The need to exercise

My father's health is giving us a lot of realization and discussion about our own health too. I am glad that for now, all he had to do is to watch what he eat, EXERCISE and take all his prescriptions.

I am so relieved.

And reminded.....

that we really need to take good care of our health.

that  exercise is a MUST and not an option. My father's doctor lectured him a lot about  this, the many benefits you can get and how it can help him big time with his condition alongside with the proper diet. That if he follow it, he might not need the medicines and could still live longer :)

And so last night..I walked....after such a long time of not doing any physical exercise I decided to get back to walking. I guess walking twenty minutes  every night is not bad at all. What do you think?

image source : http://www.healthyheart.nhs.uk/healthy_heart/exercise.shtml

Side effect of diet pills

Know the side effects of diet pills  you are taking, be sure you are taking the safe ones, those who have approval from the BFAD (Bureau of Food and drugs) It is better to be safe than sorry. I have heard a lot of horror stories about those supplements, one that I will never forget is a young teen-ager who died, she’s in high school and she was lured into this pills, she didn’t even consulted a doctor and it is too late for them to know that the pills have bad effects.

I personally had a bad experience too with those pills, so please please, do not just take every friends and relatives advice. Some may work effectively to others but it doesn’t mean it will work the same for you.

Read the label, the information, the contents and most important, consult your doctor.

We all want to lose weight but just the weight not our life.

Talk about losing weight

It’s funny how me and my friend talks about weight loss pills over a sumptuous dinner or a over sinful sweet treats that well, full of fats and carbohydrates that goes right into the belly and the waist.

It is even funnier to think how we discuss about exercise, jogging or walking and motivation (like watching the biggest loser) and yet we failed to do such. But in fairness, years ago, we both enrolled ourselves in a nearby gym that was months before her wedding, she lost some weight, me..nah..zero,

A few months ago, we also started doing aerobics at home, she got a DVD but we also stopped after a week or so,

We love to eat which we can not deny with our body weight. I just hope we can develop the love to work out also.

Sports anyone?

I was never into sports, not even when I was young, elementary or high school or even in college. I was not physically involve to any extra curricular activities in school back then. But you know what? During my first year of teaching, I was tasked to teach a bunch of kids a MAPE subject . MAPE means Music, Arts, and P.E. So imagine my horror when it was time to teach them volleyball while I was terrified to even hit the ball. But then  I conquered my fear, I was able to finish that school year and didn't quit in the middle. I never played volleyball again in my whole life.

I wish I was as sporty as my cousin who played volleyball professionally. I do not have any particular sports I like but definitely atv racing is out of it. I do not like extreme sports.It's scary and I wouldn't dare do that although I love watching such with my husband.

Probably I can try tennis or badminton. Time to get fit.