My plan and goal

My plan:

1) Never skip meal

2) Eat every meal on time

3) Avoid excessive eating

4) Avoid large meal before sleep

5) Avoid high-fat meals

My goal:

Based on my experiences, I will suffer from gastric pain at least 3 times every semester. So, I hope that it will decrease in this semester. The best is 0 gastric pain in this semester. To reinforce myself, if gastric problem never happen in this semester, I will go to travel at the end of this semester. =)

My plan is refer to http://www.medindia.net/patients/Firstaid-gastric.htm

Causes of my gastric

After Helicobacter pylori IgG Ab checks, this is not the cause of my gastric problem. If Helicobacter pylori more than 0.90, it is very serious because it can cause gastric cancer. Luckily mine less than 0.40.

So, the causes of my gastric are: did not eat on time; often skip meal if busy; sometimes will skip breakfast if over sleep and eat my first meal- lunch very late and eat too full after hungry for a long time.

From this semester, I want to change all this bad habits to make my gastric problem better. Good luck to me, and hope my gastric problem can be solved. =]

My 1st post of my health psychology's blog.. =)

What to change? This question appeared in my mind for the past 3 days, and I can’t find the answer. I can’t decide what behavior to change is not because nothing to change, is all because I have too many bad things to change. =(

Before I came to KL, I was a healthy girl, seldom fall sick and seldom gastric. Although have period pain problem, I still strong like a super woman. But now, my immune system has changed. I fall sick very easily and it takes a very long time to recover. Besides that, gastric problem starts become worse. If I didn’t eat something when I feel hungry, I will gastric for sure.

Why I became so weak?

This is all because unhealthy lifestyle. When I was studying in secondary school, my lifestyle was much healthier than now. My mum care about my health very much. During that time, she always prepare healthy food for me, asked me sleep early, accompanied me learned yoga for many years, forced me went jogging with her, forced me eat breakfast every day and many more. But now, without her be with me, nagging with me, my lifestyle changed. I usually sleep before 12, but now I sleep at 2am almost every day. Before I came to KL, I eat my meal on time every day. But now, I always skip meal when I was busy dealing with assignment and exam. Even I eat meal on time, but I always eat unhealthy food like fast food, oily food and seldom eat fruits. And I drink less than 8 glasses of water every day, my reason are- I am lazy and sometimes I was too busy till I forgot to drink water. Furthermore, I lack of exercise!!! Actually it happened when I was form 6, during that time, I was busy preparing for my UEC exam, because of this, and I stopped my yoga class and all exercise.

Really, it is very easily to have a bad habit, but, it is VERY HARD TO CHANGE BACK!! I realize how unhealthy my lifestyle is, but I always find excuse for myself- I am too busy, and I have no time to change it.

I know all of this unhealthy lifestyle will bring a lot of problem to me, but I have no motivation to change it. Now, because of HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY’S ASSIGNMENT, finally I have the motivation to CHANGE. Besides that, my gastric problem become worse compare to 1 year ago. Sometimes, it will make my face turn white and I even can’t walk properly T.T . I don’t want to suffer this kind of pain anymore!! Furthermore, if I didn’t care about my gastric problem, it will affect my health and as well as my life very much. SO I WANT TO SAY GOOD BYE TO MY GASTRIC PAIN

I saw these words recently, but I forgot where it is. But this really suit my situation---

“YOU HAVE THE STRENGTH to take control of your health.
YOU HAVE THE RIGHT to healthy food and time to exercise at school.
YOU HAVE THE POWER to make your community healthier.”