Human-beings are from mud

I always believe that; if “Human-beings are made from mud”, our bodies should have ability to mold from one shape to another. Sound silly isn't it? but its not about forming our total appearance to another human being, its about re-shaping our bodies to its real appearance. 
As our bodies are the only companion which will be with us for our entire lives, we should take good care of it.

I am not a physical education expert or a dietitian; I believe that the shapes of our bodies are the result of our daily lifestyles and discipline. Had a balanced body through out my 21 years of footballing, but after the retirement, the active lifestyle was changed, and I was feeling the changes of physical appearance and expanding cloth sizes. After few months, a puffy face and an onion body was the result. I was believing that the life was so busy with office, family . but apart from that my habits changed to odd time meals and fizzy drinks. During the period; I usually take one RedBull and five cans of Coca-Cola daily and Jugos and Ice creams were sometimes added more to the intake. Furthermore, the exercising were avoided from daily schedules to sleep or watch TvSeries on bed after works. After six or more years with these behaviors, my body weight rise to 92 kgs, neck size 17 and waist size 36. 

                                 
At the beginning of 2013, I decided to fight against intruded calories which made me another man, and started making plans and consulted different gym instructors about getting fit. Talking to different experts made me confused and found out that they had different approaches on weight losing and it is difficult to find out who is right. Therefore, I thought not to handover my body to them, but to make my own research and plans to tackle the problems.
                                       
Before making a plan, I knew that I cannot go back to my 20's because my body is over 40. Therefore my first reference was to understand the physical fitness approaches for human bodies over 40. 

                                   

After the research from the references, I made plans to get rid of some behaviors, because I understand that the changes of behaviors will make it a habit. Therefore, I made Fizzy drinks intake to nil and made a home setup for my workouts. It was intended to start with 4 sets of dumbbells and to increase the equipments later for more intense workouts after the trimming down. And started another research on most appropriate workouts and sequences for better results.
First; I made some reference on workouts with dumbbells, to understand the basics and effect. 

And made some references on other exercises from which I can make weekly plans to whole body.
 

The planing started in January 2013 and the workouts phase commenced in September 2013. Intended target was to reduce 30kg within 3 months. The basic approach was set as 80% effort to diets & 20% effort to workouts.  Furthermore, I assumed that a intense transformation effort may effect my face and neck muscles, therefore, I had another research on facial toning.      

When I started the workouts, I knew my body was carrying more fat than it should have and I need to reduce it by decreasing intakes with a manner which do not effect health and everyday life.  I have seen many friends and others trying to control intakes by comparing with workout schedules. If they workout they eat more and if not, they eat less. I don't believe that method dieting for over weights, because I believe when we are over weight, we should make a habit of minimizing intakes lower than the daily intake needed for our body. 

At the end of 2013, my body weight reduced from 91 kg to 71 kg and neck size changed from 17 inch to 15.5 inch, and waist size reduced from 36 to 31. 

January 2014 was started with the achieved target, And I have plans to make a bit mass body after 2014. the target is to maintain in 75kg average. Therefore, I have joined a local gym :-)

SEARCHING FOR REAL HAPPINESS

As a person who lived more than halfway through a life of an average human being, I have experienced happiest moments and grieving times. After all I came to know that the most common need for all human beings are happiness. We human being was consider happiness as something which comes in us from outside. 

From childhood on, most of us heard that happiness on earth is but a gift of fickle chance, and they never heard of any teaching telling them about their obligation to use this life on earth in such a way that it becomes a sources of constant joy. 

Today when I visited one of the island and was on island hopping, I have seen a boy climbing a tree with continuous failed efforts and when he reached his destined point, His expression with happiness shows the satisfaction. We all who seek true happiness in life can learn a lesson from this boy. Here you see a human being that has found his happiness, and if you will not seek to find your own the same way as this boy, you shall forever hunger after happiness.
I believe that Almighty Allah has sent us to this earth with a body, soul and a mind to control our emotions and behavior. Emotions are the source of energy we generate from our mind to express and feel the happiness or misery from us. Therefore, we have the ability to seek hell or heaven from this world & for the world after.
We humans are sent to this earth with uniqueness, even the most identical twins are not same, they have different footprints or fingerprints. I believe this uniqueness is expanded through the way we think and behave. Though with this differences, we all seek happiness as the way of life.
Some cannot imagine greater happiness than merely being able to feed and cloth their family without continual worry, others think the greatest happiness would be to live in royal castles and to travel in a golden couch,   others to find it by seeking fame and honors, high positions and renown.
I have came across with people who believe that they would be happy if they could only gain the love of just the person they adore, and have seen some who consider it as achieving a certain goal. While there are very few who seek nothing more than being free of constant worries about their daily needs and wants. For my amazement I came to know that, when these people acquired all these things could never escape admitting to themselves that, in the end, there still is something lacking in their lives and their happiness was never complete.

Therefore, I strongly believe that the happiness is your own creation from your ability to control your chaos of emotions effected from your outside world.