Losing weight is never easy, but for me it was especially hard. I had to battle my own cravings and food addictions, as well as the endless judgments of others all at once. By the way, Hey! I am Aiswarya, I am a mom of two beautiful boys, O and N, with a thriving career in marketing. I am here to lose weight the most conventional way with all the sweat and toil. I have about 60 kgs to go and being 37 makes it all the more exciting and challenging. I want to have the perfect health-image of myself and that is what and all I am after.
This blog is my weight loss journey that I have tried to encapsulate. I try to blog every day despite the schedule I have but aside from being a mom this is one rewarding activity I am pursuing. I promise to be as blunt as possible and I am not sorry about my questions, and challenges I pose to the world.
I have always been on the higher side with weight since I remember, but never felt like a part of the problem. I was eating well, really well. I would scout out the kinds of food in college that many didn’t have the resources or the intelligence to source. I remember the week in college when I was missing out on a lot of classes just because I had discovered Mc Donald’s Fish O’ Filet and Chinua Achebe. Oh what a week that was, holed up in the corner in the restaurant and relishing a burger after burger and the lapping up Achebe. I would love to be out of the house all the time, mostly exploring my interactions with new faces that I meet but also the effect good food prepared at different places had on me. I must have been trying to bring some thought to the process of life back then. Seeing how much lesser I am able to do that in today’s day. I knew I looked different, but it was always after I was made aware of my looks that it even made me conscious. I would mostly shrug and go back to the book I was reading. I for most, loved being in the new year’s resolutions – but 6 months’ later phase in my head.
I met my husband and we were married shortly after and have 2 wonderful kids. Soon I began having issues with diabetes and I felt it was perhaps time to address this issue of body weight somewhat seriously.
What I am trying to say here is I did have many people including mentors, teachers, older ‘advisable’ age adults petrify and ridicule me about my weight. I think I pretty much wanted to do it at my own pace and here I am, happy as a jay bird trying to lose some weight so that I don’t feel tired when I play with my little ones, I have energy to give to my relationship and to my job.