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Motoko Nishibayashi started practicing jazz dance at age three, and classical dance at age four. She entered the Shiki Theatre Company at 23, shortly after graduating from the University of Tokyo's literature department. It was then that she began appearing in a number of onstage musicals, including "The Lion King" and "Cabaret." She began producing performances herself in 2012, and has since launched several works. She is a cover model for AEROLIFE, and has appeared as a main dancer in the music video for the song "Zero" by BUMP OF CHICKEN. She also currently works as a dance instructor.
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All About Dancer Motoko Nishibayashi's Health care
I'm currently active as both a dance instructor and a dancer, so I suppose I have a relatively active lifestyle. Since I've always had the type of body that holds on to all the fat in the foods I eat, however, I've done my best to refrain from fatty foods and sweets, and to maintain a balanced and nutritious diet over all.
…But…
Several years ago, when I was approaching my mid-thirties, I saw a picture taken of me from behind as I danced in an outfit with an open back. I was shocked with what I saw. My back looked totally different than it did when I was younger. I couldn't help but wonder what was going on—I was still exercising every day, after all, and eating fairly healthily. But after thinking about it logically, I realized that it was nothing to be surprised about. As you age, your metabolism slows down. It's only natural.
Even if you exercise just as much as you did in your twenties, the amount of muscle mass you can put on from that exercise decreases gradually over time, so your metabolic energy decreases as well. Hence, if you're still taking the same number of calories as you were in your twenties, that leftover energy is going to be stored in your body as fat. It's just the way our bodies work. That said, if you try to counterbalance this by excessively refraining from eating, you risk losing your strength or even out of condition.
This might just be my personal opinion, but I think the most important thing as a dancer is to maintain a strong, healthy body that's resistant to injury and illness. I suppose that goes for any sport.
For this reason, I have paid close attention to nutrition. Rather than cutting back on the variety of foods I was eating, I decided instead to cut back little by little on the amount of each. I thought that, in the end, taking a long time (so long I myself could hardly notice) to slowly decrease the amount of food I was eating would be effective. Now, I try to take my time when I eat, slowly chewing my food and chew my food well.
Also, I started regularly checking out how my back looked. It's not easy to lose the fat that you put on so slowly you hardly realized it was there to begin with, so it's a good idea to get on top of things the moment you think you might have started putting it on again. I hope everyone reading might be able to give this method a try, too.
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