Dr. Aravind PadmarajuHealwitharavind · Founder & CEO

"Start strong 💪, but stay balanced 🌱. Fitness is a journey, not a sprint 🏃‍♂️."

21 Sept 2024 · 1 min

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In this YouTube monologue, Aravind Padmaraju, Ph.D., reflects on his own weight‑loss journey, noting that he has failed more than ten times because he began each fitness attempt far too aggressively. He describes the emotional toll of those failures—feeling devastated each time he could not maintain progress or achieve results. The core message is a warning to viewers: never start a fitness or weight‑loss program with an overly intense approach, as this is the primary reason many people repeatedly fail to lose weight and improve health. The segment sets up the premise for a broader discussion on adopting a balanced, sustainable fitness strategy.

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Most of the parents, including me, I have done this one big mistake. So this one big mistake, don't ever do in your weight loss journey. And that is the whole reason you've been failing again and again and again in your own weight loss journey, also improving your health. And this was the biggest discovery of my own fitness journey where I failed more than 10 times in my own journey. I found this was one of the biggest mistake every single time I did, and I felt devastated every single time. Where I was not able to maintain or I, I was not able to get the result. What is that one big mistake is never ever start your fitness journey too aggressively.