When I took my weight today and found it to be 69 KG I realised I have kept my promise to my wife 30 years back and I thank her for being able to do it.

Having a weighing machine at home has an advantage. It tells you what weight you have and whether it is in the range you expect it be in.
Today morning when I took my weight, it showed 69 KG for the third day in continuation and I thought about the promise I had made to my wife 30 years ago, at the time of marriage that I will keep my weight around 70 KG.
As all of us know maintaining reasonable weight for 30 years is not easy but in my case I am thankful to my wife who has helped me in keeping the weight to acceptable limits. She is a medical doctor and has been careful in the diet the family takes and has been observant for any signs any of us in the family show of not good health indicators. I remember my 1998 medical report indicated high triglyceride levels and I started prescription medicines for that. In 2003, when I was to go to Hotspring in Leh, my BP was slightly high and there I had to start BP medicines. Having a family history of diabetes, she noticed slightly elevated blood sugar and she made some changes in my eating pattern and I could escape taking medicines for it.
Come 2018 and she did a course advocating medicine free life and made some changes in our eating habits. Within 3 months, my medicines were discontinued and improvements started. Last month she suggested intermittent fasting and fat based diet and I read a few books about it and followed wheat she suggested. Within a month all my parameters improved and today I truly am in a healthy state.
An effect of the changes I made is reduction of body weight. For the first time in 30 years the weighing scale showed less that 70 KG and I have maintained it for more than 15 days without effort which makes me feel that I can maintain less than 70 KG on a regular basis.
Clearly this has been possible because of the constant support of my wife and me following her advice. In the process I have also learnt a few things and I thought of sharing these with everyone connected. Hence this write up.

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