Healthy, Cute, Chubby..

Healthy, Cute, Chubby are some of the nice, polite terms used by  people to describe overweight, fat, obese people. These courteous terms are used in order  to avoid hurt feelings (esp when the concerned person is a friend, relative or an important person in ones life), to be politically correct, to ensure that he/she is not offended, and sometimes to flatter/please.

The fact that the fat  people need to realise is " healthy, cute, chubby" is just a good & diplomatic way of saying that "You are fat". I can say this with a certain amount of confidence as i have been fat / over weight for the  most part of my life.

So next time, someone calls you "Healthy, Cute, Chubby", don't take it as a compliment, instead have a close look at yourself, evaluate your eating habits critically, make a definite & sustainable change in your lifestyle and get back in shape.

Resolution to create a new "me"

I have been overweight ever since my childhood. Though weight loss has been my only new year resolution since the past  15-16 yrs, i had made no significant progress in that direction. The reason being, i had never been seriously committed to this resolution. I had never made any serious and consistent effort to lose weight and one or two random attempts were complete failure.

Failed weight loss attempts

I joined a gym 8 yrs back & worked out for a month's time. I was happy with the result. I did lose some flab but it returned back within no time in multiple proportion as soon as i stopped my work- out. The reason being my busy schedule, sheer laziness and non commitment to the weight loss goal. Then around 5 yrs back, i tried GM diet, because that was the latest fad in my office at that point in time. Most of my overweight colleagues were trying it out, hence i joined the band wagon. However again i fell flat on my face when i lost 3 kgs in 1 week through GM diet and gained 5 kgs immediately after i resumed back my normal diet.

What prompted me to give weight loss another chance?

After 2 failed attempts, i never tried to lose weight again. I told myself that i'll never ever lose weight . I was, I'm & I will always remain fat no matter what i do. So i relished on all types of calorie dense food without any guilt feeling. I was happy. I got married and had a baby  last year. i was 80 kgs post partum and then 85. Then one day i casually checked my BMI (Body Mass Index), i was sure that it would be in the range of 25 & 30. It had always  been in that range since the past so many years, labelling me overweight and i didn't care. However this time, i was in for a surprise when the BMI calculator showed 30 point something. I tried recalculating just to reconfirm. This time, my BMI told me I'm "obese" unlike the past years when it told me that i was "over weight".

Now "Obesity" is an enemy,  it doesn't come alone. It brings lot many of its friends like diabeties, arthirities, blood pressure, cardiovascular diseases etc along with it to make life miserable. Now i need to do something about it before its friends attack me. I need to pull up my socks & fight it.

How do i fight obesity?

Obesity is a powerful enemy hence i need to use intelligent weapons to fight it and i need to build those weapons,  readymade ones won't work. What is required is a lifestyle change, personal commitment not a quick fix solution. I'm sure i'll defeat it forever. I'll be a new "me".

Cheers to life...

They say "never say never - life has a very strange way of proving you wrong".  Things that i said "never" to a few years back without a second thought is my reality today.

My heart yearns for things that i took for granted once upon a time. I long for things that i abhorred & despised long ago. Circumstances changed, perceptions changed & so did life. 


Things that i desperately sought once upon a time means nothing to me today. Dreams that i relentlessly chased are a distant memory.


Life crashed some dreams mercilessly under its feet & some vanished into thin air as if it never existed to make way for new ones.

In life there are some decisions that i took, there are many others that life took for me and which ones were better i cannot say.

At times i won a lost battle and lost the won ones, and victory brought more tears than defeat.

• At times you have to let go of certain things  to make room for things that you perceive to be better and you have to just gamble, take a chance, do your best and then wait & watch. 
•  At times you have to let go of your inhibitions,  stop worrying about what people perceives about you and do things that makes you truly happy.