Weight Loss: My story...

In today’s world, appearance and external beauty matters to all the people but only few are open to except it while others tend to hide it under the moral grounds saying what matters most for them is internal beauty. Every youngster when comes to his youth first priority for him is to look good and not to be embarrassed in front of his peers. And now a days people do splurge hell lot of money just to look good and sophisticated. No wonder beauty parlors and gym are overcrowded everywhere. This is applicable to men and women to the same extent.
There was a time when I used to be about 100Kgs or almost there and there about. And with huge belly to show for the comforts I enjoyed all my childhood. My friends used to call me “Jadya” (which means a Fatso in my native language) when I was in school. And that time even I used to be proud of my healthy lifestyle. There were many reasons to enjoy such a nice health along with my obsession towards almost any kind of food. (Oh and that obsession still exists!!!) . But the main reason was lack of exercise. And you will wonder that I used to sit and watch other guys playing rather than going out myself and join them. I did this for the major part of my childhood.
There is a very thin line between being healthy and what we call as obesity. And gradually I started to become really fat and before I could know anything my weight was touching almost 100Kgs. I weighed exactly 104Kgs, the next day after my 12th board exam had finished. Now everyone was telling me to join gym and reduce the weight. Dad even went out to take pamphlets of some nearby gym and health clubs. But I was not ready to join gym that time. It was like I have become used to it.
One fine day, one of my friends told me to just go with him to see a nearby gym and now I am so glad that I went with him. He was already a member there and even I liked the atmosphere there as majority of people there was from our locality and I somehow felt very nice and comfortable (Thanks Monu for that initial motivation!!)
So I started my long journey to become fit and fine. Gym was totally a new concept for me. I joined gym with a sole purpose to lose extra pounds that I have accumulated all my childhood. The first month was a painful experience for me. I was not allowed to touch any weights and used to do only free hand stretching exercises for a month.
I used to see fit and slim people doing weights around me. Rather than getting motivated by watching them I used to feel bad about myself. I used to feel that I have done injustice with my body and now it would be very hard to fix it. But my instructor told me that I will surely lose weight if I will be regular to gym and I trusted him. Anyways I didn’t have any other option rather than trusting him and just dreaming about great physic. So I started the long struggle that went far more ahead than what I expected at the beginning.
As it was my holidays after board exams, I used to work out sincerely and put in lots of efforts day in and day out. Controlled my diet to the extent I could and used to put in long hours in gym.
Every young man wants to look strong, fit and sexy and I was no exception. Because these days only come once in your life and to be on front foot you need to have something noticeable. Guys certainly know what I mean!! Almost all guys start doing exercise either to impress their girl or to get a girl by becoming lean and fit. (Though girls always deny the fact and say we always look for nice human being rather than just height and body. And matter of the fact is No one will notice you if you are ugly and fat in the crowd. Yes I agree that if you have special qualities you will get an attention later but certainly you cant make first impression that matters the most. And even I wanted to have nice body like Arnold, whose poster I used to see in Gym everyday.
I reduced a considerable amount of weight in six moths till my college started. Again I met good instructors whose experience was always a always a plus point for me. Now I was in quite good shape and size as compared to earlier. And I was damn regular in gym for this period and followed my work out schedule very strictly.
You should be regular in gym and should follow the work out schedule given to you by instructor to be successful no matter you are losing weight or doing weights. You should actually feel from the heart and develop interest in work out. If you are not interested in reducing the weight yourself, no matter how sophisticated instruments you are using or how good instructor you have, you will never get the desired result. You should motivate yourself and dedication should come from within. And this applies to everything in life not only losing weight.
After a year or so, I was in quite good shape (Lost almost 20 Kgs) and I could feel the positive energy that comes with a great body and personality. I used to feel very nice when people used to tell me that I am looking fitter than earlier. I could feel the sharpness in my movements and freshness about everything. I had discovered new confident myself within me.
Then I took body building seriously and I used to do about 2-3 hours exercise with my partner and instructor Vinay. And with him I learned how to deal with heavy weights and we used to follow a really intensive schedule.
Now my condition is that I start feeling something wrong if I miss my work out at gym even for a day. From the day I was reluctant to enter the gym to the day I can’t live without it, I have made a really wonderful journey. Initially I have to fight myself and to convince myself and after a lot of sweat and pain I just feel great today.
If you try something with dedication, passion and put in all your efforts you can achieve anything and everything. Just believe in your own abilities and you can do wonders.