How it Began!

The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimated that by 2020, 3 out of every 4 deaths (75%) will be caused by improper diet and lifestyle induced diseases like Cancer, Diabetes and Heart diseases. Scary!

As the training Manager of my organisation, part of my duties is to ensure that during training, participants (those attending our training) and facilitators (our faculty team) are well taken care of, during the training sessions and even after the end of the sessions. It is my duty to ensure that they are all well catered for. Usually after the end of the daily session, I go round the hotel rooms of our facilitators to ascertain that they are comfortable and I will take their orders for dinner.

In March 2018, we held a capacity building workshop for the staff of NNPC at Dover Hotel, Adeniyi Jones, Ikeja, Lagos. The team of our faculty for the training was led by a renowned Professor (whom I will refer to as Professor A), we also had one of the facilitators in the team, a PhD holder (whom I will refer to as Dr D). As my usual routine, after the training on a particular day, I went to the hotel room of Professor A, in order to take his order for dinner, when I got to the room he had already undressed and was in his briefs. As I entered the room, my attention was drawn to his stature; he had a very huge upper body which was supported by tiny legs. I was taken aback that day as if I was seeing the professor in that form for the first time. The professor was in his late sixties. I took his order for dinner and I left, but the image I saw was really troubling my mind. When I got to the room of Dr D, it was almost the same image that confronted me, huge upper body supported by tiny legs. Dr D in his mid sixties.

After ensuring that their meals had been delivered, I rushed back to my hotel room, pull off my clothes and looked at the mirror, the sight that I saw was of a guy who is gradually going to look like those two men when eventually I get to their age range. I was visibly shaken as if I had never seen myself in the mirror before, but this day the image was not palatable and there and then I decided that something must be done to arrest the situation so that I don’t grow to end up with a huge upper body and my legs will be like toothpicks. A decision had to be made and there and then I made up my mind that I have to work something out. Prior this time, I have been having issues with my joints, especially when I am climbing stairs, I usually experience pains around my knee cap which I know is a sign of rheumatism and arthritis, even I experience pains in the joints of my fingers too. Throughout the remaining days of the training, I was thinking of what to do and how to go about it immediately I return back to Ilorin.

Immediately I got to Ilorin, I put things into motion, how did I fare in my attempt to get in shape and enjoy a better and healthier life, join me next Monday as I continue my gist. Do have a wonderful fun filled and productive week. Cheers

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