Jack96
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I was never morbidly fat. I was always healthy and plump. However, that changed in the summer of 2017. I went to Canada for a month-long vacation to tour the entire east coast and stay with my dad's elder brother and his family. My aunt was thrilled to have us over as it was the first time we had visited them. She is a very good cook and is ever-enthusiastic to feed people. On top of all that, I'm the youngest in the clan and hence I was fed the most. We had all kinds of food, at that time. Name it and we'd eaten it! At the end of the month, we were driving to New Jersey for my brother's wedding and that's when it struck me; I was hardly fitting into any of the dresses I'd brought for the wedding! In the mirror, I saw a cuter but a fatter, unhealthier version of myself. I had a double chin where girls my age had a jawline. My cheeks were rising over my eyes every time I smiled. I didn't want to look in the mirror, I didn't want pictures to of myself to be clicked. I literally hated myself. This was a bad place to be, a dark hour I was going through and I desperately wanted to come out of it. There had to be some way!
In the wedding, I met one of my cousins who was studying in the States and had come over. She had always been fat. And by then, she was slimmer, more confident and clearly, one of the prettiest people I'd met. (Okay, she'd always been pretty!) I told her about my problem. She suggested me a diet that she had tried and gave me an exercise routine. It was a Low-Calorie Diet and the exercise was tough but I loved working out, anyway!
I came back to India and started the diet right away! I had cravings at first but literally within a few weeks, the results started showing. Excluding Sundays, I hardly ever cheated on my own self. I was extremely dedicated to my goal. My diet was boiled eggs, cucumbers, tomatoes, carrots, pulses, protein bars and salads. I would eat chapati and daal on Sundays. In the gym, I worked Cardio with the HIIT techniques and split the weight lifting part in the upper body and lower body. I ran up and down the stairs with 6kg dumbbells in each hand. I was focused and fast. Even my parents couldn't believe how attached I'd become to this healthy lifestyle. What I weighed before was close to 77 kgs and by the end of five and a half months, I was 62kgs.
I wasn't thin but the whole weight loss made me more goal-oriented, confident and self-motivated. I appreciated my own self for the effort and the outcome. I was finally proud of who I was and what it took for me to get there. For me, weight loss wasn't just weight loss; it was a journey of self-healing, introspection and meditation. This was how I began to love myself.
In the wedding, I met one of my cousins who was studying in the States and had come over. She had always been fat. And by then, she was slimmer, more confident and clearly, one of the prettiest people I'd met. (Okay, she'd always been pretty!) I told her about my problem. She suggested me a diet that she had tried and gave me an exercise routine. It was a Low-Calorie Diet and the exercise was tough but I loved working out, anyway!
I came back to India and started the diet right away! I had cravings at first but literally within a few weeks, the results started showing. Excluding Sundays, I hardly ever cheated on my own self. I was extremely dedicated to my goal. My diet was boiled eggs, cucumbers, tomatoes, carrots, pulses, protein bars and salads. I would eat chapati and daal on Sundays. In the gym, I worked Cardio with the HIIT techniques and split the weight lifting part in the upper body and lower body. I ran up and down the stairs with 6kg dumbbells in each hand. I was focused and fast. Even my parents couldn't believe how attached I'd become to this healthy lifestyle. What I weighed before was close to 77 kgs and by the end of five and a half months, I was 62kgs.
I wasn't thin but the whole weight loss made me more goal-oriented, confident and self-motivated. I appreciated my own self for the effort and the outcome. I was finally proud of who I was and what it took for me to get there. For me, weight loss wasn't just weight loss; it was a journey of self-healing, introspection and meditation. This was how I began to love myself.