Weighty issues

Lata and her daughter Radha were seriously discussing about the need for both of them to shed few kilos. Lata was 5kgs more than her BMI and Radha was above the BMI by 10 kgs and fell under obese category. To keep up her daughter’s morale Lata always clubbed both in the same category and both the women had decided today to begin a weight reduction program for themselves.  Radha had completed her Masters course and was at home. She had plenty of free time before she figured out the next step in her career. They had written down a program for themselves and took a pledge not to slip from it. Before start they consulted a dietician to know the concept of dieting without starving. The program started from the next day.

Next morning they got up early, wore their track pants and shoes and went walking for about one hour. During that time they had a casual talk and did not know the time or feel the effort. They had a healthy breakfast, followed by lunch and night dinner. They both together did an extensive search for low calorie recipes, which were also interesting. Their food was inclusive of lot of salads and fruit. Not only that they started trying out the recipes themselves and enjoyed the working together. They would calculate the calories that they consumed and once in 10 days allowed themselves a treat.

They had decided to check their weight once in 10 days. After first ten days they went to the scale tentatively and to their delight their weights had come down. Radha’s weight loss was more compared to her mother’s because she was young and her metabolism was faster and in the process of diet control, she had unknowingly cut on the consumption of lot of junk food. Slowly, outsiders started noticing a change in them. They started questioning them if they had joined some weight reduction program. They both smiled at each other and brush aside such queries.

 It took about six months to shed their excess weight .They shed the kilos by eating healthy and wisely rather by starving.   Their faces were glowing with health and radiance. The best thing to have happened was that the bond between the mother and daughter had become stronger, with their cooking together, morning walks and planning and discussions. It occurred to Radha that her mother undertook the entire trouble for her sake and felt grateful to her. Radha jokingly said,” it will not be a bad idea to start Lata weight reduction institute Maa.

By now you are an expert. You should take this idea seriously!” “What a wonderful idea. I am afraid your mother will have to start one, looking at the enquiries from our friends and relatives” chuckled her father, joining their conversation. He was proud of his wife the way she handled their daughter’s weight issues. For Lata it was a win- win situation because she had been worried about her daughter piling up weight and not caring about it. She not only motivated her daughter to lose weight but herself got benefited. At her age it is desirable to reduce little weight to keep away the health issues. She killed two birds at one shot. As they say all that begins well ends well.