Written By: Sameer Jha | Updated : December 19, 2014 6:07 PM IST
Sachin Tendulkar, the nation s favorite cricketer, shares an experience about losing weight in his autobiography Playing It My Way. Marital bliss led me to relax my routine and the outcome was weight gain. I enjoyed myself thoroughly during our honeymoon and indulged my palate to a nicety, Tendulkar said in his book. (Read: Sachin Tendulkar applauds disabled swimmer, calls him a real hero)
Speaking about losing all the weight after that, Tendulkar wrote, When I returned to Mumbai I realised I couldn't get into any of my clothes. I had put on a few inches around my waist and it was time for some strict control on the culinary front. We weren't playing a great deal of cricket in 1995 and that was another reason why I had let down my guard. So for twenty straight days, after returning to Mumbai, I put myself on a diet of nothing but tea without sugar, boiled chana (chickpeas), oranges and sweet lime. I also started doing some rigorous exercise again to get back into shape. I used to run for an hour in the morning, followed by weight-training, and played two hours of table-tennis every evening. And during the table-tennis sessions, I d go and fetch the ball from wherever it went. Even if I had played a smash and the ball had gone behind my opponent, I d perform the chore myself, to get more exercise. The result was a weight loss of 10 kg in twenty days. But I had started to feel dizzy and weak and my trousers were now too loose, so I decided it was time to stop. The first meal I had after three weeks on the diet was boiled spinach and broccoli and after that I went back to eating normally.
A word of caution: What Sachin Tendulkar did here is called 'crash-dieting' and certainly not healthy, and we at TheHealthSite.com advise you to not follow this example. Here is an alternative and healthy diet plan for weight loss.
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