the good n the ugly...

I am an F1 fanatic and today's race in Albert Park was definitely one of the most exciting if ever seen in my life!!!!!! It was UNPREDICTABLE! i was screaming my lungs out half of the time out of frustration n joy and it was literally a fight until the end for some of the drivers...it was just exhilarating to watch the race!!! and the fact that about 5 drivers crashed their cars was a bonus point, too!!! hehe! i am a sadistic person, don't you think so?

so anyways, my dad told me something that was quite scary just now n it really made me think...we were talking during dinner time about how it was hard to find clothes for my bro n sis because our family is like basically full of people that are overweight (or weight-challenged, as some people call it) n my dad was like, you guys should really lose weight. And I know that I really should try to lose weight as I am quite overweight, although not as bad as I was a year ago, n i am definitely not obese. My dad is a cardiologist, which means that his a doctor that specialises in cardio-vascular or heart-related diseases so when he say we have to losw weight, we really do have to. He was telling us that he was quite concerned with our weight, especially my brother, as we are quite "weight-challenged". And then he went on to tell us that our family has a history of diabetes. My great-grandfather had diabetes, my grandfather has diabetes, albeit a mild one, n my uncle also suffers from the disease. And while we were talking about diabetes, I just remembered that my grand-aunt died last year because of diabetes. and I got scared. I mean, really scared. I just went silent for a moment. And when my dad talked about the dangers of diabetes, I started to panic. My dad said that:

-a person with diabetes has a higher chance of dying compared to a non-diabetic who had just suffered from a heart attack. Isn't that scary?

-stats have shown that diabetics who had suffered a heart attack has a 60% chance of dying after five years while non-diabetics who had a heart attack has a 30% chance of dying after five years of the heart attack

So starting from today, I have decided to cut down some more on my food intake. I shall fast on Mondays n Thursdays n I'm going for walks every Wednesday n Friday. I have set a target for myself....by the end of July, I would lose 8 kgs n i will try every thing possible to achieve that goal n I pray to God that my siblings n i will be spared from diabetes.