In the short journey (till now), that is my life, I have come to several realizations that most people don't come to until it's too late. One of these, happens to be the importance of one's health. For the past few years I have tried, without success, to gain weight so that I may be at a healthy weight. Maybe I'm just not trying hard enough, but sometimes, things just get in they way, usually school, and I just lose my focus. Instead of eating right, I just grab anything that'll fill me up so I can get back to studying. Anyway, in this little adventure of mine that has been going on since high school, I have spent countless hours researching ways of gaining weight but in way that is healthy. Seem like a paradox? Yeah, it pretty much is. Trying to avoid going to a dietitian (no health insurance), I've tries searching online for websites that would give me, something like a plan to help me out. I recently noticed that Yahoo! had added a new health section. I noticed a part that calculated your BMI, so I tried it out, turns out my BMI is 16. Did I forget to mention I'm 5'6" and weigh less than 100 pounds?? No, I'm not anorexic, nor do I have any other eating disorder, just a very fast metabolism. Anyway, this part of the website is meant to help with your diet, but when I put in my weight goal of 110, it very kindly told me that, "We regret, however, that we are not yet able to prescribe a diet plan that makes you put on weight." So, because I'm on the opposite side of the spectrum, what, I get bubkis? Just because everyone and their mom seems to want to lose weight, it does not mean that it applies to everyone. Hopefully, sometime soon, there will be help for the skinny underweight ones, who like the overweight people, are only hoping to reach a weight for themselves that is healthy.
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