Does Madippu Amsa Still Haunt You - 587

            FLAB AT THE WAIST                        LA MADIPPU AMSA FLAB 

   

           
Lucky are those few  who do not face this problem of having to shed some weight during some part of their life .

Most people face this problem  around their middle age and a lucky few who go on to face this problem while stepping into their late sixties . I perhaps belong to the second group .
I have been lucky enough to maintain my weight around the 55 kg mark up to my 60 th year . For a man at Five Foot Eight Inches of height this would be considered by many to be lower than the optimum level and some might  call it downright skinny which is one notch worse  than being labeled as  thin .
Be that as it may . Post retirement , there was  a gradual increase in body weight and it now hovers around the 66 kg mark . I must hasten to add here that  I am a very active person and into Gardening ,  Farming of my small piece of paddy land besides being engaged at all levels in  the general  upkeep of the house which is surrounded by huge trees on all sides .

The almost 20% increase in weight has many other ramifications , the most important of which is the Medical angle .
I seem to have outgrown my Shirts and Trousers or Pants . While Shirts are not that much of a problem , Trousers definitely are.
Try as I  might , the Trouser Button and Hole or Hook earmarked for the same definitely refuse to come to a gentleman's agreement and meet near the naval without inflicting a  damage to the hook or trouser.

If after a Herculean effort you do finally get them to meet , the flab protruding out 
at the waist would be in  the range of Madippu Amsa or Hamsa , the Heroine and  yesteryear screen siren of Manmatha Leelai fame who appeared in the  Kamalahasan Movie of 1976 .

All this together with the other  General Health Requirement led me to embark upon   "MISSION WEIGHT/WAIST REDUCTION "

The best way to start the same was to embark on a Daily  Walking Programme of atleast an hour everyday .

My neighbor Kadayam Mani s daughter Selvi was gracious enough to suggest and install an APP to monitor the same on my mobile . This showed the DISTANCE IN KMS,TIME TAKEN TO COVER THE SAME AND NUMBER OF STEPS WALKED EVERYDAY .

It is now almost a 2 Years  and i have been clocking 6000 steps and a distance of almost 5 Kms on a regular basis .
I hope i am not imagining , but i do see a slight change for the better .
Hope to be around the 65 kgs mark very soon  and start making  use of the Trousers that are waiting in the Almirah and waiting for their turn to be out in the Sun and away from  the enclosed space .

Thank You for Watching .