I feel so personally connected when reading chapter 12 about how obesity can affect your health. And when I read about the emotional and social problems overweight kid suffered, I feel like it is story of my life. I used to weight 270 pounds. After a really sad, devastating emotional "crisis". I decided to work out and lose weight. I currently weight 160 pounds. I lost 110 pounds for the last one year and I feel amazing right now. When I started working out, I could not even run for 2 minutes or did one single push up. Now I can finish 6 miles within one hour and do 25 push ups each set for 3 sets. I gave up pretty much all my favorite food and my social life(lol), I did really hardcore working out routine and have a very strict schedule to maintain a healthy life style. I haven't have one single spoon of ice cream or one slice of chip for 8 months. It was really hard and exhausting but when I look back, I am glad I made it and it is all worth it. Right at this moment as I am typing this blog entry. My friend is asking me to go eat dinner with him and it is 8:30 pm right now. I said NO, sorry but NO!
I could not find the origins of this quote but it is well known among people who are working so hard to lose weight: It will hurt. It will take time. It will require dedication. It will require willpower. You will need to make healthy decisions. It requires sacrifice. You will need to push your body to its max. There will be temptation. But, I promise you, when you reach your goal, it's worth it.
yang1683: April 2012 Archives
Do you feel it is so boring to read through the chapter on your own and constantly distracted by other staff? Study in group is super effective especially when doing the quizzes or prepare for the test. I am trying to start a psy study group and we will meet once every week to work on problems together. send me an email if you are interested. yang1683@umn.edu
Muhan Yang
As I read through this chapter, I started to remember this little interesting story happened to my little cousin. He was 5 years old and he fits right in the category as the preoperational stage. He learns new words really fast. And he can remember many things you said in the conversation. It is really funny he can only remember what me or his parents said but cannot understand them and he will some time just say it out loud like a "grown man". He really enjoy when being in the center of attention or at least participating our conversation even though most of the things he said is not really relate to our conversation.
The thing that make me think he is in the preoperational stage is that there was once our grandmother made fried chicken wings for us. He insisted that we should share the food "equally". He can only counts the number of the chicken wings but cannot compare the size of each wings. So I kept all the big wings and gave him the same amount but really small wings. Each of my chicken wings is about 1.5 time bigger then his but he was pretty happy with me agree to share the chicken wings equally with him. Anyway, given the fact that I am on my diet and try to lose weight, I am going to give him the bigger chicken wings next time:)
Muhan Yang
