Sharfi, a mom of two who travels for work, lost 10 pounds using the Spice Yourself Skinny program. She talks about her favorite spices and how she balanced the program with motherhood and constant travel.
Hi, this is Nagina, and I am here today with Sharfi, a Spice Yourself Skinny star sister and mom of a very young baby who lost a lot of weight. And Spice Yourself Skinny. Sharfi, please say hi. Tell us how much weight you lost, how many inches across your body you lost, and tell us about your favorite spice and what you use it on.
Hi, Nagina. Hi, everybody. So, yeah, I joined the third round of Spice Yourself Skinny around February, and at that time, I weighed 148.6 pounds. And this morning I weighed. And it's what, May 5th today I was. I weighed 139 pounds this morning. And that too, you know, there were weeks in between, like, week eight of Spice Yourself Skinny that, you know, I wasn't able to be on the plan because I was traveling last. This week, I was traveling. So I. I did whatever I could, but not really, you know, like the SIS recipes. But, yeah, I lost 9.6 pounds and 11 inches. So that's amazing. Oh, my gosh.
Congratulations. Wow. And that's while traveling for work and as a mom of a young baby. How old is your baby now?
She will be one in August. So, yeah, she's little, teeny, tiny. Wow.
So cute. And kudos to you for taking charge of your body right away. Like, you know, you gave yourself that time to recover, to feel good, to feel like you're healthy enough to start eating healthy, but then you just took control and, like, you know, like, you're getting back into it. So I love that. I love that. Now tell me what your favorite spice is and what you like to use it on.
You know, much like you. So since I was born and brought up in an Indian family, I was very, very familiar with spices. What was really new to me was adding the chia seeds, the flax seeds, the hemp seeds, and just the amazing amount of energy I will have in the morning just from adding those things. So spices were my thing before because I know the first week plan. When the meal plan came out, I was looking at the recipes and I almost had all of the spices except for, you know, these unusual things and, like, having no idea how to pair them up with, you know, your regular go to smoothies and stuff. So those things, like chia seed is my favorite. I think I mentioned it many times on the. On the Facebook group too. Like, I'm amazed how much energy I have once I have that chia seed. The smoothie with the chia seed, or I'll just add it to, like, any other smoothie too. So that was my favorite. I definitely almost always use turmeric and cinnamon. Actually, for cinnamon, I wasn't using as much. I was just using it for my husband because he had diabetes and we had him on slow carb diet before. And, you know, men have it easy. Like, he would lose, like, £20 in a month.
Yeah. Like, yeah, my husband lost £20 in a month. Yeah. Yeah. Wait, I don't lose £20 in a month. But I was so happy.
But, yes, I was using cinnamon for him. But I think when you started mentioning cinnamon, I'm like, you know, why not?
