Weight-loss secrets from an inspiring couple

Weight-loss secrets from an inspiring couple

Muscat: Oneza Tabish, a well known food columnist in Oman and her husband have lost 35 kg together by adopting a holistic approach towards food and exercise. It is an incredible story of the will of this couple to fight weight gain without going for any fad diet. While Oneza lost 25 kg in a few years time, her husband lost 11 kg in the last 6 months by cycling 40km daily along with intermittent fasting. As a newly married couple in the year 2004, Oneza and her husband had developed unhealthy eating habits. Reminiscing those days she said that their fridge would always be stocked with fizzy drinks, commercial juices, ice-creams and more. "We would binge on biscuits and cookies whenever we were hungry and my husband, Tabish would have around 8 cups of tea with evaporated milk and sugar. We also ate out twice or thrice a week," said Oneza. In no time their body weight shot up to 90 plus kg when she was in her late 20s and her husband in early 30s. "With my elder daughter's birth in January 2007 and my father passing away the same year, I got into "emotional eating". Food somehow