The Skinny on Getting Skinny
I lost 17 lbs in 3 months — but then a twist in my tale
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8 min readOct 17, 2022
I essentially lived the same day for 12 weeks during which I lost a pound a week or more.
Morning: school run, gym, and dental patients.
Wake at 6:15 am, prepare my daughter’s breakfast and tiffin, drive to school, get back and eat an egg, off to the gym, burn 300 calories and drink half a scoop of BCAAs, back home, eat half a fruit and a scoop of whey in a shake, have my calcium tablets and work at my dental clinic.
Lunch break: a balanced meal and a siesta
Get home, eat salad-cooked veggies-rice-lentils-cashews-walnuts for lunch, and sleep the “sleep of the just” for one hour.
Evening shift and dinner
Get back to work, have vegetables-flatbread-peanut butter for dinner, and fall asleep before I got hungry.
Why do I say it took a year?
My gallbladder and uterus were surgically removed in Sep ’21 and Feb ’22. My health transformations came too late to save those two organs of mine.
