The girl who wanted to put on her weight

This post is about one of my friend.

She was very lean. Not so lean that she looked weird. Somewhat ok ok. She used to show her hands to me and tell - "Look how lean i am... There is only skin above my bones :-(". When she raised this issue in front of me i always used to tell her that girls look good and attractive when lean. And i assured her every time that she looked fine. Its not like she felt like that. Her family, colleagues and other people she met used to tell her that and she felt she should gain some weight. So she started trying for it.

As a first step, she made some changes in her diet. She started eating dry fruits and drinking milk but with no results. Added to that she increased her amount of normal food and also started eating junk food in intervals. Now this showed some results. But negative. Instead of whole body getting fat, she got fat deposits where fat gets deposited usually in female body. Stomach and buttocks. She was alarmed by this and started fasting on alternate days to control this situation. She could manage to get back to the old state.

She was not ready to give up cos of one failure. She was looking for some way or medicine to become liitle fat. And some of her friends suggested her to have protien powder. So she purchased protien powder product from Amway which was costing around 1800. In four to five months she spent around 10000 and didn't see much advantage. It did some changes but not upto what she expected by spending this much. She gave up that also in sometime.

Finally upon suggestion of her roommate she started going to a gym nearby her house where she had to pay only 500 monthly. She starting working out for more than a hour everyday after reaching back from work. This increased her hunger and blood circulation and she started to see some difference by gaining 1kg in one month. She became very happy with that and continued the same. But for her horror she gradually realised that her body is getting a muscular look that she used to see of women athletes in tv rather than her usual feminine posture. After that she left all her tries to gain her weight.

Now is the paradox. After one year of her married life as of now she has gained around 15kgs without any extra effort and she is trying to decrease her weight by some means. She is trying medicines which are offering to decrease weight such as fat free tablet, real slim oil etc. Even I am surprised. How she managed to gain this much weight???

Local Body Polls - Cast Your Vote

Local body polls in Kerala are about to commence on 23rd and 25th of October. Elections would be held to civic bodies in Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Pathanamthitta, Kozhikode, Wayanad, Kannur and Kasargod on October 23 and in Idukki, Kottayam, Alappuzha, Ernakulam, Thrissur, Palakkad and Malappuram would be held on October 25. Counting and result announcement would take place on 27th of October. New councils would take charge on November 1st, Kerala formation day. As per the latest figures, there are 978 grama panchayats, 152 block panchayats, 14 district panchayats, 60 municipalities and five corporations in the state.


This is the first poll which has reservation in 50% seats for women candidates. As a result of this reservation 605 local bodies of the total 1208 will be headed by women. The political parties were finding it difficult to find out right woman candidates since majority of the women were not openly into politics even though they favour some parties or fronts. Moreover we can also see women from households of Muslim families in Malappuram who are not seen normally involving in social or political activities, contesting in elections.

Last date to withdraw the nominations are already over and the final picture of the list of candidates is clear now. The major fronts contesting each other are the ruling LDF headed by CPI(M) and UDF lead by Congress in the opposition. Their future for the next five years are in the hands of 2.25 crore voters in Kerala.   Not only their future, even our future is in our hands. We have the power to elect the one whom we want as our representative. And with great power comes great responsibilities. And its our responsibility and duty to utilise this power and use it wisely.

Most of the time we see the percentage of people who cast their vote are from 40 - 70 %. Rest of the people sit back at home and keep on criticising the government. In my opinion they have no right to criticise without using their power to vote. They could have selected better people to power and without doing that what is the meaning in criticising? We live in world's largest democracy. And I am proud of that. Are you?

Cast Your Vote