SIZE ZERO: what not to do for weight reduction?

All work and no play made my friend Srini an obese boy. Coming from a small town in Tamilnad, he was extremely dedicated, thin but well built. An excessive dose of socializing with friends, recently found obsession with junk foods and an ever changing bio from IST to GMT to EST took a toll on his health.

He likes to walk but his wake up time which varies anytime between 6 in the morning and 3 in the evening screws up his schedule. He wants to diet but beyond 9PM there are no diet burgers & pizzas available in the cafeteria. He went to gym but being a couch potato in the treadmill he attracted lot of eyeballs and this enhanced attention kept him away from it. He bought a Sauna Belt for Rs. 2999 after spending 2 hours in an online auction. But the effect of the Sauna belt on his tummy was such that he slept a whole night without switching off the belt & the next day it was charred beyond recognition without burning his calories. He subscribed to a weight reduction program in a slimming clinic burning his pocket. He realized that it was ‘Very Limited Calorie Cut’ clinic only after months of stopover.

The transformation from ‘sexy’ Srini to ‘Sizeable’ Srini affected his morale. His dating schedule went haywire & he was deceived by his gal friends. He was crossing the marriage cut-off date of 28 but his matrimonial page had least number of hits, that too unintentional ones! His concentration was affected which started showing up in his work performance. He started getting anxiety problems and soon a heap of health issues followed. Srini was soon shown the door!!

Welcome to new age life style disease called ‘obesity’. Increase in waist size? Some call it as ‘sign of prosperity’. Actually, it is a sign of ‘short term’ prosperity. Some of the finest form of art lost its importance due to mechanization ever since the Industrial revolution took place in Great Britain. The life style is refined and innovation results in more sophistication. Almost all the physical activities are now replaced by machines. This new found life style will be sustainable only if it is a healthy. There are easy ways for a healthy lifestyle such as workouts, dieting etc but the easiest way is to stay ‘Normal’. Srini walked on the treadmill for one kilometer while he took an ‘auto’ to reach his cab pickup point which is a stone throw away from his home. Srini lived in an air-conditioned apartment usually keeping his room dark watching the television all day but pop in to the ‘oxygen’ parlor twice a week. He put his bicycle in a scrap yard and got a pulsar only to start the cycling again in an AC gym. There is no quick way for weight reduction but there are easier ways to it.

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So what’s Srini doing these days? He runs a consulting company & takes classes about ‘Myths in weight reduction’. The famous enrollment program which made him millionaire today is ‘What NOT to do for weight reduction!’

- Hari