In this interview, Divyata Shah, a 31‑year‑old company secretary and lawyer from Mumbai, recounts her health journey from age 28 when she suffered from six chronic conditions—PCOD, high blood pressure, pre‑diabetes, urticaria, scalp psoriasis, and migraines—along with severe obesity (95‑96 kg). After exhausting conventional allopathic, Ayurvedic, and fitness solutions, she discovered a YouTube video about the Satwik Movement. Motivated, she attended a workshop, adopted a Satwik diet (simple, plant‑based meals like khichdi and sabzi), and incorporated lifestyle practices such as early rising, walking, jogging, sun‑gazing, enema, wet packs, carrying fruit to work, and preparing fresh meals daily. Within four months she lost about 20 kg, saw her blood pressure normalize, fasting glucose drop to 110 mg/dL, hemoglobin rise from 8‑9 g/dL to 12 g/dL, and experienced complete remission of the six earlier ailments. Beyond physical health, she reports heightened energy, calmness, productivity, reduced material cravings, a minimalist mindset, and a deeper connection to nature—avoiding plastics, respecting animals, and practicing gratitude toward the sun and plants. She credits strong family support, especially from her mother‑in‑law, for sustaining the transformation. The interview also includes comments from Subha, Harsh, and the mother‑in‑law, reinforcing the message that chronic disease is not necessarily lifelong and that holistic lifestyle change can yield profound health and psychological benefits.
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When I was twenty eight year old, उस time पे मुझे कोई idea नहीं था या कोई ऐसे सोचा भी नहीं था मैंने कि मुझे कोई health problem आ जाएगी या कोई health issues आ जाएंगे इतनी छोटी age में। I had almost six problems, health issues and doctors prescribed medicines saying that I will have to continue all these medicines all my life. Then I don't know from where I had come across satwik movements video. This sounded very logical to me.
पूरा religiously किया, जैसे बताया था वैसे किया। हमें लगता है कि एक बार डिजीज हो गया, एक बार प्रॉबलम हो गई, तो वो कभी नहीं जाएगी. कि आपको अभी पूरी लाइफ में मेडिसिन लेनी ही पड़ेगी. बट ऐसा कुछ भी नहीं है.
And by end of the four months, मेरे ये छे के छे प्रॉबलम मेरा नाम दिव्यता शाह है। I'm thirty one year old, and I'm a by profession I'm a company secretary and a lawyer based out of Mumbai. Now I'll show you how I was before.
ये कौन है?
ये मैं हूँ। When I was twenty eight year old, when I was recently married, I was just overweight. So उस time पे मुझे कोई idea नहीं था या कोई ऐसे सोचा भी नहीं था मैंने कि मुझे कोई health problem आ जाएगी या कोई health issues आ जाएंगे इतनी छोटी age में। I had PCOD, I had high BP, I was pre-diabetic, then urticaria, then psoriasis in my scalp, then in between I started getting migraines. Brain attacks. Because I took so many medicines for such a long time, I started having acidity. Like, after 3 years of having all these problems, one day I remember I went to my family doctor and my BP was 180/110. And doctors prescribed medicine saying that I will have to continue all these medicines all my life. That was a very shattering thing for me because at the age of 28, if a doctor tells you that you have To take these medicines all your life, you have like forty years or thirty years ahead of you. That was a very bad stage. Then they said that you have to go for endoscopy, and I know what endoscopy is. It's too scary. So I was like, अब तो कुछ करना पड़ेगा। अब हो गया। अभी बहुत ज़्यादा चीजें हो गई हैं। When I was going through all of these diseases, I tried to find lot of way outs. I read this book, I read that book, I followed that Instagram account, that YouTube video. I tried many allopathic medicines, I took many Ayurvedic medicines, I went to dietitians, I went to gym instructors. I used to think that if I lose weight, I'll get rid of all these problems. So I did all of that, spent lakhs of rupees on those things. The solution was like very temporary. Then I don't know from where I had come across a Satwik Movement video, but I think it was one of the suggestions in YouTube. This sounded very logical to me and it sounded very near to me, like something that I was maybe familiar with earlier also, but I did not have anyone to push me to follow such a thing. So I thought of going and trying it once, at least attending a workshop so that at least I know what all minimum changes that I can make in my life. I knew that they are going to serve Satwik food over there, so let me taste how it is going to be. उस टाइम पे ऐसा लगा कि पेट भर गया, मन नहीं भरा। I liked lot of things but few things like खिचड़ी and सब्जी I used to be like ये तो ऐसे कैसे खाऊंगी मैं? फिर धीरे-धीरे taste develop हो गया। It was just about giving some time to myself to develop that taste. In spite of the fact that I was the biggest foodie मेरे सामने लोग खाते थे starting में मुझे feel होता था कि नहीं मुझे खाना है। एक piece ले लेती हूँ क्या हो जाएगा? नहीं but मैंने अपने आप को उस time पे रोक लिया वो बहुत अच्छा किया at least मैंने मेरे brain को train कर दिया। अब मेरे सामने आप कुछ भी अच्छी से अच्छी चीज़ रख दो। अगर मुझे नहीं खानी है, तो मैं नहीं खाऊँगी। जब स्टार्ट किया तो फर्स्ट हफ्ता वाज लाइक माय बॉडी वाज गिविंग मी डीटॉक्स सिम्टम्स। आई यूज्ड टू फील अलिटल बिट ऑफ हेडेक। आई यूज्ड टू गेट सीवियर एसिडिटी अगेन। एंड देन Symptoms that you're going through for a for some time, just you will feel all of these. But later on, gradually it'll go away. And I think within a week, all of these detox symptoms gradually came down, and I was feeling very good after that. I think when there is a will, there is a way. So मैंने बहुत सारे way outs निकाल दिए कि मैं थोड़ा जल्दी उठने लगी। जिस time पे हमें बोला गया था, उस time पे उठना start किया, then walk करना start किया। Then I used to have coconut water, जो बाहर ही मिल जाता है। वहाँ पे आपको कुछ ज़्यादा मेहनत करने की ज़रूरत नहीं है। Then I started having carrying fruits to the office. Then I used to carry my lunch. Then evening also I used to come early, try to chop the vegetables and keep them in the morning itself. And I used to just come back and make soup or salad or something like that. Within a period of two weeks, I saw that I had lost weight also. I lost some seven kgs. Because of that, I got all the more motivation कि भाई इतना weight reduce हो गया सिर्फ इतना करने से। I used to always have this excuse for myself कि time ही नहीं है कुछ करने के लिए। और पहले तो क्या था कि सिर्फ नाश्ता बनाती थी, नहाती थी, खाके जाती थी। I literally now if I try to think no I don't know इतना time जाता कहाँ था? Maybe I used to lie around, I used to do time pass on phone just like after doing some work I used to go inside the bedroom and rest। But when I changed To this satvik food, start किया उसके बाद मेरे पास बहुत time था ऐसे मुझे लगता है because my body doesn't need too much of rest after doing a particular task. I saw a huge change in my energy level. उसके बाद मैंने उसको और continue करा। I started understanding the concept of sun food, the air food. These concepts were very new to me और मैंने थोड़ा सा jogging start किया। Enema और wet pack पूरा religiously किया, जैसे बताया था वैसे किया। I found that it's not that difficult as we all think. When you actually do it, you find it to be very easy and simple. I had almost 6 problems, health issues. I reversed all my problems one by one, slowly and gradually. In the first month itself, my Sugar levels were at 110 in the morning. My hemoglobin level was at good level. Like in my old life, hemoglobin was always an issue. It was always 9, 8. Now it is 12. As on date, I've lost 20 kgs. I used to be 95 to 96 kgs and now I weigh 76 kgs. If my family was not supportive in this, I don't think I would have been able to pull it off. शादी के बाद बहुत सारी चीजें करनी होती हैं आपको घर संभालना है, ऑफिस भी संभालना है, सब करना है। But वो नहीं हो पा रहा था। तो obviously guilt feel आता था और उसी guilt feel के अंदर मेरे झगड़े भी बहुत हो जाते थे। यहाँ वहाँ की irritation वहाँ यहाँ वहाँ निकल जाती थी। Mother-in-law कुछ भी बोलती थी उस time पे मुझे छोटी-छोटी चीजों पे टोकती थी। तो I used to just burst out of anger earlier. But now that doesn't happen because I consciously choose to give least importance to such things. I don't give such responses.
जबी उसको ठीक नहीं रहता था, तभी वो बहुत aggressive रहती थी। कुछ भी बात करो तो उसको गुस्सा बहुत आता था। वो nervous हो जाती थी, रोने लगती थी। लेकिन बाद में जब-जब जैसे-जैसे उसका improvement होने लगा, तब से उसका nature अग्रेसिव कम होने लगी, कैर से हँसते-हँसते सब सुनती थी, बात करती थी, कॉपरेटिव हो गई। स्वार्थी?
तू सरस से ही जाएगी मैंने जो ये। She has been the pillar in my life. Like she has helped me. Like when I started the entire journey, she was the one who was there. So जब मैंने start किया था, तब it was only for the purpose of getting rid of my problems, my health issues. But at the same time, there are many other benefits also I'm understanding. Like I'm feeling I have become calmer, I have become productive, I have become more energetic throughout the day. I have also gone a little minimal in my shopping list. And now I don't hog on accumulating shoes and bags and clothes and all of this. I'm content. I feel content with whatever I have. I'm getting more closer to the nature. When I go to the park, when I look at the greenery, now I have a different feeling towards it. So my attention has also gone to not using plastics much, not using the chemicals much, not using anything which will lead to a lot of waste. I do feel connection with Mother Nature. I wave at the sun and say hi. I mean, when I'm done sun gazing, I say bye, thank you. Even when I now pluck a leaf of a tulsi, I talk to it, like I tell her sorry. So that is something that I never thought that I would do. After understanding why we should not drink the milk, I think I have become more conscious of what animals must be going through when animals are being cut just for having a meal on your plate. Even when I look at a cow, when I go to a temple and look at a cow, then I think, I mean, I sometimes look into her eyes and I can sense that problem which she might have. Now when I go to places full of greenery, full of animals which are freely walking here and there, like when I see them, I feel that yes, I can also coexist with them peacefully. That's a feeling that I feel is very important for anyone. If you coexist with other animals and other beings, it's a wonderful feeling. Yeah, let's just call Harsh and Subha.
They can join us.
Yeah. Hello, we are here. Namaste.
Hi, namaste.
How are you?
So nice to see you. I had seen only your video till now, Divyata ji.
Oh, thank you so much. It's it's so much pleasure to even talk to you.
The pleasure is all ours. We wanted just hear your story in person.
ताकि जो लोग वो वीडियो देखें और उन लोगों को क्या मैसेज शेयर करना चाहोगे, जो आज वही प्रॉब्लम से गुजर रहे हैं चाहे आप थे। मैं ये बोलना चाहूँगी कि हमें लगता है कि एक बार डिजीज़ हो गया, एक बार प्रॉब्लम हो गई तो वो कभी नहीं जाएगी कि आपको अभी पूरी लाइफ मैं मेडिसिन लेनी ही पड़े, but ऐसा कुछ भी नहीं है। मैंने अपनी लाइफ में कभी इतना एनर्जेटिक या इतना खुश अपने आप को नहीं पाया जितना मैंने उस चार महीने में पाया था। and by end of the four months मेरे ये छः के छः प्रॉब्लम्स चले गए।
