Exercise + Nutrition

Story 1: Personal Trainer
I recently saw a personal trainner in Gym. She is pretty good, she talked me thru the whole exercise program. (By the way, she is singaporean, so, we spoke in Eng, Mandarin, Canto- coz her husband from HK)

I went to this session coz is free (I mean free coz I pay for the gym membership) After this session, I have to pay to see a PT. She is very friendly with some advertising of her job in the middle. Unfortunately, I just don't have the extra money for another one-to-one session with her. We talked a lot in an hour. She told me she wanted to be a PT coz she wants to help ppl to stay healthy. She wants to prove to other it is possible to loss weight and stay in shape. She once was overweight (but when she showed me the pic, I don't feel she is huge. I guess recently I have been seeing all the really BIG kids!) Anyway, I was kinda inspired by her enthusiastic (I can never spell this word).

Story 2: Research
The next day, one of the PhD student chat with me while we r in the train. I asked why she choose to do research. Her answer was quite straight forward and simple. She said "I like it, I like research" Then she added, "i think is not difficult to work out what u really like."

Suddenly, I was thinking *why is it so difficult for me to work out?*,
1) "what I like?"
2) "what I like to do?"
3) "is having a relationship consider as like?" (surprise or not relationship was the last thing I will think about)

As I am typing this, I can answer part of the question
1) I like my family and I want to be with them
2) I like moving around. I can't stand sitting whole day (even though I have been sitting whole day in front of the computer)
3) relationship? sorry, not now.

Conclusion:
I want to become a personal trainer and/or group fitness trainer + dietitian (specialise in obesity, and sport dietitian). Energy intake from food is always balanced out with energy expenditure by exercise + sustaining daily life. So, in order to achieve my goal, I will look for personal training course and next year will attend sport dietitian course as well. Hopefully, after attending the course, I will manage to consult people better. Actually, it make me think, I studied nutrition and dietetics but not many people consult me for advice. Even though I m willing to talk thru with them for free. I guess free stuff is never good yea?

The more I learn about consulting patient regarding nutrition, the more I realise my advices will not go anywhere to the patient. Even though I saw the PT, the exercise program she gave me, I haven't worked out the whole set yet. But I did went to gym n do other stuffs (as usual). I also will do some exercise that she taught me @ home. So, I guess is not too much of a failure hey.


Story after story:
Oh yea, not to forget, she did ask me have I tot of going research in future. I said, "yes, I would like to do PhD in future, I think is kinda 'cool' to have a "Dr." in front even though I know is hard work! It is absolutely can be stg to tink about to do in future, yes in future." (Obviously, this is very childish answer.)

Then she asked me y I like research? I realised "WHY" is a very popular question.
Y I studied nutrition? Y I want to do research? Y this Y that.
To be honest, I want to deal with food coz I want to get in control with my ownself. Unfortunately, that s an absolute failure -.-But I m working on it. One day, I want to be very confident like the PT saying "I want to prove to ppl, you can manage to stay healthy, happy and I m the best example!"