{"id":120313,"date":"2025-09-07T07:25:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T07:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/120313\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T07:25:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T07:25:13","slug":"how-an-fb-manager-lost-30kg-with-calorie-counting-eating-healthily-and-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/120313\/","title":{"rendered":"How an F&#038;B manager lost 30kg with calorie counting, eating healthily and exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In 2021, Ashanthi Nandika began trying fad diets and exercise programmes to try to get into better shape, as she worried about the health problems she might face as she got older.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Then 33 years old, the business manager of a food and beverage chain weighed 95kg (209 pounds) \u2013 which is considered obese for a woman who is 165cm (5 feet 5 inches) tall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI went on the <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/health-wellness\/article\/3088748\/keto-diet-101-what-eat-ketosis-weight-loss-and-downsides?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ketogenic diet<\/a> and the low-carbohydrate diet, among others, and I exercised regularly, working with three different trainers and participating in an exercise boot camp in my neighbourhood,\u201d says the now 37-year-old, who was born in Sri Lanka and has lived in Hong Kong for six years.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cUnfortunately, the results of these efforts were always short-lived. I\u2019d lose some weight in the beginning but gain it all back a few weeks later. It was disheartening.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI was also frustrated with the fact that many of the diets I tried eliminated rice. Being from Sri Lanka, where rice is the basis of most of our meals, I found these diets restrictive. And, as someone who enjoys dining out a few times a week, I felt that they were difficult to follow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Nandika, before she started seeing an online fitness trainer, with her daughter Arya. Photo: Ashanthi Nandika\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/0c91ff86-aa47-4738-b561-dedb7a1fe979_6daceb12.jpg\" title=\"Nandika, before she started seeing an online fitness trainer, with her daughter Arya. Photo: Ashanthi Nandika\"\/>Nandika, before she started seeing an online fitness trainer, with her daughter Arya. Photo: Ashanthi Nandika<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Nandika needed a permanent solution to losing weight. Her husband was hospitalised for a medical condition and his doctor told the couple that they both risked developing serious chronic illnesses in the future unless they trimmed down and got serious about their diet and exercise habits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2021, Ashanthi Nandika began trying fad diets and exercise programmes to try to get into better shape,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[57372,57380,1167,57369,6647,102,49611,57375,57370,57371,57379,57374,57378,57373,57376,57377,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-120313","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-bootcamp","9":"tag-cheung-sha-to-mui-wo","10":"tag-exercise","11":"tag-fad-diets","12":"tag-fitness","13":"tag-health","14":"tag-how-to-lose-weight","15":"tag-incidental-exercise","16":"tag-ketogenic-diet","17":"tag-low-carbohydrate-diet","18":"tag-ngong-ping-to-tung-chung","19":"tag-nutrition-labels","20":"tag-olympic-trail","21":"tag-online-fitness-trainer","22":"tag-outdoor-activities","23":"tag-tai-o-ancient-trail","24":"tag-uk","25":"tag-united-kingdom","26":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}