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Jul 15
Life BMI, diet, thin, wight No Comments
(and a few unorthodox tips on how not to get fat from an undernourished individual)
I was born thin; Twenty years later, I’m still skinny. Yeah, I was never a fat kid. I wasn’t teased for being fat back in grade school. The last time I checked my body mass index (BMI) — a simple statistical measure that determines if your weight is proportional to your height — I was under the category “emaciated” (which is worse than “underweight”) and I think I’m still under that category.
I’m not blaming anyone — my parents for that matter — except for myself for being a very thin person who has to use a belt every time I wear pants. My Dad and Mom did everything that they could just to make me gain weight. I guess, they’ve bought all of the brands of multi-vitamins out there in the market and forced me to drink them when I was still a kid. But nothing much happened. There were a few instances when I received comments like “Oh, it looks like you’re gaining weight.” But seriously, no matter how many times I check my weight, the scale just points to the same number.
Where is the problem? Maybe it’s my metabolism, maybe it’s my diet, maybe it’s just the scale. But I’m more inclined to believe the second one. I think I have a faulty diet…
I eat only when I like what’s on the dining table. I don’t eat strange-looking foods, I don’t even touch them. Generally, I hate fish, especially if it’s fried and it has a scary looking face (e.g. tilapia, lapu-lapu). Also, I don’t like eating anything that still has shells which would need me to manipulate my food. My Mom would tell me that they’re delicious. Well, everything to her is delicious. To me, they’re bland. I don’t like under seasoned foods. My taste buds are hard to please. Lately, the foods that are being served to me aren’t something that make me salivate excessively (okay, that sounds disgusting). In Filipino — and in the most simple term, I’m pihikan.
Tip 1: Tell your Mom, your maid or whoever prepares food at your home to cook foods that you do not like. Kill your appetite. But please remember that losing a big amount of weight in just a few days is not good for your health. Eat a small amount of what was prepared for you, also so as not to hurt the feelings of your cook.
But I definitely want to have a normal BMI. That’s what I want to achieve while I’m being a bum. It may sound easy for you, but for me, it’s really hard. A lot of people I know says that fast food makes gaining weight just as easy as walking. To me, it’s not applicable. During my review sessions that lasted for three months for my licensure examination (which was definitely hard) I was eating lunch either at Jollibee or McDonald’s almost everyday (including Saturadays and Sundays), and as far as what I think and look like, I hardly believe that I gained any weight. But then again, the stress that I was in during that time could have been a contributing factor on why my weight stayed the same. Oh, well, I guess, I’ll just eat more servings of whatever is on the table.
Tip 2 (which could be used in conjunction with my first tip): When cooking, prepare a large amount — something that would last for a few days. Then, refrigerate. Finally, reheat. Repeat steps two and three as many as you can. No matter how sumptuous and yummy your food is, its taste would get destroyed. At the end, your appetite would be gone.
PS: I hope they’ll make a counterpart of the reality show “The Biggest Loser” and give it a title of “The Biggest Gainer.” I’ll definitely audition for that show. LOL.
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