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Update on Fitness and weight loss!

I started focusing on weight loss about a year and a half ago.
I feel like everyone has this moment at some point in life when they start thinking seriously about their health. The triggers are different for everyone. For me, it happened when I started traveling more and meeting people from different backgrounds and nationalities.

It hit me how unhealthy my lifestyle was — just casually putting almost anything into my body without thinking twice. Doing that once in a while probably doesn’t hurt much, but if you do it every day, it catches up to you. I started feeling it physically. Fitness and weight were the two things that kept pulling my confidence down, and over time, it just started bothering me more.

At some point, I sat down and realized: There’s no point sitting around waiting. Nobody is going to magically reduce my weight for me. If I want to change, I have to act.

What'd I do?

I still remember it was around October when I decided to start. I picked a course on the Cult app at home: Burn Belly with Olivia. I used to take my mat, step out onto the balcony, and do the workouts there.
I never really liked the idea of typical gyms in my area earlier. They always felt like crowded spaces where nobody actually talks to anyone.
Honestly, I think for me it was more about the people — I was living in an area back then where I just didn’t vibe with the crowd 😆

Eventually, I got bored with home workouts. But that's when I found group classes through the same Cult app.
The center was about half an hour from my home, but I pushed myself to go daily. I kept that up for a month.

In 2024, we moved to Gurugram. The vibe is much better, more things to do around. This changed things a lot. I joined a Cult center here that's literally a 15-minute walk away.

Now I go every day. I do the classes almost daily — they have a good mix:

  1. Boxing: Learning all the jabs and cuts.
  2. Strength classes: One of my favourites, because I love the different formats. AMRAP (As many rounds as possible), Chipper, EMOM (Every minute on minute).
  3. Burn: Different workout drills that focus on full body and weight loss
  4. HRX Workout: Muscle building, its less about how many reps but about increasing the weight in each round.
  5. Dance Fitness: All about moving body and enjoy music and dance

Right now I do mix of Strength, HRX and Dance fitness. When I started, I was around 89 kg (196 lbs). Today, I’m around 72 kg (159 lbs). So lost like 20 kg (40 lbs) 🚀

Things I am proud of

Well these are some of things I achieved in past year and half that I'm really proud of

  1. Getting back to healthy BMI levels: 23 right now
  2. I did check the box for having abs ✅
  3. I completed 474 classes 🚀

Interesting changes

There’ve been a few interesting things I’ve noticed while losing weight and getting fitter:

  1. I actually prefer going out daily now. I don’t feel like just sitting around at one place anymore. Way less laziness compared to before.
  2. I can do more reps and rounds than a lot of people. It’s small, but it really boosts my confidence. Just yesterday, we had two exercises in an AMRAP format: American Swing and Spiderman Plank.
    I managed about 10 rounds in 15 minutes — starting with 12 kg (26 lbs) for the first round, then 16 kg (35 lbs) for 4 rounds, 20 kg (44 lbs) for 4 rounds, and finally 24 kg (53 lbs) for the last round.
  3. I went from an XL size to M.
  4. My waist size dropped from 40 inches to 32 inches.
  5. My weekday eating routine is very defined. I’ve been following it for over a year now without much experimentation — simple, higher protein, lower carbs, nothing fancy, just consistent.
  6. My face is way slimmer now. Honestly, I had stopped tracking at one point — and when I compared a photo from a year back, I was shocked at the difference.
  7. Different workouts like dance and boxing have been a great emotional outlet. Whenever I’m not feeling great — personal or professional stuff — I just switch to dance classes for a few days. Works like magic.
  8. I genuinely feel more confident now. Not just in fitness, but across everything — work, social stuff, everything.
  9. My eating routine on weekdays is defined and I don't experiment with it. It has been working for me from more than a year now. Try to limit carbs and more protein
  10. I can't eat junk regularly anymore — my body just doesn’t accept it.
    I’ve tried a few times, but it always backfires. So now, I’ve just stopped doing it.
  11. People guess my age 4–5 years younger now. Hands down, one of the best unexpected bonuses.

My next target is to actually just maintain this.