Dilemma of a first-time fat guy

This is the hardest admission that I have to make for the entire time I have set foot on Earth. No, I'm not a galactic traveler but wished I could be so as to burn those excess fats. For most people, regardless of location or culture, being fat is like a curse. It no longer is an indication of good health but more of symptoms of pending hypertension, impending sarcasm hidden behind each acquaintance's smile whenever you meet in the hallway, or just plain pain in executing rigorous physical activities called walking and stretching. I may not be that fat yet, at least when pitted against the general colloquialism on how most of us perceive who's fat and who's not, but I feel that burn everyday whenever I meet somebody from not so distant past, say 2 weeks, and the first thing they'll tell you is " taba natin ah", "lumalaki tayo", or the polite mockery "hiyang tayo ah".


I am optimistic by nature and I'm not ranting about being fat because in the first place, I ballooned to what I am today simply because of lack of exercise ( you don't get too sweat that much anymore when your only exercise is during the cold evenings with your wife :) ) , poor eating habits (no we're not that poor, but I eat like I haven't for days!), or simply genetics (90% from my mother's clan have an average weight of about 180 lbs, but that sad's part they're more than 5'7" tall). Some say that it's easy to burn those calories away, but what most of us don’t know is that there's still nobody bright enough to put discipline and diet all in once capsule so that you can just get it off the drug store. If that would have been possible then life's little miseries will be gone in just a couple of tablets and water combined.


Being fat dopes have advantages though especially whenever I play basketball. You get an unwanted excuse not to come down on defense every time. No one can bully their way around you because it's you who's doing it now. Aside from that you always look as if you were in the court for an hour even if you just played 5-on-5 for 10 minutes.


I even tested the fitness gym market to no avail. No, I did not sign up for any of the brightest and popular fitness gyms not for the lack of money or anything but fear that I may not have enough time to spend for my family, or maybe just because I may not have that urgency to go there and sweat it out. You see, I used to be rail thin before because most of my time is spent in sports. Now that we have a family, sports is already something that you love to watch during cozy Sunday afternoons.


Nonetheless, the next time I blog about this, I'll make sure that I'll be telling about how to get fat! Because by that time, hopefully I'm back to my old body, the one I left about three years ago! So for all those fellow fat-natics, please help ourselves!