About four years ago, I made a decision that I think has changed my life for the better. As an Asian guy, white rice has been a staple of our diet. We have it in every meal, and whenever we don’t get it, we don’t feel as though we’ve had an actual meal.
I’m not really overweight, although at that time, I was teetering on the edge of being overweight, and I felt it too. I felt heavy and almost unable to do any physical exercise. It wasn’t helping that I was living abroad, and for my first year, I lived on the side of a mountain. So, whenever I needed to get groceries, I literally had to walk down and climb back up the mountain. Going down was a walk in the park, you just had to be careful not to slip and roll down the slope. It was …