{"id":46457,"date":"2026-04-22T11:00:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T03:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=46457"},"modified":"2026-04-22T11:00:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T03:00:42","slug":"at-94kg-he-wanted-to-start-a-family-how-he-lost-20kg-to-become-a-fit-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=46457","title":{"rendered":"At 94kg, he wanted to start a family. How he lost 20kg to become a \u2018fit dad\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/04\/21\/42d40457-e5a3-411d-8ad5-366fadbfb064_5f624a11.jpg?itok=GTLvEEqB&amp;v=1776766770\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Last month, Shashank Gangil walked through a Hong Kong hospital corridor proudly carrying a newborn in each arm. The 39-year-old real estate professional had just become a father of twins, an event that would have seemed unlikely just 18 months earlier.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">In late 2024, Gangil weighed 94kg (207 pounds) and faced a worrying list of health issues: high cholesterol, signs of fatty liver disease, nagging <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">plantar fasciitis<\/span> and poor sleep.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">For years, he had told himself that \u201cthis is genetics\u201d, but that explanation no longer felt enough.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">By the end of 2025, he had shed 20kg and was moving and sleeping better.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI felt younger than a decade ago,\u201d Gangil says. Here is how he did it.<\/p>\n<h3 type=\"h3\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"eh0yk8h0 css-17x7qa9 e1pqa4re1\">Pandemic puts brakes on active life<\/h3>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Gangil had grown up playing cricket in Delhi, in India, before moving to Hong Kong in 2012 and getting married in 2019. His work life had followed a cycle familiar to many desk-bound professionals: long hours at work, little activity during the day, weekend drinking and unhealthy eating.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/health-wellness\/article\/3350812\/94kg-he-wanted-start-family-how-he-lost-20kg-become-fit-dad?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, Shashank Gangil walked through a Hong Kong hospital corridor proudly carrying a newborn in each arm. The 39-year-old real estate professional had just&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[21099,21098,2836,238,4695,4883,1588,465],"class_list":["post-46457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-20kg","tag-94kg","tag-dad","tag-family","tag-fit","tag-lost","tag-start","tag-wanted","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/46458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}