Marriage is an
important step in our culture and society. I have seen girls been
groomed for matrimony by providing them with culinary skills and
asked to look after themselves so that they remain slim trim and look
beautiful so that they get a good groom. As a dutiful daughter I
followed this instructions and my marriage was arranged to a good
looking groom of my parents choice. Taking the wedding wows I felt
that from now on my life would be like a fairy tale in which I the
princess would live with my prince that is my groom happily ever
after. Little did I realize that marriage is the biggest turning
point in the life of a person and the process of making it work and
successful involves a lot of work and adjustments somewhere in this
process the focus shifts from me to us. Whereas the girl invariably
dons so many roles in the home and the office front in case she is
working and the husband gets busy focusing on work. The me and my
well being gets left behind as the wedding suit no longer fits the
waistline that is growing at almost a steady pace with each passing
year. The wife also puts her priorities as health,fitness and well
being behind. This is what my own experience tell me. Both me and my
husband were becoming slack in following the fitness regime that was
an essential part of our earlier life. We used to take pride in the
fact that we were slim and healthy and looked good but now it seemed
to be a story of the past. We did not care about what we ate and as a
result the wrong food and the lack of exercise took its toll on.
Earlier the girls and the boys of the neighborhood used to call me
didi but now I was being called as Aunty. Shocked I looked at the
mirror and found an unfamiliar matronly figure looking back at me.
My husband was very
passionate about cricket and a very good player too. He too got the
shock of his life when he was not selected for the office cricket
team as he could pass the cricket trials. The Annual medical
examination showed his cholestrol to be higher then the normal level.
These events made us
sit back and think. We now knew that we had to take quick action to
come back to our old self.
We visited and took
the ‘Weight-Heart Test at www.saffolalife.com
The results were not
very pleasant. Still not everything was lost.
The site suggested goals that
we should achieve like a walk and a diet plan to get back to good health.
We took a pledge
that we would go daily for a 30 minute walk and follow a diet plan to
get back into shape.
We have been
following this plan regularly and as a result my husband made it to
the cricket team and I have again started getting compliments and
being called Didi once again.
My advice to all
married couples is to follow a healthy diet plan and go for a 30
minute walk everyday.
We the women should
always remember that the heart always comes first. #ProtectHerHeart
I am joining the Saffolalife #ProtectHerHeart initiative and pledging my support to better heart health in Association with BlogAdda.”
