Say aye if you also thought that Anant Ambani’s astonishing weight loss of over 108 kilos wasn’t natural!
No doubt the billionaire kid looks phenomenal, setting serious weight loss goals for the rest of us but many voices on the internet refuse to pin the drastic slim-down to natural ways.
The Quint spoke to a number of nutritionists to understand if such a drastic weight loss is possible with old-school techniques of extreme workout and a well-monitored diet.
The short answer is a YES.
Doctors say that losing too much weight too fast can impact your immune system and that’s why it’s important to take the weight loss slow.
We even spoke to two people who made sustainable lifestyle changes to drop more than 80 kilos and keep it off for good.
If these stories don’t inspire you to hit the gym, we don’t know what will!
For the uninitiated, liposuction is used as a targeted weight loss technique for stubborn fat pockets. It is not for the super obese but for people who are close to their ideal body weight.
On the other hand, bariatric surgery is for the morbidly obese, where the stomach is stapled to a fourth of its size, but you still need tremendous grit to count your calories, limit them substantially for the weight loss to happen.
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Mumbai-based renowned dietician Naini was born skinny, perfectly normal till her pre-teens and that’s when the junk food addiction started. In standard 12th, Naini hit a massive 95 kgs and just kept ballooning day-after-day.
It wasn’t just the expanding waistline that was damaging her health - missed periods, brittle hair, constipation, sunken eyes, round-the-clock sluggishness were a part of her routine.
And then at the age of 32 she decided, enough was enough.
She made one healthy change at a time. She took it slow at the start - the journey from taking a few steps in a day to extensive running took about a year-and-a-half. But she chalked out a diet and exercise plan she could commit too.
Today Naini is a lifestyle, disease and health consultant, runs a health centre in Mumbai and guides people how to lose weight sensibly.
A banker by profession, Manoj left his job in New York after weight-related health damages were seen too often and got too common.
Shortness of breath, heart palpitations even when sitting on the couch, were making it difficult for him to function. Two of his grandparents passed away in their 60s, and he realised he was living on borrowed time.
“I had to change, and I realised it had to be different this time.”
The challenging part, Manoj says, was the complete lifestyle overhaul. Not diet, not just exercise, definitely not a pill but an entire lifestyle change.
(Name changed to protect privacy)
Bottomline - Even if you think Anant Ambani took the easy route of a bariatric surgery, to keep the weight off, he will have to fight the urge to sit on the couch and eat an entire box of pizza for the rest of his life. Because no matter how rich or powerful you are, if you don’t want to go back to the size you were, there is no escaping falls or failures. But each time you get back up it becomes easier every day.
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Published: 19 Apr 2016,06:19 PM IST