My uphill battle to keep fit: Taking a first step towards a healthier lifestyle

The view from the Peak at the Kota Damasara Community Forest Reserve.

The sun was peaking through the canopy, the air crisp, and the distant chirps of birds and whatever noise cicadas make added to the ambient sounds of, by all accounts, a lovely morning hike. The only thing out of place was the straggler in the group and her plaintive cries of, “Kill me, please”.

A rest stop for hikers after a steep ascent.

Over 10 years of comfort food and being a couch potato had turned any semblance of a once-toned outer shell to mush. Sedentary work, running a household and age had rendered being active needless. Or that was the excuse anyway.