This is my personal journey when I took the right approach to a healthy living.
About six years ago, I was working then with Hitachi Global Storage Technologies in Biñan Laguna. I was an engineer doing manufacturing work with expensive machines along-side line operators and technicians.It was my first job and I actually spent 5 years there before I headed to my next life. But during those times, I worked very very hard and exuded excellence in my efforts. So I was usually tired from work.
My daily life then was revolving around work-apartment-work-apartment cycle. The food choices and eating habits were “contained in a box”. I was limited with the options of what the food in the canteen had to offer – which were the same set of menu over the period of 5 years.
Work most of the time is strenuous and I can still remember countless times when I need to spend overnight in the factory just to settle issues at work.
Hypertension at 23
In one Saturday afternoon of August of 2005, I found myself lying on the floor just beside my office desk, catching my breath, feeling my head expand as if a balloon about to explode. The people beside me rushed to me, held me and carried me to the clinic. Soon thereafter, I was lying in a bed with one nurse checked my blood pressure and another served me a dose of blood pressure suprressant (I believe it was calcibloc that they used)
At the age of 23, I was diagnosed with hypertension and took about 2 weeks of rest.It was a wake-up call for me at the time. I was really unhealthy. The comments from the people I know were not helping either. In my opinion, a lot of young adults these days are also suffering from this whether they know it or not. Simply because, the lifestyle choice available for most people is always fast-paced, not so much of physical activity anymore, the food is fast-food and work is just sitting in an office desk for the entire day.
Looking back, I can’t believe myself taking maintenance medicines which obviously didn’t work for me. What I mean is it didn’t work because those medicines didn’t actually cure my illness. I took those medicines for 4 years and still my hypertension was not going away soon.
Since then, I strived to change. I have attempted to “change my lifestyle” because that is really the cure. I tried all known lifestyle change methods but I always find myself not succeeding.
I had a lot of excuses!
The food available is unhealthy. My environment is unsupportive – in the sense that all of the people in it are also unhealthy and eating unhealthy. The method is not sustainable. The method is not holistic and one-sided and sometimes ridiculous. Some are even expensive like in 2009 I enrolled myself in a year of gym membership in Makati only to get heavier when the subscription ended because it was just one-sided way of becoming healthy.
I became heavier and my clothes were getting smaller. Early last year, I had to get myself a new set of pants to fit my bulging waistline. My desire to be healthy and look healthy was slowly getting side-tracked and taken for granted.
I asked myself is there a way out there to become really healthy that is workable, simple to follow, and sustainable in the long run?
Losing Weight in TRA
Until, I jumped and committed myself to the TRA Program. When I first looked into it, TRA have a lot of guarantees:
~Lose weight by targeting the killer body fat.
~No “yoyo” effect or weight rebound.
~Increase muscle tissues.
~No exercise needed to make the program work!
~No undesirable side-effects (such as those from slimming teas ^_^)
~Never go-hungry. I won’t starve myself from the known definition of “dieting”.
~Be healthy.
For the first time in my life, I actually found what I was looking for.
For me, I found that the TRA program is really the most effective program to lose the fat in my body considering that I didn’t exercise to achieve the body and health I have now. What I like about it is that it has also proven itself to be safe because there were no undesirable effects unlike those I’ve experienced in slimming teas where I needed to take countless trips in the toilet.
Lose Fat Even After the TRA Program
Today even after the program, my eating habits have totally shifted. There is no way I would turn back to the old habits because I can actually eat my way to health. When people see me eat, they would notice the big difference in my plate even if it’s the same food that they eat.
I am 100% sure that in the weeks and months, my health will improve a lot more. And my body will look way better than ever! ;)
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Jervis Salvador
April 22, 2012