We asked Get Ahead readers to share their stories of weight loss with us. Here, marketing manager Ameet Guha shares how he dropped 9 kilos in a matter of months:
I was almost touching 90 kilos and 40 inches around the waist when I suddenly decided to put the brakes on my weight. Being in the pharma line, and that too in the cardio-diabeto domain, I attended many doctors' conferences. One of these had an international speaker from the US, Dr Abhimanyu Garg, a renowned endocrinologist. He suggested that if one needed to lose weight, he/ she just had to do a simple thing: Eat half the quantity of whatever one eats. There are no restrictions on food.
I decided to adopt the strategy and despite having a super-sedentary lifestyle (my daily walk is from my flat door to my car + the walk from my office door back to my car, I don't even drive!) I have lost nine kilos and three inches around the waist. The road to my ideal weight is still pretty long. I have targeted the 75-kilo mark and a 34-inch waist by around October this year.
The upside, is that I can get into all the trousers and jeans that I thought would be donated to a calamity-ridden state/town or province. The downside is that the outfits that I had invested in heavily just 6-7 months ago are no longer of any use.
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