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If youve been trying to lose weight for a while now, you know theres no one quick hack or trick to it. And motivational quotes can only help you get so far.

Weight loss is the combination of a healthy diet and a consistent exercise regime. But now the question arises - how amongst a vast sea of credible and non-credible diets, can you find the correct diet for your body type? Well, you will have to experiment till you find a plan that sticks, and more importantly a weight loss plan that works!

35-year-old Sachin Mathapati, who at his heaviest weighed 106 kgs, tells us that he experimented with many different diet plans in the last 3-4 years GM diet (stopped on the 2nd day), No rice diet, no salt diet but none of them made any significant difference until he came across keto.

A keto diet (also known as the ketogenic diet) is a special diet plan that ensures you are eating foods that are high in fat (about 70 per cent), moderate in protein (about 25 per cent) and extremely low in carbohydrates (about 5 per cent). The main purpose of this diet is to help your body achieve the state of ketosis. When in ketosis, your body is constantly burning fat, and at a rate higher than any other diet plan will be able to help you achieve. You can read more about the keto diet here.

Says Sachin, I was always slightly overweight but never obese. In the last few years, however, I had gained a lot of weight (blame it on my lifestyle and bad eating habits). When my weight touched 106 kgs, I pressed the panic button and started trying various diets and exercise regimes to lose weight and get fit.

After a lot of unsuccessful attempts with many popular diets, I stumbled on keto, and now its been 2 years since I commenced my weight loss journey and have successfully been able to maintain my weight at 80 kgs.

I started following the below keto diet in March 2018 and lost almost 20 kgs in 10 months. I also started exercising regularly from December 2018. After which, I lost the extra six kgs. Since then I exercise 5 days a week and do high intensity interval training and weight training.

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I am sure most of you already know what a keto diet is but if you dont know, this is the easiest breakdown of a keto diet:

Being a vegetarian, it was difficult for me to follow this diet because all the traditional Indian foods that we eat such as roti, rice, paratha, idli, dosa and even tea are all high carb foods. To give them all up completely was difficult."

Breakfast (9:00 am): 2-3 eggs + spinach and avocado juice + bullet tea (without sugar and with butter)

Mid-day (11:00 am): Coffee

Lunch: (1:00 pm): Okra or cauliflower or paneer + cauliflower rice or sometimes roti made from flax seeds + a boiled egg or an omelette

Evening snacks (6:00 pm): A cup of tea without sugar and grilled paneer or a small bowl of strawberries, blueberries

Dinner (8:30 pm): Keto-friendly veggies with almond flour roti or cauliflower rice or eggs

It was tough to adapt to this diet but once I managed to get past the first 2 weeks, it was a wave. Once your body gets adapted to burning fat as fuel you will have no cravings for sweets or high carb foods. Before this diet I could not control hunger for even 2 hours but now I can easily manage without eating anything for 24 hours by only drinking water and coffee."

I follow an intermittent fasting pattern of eating to maintain my weight along with going to the gym regularly.

Disclaimer: The diet and workout routines shared by the respondents may or may not be approved by diet and fitness experts. GQ India doesn't encourage or endorse the weight loss tips & tricks shared by the person in the article. Please consult an authorised medical professional before following any specific diet or workout routine mentioned above.

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