Dr. Aravind PadmarajuHealwitharavind · Founder & CEO

Turning Point | My Journey Of Transformation

22 Oct 2023 · 2 min

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In this personal narrative, Aravind Padmaraju, Ph.D., recounts the pivotal events that shaped his health journey. In 2013, a tragic train accident claimed his wife's life, plunging him into deep depression and triggering compulsive emotional eating that caused a rapid 12 kg weight gain in just 2½ months, eventually reaching 102 kg from his earlier 65 kg. Over the next years he entered a relentless cycle of dieting, weight loss, and regain, repeating the pattern after remarrying and again hitting 102 kg in 2016. A humiliating encounter at a movie theater—where a ticket collector mistook his wife for his daughter due to the stark weight contrast—sparked intense anger and a decisive inner voice telling him this would be his last such experience. This incident became the turning point, motivating him to become a fit husband. Despite brief successes, he continued to struggle, recognizing that he was repeating past mistakes. Determined to break the cycle, he committed to studying nutrition science, fitness, and related disciplines, vowing to apply new knowledge and avoid previous errors.

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So in 2013, there is a tragedy happened in my life that I lost my wife in a train accident. I went into a deep depression. So because of the depression I have, I was only to overcome is eating food, and I, I was just left and right ate, and exactly in 2 and a half months I gained 12 kgs. I hit my highest weight of 102 kgs from around 65 when I started my career, right? So I was literally very heavy on my body, and then again I started with another diet And I reduced the weight again, the same pattern, right? It was a vicious cycle of losing and gaining, losing and gaining. And then again, I moved on with my life. I got married again, and again the same pattern repeated. And in 2016, I hit my highest weight of 102 again. And me and my wife, we went for a movie theater. The ticket collector looking at my wife was 52 kgs, I was 102 kgs. You can imagine how it was, right? So he told me, looking at my wife, is it your daughter? So that actually put me into so much of anger. I was that time, but I was not able to control my anger on him because somehow my mind voice was saying that whatever he said is right. Why are you feeling bad? That whole movie I could not watch. And that particular day, this small mind voice said that this is going to be the last time you ever have this experience in your life. And I really wanted to become a fit husband. So that's how my whole journey started. And then I started losing weight. And somehow I was not able to fix that. Again, over a period of 1 year, I started scaling up. And I was literally into a frustration that last 15 years I've been struggling again and again and again to gain and lose weight. There's something I'm fundamentally doing wrong, otherwise I can't fail so many times. Then I said that whatever I'm going to do the next time, I will not do all the mistakes whatever I did from my past 15 years of experience. That's how when I researched about and I became— I started learning about nutrition sciences, fitness, and also Pense.