In pursuit of “putting on”:

It has been a very long time since I have been fruitlessly pursuing to complete this task satisfactorily. Well, not a task actually, since it’s more of continuous rather than being a final task. To put it in simple words, it is more of a journey with milestones.

However, the sad part is that I have never been able to even cross, or reach for that matter, the first milestone of 55 Kgs. Being 5’7” tall, I have been advised by numerous doctors & health instructors that the ideal weight range for me would be approximately 60-65 Kgs. Further, being an organized task planner, I decided to put up milestones of 55 Kgs, 58 Kgs & 60 Kgs. But here I am, still hovering in the range of 50-52 Kgs. since last 5 years.

Considering the spate of events, in the year 2000, my weight was almost 55 Kgs. Bang! The dreaded thing happened. I met with an accident in Surat (don’t feel like covering the details here). My weight plummeted to 47 Kgs within the first 15 days. Thereafter, my exam preparation leave would add 2-3 Kgs to my body. & later that will get knocked down on the onset of the succeeding semester.

There have been quite a few people around – like my bro-in-law Jay – who have told (once or twice, maybe) me that I may put on after completing my studies. So I hoped that my job life would help me in crossing my first milestone at the least. Alas!

I guess I have tried everything possible within limits, by now to put on. To cite examples, I ate almost 6 bananas’s a day for 3 months. Been a couch potato for almost 4 months. However, no intended results were achieved. The Weight meter swore not to move by even a centimeter. 50 Kgs!

Been in Hyderabad since 4 months & my diet has been more healthy 7 nutritious than what it was in Chennai. More of fruit juices, more of milk consumption per day, more of almost everything. But Still I don’t think I have put on!

& more agonizing is the fact that my pants have gone tighter from waist since last 1 month or so, but there seems to be no remarkable achievement of crossing the first milestone of 55 Kgs.

& the agony is further aggravated each time when I go to Mumbai & hear it from my parents, my sis & overall lots of relative there: “Wajan kem nathi vadharto?” (In Guajarati it means – why aren’t you putting on weight?)

Phew! So this happens to by my BHAG-2006; a Big Hairy Audacious Goal – cross first milestone by June – July 2006.

Any tips to put on would be highly appreciated.