Diet Plan And Workout That Made Our Weight Loss Journey Possible (XXL to M)(L to S)

We are from Delhi, we are Punjabi and we love food. That’s the fact of our life. We cannot imagine not eating or staying hungry for hours. For us, a weekend means lots of food or booze and the entire week means some work in between our food spree. Yes, that’s how foodies we are. So, you can imagine this journey wasn’t an easy one. We had to realize and accept within the first few days only that leaving a certain type of food is the only way of getting there. And of course, work out too was part of it.

Since the time this post went up, a lot of people have been asking us on how we did this or to share our tips to reduce weight. In order to help our friends know how we did, we have split our plan (exactly what we did), month wise since it was a 4-month game.

However, effectively if I see there were 3 things we did only varying between these months. They were:

1. Diet plan:
   1. Keeping strict calorie count every day
   2. Low carb, high protein diet
2. Workout: Gyming, running, Pranayam (Yoga)

Now month-wise what we did:

Month 1 (September 2019):

Hardest of all because it was the beginning, most of the time went in preparing ourselves. Week 1 was much frustrating because both of our mind and body were undergoing this change and staying hungry makes maximum people angry. It was difficult not to fight. Haha. So, we were juggling between whether we want to continue or not or is this what is really required. Every argument came to an end looking at the weighing scale with a drop of few kgs instantly.

Our weight loss tips that could help:

1. Counting Calorie: For those who don’t know, our bodies exhaust about 2000 calories in a day which means to maintain your ideal weight you can have that much amount of calories. This needed to be cut. We began by counting our calories. We had simply cut it to 1000 calories in a day and tried to stick to it.
   1. Breakfast: We used to have extremely light breakfast with just tea and 2 biscuits or 1 boiled egg or nothing on some days.
   2. Lunch: Anything low on carbs and high in proteins like dal, rice, vegetables, chicken, fish etc.
   3. Dinner: Similar like lunch, mostly it was chicken or dal.
2. Work out: It’s not easy to work out in the first month; you need to spend more time at the gym or park, wherever you are doing this. Difficulty is in pushing your body harder because of the weight, the pace is slow. But don’t stop because we never stopped here either. Usual workout time would be between 1-2 hours every day.

Week 2-3-4 went in motivation. Not even a single slice of pizza could break us.

Total loss of weight by end of Month 1:

Karan: 6kgs lost

Ashima: 4 kgs lost

(Don’t get excited because the drop is easier in the 1^st month)

Month 2 (October 2019):

Again the same strategy worked but this time we brought calorie count to 800 in one day. On some days, we’d try to keep it between 600 -800 calories. Our diet plan had more of proteins and less of carbs but frankly we were not keeping much count on the carbs.

Yet by this time, another few kgs were lost. Certainly by the end of this month, I was nearing my weight range so it was becoming difficult to loose already.

Total loss of weight by end of Month2:

Karan: 10kgs lost

Ashima: 6 kgs lost

Month 3 (November2019):  

This was another beginning of the hard time because by this month, we were already bored of eating similar food and not eating what we wanted. However, a strange discovery happened when a friend (who had lost huge amount of weight recently) whispered into Karan’s ear “Just leave carbs or veg food. Stick to chicken and eggs.” Karan took this like way too seriously. He reduced carbs or to be more correct stopped eating chapatti or bread or any such related products. This actually worked for both of us. We’d stick to eating rice or chicken, basically came on to high protein diet and low dairy. Outside food was restricted to Tandoori chicken, Chicken tikka, paneer tikka and no chaap or butter chicken or anything and it worked.

Workout schedule reduced to 40-45mins in a day.

Total loss of weight by end of Month3:

Karan: 17kgs lost

Ashima: 8 kgs lost

Month 4 (December):

I would call it as an easy month because we had entered into our happy zone realising that we have lost much weight already. Yet the diet plan continued with extremely low carbs, high protein diet. I won’t deny, we had a lot of cheat days in this month and even the workout schedule was lowered down to 20-30 mins in a day or skipping many days. May be because it was December, the so called holiday time or little sense of growing satisfaction we had. So the month went of with control on food and very less workout. But I guess it went fine overall as see what we finally achieved:

Total loss of weight by end of Month4:

Karan: 20kgs lost

Ashima: 10 kgs lost

So, all in all a good 4 months spent in loosing weight.

Weight loss happens when you decide or take it as a challenge. Just like you take any challenge at work or studies or anywhere else. It’s just a mind game. Once you decide you can do it but you have to decide.

P.S: WE DIDN’T TAKE ANY DIET PLANS FROM DIETICIANS. We did our own research on every product we ate and we looked within ourselves to understand how’s our body reacting to our intakes.

Also, Please avoid those checking out statements that say you can loose weight without any diet plan because trust me, that ain’t gonna happen.

Even rushing to dieticians is not needed until you are ready to stick to it. Keeping your weight loss intact requires changes in your lifestyle and that is the only key.

Just wanted to share this above picture, because I’ve been through this journey before too but that time I took a different road.

It’s only the self-motivation that works, means could be different but motivation is everything.

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