Working in primary healthcare service is challenging in times. It's been 3 months since I worked here in PKM Madapangga, Bima, and I'm still not getting used to so-called "the art of doing nothing". Yep, working in primary healthcare service is undoubtedly far less stressful than working in the general hospital. Daily, I have less than 10 patients. It's one-third of the patients I met during my work in the general hospital daily!
This over-relaxed daily routine quickly progress to boredom. Hence in the mood fighting the boredom and reducing the weight I've gained due to previous overeating (what else can I do when I'm bored?), I started to do my research on weight loss. So, there are four keys to healthy weight loss: eat clean, train regularly, sleep early, and drink a lot of water.
Working out, sleeping early, and drinking water are tolerable for me, but clean-eating is another story. From the result of my religious browsing, it is suggested that I cook two of the three meals I have in a day. Therefore, I can control the things that I stuck in my gut (it is called "conscious bite" by some people).
Well, the problem was: I used to hate cooking! Even my mom had to drag me to the kitchen to help her cook back then. So who made me cook? Well, it's actually not a "who", but a "what". It's Instagram! Thanks to all the pretty clean food pictures I saw, they successfully tempted me to bring my feet to the kitchen.
So there goes my clean-food-cooking lesson. Some of my cooking failed, but some of them were successful. But there is one thing that matters most: I started to like cooking. It just feels good when you and your friends eat something that you make by yourself and you know you're nurturing yourselves with good things. Started as a time-killer, ended up to be a new hobby, clean eating and cooking showed some results: my weight went back to the previous number before I went to Bima PLUS all the immunity (I barely get sick lately!).
Even so, I still have my cheat-meal. It's very important that I enjoy my healthy-life journey. For a sweet tooth like me, cheat-meal means one thing: sugar! I still eat cakes and cookies as much as I want. Somehow it keeps me going and urges me to get back to my clean-eating for the next days. Well, we only live once so make the most of it: do what you love and eat what you like (once in a while)!
p.s: I'm not writing this to bluff myself, but to motivate young people to start healthy-living. I'm a beginner as well, but an expert was always a beginner once, right?
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| Some of the clean food I made :) |
