WEIGHTY ISSUES

I have been very lucky when it comes to weight. I could always put it on and drop it whenever I needed to. I’d let myself put on a few kilos then take a month to detox. Nothing hectic. Just veggies and  an extra hour at the gym and BOOM! I’m back to my normal weight. Sometimes I’d even end up losing more than what I was aiming for. My body was a team player. Always looking just the way I wanted it to.

My mom used to say ‘enjoy that figure you got now coz the older you get the harder it will be to lose weight”. By ‘older’ I thought she meant like 50’s and above. Boy was I wrong. Last year, when I turned 28 I put on a few pounds. That didn’t bother me. In fact I decided to add just a little more then shed it all off in one go. When the time came to drop the extra kilos I did my normal routine. Ate clean and added extra hours in my gym time. A month later and …NOTHING! What’s worse, I had put on an extra 0.5kgs. Oh My God! What’s happening to me??? I didn’t give up though. Still worked at it. Three months later and there was little to no change with my weight. I started getting really frustrated. For a while, I didn’t know what to do. For the first time in my life I had lost control of my body weight. It now had a life of its own. Losing weight was becoming more and more difficult. Then I remembered what mama said. The older you get the harder it will be to lose weight.

Now I am at peace. I have accepted the fact that I lost my superpower i.e controlling my weight whichever way I felt like. The film industry is image driven. Your look alone is half the job done. You want to maintain a certain weight but it should never be at the expense of your health. My body and I have now come to an agreement. We have a specific weight bracket that we fall into. We don’t go below or above it. I do my part to keep fit and she does her part to maintain industry standards.

Health and fitness has always been a part of my lifestyle but now I have learnt that I need it more than ever because without my superpower I have been reduced to everyone else who has to eat right and exercise to remain fit. I don’t know how things will be 10 years from now or after experiencing childbirth but if the ‘deal’ that I have with my body still stands, then I should be just fine 🙂

PHOTO: Mark Wijsman

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