This is a YouTube video titled "You can lose 20-40 pounds as a professional woman or 7-figure entrepreneur!" featuring Nagina Abdullah, founder of Masala Body. In this personal and motivational talk from March 2015, Nagina shares her experience balancing a demanding career, motherhood, and health. She discusses how she successfully lost weight and improved her energy through dietary changes, inspiring other busy professional women to achieve similar health goals.
Hi, my name is Negeena Abdullah, and I'm the founder of Masala Body. I help other women get healthy and feel amazing about themselves for life. Masala Body is for ambitious women, for working moms, and for professional women that just don't have a lot of time to go to the gym for hours a day, but still want to be healthy because it's really important to them. I've got two young children that are extremely demanding, so my schedule is packed for from morning to night.
Staying healthy is something that is at the forefront of my mind and something that I really strive for, but it's obviously a challenge with the kind of schedule that I have.
I work really long hours, but I love what I do. And by the time I get home, I'm trying to pull something together for dinner. I like to be that domestic housewife. I'm a management consultant. I travel every week and work very long hours. I made a few changes to what I was eating, so I just replaced a couple ingredients with others. What turned out happening is that my weight dropped dramatically. I lost 40 pounds in less than a year, and it stayed off for years. The reality of implementing a healthy menu and healthy food shopping is hard. The best part is after a long day of work, I'm able to come home and help my young son with his homework and help him learn how to read. I have the energy to do that instead of wanting to just sit on the couch. I went to a wedding recently and wore a dress that I could have never, never worn. A few years ago, my husband was at the wedding and hadn't seen me when I walked into the reception hall. He literally did a double take and couldn't stop staring at me. And then what he said was, oh, my God, babe, you look amazing. And it made me feel so great that he saw my accomplishment and I just felt so good about myself. It was one of the best nights I'd ever had. I knew that if I was able to to feel so much better about myself and lose so much weight while having such a demanding job and two kids, I knew that other women could do it as well.
