Tachikawa NO JIRETTAI BURO-GU!

You know what’s on my mind now? Motivation. Yeap. Motivation.. Its been on my mind for a quite a while. What actually motivates someone? Whether good or evil, what actually lies behind a person’s motives? Love, self-gain, hate. Such a huge range of possibilities!

Well, back to..me. I’ve always been wondering. How have I been motivated to do certain things? Some of the things I’ve achieved seemed so impossible to many people. One. My weight loss. About 1 year ago, I was this grossly overweight kid, clocking in at an all time high of 0.105 tons. Uh, 105 kilograms. SOOO HEAVY?! you might say. Heck, I was assuring myself that it was all ok for my height, which was about 6 ft (1.81m). I was in such a huge state of denial…until I saw myself in pictures I took at one outing. It was very. sad. and scary. At that point in time, I was liking this girl. I was so apprehensive to ask her out. THIS made me more apprehensive, more than ever…

Funny thing was, on the night of the day I got pictures, I just took my sports shoes and went for a jog. Just like that. Slowly, steadily. From 2.4 km to 3km. 3km to 3.5km. Soon I was hitting 4km. All over a span of 6 months. Every night. I took my shoes, put them on, and began jogging. I rested on weekends. Approximately half an hour of jogging every night. The next few months saw me constantly keeping to the 4 km, with slight decreases in time.

Soon, 2 weeks after I started jogging, I added in one day of swimming every week. I began with 10 laps of frog-style. (To-and-fro=one lap). This alone took me nearly 45 mins of pure determination. Be reminded that I was 1) grossly overweight and 2) with the stamina of a sloth. Every week. I swam. I improved a little, then I decided to switch to free style. That first half-lap was a real torture. I mean, really. It was soo difficult. I nearly gave up..but I pressed on. I added on 5 free style laps to my 10 frog-style laps. It took me 1 hour! I increased the ratio to 10 free-style laps to 10 frogstyle ones.Eventually… I totally eliminated frogstyle and swam 20 laps of pure freestylism. All in one hour. Now I’m able to clock 30 to-and-fro freestyle laps in 1 hour.

I now weigh 78kg (previously 105kg). All that. Ano onnanoko no tame ni. For that girl.

…..All to see me back out. In the end. At least I’m in a much better state than I was previously in. *sigh* if only she knew. ; – ;

Here’s..a before and after sample: LOL! :