THE STRUGGLE OF BEING FIT

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¨You are basically wasting your time and money going to the gym and doing exercise, you are fat, always been fat and will always be fat¨ I am guilty of making ¨diet goals¨as my new year´s resolution, year after year I have the same goal but was never accomplished. It´s either I start and then after a month or so I stop. I love food, who doesn´t? I love cooking and tasting different types of food, sweet is not my preference but I eat anything that is fried adn appetizing. Though I prefer vegetables than fruits. Being a half Asian-half Latina and growing up in Asia, losing weight has always been a struggle. Trying to achieve a certain body size just to fit in. But having too big of something is not curvy nor voluptuous to others, it is called ´´Fat´´. I´ve been called by many names, ¨Buba, big-ass, pig, fatty¨. Sometimes I take it as a joke and try to ignore anything they say about my weight. I´m not against exercising or diet, I know we need to keep ourselves healthy. I went to gym before, gone to swimming class, taekwando, jogging and now I´m trying cross-fit. A few years ago, I have to admit that sometimes people´s negative comments and close relatives laughing at me when I go to jog makes me give up the next day. But this time there is no stopping me to reach my goal! You see, just because you don´t get results today or tomorrow doesn´t mean you have to stop because it´s not working. You have to keep on going, even if it takes weeks or months or maybe years. I believe that this applies to other goals that we have in life not only when it comes to lossing weight. Most of us get discourage and frustrated that we don´t see results after working so hard. And worst we have people telling us that it is impossible what we hope to achieve. It´s a day by day fight trying to convince yourself and others that ¨YES YOU CAN¨ But hey! if you are struggling too just like me, just keep on going, don´t stop till you finally reach your goal. If you put your 50% today give your 55% tomorrow, if you give your 100% today give your 110% tomorrow. Now that´s the difference, I´m not stopping this time. I want to do this not for other people, but for myself. I know that there is a better version of me and I want to see it with my eyes. Remember, ¨You don´t have to be fit to exercise, but you have to exercise to be fit¨