Weekend Musings on ILLUMINATION — I Lost 7KG in 1 Month and It Has Nothing to do with Strenuous Training.

No, there is no running or weight-lifting.

In fact, it wasn’t a deliberate attempt.

It was a by-product of anxiety, thinking time and government lock-down.

2020 has been a challenging year, one that is littered with pleasant and not-so-pleasant surprises. Amidst all the business challenges that I have been facing since start of February this year, there has been 1 silver lining among the darkest clouds.

Pretty unexpectedly, my weight has gone down.

In fact, I lost 7kg in a month.

I would love to say that it was deliberate and calculated.

I would love to recount heroic attempts at running 10 km in the morning and bench-pressing 30kg steel plates in the evening.

Or even better.

I would love to say that I have given up on junk food completely and have gone plant-based because that is just the right thing to do.

I would love to.

Unfortunately, it wasn’t the case and it is not even close to my reality.

What happened is a by-product of business challenges I face in the current economy. Consumer spending has plunged and naturally, the Sales revenue for subscribing to my mentorship programs and copy-writing projects has taken a 20% cut. Existing long-term clients pull out and current contract obligations evaporated.

I was pulling my hair out as I sat by my working desk attempting to salvage one client after another.

Days comprising of 18 hours work-day soon became weeks.

I started to feel fatigue percolating into my mind.

I tend to head straight to my working desk with a cup of fresh brew after I am up for the morning and just that Tuesday morning 2 months ago, my mind whispered something to me.

“Let’s go for a walk, shall we?”

And so I did.

I went for a morning walk. I think it was 45 minutes and 5,000 steps in the morning.

It felt refreshing and really good.

I soaked myself into the bath of the morning sun and started observing the neighbourhood.

Then I saw a pull-up bar.

I went up and did 5 pull-ups.

It never felt that good.

When I finally got to my working desk, I felt recharged and ready to go.

For some reason, it felt like the mental fog in my mind evaporated.

I was able to complete a copy-writing assignment with new catchy phrases that I never thought of before that day.

Something clicked.

“I must do this daily. It does miracles to the body and mind.”

And I didn’t quite wait.

I went again that very evening, clocking another 5,000 steps in 45 minutes, another 5 pull-ups before I called it a day. I even managed thought of prospects that I could reach out to during that evening.

5 prospecting emails went out before I expired to bed.

It was a good day.

So I continued to do that day after day.

In parallel, my appetite shrunk as less sales revenue translated to tighter budget.

I reduced from 3 dishes for lunch to 2 dishes.

Did the same for dinner.

The funny thing is I don’t actually feel like I missed anything.

In fact, I learnt one thing.

Cutting 1 dish meant I was able to do away with post-meal food coma.

I was able to get back to my mental focus at work faster than usual.

It was great.

The unexpected result was … a loss of 3kg in 2 weeks.

I thought it was a miscalculation of the weighing scale.

So I went to the pharmacy to weight myself when the clinic attendant wasn’t watching.

The end result was the same.

I felt euphoric for the longest time. It felt effortless too.

I continued my daily walking and pull-up routine twice daily.

After a month, I lost a grand total of 7kg.

And I felt that my jeans were loose on my hips.

It felt great.

And did I mention that I am able to pull 10 pull-ups after a month?

I wasn’t expecting this result in terms of weight loss.

It is true.

But I learnt one thing.

Losing weight doesn’t have to involve fast speed or long-distance running.

It doesn’t have to involve lifting weights and barbells either.

All it takes is a morning and evening walk, with food intake control.

It makes a World of Difference.

Try it.

You might be pleasantly surprised.

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About the Author:

As a Consultant by training, I believe in making the complex simple.

Because simplicity adds value.

Simplicity helps us gain clarity, and clarity helps us to grow.

And if we are not growing, then what’s the point of anything else?

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