu selama mungkin. Tapi entah kenapa terdetik di hati sia…”HAYAT” yang kamu dapat panjangkan dengan perbelanjaan yang di luar kemampuan kamu tu sebenarnya bukan hayat dalam ertikata sebenarnya. Kamu terlantar lemah di hospital, tidak boleh cakap, tidak boleh makan minum, tidak boleh buka mata dan tengok tv dan dengar cerita orang yg visit kamu – boleh dikatakan, hayat yang kamu perjuangkan itu adalah tidak bermakna. Imagine la ahli keluarga kamu sampai gadai harta untuk dapatkan duit untuk rawatan – hanya untuk kamu ada terus terlantar di katil tu. Kamu tau kamu akan “pergi” juga. Dan gara2 itu, ahli keluarga kamu dikelilingi hutang dan hidup dorang semakin susah, sedangkan dorang masih mempunyai tempoh yang panjang untuk hidup. Sanggupkah kita tengok dorang susah?

My point is…when we look at this in a bigger picture, memang pedih reality kehidupan yang perlu dihadapi oleh sesetengah orang. Entah kenapa sia rasa sedikit kesal bila tau orang yang masih ada begitu banyak mission dalam dunia ni, dan akhirnya diagnosed with a disease, dan then mendapatkan rawatan yang begitu menyeksakan – seolah-olah hidupnya sudah terhenti ketika rawatan tu bermula. Satu kerugian pada dunia ini dan masyarakat. Jadi bila kita dengar celebrity2 yang pergi secara tiba2 tanpa diketahui umum tentang penyakit dorang, sia rasa dorang sudah maksimakan hayat dorang. Hidup ini terlalu indah dan masa kita terlalu singkat. Mungkin juga dorang pikir yang dorang tiada masa untuk melayan penderitaan tu. Hidup ini harus dinikmati selagi boleh bernafas. Esok lusa, kalau ajal datang, tiada apa yang boleh menghentikan. Endingnya tetap sama. Kematian. Tapi sia nampak yang rawatan2 ni adakalanya ridiculous. Menghentikan hidup sebelum masanya. Sedangkan sebelum masuk hospital, semuanya baik2 saja. Gara2 mau dapatkan rawatan, jadi macam bangkai bernyawa. Sia kesal kenapa perlu jadi macam tu. Seolah-olah option untuk tidak mendapat rawatan tu adalah lebih baik, sebab sekurang-kurangnya kita tidak buang masa dengan mengerang kesakitan dan terlantar di hospital. Ahli keluarga kita tidak perlu bergolok gadai. Sebab, endingnya tetap sama…We all gonna die, anyway.

I’m just sharing the little voice from deep within. Terdetik sedikit kekesalan. I don’t know if anything can make this better. Apa la yang sia tau kan? Pengetahuan begitu terbatas. Banyak benda yang sia tidak paham. Just that, in the simplest language, I just feel that adakalanya life ni memang kejam. And the bad news is, there’s nothing we can do about it. Sedih kan guys?

Sia cuma mau pray something ja. Sia harap sepa2 yang hati dia baik, buat amalan yang baik, sia pray yang dorang akan dapat balasan yang baik. Janganlah biar life ini terlalu kejam. Life, janganlah kau terlalu kejam dengan kami. Banyak lagi orang jahat di luar sana, jangan pula orang yang baik2 yang terpaksa menderita. *Sighs.

God, Have Mercy On Us.