Healthy? Why Not? by Arkienandia Nityasa Parahita

I used to have an eating disorder when I was 15. It was around one and a half year ago, when everything started to be messed up a little bit. I was so tired, it was my last year on my junior high and all that I could remember is that all that I have to do is prepare for my upcoming exams.

It was one of the lowest point on my life, my relationship with my friend was falling apart, everyone left, or some of them just turned to be mean. Once someone said a lot of bad things about me – which is aren’t true at all, and everyone started to talk about me behind my back, and some of them in front of my face.

I have a trust issues, I sleep a lot, and I don’t want to go to school. 

I’ve gain weight, I ate a lot of food just to comfort my self but then I felt so guilty and started to purged, I checked how much calories on every single food that I was going to eat, done so many workouts without eating, drink a lot of coffee, and some other things.

But then I thought, that I have to change this. I have to change my eating habit, my sleeping schedule, start to worry-less, and have some motivation for my self.

I always believe that it all begins and ends in my mind. What I give power to, has power over me – if I allow it. So I started to clean up the mess. I started to not-to-overthink about what the other people said to me, drink more water, eat clean, and do workouts.

I’ve tried so many workouts before. Yoga, muaythai, cardio-boxing, etc. but I’ve finally found the one that fit me, the high intense interval training cardio workouts ( HIIT). In fact, studies comparing HIIT to continuous steady-state exercise have shown that HIIT is far superior for fat loss, despite requiring less time to complete.

At first, it was hard. The high intense cardio workout always made me feel like I’m going to die, but I pushed my self and the result was unexpected. I started to love it, I love the feeling that I got when I was sweating all over my body, I love the pain that I got, and I started to lose weight.

I’ve changed my routine, I’ve done workouts 3 times a week, I ate so many healthy foods and remind my self not to worry about it.

And suddenly, everything was changed. I am much happier than I was before, I am way more organized, life was so much better, and I’ve lost 8 kilograms until now. And what I learnt is that a healthy mind comes from a healthy body.