From Obesity to Fitness

Perhaps, it’s unimportant that how you rank in maturity, moderation and mercy. Who cares any scarcity in these elements can impact one’s character and mindset?

Come any flaw in health, we humans become too scary, bothered and sad as if life is at brim and anytime it can collapse. Who wants to die early? In fact, human greed never lessens...even in the dusk of human life, we want to live more amid lots of cravings and compulsions. That’s the paradox of human life draped in all greediness!

Here’s an interesting story how an obese, 40-plus lethargic person flattened his tummy following an enthusiastic slimming schedule composed of finicky food and regular exercises.

One day, on an official trip abroad, he felt uneasy....perhaps a variety of appetites, out of gluttony, made him hypertensive. What then? Immediately, with a panicky face, he visited a nearby clinic.

Upon consulting a physician, poor chap went through a pack of tests in the name of a comprehensive health check up. Yep...It’s all a scheme to make you frightening and check whether you run a risk of developing heart trouble, debilitating diabetes, towering blood pressure or fatal kidney ailment.

Well, the tests were done and reports were all ready. With all his health statistics documented on papers, he approached the physician.

“Well, you’ve high cholesterol level, and with visible obesity, you’ve to alter your pattern of food and living,” the physician said. While prescribing medicines, the physician directed him to stand on a weighing scale.

“One-o-five kilograms, Doctor,” declared the nurse.

“Oh, with this weight and high cholesterol, it’s all risky to your heart and your health may deteriorate,” the physician remarked in an advisory tone.

Poor fellow, with a full prescription, he walked out of the doctor’s room, and after few moments, he stood impatiently at the pharmacy. With all the packs of medicines, now he was doubly and truly sick.

With a little distress and disturbing mood, he said to his compatriot, “No, I’m not going to take these medicines...instead of these pills, I will switch on to strict dieting and drills that can melt down my stomach to slim shape”.

Back from the business visit, he prepared himself for an important mission...yes, to thaw out body fats and be like a juvenile jolly person. As a first step, he did a little Googling and jotted down abundant tips for staying slim and fit.

With an abrupt change in his attitude and diet, his wife was totally surprised. He discarded all the pills and charted out his own diet plan.

Well, for breakfasts he had two boiled eggs and few almonds (soaked in water). That’s it! At the workplace, his proportionate lunch turned him a pure veggie...all with a container of green leaves and chopped, delicious salads. Ah, with all those crunchy vegetables, lettuce salads and preferred greens, he made up his mind to stick on to this boring diet. And his dinners included simple meals, with an unleavened flatbread, little curry and few morsels of rice.

Like a maniac, he hooked himself to starvation and daily skipping, but somehow without any dehydration or signs of weakness, he succeeded in shelling down his weight to 85 kilograms. Now, he declared his accomplishment, as if he has won a boring battle.

On one occasion, when he was weighing a loaf of bread prior to his meal, his wife noticed his peculiar act and peevishly exclaimed, “What’s this? Are you crazy?”

Now-a-days, with all flat stomach, no lumps of fats here and there, he’s sporting a shaved face. Even his colleagues attest that drastic change in him—from a bulging obesity to slim posture.

Although, with the present weight of 85 kilograms, he’s even more passionate to reduce more weight in order to reach 80.

Let’s hope while trimming his body more, he becomes not frail and lean!!!