Photo: Sanja Gjenero
If you take a look around this blog you will find a lot of photos of myself looking relatively fit and healthy.
In reality, most of those photos are from half a year ago, before my wedding.
Since then I’ve had three signs that I need to lose weight:
1) Clothes feeling tight
My pants used to feel all loose and comfortable. Nowadays they’re so tight I can’t put anything in my pockets anymore.
I used to be able to wear these M size, body hugging shirts and get away with it. Nowadays I look more pregnant than my wife. I recently had to get some XL sized shirts because I didn’t have enough clothes to wear.
2) “Adino have you gained weight?”
Several people have commented on my weight gain. It started off with my mom who was subtly reminding me to go swimming and exercise. Then I met ex-colleagues who asked me this question.
Last week one of my colleagues (who generally restrains from making observations of anyone else’s physical appearances) asked me, “You gained weight is it?”
We Asians don’t say what we think all of the time. When we really say it, you have to know that it has become completely unbearable to hold it in any longer.
3) Crack!
No, not illegal drugs.
Last Friday I put my Nokia phone in my pants pocket as usual. I sat down on the floor and then bent to the right to retrieve something, and my volumnious thighs sat on my Nokia phone and cracked the screen.
. . .
Now, looking at these signs, I decided that it’s high time for me to start exercising again. Time to count calories again. I say “again” because I lost about 10kg 3 years back and now I slowly gained it all again.
“No need la,” some of you might say. “It’s okay, you’re tall,” Poey Chin tells me.
I don’t blame anyone. I have been neglecting exercise in favour of TV. I even ignored a blood test report saying I have borderline cholesterol levels.
I’ll start right after I finish my Cadbury Fruit and Nuts candy.
Any of you dear readers have any tips for me?
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P/S: By the way I shared something I got in the email in a post last Saturday and it got Dugg, StumbledUpon and Thoofed so much…. I’m amazed at the number of people coming in! 13K hits and counting. Wow.
October 8, 2007 at 10:34
marriage is good to you thats why you gain weight!
Adino: Yeah, that’s what they say to me too
Unfortunately, I have to admit my own laziness is a major factor in me gaining weight 
October 8, 2007 at 17:55
You will lose weight when your baby starts running around and you have to chase after him/her.
Adino: Really? Ohh.. it’s so tempting but I think I’d better start exercise anyway
October 9, 2007 at 11:35
that’s couvade syndrome for u! dun worry… ur weight and all other subsequent signs will go off… after ur baby arrived!
Adino: Fuiyoh… there’s even a syndrome for that!
October 9, 2007 at 15:12
People always said “Married man tends to get fat easily.”
Time for sign up for gym lol..
Adino: No need to sign up for gym, can use the facilities at my condo
October 9, 2007 at 15:21
I still waiting for my body check up report, I think I have d some problem like you…
Adino: Oh dear, I hope not!
October 9, 2007 at 15:23
Pray that Poey Chin will finish her food everytime during this pregnancy. Otherwise you’ll have to finish it for her and increase your weight.
Adino: Yeah, I got smart and now I wait until she confirms she can finish her food, before ordering food for myself.
October 10, 2007 at 12:17
I agree with pablopabla.
You will end up eating more
Adino: Yeah… last few weeks I have been over eating a lot.
October 10, 2007 at 23:25
WELCOME TO MARRIAGE!
Adino: Hehehe…
October 11, 2007 at 10:46
Hey, poey chin pregnant…! *CHEERING*
congratulations you two
yeah, good job!
err…advice you to get lots of sleep now…that’s all
Adino: Good idea. We’ll probably be zombies once the baby arrives
October 21, 2007 at 03:43
Hi Adino, if you want to loose weight, you must accept the immediate necessity to do so. Without the insight that you _MUST_ loose weight, no diet will work. What helped me a lot, after being seriously overweight, was a sickness in the beginning of this year. Since March i lost 45 KG. Really. What helped me a lot in achieving this were some strict and non disputable rules:
-no more alcohol.
-no sweets (candy bars, chips etc).
-no mc donald’s, burger king etc.
-only coffee in the morning.
-only raw fruit (apple, pears, peaches, cucumber, carrots, green and red peppers) or salad (with little oil and vinegar) for lunch
-3 slices of bread for dinner, with whatever i want.
-no food when not sitting at a table
-no food at night.
-get a prescription for Xenical.
Thomas
Adino: Great tips. It’ll take some time to ‘digest’ them