: I Took Charge Of My PCOS To Lose 20 Kilos In 6 Months Without Skipping Cheat Meals #IndiaNEWS #Inspirational Like many, Jasleen Kaur from Mumbai had been struggling with maintaining her weight due

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I Took Charge Of My PCOS To Lose 20 Kilos In 6 Months Without Skipping Cheat Meals #IndiaNEWS #Inspirational
Like many, Jasleen Kaur from Mumbai had been struggling with maintaining her weight due to a poor lifestyle. She recalls that her weight started becoming an issue in 2017, just as she began working as a marketing professional.
“My weight gain was a result of a poor lifestyle and eating habits. But I never worried and assumed that eating healthy and exercising could resolve the issue,� Jasleen says.
The 29-year-old says her weight gain worsened over the next couple of years and became severe to the extent that in 2019, she was diagnosed with PCOS and Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis, an auto-immune condition. “Both conditions are significant contributors to weight gain. Moreover, it makes shedding weight difficult,� she tells The Better India.
Jasleen says that her health condition came with other ailments such as severe migraines, leaky gut, small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO), ulcers, hair fall and acne. “My health kept worsening, and I could relate to symptoms of multiple lifestyle diseases,� she adds.
Jasleen healed her acne issue with dietary change.
Jasleen felt that the situation was going out of hand, and decided that she had to make a few strict decisions to improve her health. “My breaking point came when I had no stamina to cope with socialising with friends and balance a corporate job. I felt fatigued, anxious and depressed. I visited many nutritionists and doctors for a year, but I could not follow a plan that suited my body. I focussed on consuming a healthy diet and exercising twice a day, but it was all in vain,� she adds.
Journey towards healing
Jasleen quit her job in 2019. “I decided to take charge of my health. I knew the task would be difficult, but I also realised that it could not be any worse than what it already was. But I lacked knowledge on how weight loss functions. I read books on Ayurveda and functional medicine. I unlearned many habits that I was practising and started working on addressing issues such as inflammation, insulin resistance, gut dysbiosis and immune dysfunction by making dietary changes,� she says.
She adds that instead of weight loss alone, she focussed on a holistic approach to good health.
Jasleen says that she switched to a gluten-free lifestyle and dairy-free diet. This was to reduce inflammation in auto-immune diseases, she says. “I mostly ate bajra roti, white or brown rice, dosas and millets in grains. I included fermented probiotics like kimchi, kanji and sauerkraut for healing my gut,� she adds.
She notes, “Thanks to the vast information available on the internet, accessing and eating clean and healthy food is not that difficult.

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