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No food is a villain. It’s all good for you. We just need to eat it in moderation. And we can just skip some too.
I have struggled with my weight all my life. Have been body-shamed by my friends, family, peers, i.e. by literally everyone around me. I hated my bone structure, the wide shoulders and wide hips. And I started to hate myself. Can you imagine a 15-year-old kid going through all this with the additional pressure of studies? Pressure due to studies is a whole another topic and that rant shall be covered some other time. Suffice it to say that it drove me crazy.
A few years after this, I started to act as if I have accepted my body as it is. This definitely was me being shallow. Can’t say which phase was worse. Never being a physically active person (read lazy panda) workouts were tough and rough on me. Once when I did lose my weight, instead of looking fit, I looked sick. I just lost my shit. Eating my heart out was the new mantra. Weight and anxiety attached to it were back. This was an ominous, never-ending cycle and went on for years.
It was the same until 2 years ago. My weighing scale read 75 and it was only increasing gradually. I looked a few years older than I actually was and grew tired very easily. Finally had my moment of epiphany. So I wore my shoes and started walking. Then found some Zumba videos and did that too. Next found a workout app and zealously started following it. Prepared a diet chart and went by it too Result: Nothing
It took a few months to realise that I was not doing it right. Google to the rescue. After intense searching, I realised that I needed to follow a program made of proper diet and proper workout. And it worked. Took some time but it worked. I have lost close to 10 kgs now. I feel active. I feel beautiful. I know I’ll never be able to wear a size 26” waist jeans, but at least I am fit. I actually love my body now. With wide hips, sarees just look super sexy.No food is a villain. It’s all good for you. We just need to eat it in moderation. And we can just skip some too. But then again what are cheat days for? Make workout a part of your daily routine just like brushing, bathing and eating are. It may take some time but a positive results will come for sure.
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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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