Health is wealth

Health is wealth

The proverb ‘Health is wealth’ is real. Because I have experienced the journey from being unhealthy to healthy living.

Fat to Fit (My Transformation)

My journey

My fitness journey started in Oct 2020 when I was 67.9 kg. I was more than 10 kg overweight. I knew somewhere, that I was leading an unhealthy lifestyle and my office work, my responsibilities as a mother to a four-year-old and sudden lockdown was taking a toll on my health. Let me tell you that I was not always like this. During my college days, I had a perfect routine, balanced diet. I used to walk for 30 mins daily. The secret of my healthy lifestyle was my mother. But after my mother passed away, I hardly paid any attention to my health.

My health issues:

I have Migraine since the time I was in the college. Also, I had Cholesterol, high BP, Diabetes, since my son was born in 2016. I was living sedentary lifestyle and I developed diabetes during the pregnancy and it continued. I also developed “Diastasis Recti”, it’s a condition where belly sticks out due to widening of the space between left and right belly muscles. In my case, my gynecologist advised me to tone my muscles with the exercises. She said if it happens via exercise, well and good, otherwise we may have to put an artificial mesh to fill up the gap.

My Fitness Journey:

The journey began in Oct 2020, since it was lockdown and I was working from home, I used to do some basic exercises at home. But somewhere it wasn’t enough, what was required was proper guidance, nutrition and full body exercises. I randomly enquired on one of the mom’s group on Facebook and I discovered my coach and my motivation. That day changed my life completely, my coach explained me about how I need to exercise and follow proper nutritional diet. I started my journey in mid-October with my coach. I started eating balanced, quantified diet, at the intervals of every two hours and started exercising. But little did I know, the route which I am taking would be so difficult, I would have backed out on the very first day, but this time there was some divine force which encouraged me, not to give up. In a weeks’ time, my trainer introduced 5,000 steps with the workout in my daily routine and believe me, it was difficult as my body was not used to such a tough regime. I started having sudden spikes in my sugar levels, which made me giddy, I had migraine attacks and I thought that’s it! My body was begging me to quit.

I decided to approach a diabetologist, as it was also a serious health issue with me and my sugar levels were very volatile. She took my ECG on the first day, which was off the charts. She advised me to start with proper diabetes medicine, she also told me to do the profile checkup and after looking at the reports she prescribed medicines for BP, diabetes, cholesterol and vitamin tablets. I was gobsmacked with number of medicines I had to take at such an early age. I decided that I want to get rid of all these health issues and medicines one by one.

I was blessed to have these two ladies helping me during my journey to healthy lifestyle. I started working out, eating balanced food. I started to see the results of my hard work. I started losing unwanted weight, regaining strength, feeling energetic, positive and motivated. When I started, I visualized that I have lost certain kg of my weight. Slowly I started focusing, day by day, month by month, checking weight every single morning. In a particular week I didn’t lose the weight at all, sometimes I lost an inch of the weight. I had only homecooked food which was very easy to follow during lockdown. Also, I totally stopped eating junk, outside food for first three months. I used to self-indulge by having one cheat meal in a week. Also, I make sure that I drink at least 2 to 3 liters of water daily.

“Persistence is a decision. When we are exhausted, quitting looks good.”

By April 2021 I reached to the weight which I had during my college days i.e., 55 kgs. Also, my recent health reports are much better and almost all my health issues are under control now. Also, my diastasis recti gap has reduced to half. So, I am happy that I tried without quitting, and embarked on my journey to lead healthy life. I am not saying that my goal is achieved yet, as I am still in process of resolving some hurdles, but I am in a good shape now as compared to when I started my journey.

Would like to share one secret, positive thinking, affirmations, visualizing your goal do change the whole game. In my case it really helped me. I feel every person should approach every situation with positive approach in life.

Believe me, there is no shortcut to success. Eventually your hard work pays off. Many times, we look for the easier way, but there is none when it comes to healthy lifestyle.