|| Success story from Arham Bin Tahir ||
I am Arham Bin Tahir and here is my success story of how I went from weighing 92kgs to 75kgs.
11th feb 2019: While I was chilling with my roomie at the hostels of SMC, my cellphone rand and my classmate Hira had sent me a picture that she took in the event of PAS inductions. Eyes popped, tears welled up and my heart broke. I was not able to digest the fact that the guy in the picture was me. I never realised that I had gained so much weight. I cried in front of Hamza who was my friend in bad times and during that, decided to do something to change it all.
Next few days I tried dieting and running. I did a good job. I know that. But guess what? I failed! – The pizza on the 10th day could not be resisted at all and I ended up losing all hopes. After that I tried listening to a few lectures on how to accept who you are. I figured that is what I could do at the end. But guess what? There was something inside of me that was continuously telling me that I had to do something about it! My mum would say when i was a child that anything that harms you or your environment should never be indulged in. And this thing, this enormous amount of fat in me, was actually harmful for my health.
So I made up my mind but I knew that staying in the college hostel I would never be able to lose weight since the food they provided us was oily and there were too much carbohydrates in our diet. On top of that, going to the gym everyday was not possible.
That is when I decided to wait for my summer break.
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After eid, on June 1st, 2019, I decided to give it another shot since that story of an ant, wanting to reach at the top and falling every time in the process of trying to reach and making it for the seventh time was still harbouring in some part of my brain. Before losing weight, I wanted a plan! What was I going to do?
My best friend Anum, who is a nutritionist, helped me out with this problem. Good friends always make you push harder and be a better version of yourself! And she did that part neatly.
So first I checked my weight. It was 92kgs. And my height was 5 feet 10 inches.
There were two parts of my weight loss journey.
1)Diet
2)Exercise.
You see, you always learn from your failures so I had to figure out why I had failed last time. I figured out that the reason I failed was that I did not give myself breaks. I realised taking breaks during the journey was more efficient rather than not completing the journey. So I decided that in the diet part, I would be taking 700 calories less than what I needed for 10 days. Also I would make sure that the food I take is also nutritious and has high protein, high fibre, low carbs and low fat. And on the 11th day I would have a cheat meal and would eat whatever I felt like eating. I excluded all the fried food and artificial sugar from my diet.
In the exercise part, I decided to go to the gym. I would work on every muscle group daily and after I was done with muscle workout, I would do 25 to 30 mins of running or HIIT.
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10th june 2019: After 10 days, I was supposed to lose around 2 kgs. I prayed when stepping on the scale: ‘God, I am giving my best, please let it be 90kgs rather than 92kgs.’
I checked my weight again. And….. I HAD NOT LOST ANY WEIGHT! Initially I was so angry at myself, I felt like stopping everything and eating a big bowl of pasta that my mum had made that day which everyone but I had eaten because I was trying to lose weight. But I had not! Not even one gram of it.
I actually really wanted to stop but my friend, once again helped like an angel and told me that I had two options. I could either go back to where I was or I could figure out the problem, fix it and continue my way towards my desired destination.
The very first thing that came into my mind while figuring my mistakes out was that I was not counting my calories properly. So I downloaded an app for it and used it.
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June 20,2019:
I checked my weight again, I had finally lost 2 kgs. I didn’t sleep that night our of happiness! It finally felt like I was on track. I actually had an idea now about how I could do this in a proper way. I could lose weight in many ways. I could have starved or done a certain diet but in the end, I had to be healthy. I see so many people who lose weight in unhealthy ways but for me losing weight and not looking or feeling healthy was not my goal. So I stuck to eating healthy, rather than not eating. It is a difficult path, but a more fruitful one.
June 30: Lost 2kgs.
July 10: Lost 1kg.
July 20: Lost 2kg.
July 30: Lost 2 more kgs.
By the time my college reopened, I had gone from weighing 92 kgs to 83 kgs. By now my determination was so strong that I could lose weight even in the hostel. I did home workout rather than going to the gym, ran on roads rather than on a treadmill, ate fruits rather than eating hostel food. On and off I kept dieting and not dieting. And I ended up losing weight!
From 83kgs to 80kgs.
Now there was a standstill point.
I wanted to take a break so I decided to maintain my weight. I decided on 80kgs for this year and I would lose the remaining 7kgs next year.
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March 20th 2020: I decided again to lose weight, but those alu parathas did not let me. You will see that in this whole process, I had failed many times. So many times I gave in to my weaknesses. The reason was: I knew it was okay to not be strong enough and give in to eating what everyone else was eating. At the end what mattered was that I always got up.
May 1, 2020: I gathered up the courage and did the same process as last year. I finally came from 80 kgs to 75 kgs in 25 days!
June 1,2020: I continued my diet for around a week and finally, finally after one year of struggle with weight, I achieved what I had wished for.
Here was my journey. Going from 92 kgs to 75 kgs.
People will make fun of you and also try to pull you down. They will also talk about you. But these people will always be the one who would like to be a part of your success at the end! The need and want for change must come from within, do not do it for anyone else.
I would like to thank my best friends Anum and Hamza who helped me get up every time I fell down.
No one will know how much you have struggled so do not let negativity get to you, always remember your hard work and continue on your journey. The purpose of sharing my story is to motivate people that if you put your heart to it you can achieve anything in life.
Good luck!
-Arham Bin Tahir (PAKISTAN)
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