Running in place (light-mode freewrite with some sense of humour)

I used to be called skinny or "too thin" when I was younger. Take note of the word "younger", meaning I had not reached puberty kind of young. So everyone asked me to eat more. More fat. More oil. Etc. And true enough, I love fats especially meat's fats.

After puberty, somehow my brain got haywired and sent the signal to bloom my hip and my limbs. Oh, and my shoulder too. I will be honest, my body frame falls under the category of pear-shaped, maybe the thinner type of pear, but yes, the pear.

From skinny 32kg, I started to increase in weight too. 35kg to 42kg to 45kg. And still not that bad. But when I reached 22 years old, my metabolism slowed down and my weight increased to 50kg.

After I got married, happiness made me eat more, hence I passed the 50kg into 53kg. Pregnancy was a bliss. Everything doubled. Joy doubled. Weight too. I reached 80kg. Okay, not yet double. Never in my life I felt so heavy as though I was tugging a bowling ball in me. After labour, I successfully shed some weight but still the best I could reach was 64kg, back in 2012.

Why was I sharing all the above? Oh yes. So I was determined to lose weight. But life was pretty busy as a mom back then and I was super busy at church too. The best exercise I could perform was everything in place. Running in place. Jumping in place. Swinging arm in place. Push-up (with wall only) in place, duh. Even while I blow my hair, I danced in place to shed somemore fats. You get the idea.

After second son came out, life became busier as he was a special child who needed more care. But congratulate me I manage to cut down weight to 58kg. My goal is to reach either 55kg (easier to hit the target) or if I want to be more mean to myself, 52 kg or 50kg.

My best exercise routine is still running in place. But you see, I have two sons now and I am a stay-at-home mum who has heaps of housechores to finish. By the time I can engage in the exercise, I am literally running in place, on my bed.

I lie down comfortably, and lift up both legs to the air and start running. Or maybe cycling in place, in space. Go figure. Now I need to figure out should I strap my phone to my legs so that the Actifit app will count the steps? What do you think? 🤔😁

Sometimes, sometimes, I am so tired my legs can't even be lifted up. So on the same bed, lying down, I imagine I am running in place by shaking my legs. Please don't laugh. Hahaha.

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_{art and flair courtesy of @PegasusPhysics}