How often do you walk or run?
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Run? Rarely. I dislike running. I dislike the sweat and added anxiety it gives me. I dislike not being able to breathe properly that comes with running.
But walking? Brisk-walking? Well, that’s something I do everyday.
Before I started my internship as a junior doctor (or in Malaysia, housemanship), I used to aim to reach at least 10k steps per day.
However, now I could easily reach 10k steps by noon. My daily average steps ranges between 18k to 20k steps per day.
Do I feel tired from walking? Not really.
In a way, it has actually made me more energised and helped me shed some weight in the process. Most of the time, I feel tired because I lack sleep or it’s more of a mental tiredness than the actual physical tiredness.
I recalled stepping on the weighing scale around 6-8 weeks after I started my housemanship and discovering that I’ve dropped 10kgs. So easily?
Well, technically I haven’t been eating well. I usually have something light in the morning and a proper meal after I come back from work but nothing in between.
It feels as if I have subjected myself into a 24-month programme of intermittent fasting.
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