Freedom at last
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It is Independence Day. And independence means different things to different people...and different things at different times for the same people.
When I came to Delhi for my first job, that's when I first thought I was independent. I had my own money to spend, and spend it the way I liked. Yeah, it took many movies and pizzas and eating out sessions for the independence to finally sink in. But after the first month, when the rent and the bills left me significantly bankrupt, I realized that independence without responsibility can be dangerous.
A fact that was reaffirmed with a sudden 5 kg weight gain, followed by jaundice, which brought me skittering back home to my folks.
But the jaundice got better and with several dozes of medicines and parental advice, I returned to the city. Till a month, while the whites of my eyes were still yellow, I ate boiled veggies, fruits, avoided ghee, butter, oil. The increased weight would have come back to normal, and I would have started fitting to old jeans again...but then suddenly one day the yellow tint disappeared.
FREEDOM! Freedom from bland food, from the healthy 'right' eating. And ate with a vengeance!! And never stopped! My salary increased and I thought I gained the freedom to eat out more often and at more expensive places. And if I stopped fitting into old clothes...so what...I could always buy new ones...
Till I reached a point...when I just stopped fitting into clothes. I remember the day I headed out to the store that made clothes for 'big' people. How I made my peace with that, I cannot understand now? They were ill fitting, unflattering...but at least they fit! I shudder to think what would happen to me if kept going that way. Now...i find it scary.
But today, I'm proud of the freedom I've found. Freedom from being overweight. Freedom from being breathless and unfit. I still love food, and still get the occasional cravings for butter chicken. But today I chose not to, because I've tasted freedom, and I wont give it up so easily.
So if the devil tells you to binge, and your sweet tooth wants you to wipe off the entire chocolate cake, think of the Civil disobedience movement!! Fat go back!! Inqualaab zindabad!!
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Megha Mamgain is a producer with CNN-IBN. She’d like to think that she contributes to a lot of the on-air craziness. This 26-year-old has spent a lot of her time eating, sleeping and not exercising. But now it’s time to pay for her sins, and the fight to fitness begins in Fighting Fit.Recent Posts
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