Originally posted by: ingloriusb
Came across this article which gives insights into why Rahul bhatt is an introvert and doesn't open up.
http://www.menshealth.intoday.in/menshealth/story.jsp?contentid=340&sid=5&cid=22
Some excerpts from the article:
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Who would have thought that a 122-kg guy could not just whip his
body into shape, but also take up fitness training as a profession,
providing guidance and inspiration to others faced with a smiliar
problem? Now, meet Rahul Bhatt. From a teenager who dealt with
gynaecomastia (male breasts) along with acne, Rahul has worked his way
to becoming a Men's Health cover model. All it takes is a simple dose of
motivation, he tells you, and with it, anyone can go the distance.
Fat on the brain
"My
mother tells me that I wasn't a fat child. In fact, till the age of
six, I was skinny. It was then that I started putting on weight," says
Rahul, overeating, he adds, to cope with the less than great
relationship he had with his father. Incidentally, he is filmmaker
Mahesh Bhatt's son.
Rahul's concerned mother comforted the child
by feeding him—rather too well—and set him on a path of obsession with
food. His inability to make close friends at school did not help
matters. "Food was my only companion at this time," says Rahul. "I kept
gaining weight and withdrew even further into my shell."
At the very young age of 11, Rahul weighed an astounding 122kg, becoming an object of ridicule for everyone, including
his
relatives. "This made me angrier and I turned to food with a greater
vengeance," says Rahul. "These were the most brutal years of my life."
The point of return
At
15, when most of you would have been trying out the latest in jeans and
eyeing the hottest girls in high school, Rahul began to turn his life
around. By this time, he had reached the depths of despair: he could not
learn to swim, he was developing male breasts due to a hormonal
disorder and no girl would look twice at him—except perhaps to sneer at
him.
| 'A lot of my weight problems had to do with bottling up my emotions, I thought of speaking about one's issues as unmanly.' |
"I
realised I had to do something. It was an age when girls had begun to
occupy my mind and I was painfully aware that my weight was a very big
hurdle in the dating game," says the now muscular cover model.
But
a wariness gripped him—a wariness such as many of you may have
experienced at very difficult moments in your life. Rahul knew he had to
do something, but he didn't know how and or with whose help.
"By
nature, I don't discuss my problems openly," says Rahul. "Though I come
from a family that encourages conversations, I felt it was very unmanly
to discuss one's problems. I realise that a lot of my weight problem
had to do with this trait of bottling up my emotions."
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