: ‘My Kid Got Cancer I Couldn’t Carry Her’: Mom Shares How She Lost Over 20 Kilos #IndiaNEWS #healthy living At 93 kg, exhaustion and tiredness were part of Lucknow-based Prerona Mishra’s (35)

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‘My Kid Got Cancer I Couldn’t Carry Her’: Mom Shares How She Lost Over 20 Kilos #IndiaNEWS #healthy living
At 93 kg, exhaustion and tiredness were part of Lucknow-based Prerona Mishra’s (35) everyday life.
She recalls that she was an active child, she took part in many athletic and sports-based activities, and was also a good Kathak dancer and basketball player. But the academic pressure of Class 10, followed by college, marriage, and motherhood, brought about many changes in her life.
She began gaining weight rapidly and before she realised, she had breached the 90 kg mark.
Prerona Mishra
There was a point, she says, that she found it difficult to even climb a flight of stairs without gasping for breath.
But Prerona worked on herself, and in 10 months, lost a total of 23 kg.
In conversation with The Better India, Prerona says, “In 2019, my husband moved to Hamburg, Germany to pursue an additional academic qualification. I found it difficult to deal with his moving, and turned to emotional eating as my coping mechanism. �
Just as she was getting used to manage on her own in India, her four-year-old daughter Anaishaa was diagnosed with blood cancer. “My entire life came crashing down with that diagnosis. With COVID-19 looming large, my husband was unable to come back to India. That meant I had to take charge and deal with the medical situation. �
Prerona was devastated but says that she tried real hard to pick up the pieces.
My weight became a liability
Mother and daughter.
With every passing day, her daughter started getting weaker, and had to be picked up and taken to the washroom, hospital, and everywhere else. “Picking up her and walking around started causing me a lot of back pain. The pain would get so much that at times, even walking by myself was proving to be difficult. I did it, I kept carrying her around, but it did me no good,� Prerona says.
She adds that like this, there were many small instances to show how her weight was interfering with everyday life. “While Anaishaa was going through her chemotherapy sessions, she would sit on my lap through it. I couldn’t get up and move for hours on end. That meant I couldn’t use the restroom as frequently as I wanted to, so I started drinking lesser amounts of water. All these small actions had an impact on my health. �
Four months into Anaishaa’s treatment, Prerona realised that she was breaking down mentally and physically. She was on the verge of giving up. The only thing that kept her going was the love for her daughter. “I knew I had to live and get fit if I wanted to give my daughter the care she deserved. �
‘Suddenly something changed’
Anaishaa and Prerona
“I couldn’t afford to collapse when my daughter’s treatment was underway.

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