August 8, 2008

from 85 to 58!


It wasnt a linear equation for sure. The closer I was to the target, the harder it got. Last time I saw my weight, it was 85. Didnt bother to see it ever again till I lost it. I am assuming that this was my maxima, could have been more too.
This is how conveniently I began losing my precious asset:
1) 85 to 77 in 10 days

Survived only on bottle gourd (lauki) day n night along with 2 chapatis. No spices and very little salt...ofcourse no oil. :)

2) Kept following the same routine of bottle gourd throughout the next month...with no pain and only gain (loss)

3) After a month and a half I came down to 72

4) People literally started staring, for entirely different reasons now. I kept following the same routine even more strictly and followed it up with some ab crunches for 20 mins a day. My day started with water, passed with water and ended with water. What else can be more filling and calorie less than water (pardon my understanding at 16).

5) In between snacks were a BIG NO. Sugar was not even near me. Tea was black and milk...what is milk!

6)
At the end of entire 3 months or less, I was down to somewhere in 60s...67 or so.
Had lost almost 20 kgs and was feeling sky high. Was surely the talk of the town (community) and was even being approached for ways to do it.
All such conversations led me to lose even more and much faster. Though it wasnt happening anymore. My rate of weight loss was coming down as my food intake was coming down. This became too frustrating and confusing for me. Instead of taking 1800 calories in a day I was surviving on less than 600.

Read more to find out why and what ALL went wrong and how I finally managed to reach 58.

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