Weight and Watch

I now return to a topic that has followed me all my life - my weight! The battle of the bulge has been fought for decades, mostly without will or focus. Whenever I did turn on my resolve, the results have been spectacular - while it lasted!

Just after Abhishek's wedding I told Pallavi that the landmark moment - strangely and unaccountably - had inspired me too to do something big and new. Well, I have taken a couple of months to arrive at the start point - but arrived at it I have! Hence this public commitment to begin getting fit in small but measurable and visible increments.

How much do I weigh? It ought to be a state secret because even I find it hard to believe that I have allowed all those kilos to insidiously creep up and sit down on me. But the fact is that I weigh 105.4 kilos in my night clothes, as weighed-in before breakfast this morning. Whew! That calls for a loss of 35.4 kilos over an year - or more than a third of me!

And here I am, at my inglorious best!

I have a plan that revolves essentially around controlled and healthy eating but also relies on regular (daily) exercise regimen to speed up my Basal metabolic Rate.

So get ready with your encouraging and motivational remarks as I begin my final weight loss.

And do watch this space!

Sid Is In Cape Town Now

This morning, just as Chachaji was disembarking from the Singapore Airlines flight at Delhi, Siddharth was somewhere between Dubai and Cape Town. He later landed there to begin an important phase of his life - or as he put it 2300 days of solid hard work! He is currently staying with family friends - the wonderful Parkers - and will move into his apartment in a couple of days. His college is already on. All the very best Sid!

Chachaji is here for Rita's son Mayank's wedding. This morning, over barfi and alu ka parathas, weight of 'certain' family members was the object of much of the conversation! All this wonderful display for our collective concern for health just hours before everyone launches into an unbridled orgy (sorry but this word describes it best) gluttony as rich wedding-cuisine is imbibed in obscene quantities!

And as this goes to 'press', the news is that Abhishek is relocating (Army guys 'get posted', most people 'move' and those in the corporate world 'relocate) to Gurgaon. The transition will happen in a month or so. Finally, he moves from what-the-Army-would-have-called the 'non-family station' of Mumbai to join up with Pallvi.

More on this later.....