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How this Google employee lost 19 kg in

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The unhealthy phase

For 24 years, I lived an unhealthy life.

I did almost no physical exercises and ate whatever I liked with no regard to the
nutritional value of the food.

I used to take utmost stress and unnecessary tension in life, both personally and
professionally.
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gain any weight I believed that pressure increased my productivity.

I felt my tummy was my asset and was proud of it.

I never realised I was killing myself by doing all of the above. I was happy because I
was free from any disease and never felt the need to care about my health.
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In April 2017, I fainted in my office.

I was forced to visit a doctor by my colleagues.

The doctor checked by body vitals and she was surprised.

I was 84 kg, my BMI was 32, my blood pressure was touching 160 and I had high
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sugar and very high cholesterol.

She told me that the above symptoms were generally seen in an unhealthy 60-year-
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I was shocked and surprised.

My doctor told me that if I didn't take care of my health, I would be preparing my

own death bed. That day changed my life.

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The struggle phase

In the next one year, I completely transformed my habits.

I was working 14 hours a day.

I neither had the time nor the energy to work out, so I focused on eating healthy
food instead.
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Nitish over iftar These are the four major things I did and followed consistently for 12 months:

1. Have breakfast on time. Include more protein, less carbs.

2. Zero refined sugar means no sweets, no sugar in beverages, no chocolates (I have

remained sugar free for 26 months now).

3. Almost zero fried food (I gave up samosas and kachoris, which I liked the most).

4. Early, light dinner. I have my last meal four hours before I sleep... no rice and
chapati, only vegetable, dal and curd.
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I followed this for 12 months and I lost 19 kg.
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Running phase
In April 2018, I switched my job and moved to Google in Hyderabad.

During this time, I started doing physical exercises.

I reduced the dietary restrictions that I was following for 12 months and started
running.

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I started with 800 metres. Today, I have successfully completed five half marathons
in the past five months.

I currently undergo one to two hours of rigorous training, six days a week. I spend
two hours every Sunday running long distance.

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There are six lessons I learned during my fitness journey:

1. Be selfish

Health is the only thing that you should be selfish about.

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Even more than your family.

You are at the centre of your universe and everybody else in your life is a planet
revolving around you.

If the centre of the universe is not stable or healthy, no matter how much you try to
shine or hold the planets together, the universe will collapse.

2. It's not about weight loss

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There is no direct correlation between weight and health.
You can have a person with perfectly normal weight who is in bad health and vice
versa.

So don't think only about losing weight, think about good health.

Healthy life is a continuous, non-stop process which needs to be practised equally by

everyone, irrespective of their weight or age.

3. Don't wait

Don't wait for a signal.

You won't always be as lucky as I was to get a warning.

There is no right age or time to start working on your health.

4. Have patience

I didn't do anything extreme; I took one step at a time and kept on adding over.

This is a marathon not a sprint.

Marathoners run till the age of 60; sprinters cannot run after 30.

Don't overdo anything. Start with the thing which is easiest for you.

The thumb rule is to ask yourself if you can do it for 12 months.

5. Make process goals and not outcome goals

One common mistake we all make is setting 'outcome goals' like weight, tummy size,
bicep size, six packs, blood pressure, sugar, etc.

I made the same mistake but was quick to realise that it has two problems.

First, it is very difficult to achieve constant progression and keep yourself motivated
to achieve these goals.

For example, you may not lose weight every day as it is a factor of a lot of different
things -- some of which you cannot control everyday.

As soon as we start seeing a dip in progression, we will feel sad and disappointed
leading to a complete stop to the health journey.

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Like I explained earlier, leading a healthy life is a lifelong process and it cannot just
be a phase. That's why you should have process goals, that are long term.

Three golden rules to achieve 'process goals' are:

1. You should be able to track the goals regularly.

2. You cannot have negative progression until you stop doing it.
3. Push your limits. The time frame to achieve your goals should be infinity.

6. Make noise

Create a sense of peer pressure around you by sharing your goals and the whole
journey with your friends, family or even the outside world using social media.

This pressure works in two ways.

The first advantage is that you will be motivated to work on your fitness because you
don't want to fail in front of so many people.

The other benefit is that during this journey you will get followers which means that
you will not want to disappoint the people who are following you.

This ensures that you will now have an additional responsibility which keeps you
motivated.

I have made fitness the number one priority in my life and my goal is to keep
working on my health to have many more stories to motivate others.

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