I haven’t really been on tumblr in a week. It wasn’t the most productive week ever but I’m happy with some of the things that have happened.
I booked a holiday to Muslim Spain and I leave in three weeks. That’s pretty sweet.
I joined the gym and have been visiting everyday since I joined. It’s the most I’ve worked out in nearly two years. My legs, chest, back, shoulders, biceps, and triceps are all aching right now.
I made plans to see my best friend in London in a couple of weeks time. It’s been 9 months since I saw him. Shocking!
I watched Game of Thrones and Mad Men (which are amazing if not crazy - way to go Patrick Bateman, Don) and Walking Dead. Quality TV viewing if I ever saw it.
Best of all, I had a brilliant conversation with a friend about some plans that I’ll share with you guys tomorrow. It was the most productive thing I’ve done since I’ve been back.
Keep tuned for more amazing updates in the life of Waq…
I never really wanted to post these pictures because they’re a bit old now but the pictures on the left were actually taken after I’d lost around 3stone/18kg/40pounds (something like that). It’s when I knew the weight loss thing was really happening. The picture on the right is when I felt I was at my physical peak in terms of condition but I have been much lighter than that since (about 20lbs lighter).
Between my heaviest and my lightest I lost about 115lbs/48kg. Between my heaviest and now there’s around 40kg of weight lost.
The thing I’m most proud of is that I’ve kept it off for over six years now and I’ve always managed my weight in a healthy way. I’ve beaten the odds but I’m still fighting this fight and will for the rest of my life.
Anonymous asked: Salaam, wow your answer to the last question, that's EXACTLY what happened to me :( I've never been judgemental abt weight, (I've grown up w/ an overweight sibling) but I got bigger in the last 5 years, and recently, since I started to lose some & look better & feel better I've started REALLY noticing when other people are fat, and I notice, just randomly walking in a station for example, when they're eating really fattening unhealthy food and I think things I would NEVER have thought before :S
I don’t think it’s a bad thing that has happened to us. I think it’s something that we just have to try to be aware of. Just because the choices we make in our own lives is different now from those other people are making doesn’t make them better or worse people than us - just different.
It’s so easy to get in to that mindset where you think “if I can do it then you can too so stop complaining and bitching and just get on with it” but we fail to realise just how difficult it actually was. For me, I struggled so much. I found it impossible to control my diet at times and ran hundreds and thousands of miles to lose my weight. Even at my lightest, where everyone told me that I was too skinny, I still felt like I was over weight. It’s a struggle for me. I just have to realise that a lot of other people are struggling too but in a slightly different way.
Anonymous asked: Waqqypoo insult me! Manboof ugly. Och meich Ghod! I too exotic for Manboof. No, no, Suzy mean you RUN. You run far, away! Suzy no run, Suzy quite fit, thank you very much. Suzy do pilates and jazzercise.
Och meich Ghod, my anons…
Ah, Suzy, ManBoof is made of the best stuff. You guys should meet up! well, I had this idea about running this one time that meant I would run away about as far as possible but people thought I was stupid.
I’m glad you take your health as seriously as you do, Suzy. Keep up the exercise. Also, keep up switching between first and third person.
My housemate ran his first mile! He was amazing tonight.
Instead of covering the normal 12km/7.5miles we actually ended up covering 14.5km/9miles.
He hated me at the time but he thanked me when he got home. We’re really loving this running/walking thing. He’s improving every single time we go out and he’s pushing himself so hard to get fantastic results.
A week ago he wouldn’t run a step. Today he ran a mile. I aim to have him running all 12km within a month! Let’s see if we manage…
We ended the session by getting a delicious salad at Subway!
It’s pretty simple really. Everyday, after isha, we go to this place, not too far from where we live, at Prince Sultan University and walk laps of the university. Each lap is measured at 4km so we knows exactly what it is we’re getting.
We started walking on Friday evening and since then we’ve kind of got the buzz for it. It takes us around 2 hours to walk 12km/7.5m and it’s really good fun. Neither of us take our phones or any form of electronic equipment with us and we just use the time to talk and ponder things. Today we were discussing the point at which societal evolution becomes mandatory for survival when facing catastrophic disaster.
After walking yesterday, my house mate turned to me and said “I think this is the first time I’ve talked to someone for two and a half hours straight and not gotten bored for even a minute”. I took it as a great compliment.
Today one of our friends came along and we also changed the walking routine. For each 800m we walked we ran 200m. My house mate, if any of you remember, is one of the ‘laziest’ people I know. He’s… extremely adverse to any kind of physical activity but he managed the run periods very well. I was really impressed. At the end he actually ran 700/800m none stop. I told him that I’ll have him running all 12km by the time I head back home in 6 weeks time and I stick with that belief firmly after watching him today. We’re going to walk 6 days a week.
I’ve been thinking about this post a whole lot over the last few days. for people who’ve been following me for a while, you know how all over the place I’ve been over the last few months. It’s certainly meant that 2011 is going to be one of the most memorable years of my life - it’s certainly the most important in a lot of ways so far.
about how unfit I am, about how sluggish I’ve become, and about how I’m no where near as fit and healthy I used to be. Part of this I blame on not going to the gym any more or working out in any way and it’s partly due to my terrible diet.
Sure, I’m as light as I’ve ever been in my adult life but I’m no where near as fit as I was 3/4 years ago. I’m planning on changing that.
One of my friends updated her facebook with a fitness programme she’s been using for the last 60 days and she finished it today. Her workouts looked totally intense so I asked her what it was and she gave me the details for it. I’m downloading the torrents right now and will get started on it in the morning.
I have 62 days before I’m home. 60 days on this programme should have be at a pretty amazing level by the time I get home.
Expect a whole load of updates over the next couple of months telling you how it’s killing me but is the most amazing thing ever…
Check out the infomercial… It makes you sweat just watching the video.
My food intake over the last 6 weeks has been shocking. I readily admit it. During Ramadan I was only eating once a day and on some days that felt like a chore too. Since Ramadan has finished the eating once a day thing is mostly true but it’s just that I’m eating a little bit earlier in the day.
Over the last week, though, I’ve been eating horrible junk food everyday.
I don’t have a weighing scale at the moment but more people are saying I’m looking skinny than they ever have before. My face was looking gaunt to me last week and that’s not a good look for anyone. I’ve lost a lot of weight since I got back to Saudi.
These last few days haven’t helped at all. Today and yesterday I went to McDonald’s for dinner. On Friday we ordered KFC. I don’t mean regular meals either. I EAT A LOT :( I usually get two burgers and large fries and a large (diet!!) drink.
I’m really disappointed in the way I’ve been eating so I’ve decided to make a change. I went to the super market today and I bought lots of fruit and I’m going to start eating a whole lot more of that. I’m going to start eating more times a day too. It’s not good enough just binging once on incredibly unhealthy food.
I want to start working out and I think I’ll get back on my squats, push-ups, and sit-ups programme from a few months ago. I want to get back in to shape. Being skinny might look good (at times) but it doesn’t feel good. I want to feel healthy again! I’ve done it so many times before. I can do it again. At least I’m really light right now and don’t need to worry about losing any more weight. I need to gain weight and do it the right way.
Anonymous asked: i don't get it what you mean, you mean i can lose weight in short term and will gain weight in short term too? or will continuously losing weight if i continuously on this diet? and my height about 142 and weight about 37-39kg. do you think i can lose weight if i try this diet?
You don’t need to lose weight! You really don’t! Just start exercising to get healthier and keep eating whatever it is you’re eating. Don’t do this diet. You don’t need it at all! If anything, just try to eat healthier foods but don’t cut out any single type of food like carbohydrate or fats. You need them all. Exercise is the most important thing for you. Find something you love and do it for an hour a day! Whether it’s dance or running or swimming or anything.
Crash diets work in the very short term by helping you lose a lot of weight quickly but your body fights back and when you’re off the diet every calorie is hoarded by your system and you put the weight back on rapidly, and in some cases more than you started off with. They’re dangerous.
Anonymous asked: is banana diet really works? ane one more thing, are you muslim?
The Apple/Banana diet really does work but it’s only for short-term weight loss. The longer you stay on it the more likely it is that you’ll do damage to yourself because it is a very drastic diet. The longest I ever stayed on it was for four weeks and it was so hard. Your craving for food just explodes. It’s not healthy at all but you will get good short term results. After a couple of weeks on it, go to your normal diet but restrict your portion sizes and start an exercise program where you’re doing some kind of cardiovascular exercises at least for one hour everyday (seven days a week!). Good luck with your weight loss journey! Let me know how it goes!
Other than right now and every other time I’ve seen this question written down?
The sound of a person’s breathing is what you hear the most in your life. It’s there with you the moment you’re born up to the moment you die. It never, ever, leaves you. Most people breathe around ten time a minute, I think? You hear it so many times in your life that you start to tune it out. You get so good at tuning it out that you don’t even notice it any more. There are times you do notice it, there are times it becomes so much. The simple act of breathing can cause so many emotional and physiological responses in ourselves and in others. Let me talk about some of them.
First of all, let me try to work out what it was that happened five years ago and then tell you if it matters…
So… five years ago today would have been… July 16th 2006. I would have been home from university after my second second year and about to head in to my final year. That year was a very big year for me in so, so many ways and I’ll explain why. It was a year where my life changed in really big and drastic ways. The things that made me extremely upset then were the same things that had been making me feel before and since.
Well, I’m not fat, not really. What I am is slightly above my ideal weight target. I’m still in the healthy weird range but I don’t feel like I’m as healthy as I’ve been in the past. I’m skinny! There’s a different between that and fit. Anyway, I realised a few days ago that I’m going to be going home in the not too distant future for a month and, it’s highly likely, that I’m going to spend the month eating way too much of the kinds of foods that are really bad for me. To this end, I’ve started a new diet with the intention of being as light as possible before I get home so I gain the weight without any guilt. Here’s my plan…
