The Past Attempts of Weirenism Makeover.

Salads, planet fitness, east coast park, jogging, cycling. I’m going thru it again! I guess its my 4th attempt if I’m not wrong. I remembered my best success was the very first one, when I was sec 4, time whereby Mr. HHH and his students were in the ‘bodybuilding craze’ and I have my own craze for losing weight, so I get to jog with them daily for a few months! And a few weeks later,Planet Fitness had their branch set up in Parkway Parade, and I was one of their pioneer members. I got a “PTI” trainer, who’s a Manhunt champion, and trained me military style.

Along these time, I formulated a new diet by combining tips from my trainer, Mr.HHH and Aajonus Vonderplatniz: green apple for recess, salad with rice for lunch in school, yong tau foo or Avocado smoothie for dinner. Those were the nights when I diligently spent an hour daily after gym, went to the supermarkets and pick the finest ingredients, went straight home, chop and pick my salad, put it nicely in the lunch box and make a smoothie to drink, the next morning putting the salad in the fridge in the school’s PE office (Mr Fong’s office) await for me to pick it up when the school day’s over. And during recess I no longer join the queue for wanton mee, lor mee, nasi pandang, or whatever that I used to indulge in. Instead, here comes the green green apple, chilled in the fridge. And my friends will look at me! That’s not worse, after school, when I open my salad box, I gained more attention! Initially I felt very very paiseh, I even starve until STARS (sec 4 supplementary class) were over, which was around 4pm, then I ate my salad when the school is almost empty. But well, I got used to it and ate it even if the whole canteen was crowded. And of course, my recess time was badminton time! Roy, would always skip his councillor duty and join me in the hall, as well as the regulars, Edwin and such. I miss playing badminton…

And guess what? It works! After 2-3 months… I lose 10kg! What’s more my fat percentage drop way down and my mass percentage (muscle) increase alot! Stretch marks appear everywhere, and my body got stiffer. My school pant’s belt no longer work effectively as my pants was too big for me, and I always gotta pull my pants. I could run and walk effortlessly now!

Immediately after the success, came the prelims! Because of these commitments, I didn’t really study hard for my prelims, and got like around 25points for prelim, and my E maths got E8! That got me panicking! So I slacken on my weight loss, and chiong all the way for the O levels. So I gained success in Sept, and Oct onwards I stopped for studies. O levels were over during November! And luckily my studies paid off, thanks to Mr. HHH for science tuition, Mrs Lee for English, and Gregory for last minute coaching for maths! In the end I got 1 A1, 1 A2, 3 B3 and 1 B4 and 2C, L1R4 12pts, L1R5 16 pts, CCA 2pts. Phew, that’s it for 4 years of broadrick education.

And that’s it for my secondary school life… AS WELL AS my success in fitness! After Prom Night came the six months long vacation! I ‘planned’ to make a comeback. However, things didn’t follow suit. Well for a couple of weeks I did went to the gym, UNTIL I got a job at MIX @ Changi Airport, selling smoothies, juices and wraps. No more MacDonald’s at that time. And sometimes I work midnight shift. And as day passes by, I just work and work and planet fitness no longer comes into my mind, until the day I step into poly, I grew all the way back to square 1! I could eat and drink all I want at MIX and I literally did that all the time! And during off days I would meet up with friends for movie and dinner. Sigh, a grave mistake indeed. How I wish I didn’t work that holiday, and spend the six months in planet fitness instead… Two months 10kg, six months will be… wow! I could had entered poly will a totally different image! So this second attempt really sucks to the core!

The third attempt was during my first vacation during poly, after I completed semester 1.1, and it’s a year ago since I started my first attempt. My planet fitness membership had expired by then. So I ‘planned’ to jog at bedok reservoir and workout at the CC gym, as I lose faith in myself for not making full use of my membership when I was still a member. Then, my aunt let me join again! This time, I got a new trainer and he’s was an ex-regular commando! He’s bigger than my previous trainer. Both trained in different style. And I have to say the previous one was more effective. I even got Roy to join with me! I tried to get back to the diet, oh yes, it’s called the Zacharian Diet, for goodness sake! However, I was still working at MIX, and don’t have the time and convenience to prepare it. Well this third attempt have some success as I regained my mass percentage and lose of my fat percentage. Then came the festive season! Christmas and Chinese New Year, and slowly… I gained it all back. And after Chinese New Year, or rather since March/April, I rarely stepped into Planet Fitness.

Until this week, I went back to Planet Fitness, just to found out that it was bought over by True Group and is now called True Fitness! I felt a loss of belonging… although it’s just a name of a company, but its a name which I’m grateful to, and felt that I didn’t appreciate much for the opportunities I had in the past.

(I shall continue on the next post)